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Vikramaadhithan
Vikramaadhithan
Vikramaadhithan 1962
Mikhaylo Lomonosov
Mikhaylo Lomonosov
A biopic about the life of Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov - Russian polymath, scientist and writer.
Mikhaylo Lomonosov 1986
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture
De Gaulle et Pompidou : jusqu'à la rupture 2018
Pagoda of No Shadow
Pagoda of No Shadow
Pagoda of No Shadow 1970
A Certain Captain Rodrigo
A Certain Captain Rodrigo
A knight, half soldier, half gaudério, dolphinfish hair in the sun, guitar on his back, enters the sleepy town of Santa Fe. Nobody could imagine that this man was also getting into their lives. Singing and drinking was winning the hearts of women and admiration of men. A storyteller of adventures, wars or lies? Based on the book by Erico Verissimo.
A Certain Captain Rodrigo 1971
The Last Emperor
The Last Emperor
A 1986 film directed by Li Han-Hsiang. Nominated for Best Film in the 6th annual Hong Kong Film Awards.
The Last Emperor 1986
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail
The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail 1999
Cante jondo: Granada, 1922
Cante jondo: Granada, 1922
Granada, Spain, 1922. The composer Manuel de Falla, who dreams every night of the ancestral songs sung to him by his nanny, fears that flamenco art will disappear, so with the help of his friend Miguel Cerón Rubio and the poet Federico García Lorca, he organizes a contest to revitalize and promote it.
Cante jondo: Granada, 1922 2022
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence
In 1587, more than 100 English colonists settle on Roanoke Island and soon vanish, baffling historians for centuries; now, experts use the latest forensic archaeology to investigate the true story behind America's oldest and most controversial mystery.
The Lost Colony of Roanoke: New Evidence 2022
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
Traders of the Lost Scrolls
Jim Charlesworth, director of Princeton University's Dead Sea Scrolls Project believes that a large number of scrolls have yet to come to light. The programme is about his quest to track them down, an undertaking not without risks. The cliffs of Qumran still attract scroll hunters with non-academic motives - the scrolls are much sought after by private collectors and the shady figures of the black market who supply them.
Traders of the Lost Scrolls 1997
Binodiini
Binodiini
Binodini Dasi, a prostitute, who has a knack for theatre, manages to garner a lot of attention because of her performances.
Binodiini 2025
The Roman Empire in the First Century
The Roman Empire in the First Century
Two thousand years ago, at the dawn of the first century, the ancient world was ruled by Rome. Through the experiences, memories and writings of the people who lived it, this series tells the story of that time - the emperors and slaves, poets and plebeians, who wrested order from chaos, built the most cosmopolitan society the world had ever seen and shaped the Roman empire in the first century A.D.
The Roman Empire in the First Century 2001
Addio, piccola mia
Addio, piccola mia
Last years in the Life of german Dramatican Georg Büchner. Around the year 1830 he and his fellow students try to initiate a revolution in Germany, but they are not successful. Büchner has to leave the country and seeks exile in France and Switzerland, where he falls ill with typhus.
Addio, piccola mia 1979
The Trial of the Torturers - EAT ESA 1967-1974
The Trial of the Torturers - EAT ESA 1967-1974
Documentary of the trial of the torturers of the Greek junta
The Trial of the Torturers - EAT ESA 1967-1974 1982
The Plague in Florence
The Plague in Florence
Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
The Plague in Florence 1919
Nothing to See Here
Nothing to See Here
From one of the most violent communities in the country comes a documentary directed by parents of murdered children, reformed gang members, kids hoping to make it to college, police and people just trying to survive.
Nothing to See Here 1
Der Koffermacher
Der Koffermacher
Der Koffermacher 2016
Wicked Pirate City
Wicked Pirate City
Port Royal, Jamaica, home to the real Pirates of the Caribbean. Once the world's wickedest city - until an earthquake swept into the sea. Now a dive team is using new technology to bring the sunken city to life; and to walk in the footsteps on pirates.
Wicked Pirate City 2011
The Barry Fan Revolution : Episode I
The Barry Fan Revolution : Episode I
Long ago in the Escape Pod Podcast server lived 10 ordinary server members. Dylan, Kas, Barbie Fan, Pupz, Vincent, Platinum, Harry, Jesse, Cole, A-Rod, and Allarchids, all just having a fun time, until one day, Barry Fan, a Barry fanatic, shows up and talks about his favorite show. The mods see this and get mad that he talks about it so much. So they ban the word Barry. Then, the 11 friends rise up and take a stand and start The Barry Revolution….
The Barry Fan Revolution : Episode I 1
MacArthur
MacArthur
MacArthur is a 1999 television documentary film about Douglas MacArthur, a United States General of the Army. Produced by PBS for The American Experience (now simply American Experience) documentary program, it recounts the significant events and controversies in MacArthur's life, from childhood to his death in 1964. Written and produced by Austin Hoyt, directed by Hoyt and Sarah Holt, and narrated by David Ogden Stiers.
MacArthur 1999
Tyrant: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Tyrant: The Rise of Adolf Hitler
Explores the events that threatened peace in Europe during the 1930s as Hitler's ambitions grew. A team of leading young historians explain Hitler's actions and their wider effects on the continent.
Tyrant: The Rise of Adolf Hitler 2023
Rumination
Rumination
An exploration of the Cultural Revolution that depicts both its chaotic later years – through the story of a squad of Red Army guards running amok in the countryside – and its continuing legacy in today’s China.
Rumination 2009
Finding Mary March
Finding Mary March
This film discusses the search for the last remains of Demasduit (Mary March), one of the last of the Indigenous Beothuk people, set in the Red Indian Lake area of Central Newfoundland. A young girl, Bernadette Buchans, believes that she is related to Mary March. Throughout the whole film, Bernadette and her father Ted are searching for the grave of her mother. An archaeologist/ photographer, Nancy George, accompanies them and she also believes that she has family connections to the Beothuks.
Finding Mary March 1988
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible
"Thirty-five years ago, I witnessed the kidnapping of a man I knew. He has disappeared since. Ten years ago, I caught a glimpse of his face while walking in the street, but I wasn’t sure it was him. Parts of his face were torn off, but his features had remained unchanged since the incident. Yet something was different, as if he wasn’t the same man” (Ghassan Halwani).
Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible 2018
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun
A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man and a girl. The latter is the daughter of Shogun's former wife and also has revenge on her mind. The former is also connected to the castle. Separately a girl lives at the shogun's castle and believes in god.
The Woman Aiming for the Shogun 1937
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto 1941
Mayor Latigo
Mayor Latigo
a true to life story of Meliton Geronimo: Nicknamed "Mayor Latigo (Lit.: Mayor Whip)"
Mayor Latigo 1991
Sarraounia
Sarraounia
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Sarraounia 1986
Kajastus
Kajastus
A historical drama depicting the Finnish struggle against Tsarist Russia. Opens at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg in February 1899. Tsar Nicholas II signs the February Manifesto, the purpose of which is to abolish Finnish self-government. An act that arouse widespread opposition in Finland.
Kajastus 1930
The Michelangelo Code Secrets Of The Sistine Chapel
The Michelangelo Code Secrets Of The Sistine Chapel
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is actually trying to tell us.
The Michelangelo Code Secrets Of The Sistine Chapel 2005
Cannibal Island
Cannibal Island
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent 6000 "unwanted" citizens of Moscow and Leningrad to a desolate Siberian island - with no food or clothes to speak of. Decades later this documentary returns to the island.
Cannibal Island 2009
The Big Burn
The Big Burn
The dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910.
The Big Burn 2015
Vilarinho das Furnas
Vilarinho das Furnas
Situated at the foot of Yellow Mountain, which protected it from the cold offshore winds of winter, and between the rivers Man and Eido, which irrigated the fields around it, the village of Vilarinho das Furnas was destroyed in 1969. This documentary provides a tribute to the people of the town during the last 12 months of its existence, before being erased by the cold and clear waters that gave it life for so long.
Vilarinho das Furnas 1971
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks
Marvel at the all-star musical cast of Jackson Browne, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Sarah Lee Guthrie, many other musicians as well as an audience of one-thousand longshore workers. Bridges was an immigrant working stiff who loved Karl Marx and Jack London, and who fought government persecution for 21 years to become an American citizen. He had a profound effect on the American labor movement, at the same time counting Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles and Paul Robeson among his friends, He was revered by some, hated by others --a hero or the devil incarnate--but he faced it all with a twinkle in his eye. As Harry Bridges, Ian Ruskin takes you on a captivating journey through some of America's most exciting and turbulent years.
From Wharf Rats to Lords of the Docks 2007
Semana Santa em Ouro Preto
Semana Santa em Ouro Preto
Filmed between March and August 1970, the film presents the Catholic festival from its performative dimension. Residents of the region reveal a certain nostalgia for the spectacle, which, according to them, have been lost over time. It is in the search for a theatrical revival that the film operates, reactivating the historic city as a large open-air stage.
Semana Santa em Ouro Preto 1970
Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague
Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague
The last days of the Second World War in Prague.
Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague 1965
Untitled Mildred Bailey Biopic
Untitled Mildred Bailey Biopic
A look at the life of jazz singer Mildred Bailey.
Untitled Mildred Bailey Biopic 1
山乡风云
山乡风云
山乡风云 1979
The Persecution of Pancho Villa
The Persecution of Pancho Villa
The Persecution of Pancho Villa 1978
Королева Анна
Королева Анна
The story of Princess Anna Yaroslavna, Queen of France.
Королева Анна 1