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The Jewish Journey: America
The Jewish Journey: America
Jewish-American history has been rooted in an ever-changing “Old Country”. Interviews with top scholars in Jewish history, notable Jewish-American writers, and many immigrants themselves detail the varied stories of migration through the last five centuries, with a rarely explored look at the actual journeys to get here.
The Jewish Journey: America 2015
Thylacine Film
Thylacine Film
The original film of the Tasmanian tiger (also known as the thylacine) was shot by Australian zoologist David Fleay in 1933 on black-and-white film. Recently, this historic footage has been colorized and digitized by a team of international experts. You can watch the remastered footage of the last-known surviving Tasmanian tiger here. The thylacine, which resembled a medium-to-large-sized canid, had dark transverse stripes radiating from the top of its back. Sadly, the last known thylacine died in 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
Thylacine Film 1933
Takht
Takht
Intertwined between the emotions of love, ambition, and greed, Takht, a magnum opus, is a family saga set in the Mughal era, where a brother is betrayed by another brother for the sake of power (takht)
Takht 1
The Last of the Mohicans
The Last of the Mohicans
An animated adaptation of the classic story. A young scout is befriended by a tribe of Mohawks.
The Last of the Mohicans 1975
Laval, le collaborateur
Laval, le collaborateur
Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.
Laval, le collaborateur 2021
Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance-
Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance-
A phantom of the Bakumatsu must be taken down. All the answers you desire are in Kyoto! A special theatrical screening of Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance-.
Rurouni Kenshin -Kyoto Disturbance- 2024
Runaway Heart
Runaway Heart
Juan, a young rural bandit, is in a relationship with a lady who is wanted by the aggressive town commissioner. He must solve his problems with the law, even if it costs him to lose love. Based on the story of Juan Bautista Vairoletto, 'The Argentinian Robin Hood'.
Runaway Heart 2023
Toutes pour une
Toutes pour une
Women! They're women! They've cut their hair, strapped on their breasts, but they're women. When Sara, a young Morisco on the run, unmasks the three musketeers protecting the Queen of France, she decides to cling to these powerful women and their brilliant idea: disguise to be free, disguise to be yourself...
Toutes pour une 1
Phoenix:
Phoenix: "Dougo Onsen" Chapter
A collaborative anime between Hi no Tori and the Dougo Onsen hot spring bath house. The anime is part of a revitalization project for the Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture bath house that began on January 15. The Dougo Onsen building is 125 years old and certain areas were due for a facelift.
Phoenix: "Dougo Onsen" Chapter 2019
Lawrence d'Arabie, un rêve d'Orient
Lawrence d'Arabie, un rêve d'Orient
Lawrence d'Arabie, un rêve d'Orient 1
Here Ends the World We've Known
Here Ends the World We've Known
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escaped African captive, on a journey where he may lose his freedom and his life. She is ready to sacrifice him to save her own skin. But their wounds bring them together. Will this be enough to make them something other than what colonisation has decided they should be: a savage to be exterminated, an African to be enslaved?
Here Ends the World We've Known 2022
Khrushchev Does America
Khrushchev Does America
The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch nemesis, during 13 sun-filled days in the fall of 1959.
Khrushchev Does America 2013
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Enoken's Yaji and Kita
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
Enoken's Yaji and Kita 1939
Trotsky
Trotsky
Story of the life of an extraordinary man, who with Lenin, was the symbol of the Revolution of 1917.
Trotsky 1967
The Frozen Fire
The Frozen Fire
Some are called heroes, some villains. Histories get buried and the dead are resurrected. Sometimes a thread of humanity gets drawn from blurred stories. It could clothe the world one day or stitch together a fallen flag.
The Frozen Fire 2018
Israel: Birth of a Nation
Israel: Birth of a Nation
Sir Martin Gilbert, author of over sixty books and the host of A&E's JERUSALEM, hosts this gripping account of Israel's difficult first years. Filled with rare footage, photographs, and interviews with participants in the War of Independence, this is the definitive document of one of the turning points in modern history. Extraordinary footage filmed by Bernard Beecham, a British soldierBritish sol
Israel: Birth of a Nation 1995
S'Ozzastru
S'Ozzastru
This is the story of a thousand-year-old tree, resilient ambassador of Nature and silent witness of History. The lives of men and women slip under its fronds, often unaware of how much their existence depends on its presence. This is the story of s'ozzastru and of the generous and solid land that welcomed it. In 2021 in Sardinia, a thousand-year-old wild olive tree burned. This fire devasted 70.000 acres of land and houses. Thousands of animals died, suffocated or burned alive.A year later, the tree sprouted again, becoming a symbol of resilience. Every year, around the world, 7 millions of acres of land are destroyed in over 60.000 fires, almost all caused by human hand.
S'Ozzastru 2023
Ľudmilka
Ľudmilka
Ľudmilka 1986
Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights?
Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights?
The stories of The Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) have captivated mankind for centuries. However, two of its most famous tales do not belong to the original canon.
Aladdin and Ali Baba: Stories from the 1001 Nights? 2023
10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir
10 mai 1981, le jour du grand soir 2021
Nigel 4: The Candidate
Nigel 4: The Candidate
Nicholas Gelberry and his partner Rufus face up against their biggest challenge since the American revolution -- the election of 1800.
Nigel 4: The Candidate 2021
Killing Kasztner
Killing Kasztner
How much should you negotiate with the enemy? In Israel, the debate over that question evoked fury to the point of assassination. Such was the case of Kasztner. Dr Israel (Rezso) Kasztner, a Hungarian Jew who tried to rescue the last million Jews of Europe by negotiating face to face with Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann, was gunned down by another Jew who never set foot in Nazi Europe. After 50 years, his assassin Ze'ev Eckstein breaks his silence on the fateful night he shot and killed Kasztner. (Storyville)
Killing Kasztner 2008
Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories
Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories
Once the commercial exploitation of the resources existing in the American provinces of the Hispanic Monarchy began, hundreds of Africans were enslaved. Those who remained in Spain ended up forming a community that, over time, managed to gain a small space in society. Music and dance helped to strengthen their identity.
Gurumbé: Afro-Andalusian Memories 2016
A Son's War
A Son's War
Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.
A Son's War 2009
An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka
In-depth look at the twilight years, spent training apprentices, of temple builder Nishioka Tsunekazu, who was called the "devil" as he devoted his life to temple architecture. His insistence on the gargantuan timescale of linking life to the next millennium emerges from people who knew him. Remarkable as well for showing the unknown backstage of temple architecture. Nishioka, known as "the last temple carpenter," handled the major Showa-era repairs of Horyuji temple, and in 1990 was at the scene of the reconstruction work for Yakushi temple.
An Artisan's Legacy: Tsunekazu Nishioka 2012
Three Hundred Years Ago...
Three Hundred Years Ago...
In the middle of the 17th century, Ukrainian peasants and Cossacks rose up to fight against the Polish gentry rule. About the events of the National Liberation War in Ukraine under the leadership of Bohdan Khmelnitsky, who with a firm hand led the insurgent masses to an alliance with Russia.
Three Hundred Years Ago... 1956
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
A film based on the life and death of emperor Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar 1909
Nude with Oranges
Nude with Oranges
“Nude with Oranges” is a film set during a civil revolt in the mid-19th century where Caribbean myths affect the lives of two characters – an indigenous man enlisted in the Liberal Army and a mute white woman – who develop a mysterious link while seeking a new life.
Nude with Oranges 1994
Women's Script
Women's Script
Being educated and knowing how drink, A-Ni is seen as the town's madwoman. Yulu is entranced by her.
Women's Script 2023
One Arm Hero
One Arm Hero
In the third and Final film of the Exiting Martial Arts Trilogy, Sam the Iron Bridge is now Governor of Canton.
One Arm Hero 1994
Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann and Judith Malvina, float through the homes recalling in tiny bits and pieces words of Deren's architectural and personal interior space. Clips from Maya Deren's films are projected back into the spaces where they were originally filmed appearing on the floorboard, furniture, and in the bowl of her former sink. Fluid light projections of intimate space provide an elusive agency for a filmmaker most of us will never know as film with its imaginary nature evokes a former time and space.
Maya Deren's Sink 2011
Hecuba
Hecuba
Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…
Hecuba 2022
Princess Ok-ran and Hwalbindang
Princess Ok-ran and Hwalbindang
Princess Ok-ran and Hwalbindang 1960
Songs From the Sky
Songs From the Sky
After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave owner’s commands or encouraging her daughter that reading is a pathway to their freedom.
Songs From the Sky 2024
Money, a Mythology of Darkness
Money, a Mythology of Darkness
In a nightmarish world, dominated by the decline and degradation of Man , Christ resurrected wandering, across three different eras of human history.
Money, a Mythology of Darkness 1998
High Noon on the Waterfront
High Noon on the Waterfront
An inventive remembrance of the impact of the Hollywood blacklist on two American classics, rendered as a visually mesmerizing dialogue between Carl Foreman and Elia Kazan.
High Noon on the Waterfront 2022
Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords
Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords
Japanese swords fascinate collectors around the world. A special kind of steel called tamahagane is required to make them. This miraculous material is strong, flexible, rust-resistant, and produced through the ancient process of "tatara" ironmaking which takes place over three days and nights. Due to the COVID pandemic, there was only one production run in 2022, which was hit by a series of problems. Did the team meet the challenge? This documentary captures the essence of Japanese craftsmanship.
Tamahagane: Miracle Steel of Japanese Swords 2022
Eight Women Fighters
Eight Women Fighters
Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.
Eight Women Fighters 1987
Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter
Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter
Lee Jung-Seob, a Painter 1975
100 Years
100 Years
As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the party’s history, from the 1920’s, to the Civil War, the Great Leap Forward, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the reforms by Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Did the Great Famine cost more than 15 million lives? How does the Cultural Revolution continue to shape Chinese politics today? What was capitalism like after Mao’s death? Through rare and never-before-seen historical footage, expert interviews and eyewitness accounts of the Great Famine, Tiananmen incident, and the Cultural Revolution, get to know how one party has so profoundly shaped China.
100 Years 2021