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Born Out of The Ashes
Born Out of The Ashes
Uzbek historical epic about Mongol tyranny in Uzbekistan.
Born Out of The Ashes 2019
The Real Doctor Zhivago
The Real Doctor Zhivago
Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War.
The Real Doctor Zhivago 2017
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar
Guillermo del Toro: Un director y su Oscar 2018
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein
A look at Jeffrey Epstein's life and background, including details about how he made his money; his relationships with many notable individuals; his decades of alleged sexual abuse; and the federal sex trafficking charges he faced before he died.
Truth and Lies: Jeffrey Epstein 2020
The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
The Queen of Spades 1937
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge
Sigmaringen, le dernier refuge 2015
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals
Documentary about Elizabeth II's grandmother, who as Queen Consort was George V's most trusted adviser and became a symbol of national stability, particularly during the crisis that ensued when her eldest son Edward VIII abdicated.
Queen Mary: How She Saved the Royals 2020
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion
In 2017, a routine archaeological dig is taking place on the site of a proposed housing development in the village of Fenstanton in the Cambridgeshire Fens. When human remains are found alongside a variety of Roman artefacts, none of the team at Albion Archaeology see anything out of the ordinary. But once the bones are washed back at HQ, something highly unusual is uncovered: a nail through the heelbone of one of the individuals. Could this be evidence of a Roman crucifixion? When they do some research, they find that only one confirmed example has ever been unearthed before, discovered in the 1960s in Jerusalem. To find out more, they call in renowned Osteoarchaeologist Dr Corinne Duhig to investigate.
The Cambridgeshire Crucifixion 2024
Legend of Dajian Huineng
Legend of Dajian Huineng
The movie "Legend of Dajian Huineng" tells the "Sixth Patriarch of Zen" Hui Neng (the Sixth Patriarch, Sixth Ancestor, Hyeneung, Daikan Enō, Ta4-chien4) on the road to Buddhahood.
Legend of Dajian Huineng 2016
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour 1978
The Remains of Nothing
The Remains of Nothing
Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.
The Remains of Nothing 2004
The Promised Land
The Promised Land
This film is a gratitude to the Kazakh Koreans, Germans, Turks, Chechens, Kurds and other peoples of this land and the Kazakh people, who met them with due attention and sympathy, despite their incredible difficulties after the jute of the 30s. For these peoples, our country has become a real Homeland.
The Promised Land 2011
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton
When Ernest Shackleton is given the ship Endurance to reclaim the record for the furthest south expedition, his journey is cut short when his ship becomes trapped in the ice pack and begins to sink.
Endurance: The Story of Ernest Shackleton 2015
In Between Takes
In Between Takes
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Give a man a video camera, and you will have a film in twenty years. Home videos are even funnier here as the cameraman – the director’s own father – was unaware he was filming.
In Between Takes 2018
C'était la génération Mitterrand
C'était la génération Mitterrand
C'était la génération Mitterrand 2015
Sherman's March
Sherman's March
This documentary chronicles General William Tecumseh Sherman's fabled "March to the Sea" through Georgia and the Carolinas, utilizing state of the art production techniques including CGI, special effects and historical re-creations.
Sherman's March 2007
Apocalypse - Stirring Change
Apocalypse - Stirring Change
In the Ming Dynasty, meteorites trigger a mutation, transforming villagers into zombies. Despite the peril, Zuo Lianshan ventures into the zombie-infested city, driven by a desperate mission to rescue his daughter.
Apocalypse - Stirring Change 2021
Legions of the Nile
Legions of the Nile
Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love. Actually, the dancer is the queen Cleopatra who leads a double life using this name.
Legions of the Nile 1959
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
"Sri Ramana" a humble tribute to the Maharshi | A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM 2019
Nostradamus
Nostradamus
A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.
Nostradamus 1938
Also People
Also People
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep... Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
Also People 1959
The General
The General
Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
The General 2019
Hitler at the Opera
Hitler at the Opera
Aaron is an Israeli singer who comes to Poland for a guest performance in a provincial theater. The artist is warmly welcomed by the management and the theater team. During one of the rehearsals, Aaron spots backstage what he thinks looks like Adolf Hitler. Attempts are stopped and the hosts are accused of anti-Semitism. A chain of absurd situations follows, and the revealed prejudices lead to an escalation of the conflict.
Hitler at the Opera 2014
Os Laçadores
Os Laçadores
In the 1960s, the city of Alvarenga and the region were stolen by these bull thieves, who scared anyone, but a man promises to bring peace back to the city of Alvarenga and put an end to these evildoers.
Os Laçadores 1
Sigmund Freud - L'invention de la psychanalyse
Sigmund Freud - L'invention de la psychanalyse
Sigmund Freud - L'invention de la psychanalyse 1997
The Youth
The Youth
In the latter years of the Korean Empire, Lee In Hwa, disguises herself as a man so she can join a group of young men determined to overthrow the colonial government. They fight together with young national activists presided by Hwal Min and supported by Daewon-gun, the Prince Regent, against Min Gyeom Ho and his peers. But Min and his team perform a surprise attack on Hwal Min and his peers.
The Youth 1955
The Ponzán Network
The Ponzán Network
During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand people managed to elude their pursuers, and probably also avoided being killed, thanks to the heroic and very efficient efforts of the Ponzán Team, a brave group of people — mountain guides, forgers, safe house keepers and many others —, led by Francisco Ponzán Vidal, who managed to save their lives, both on one side and the other of the border between Spain and France.
The Ponzán Network 2022
Akiko's Piano
Akiko's Piano
1940, Kawamoto Akiko lives in Hiroshima with her father and mother, Genkichi and Shizuko, as well as her two younger brothers. Akiko loves playing her favourite piano. As the war situation worsens, she is busy helping out the war efforts. On the morning of August 6, 1945, she disobeys her father and heads into the centre of town for work. In Hiroshima 75 years later, her favourite piano remains, restored and playable following its survival of the atomic bombing
Akiko's Piano 2020
El prisionero irlandés
El prisionero irlandés
A young Irish soldier falls prisoner after the English Invasions in Buenos Aires, in 1806. Encouraged in these lands by the same libertarian sentiments that inspired him in his country, his ideals will connect with the nobility of Luisa Ochoa, the young and vigorous widow he meets during his captivity. Love, loss and dignity are concurrent themes in an atypical work within Argentine film production.
El prisionero irlandés 2015
Kinder des Sturms
Kinder des Sturms
On the escape of the violent Poles 1946, the child of Rosemarie get lost. And Rosemaries tries to find her daughter.
Kinder des Sturms 2009
Why was Cairo Calm
Why was Cairo Calm
It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn't understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.
Why was Cairo Calm 1982
Lutine
Lutine
Reportage about the salvage operation for the 18th-century shipwreck the Lutine, which sank in the North Sea.
Lutine 1933
Pink Triangles, Homosexuals Facing Nazism
Pink Triangles, Homosexuals Facing Nazism
A documentary that traces the lives of men and women persecuted by the Third Reich because of their sexual orientation. Beginning with the social and political context of the 1920s, when European society still "tolerated" homosexuality, it details the mechanisms of repression and brings to life the hell experienced by the victims in the concentration camps. It also recalls the long road traveled by the victims to obtain the decriminalization of homosexuality and recognition of the harm suffered during this dark period in history. While the film traces the martyrdom of homosexuals and lesbians, it does not fail to place this story in a wider perspective and to bring together in a single memory all the victims of Nazi cruelty.
Pink Triangles, Homosexuals Facing Nazism 2024
Cuore italiano
Cuore italiano
Cuore italiano 2020
The Power of Accumulated Merit
The Power of Accumulated Merit
While on a road trip to the country side, a group of students find themselves at a police station, where they learn valuable lessons about history. This is among nine films commissioned by Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej for the 2012 Terdglao Project.
The Power of Accumulated Merit 2012
Frank - The Man with the Camera
Frank - The Man with the Camera
In 1960 Frank Glynn, a west of Ireland shopkeeper, bought an 8mm film camera. He would go on to record the social history of his village and much more besides.
Frank - The Man with the Camera 2022
Ladies in Torture II
Ladies in Torture II
This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.
Ladies in Torture II 1995
Tito's Užice
Tito's Užice
Documentary about the history of Užice and its role in WW2 as the first territory liberated in Nazi occupied Europe and the fighters of the Yugoslav partisan movement the town gave birth to.
Tito's Užice 1977
The Talking Robe
The Talking Robe
The Talking Robe 1942
Aufzeichnungen
Aufzeichnungen
Aufzeichnungen 1965