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Secrets of Christ's Tomb
Secrets of Christ's Tomb
We follow leading experts on a quest to unlock the mysteries surrounding the tomb of Christ, using the latest scientific techniques to restore the Aedicula housing the tomb.
Secrets of Christ's Tomb 2017
Blackbird Fly
Blackbird Fly
A young man has to find the right words of farewell to his family in a New York pension room in 1942 before his draft sends him off to war, which for him means the possibility of an honorable hero`s death. View it at: https://vimeo.com/522828370
Blackbird Fly 2020
Great Spirit
Great Spirit
Documentary video journey in search of the missing Tatar poet Rahim Sattar. The path from the present to the past runs through a polylogue of experts, folk music, works by contemporary artists, musical and creative interpretation of poems by Rahim Sattar and unique archival newsreels shot at the dawn of cinema.
Great Spirit 1
Living Art
Living Art
The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the market being flooded with plastic in the evolution of civilization, today this Pal community is becoming displaced.
Living Art 2024
Anthrax War
Anthrax War
Filmmakers investigate 2001 anthrax attacks and uncover a nightmare world.
Anthrax War 2009
Bakunin's Son
Bakunin's Son
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Bakunin's Son 1997
The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
The First Train Runs in Hiroshima
Only 3 days after A-bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a streetcar started running through the town burned to the ground. The drivers were teenage girls working for the train company in place of men. The drama is based on a true story of people who strived for the restoration.
The First Train Runs in Hiroshima 2015
Fever
Fever
The film is set in 1905, in a time of feverish revolutionary underground activity in Poland partitioned between three neighbours. All the characters are committed anarchists. The bomb maker puts an invention together to place it at the disposal of young inexperienced terrorists fighting against Tsarist oppression. The story follows the passing of this bomb from anarchist to anarchist as several attempts are made on the life of Tsarist governor general, until, at the end, it is effectively and harmlessly defused by a bomb expert. The presence of the bomb has a destroying effect on all of the Polish revolutionaries, they either die or breakdown.
Fever 1981
Rothko
Rothko
Dorian sits in a room with Basil. Consumed by grief and guilt over the death of Sibyl, he confides in the man.
Rothko 2024
Die Dasslers
Die Dasslers
Die Dasslers 2017
Ronin on a Mission
Ronin on a Mission
Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi later apologizes privately, revealing that Kira has a decoy and assigning Mori a secret mission to kill the real Kira if necessary. Devastated, Mori finds solace with Okame, a local bar owner. After the ronin avenge their master, Mori, believing their mission complete, plans to leave his samurai life for Okame. However, Terazaka Kichiemon reveals that Kira was not killed but fled, and the decapitated man was a decoy. Mori decides to complete his mission and hunt down the real Kira.
Ronin on a Mission 1987
Emilia
Emilia
Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.
Emilia 2017
Camp X
Camp X
The story of how a secret agent training school established in Canada during World War Two - and the training manual created specifically for it - laid the foundations for modern espionage in North America and gave birth to the CIA.
Camp X 2014
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust 2004
The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans
The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans
For eight centuries, between the 9th and 1st century BC, the Etruscans, inhabitants of the Italian peninsula, were one of the most powerful peoples of the Mediterranean basin, and when they disappeared they left behind impressive necropolises, vestiges of sanctuaries and even entire cities. How did they attain such power? How far did they extend their dominion and influence? What were the causes of their decline?
The Rise and Fall of the Etruscans 2022
Bakumatsu Without Honor And Humanity
Bakumatsu Without Honor And Humanity
In the midst of a fight, the young head of the Yakuza and his right-hand man get transported back in time to the end of the Edo period due to the powers of a mysterious child.
Bakumatsu Without Honor And Humanity 2023
Charles Clément, canut de Lyon
Charles Clément, canut de Lyon
Charles Clément, canut de Lyon 1979
Jumprava: The Big Happening
Jumprava: The Big Happening
The epic story of one of the most iconic Latvian rock bands – Jumprava [Yumpravah]. The feature film tells the story about how the electronic rock group Jumprava was founded in 1984 and how it evolved throughout the years until 1991. With their songs and their unique style, Jumprava encouraged the “third awakening” in Latvia and inspired young people to dream big on this side of the Iron Curtain.
Jumprava: The Big Happening 2024
Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow
Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?
Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow 2007
Death Mask
Death Mask
This experimental opera reenacts the lesser known history of Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong, and his lover Magnus Hirschfeld, a much older German sexologist and gay rights pioneer during Nazi Germany.
Death Mask 2023
Conspiracy
Conspiracy
Conspiracy 2007
Rani Samyuktha
Rani Samyuktha
Prithvirajan falls in love with princess Samyuktha, but her father Jayachandran insults him by installing his statue at the palace hall entrance for the bridegroom ceremony.
Rani Samyuktha 1962
Journey Through History
Journey Through History
A journey through history
Journey Through History 1977
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll
It's a timeless classic of children's literature and the third most-quoted book in English after the Bible and Shakespeare. But what lies behind the extraordinary appeal of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to generations of adults and children alike? To mark the 150th anniversary of its publication, this film explores the life and imagination of its author, the Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known as Lewis Carroll. Journalist Martha Kearney delves into the biographies of both Carroll himself and of the young girl, Alice Liddell, who inspired his most famous creation. She discusses the book with a range of experts, biographers and distinguished cultural figures - from actor Richard E Grant to children's author Philip Pullman - and explores with them the mystery of how a retiring, buttoned-up and meticulous mathematics don, who spent almost his entire life within the cloistered confines of Christ Church Oxford, was able to capture the world of childhood in such a captivating way.
The Secret World of Lewis Carroll 2015
Nisei (Second-generation)
Nisei (Second-generation)
Follows Iwao Ichikawa, a second-generation Japanese Mexican, navigating racial segregation in Mexicali, Baja California during WWII, offering a poignant exploration of identity and belonging amidst adversity.
Nisei (Second-generation) 2024
Крушение империи
Крушение империи
Крушение империи 1971
A Second Knock at the Door
A Second Knock at the Door
In the works for over two years, A Second Knock at the Door offers a rare glimpse into the lives of military families dealing with the loss of loved ones to friendly fire. Through interviews and investigative reports obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, this documentary explores several key incidents in which the families of the fallen were forced to embark on a quest for the truth after the Army attempted to bury the true cause of death within the 'fog of war.'
A Second Knock at the Door 2012
Pardaillan
Pardaillan
Pardaillan 1997
Young Dr. Freud
Young Dr. Freud
A portrait of Sigmund Freud as a young man.
Young Dr. Freud 1976
Vstanou noví bojovníci
Vstanou noví bojovníci
Vstanou noví bojovníci 1951
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu
Şeytan Üçgeni - I. Barut Kokusu 2024
Ignotas Comes Back
Ignotas Comes Back
Based on the novel by the famous Lithuanian writer A. Gudaitis-Guzevičius “The Truth of Blacksmith Ignotas” about the revolutionary events of 1918-1919. in Lithuania, about the struggle of workers for Soviet power, for the freedom of their homeland.
Ignotas Comes Back 1956
1974, l'alternance Giscard
1974, l'alternance Giscard
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternation of power that did not speak its name opened the doors of power to a reforming president. Abortion, divorce by mutual consent, lowering the age of majority to 18 - in less than two years, the youngest President of the Republic - at the time - carried out reforms with a vengeance, without a united majority in Parliament, before failing in the economic sphere and losing the battle against unemployment. At the age of 90, the former President of the Republic has agreed to look back on these years and gives us a valuable account of his time in power.
1974, l'alternance Giscard 2019
Se non avessi l'amore
Se non avessi l'amore
The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
Se non avessi l'amore 1991
The Cherry Tree
The Cherry Tree
It is the story of an old man - Gulam - and the cherry tree which grew in his garden. As the story opens, the village children consider Gulam their best friend. But as the war wears on, Gulam directs his kindness and affection to his cherry tree, shielding the tree from the children who are starving. In the process, Gulam becomes very aggressive and eventually is seen as the enemy of the children. The movie shows how war can destory even the most tender and gentle feelings, as well as the most basic moral values of being human.
The Cherry Tree 1972
The Man from Dakota
The Man from Dakota
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
The Man from Dakota 1940
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
The protagonists are mainly Huirong, Zhaobai, and Jikan, who have studied business management in the USA and have returned to their hometown, Shanghai. Huirong and Zhaobai are engaged, and although three of them are close friends, problems arise when they find out that their opinions clash on the matter of what the objective for building a new China should be and what direction it should take.
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai 1998
The Black Arrow
The Black Arrow
A young British nobleman comes back from fighting in the War of the Roses to discover that his father has been murdered by an old family friend who is now an outlaw. However, he becomes suspicious about the exact circumstances of his father's death and determines to find out exactly what happened.
The Black Arrow 1948
Le Festin de Balthazar
Le Festin de Balthazar
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.
Le Festin de Balthazar 1910
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and noted authors, this two-part documentary series brings to vivid life the captivating true stories behind Britain's bloody civil wars.
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown 2002