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Years of Fire
Years of Fire
Follows the story of the 26 Artillery Division of the Soviet Red Army.
Years of Fire 1939
Who Wrote The Bible? Revelations About One of the Greatest Mysteries In History
Who Wrote The Bible? Revelations About One of the Greatest Mysteries In History
A fascinating archaeological and scientific investigation on the world's best-selling book. When was the Bible written ? Who wrote it? Under what circumstances ? For what purpose ? These questions have long remained unanswered. With the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1947, the thorough study of the texts, the advances in science, and the recent archaeological discoveries, one of the greatest historical mysteries is gradually being unveiled. Meet the most eminent specialists in the Bible who try to unearth brand new information and answer the enigmatic and fundamental question : who wrote the Holy Book ?
Who Wrote The Bible? Revelations About One of the Greatest Mysteries In History 2021
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz
After mysterious notes found at Auschwitz are discovered to be written by the Sonderkommando, a unit of Jewish prisoners tasked with guiding other prisoners to the gas chambers, experts look into the lives of these prisoners labelled as traitors.
Inferno: Letters from Auschwitz 2020
1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges
1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges
1870/71 Fotografien eines vergessenen Krieges 2020
Castle Ghosts of Ireland
Castle Ghosts of Ireland
The family locks of Ireland are kept in itself by the certificates of deadly feud, mean murders. In our days, still located on a tableland, locks are a living reminder about the victims of past years.
Castle Ghosts of Ireland 1996
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon was fought on 1 January 1818 between the British East India Company and the Peshwa faction of the Maratha Confederacy, at Koregaon Bhima.
The Battle of Bhima Koregaon 1
The Maginot Line: France's Defensive Barrier
The Maginot Line: France's Defensive Barrier
The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Belgium to the Mediterranean Sea, a monumental engineering feat that was celebrated as a technical masterpiece when it was created. When the impregnable wall was demolished by the unbeatable Nazi war machine in 1940, the conquered fortress became the shattered symbol of French defeat.
The Maginot Line: France's Defensive Barrier 2022
The Universe: How the Solar System was Made
The Universe: How the Solar System was Made
At 4.6 billion years old, the Solar System is our solid, secure home in the Universe. But how did it come to be? In this episode we trace the system's birth from a thin cloud of dust and gas. Shocked by a nearby supernova, the pull of gravity and natural rotation spun it into a flat disc from which the Sun and planets coalesced. It all happened in the space of 700 million years, during which the planets jockeyed for position, dodging the brutal bombardment of deadly asteroids and setting into the neat, stable system that we now realize might be a rarity in the universe.
The Universe: How the Solar System was Made 2011
Sarajevo
Sarajevo
The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.
Sarajevo 1955
Pelican: 74 Years of Japanese Tradition
Pelican: 74 Years of Japanese Tradition
Pelican, a bakery located at Asakusa, Tokyo, becomes crowded every morning. There are only two types of bread sold. It looks ordinary but meet a bakery that has been loved for 74 years with a taste you won't get tired of even if you eat it everyday!
Pelican: 74 Years of Japanese Tradition 2019
Bécquer and the Witches
Bécquer and the Witches
In 1864, the Spanish poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836-70), suffering from health problems, retires to the monastery of Veruela. Far from the noise and worldly activity of the capital, he immerses himself in the landscape of the mysterious Moncayo mountain. There, he discovers a new world full of legends that converge in a small village located at the foot of the mountain: Trasmoz, the Village of the Witches, the only officially cursed village in Spain.
Bécquer and the Witches 2018
Peru - Sacrifices in the Kingdom of Chimor
Peru - Sacrifices in the Kingdom of Chimor
In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifice in the world opens the doors to the kingdom of Chimor. This international archaeological investigation carried out like a criminal investigation reveals the mysteries of the last civilization of the Andes before the arrival of the Incas.
Peru - Sacrifices in the Kingdom of Chimor 2022
Friends, Comrades
Friends, Comrades
The boisterous good humor of Jurmala, the nickel-mine owner, is, if anything, only barely dented by the raging battles in Finland before, during and after World War Two. In fact, everywhere he goes, he meets prospective customers on all sides of the conflict with his all-inclusive greeting "Friends, Comrades." Indeed, the resource he is wrenching from the earth's bowels is necessary to all forms of industrial activity, and is especially necessary for military applications. Thus, he has no reason to fear that he will ever run out of customers. This doesn't prevent him from using every possible means to entice them. At home, his relationship with his wife is not so prosperous, and they resort to some extraordinary means to try and keep on an even keel.
Friends, Comrades 1990
WWE Rivals: Bret
WWE Rivals: Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Shawn Michaels
The most heated and personal rivalry in sports entertainment history takes center stage as former WWE writer Freddie Prinze Jr. leads a panel to discuss 1990s stars Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, who excelled in the ring but had real-life issues boil over in a moment known as "The Montreal Screw Job." Interviews include Hart, Michaels, Vince McMahon and more.
WWE Rivals: Bret "The Hitman" Hart vs. Shawn Michaels 2022
Red Poppies of Issyk-Koul
Red Poppies of Issyk-Koul
Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border.
Red Poppies of Issyk-Koul 1971
Paris romantique, Paris érotique
Paris romantique, Paris érotique
The image of Paris as the capital of love seems to be obvious today. However, it is only in the 19th century, with its "haussmannisation", that it acquired this title. How did this reputation impose itself on the whole world? From the grand boulevards to the banks of the Seine, through the darkness of the porte cochères, the documentary "Romantic Paris, Erotic Paris" looks back at the making of this myth and revisits, through emblematic characters and tasty archives, a century of cultural and social history. From the boudoirs of the great courtesans of the Second Empire to free love in the post-war Saint-Germain-des-Prés, through the interloper nights in the cabarets of the Occupation, a look back at a part of the history of the capital.
Paris romantique, Paris érotique 2020
André Chénier
André Chénier
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
André Chénier 1910
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons 2019
A Noite do Meu Bem
A Noite do Meu Bem
The life and times of Brazilian singer/songwriter Dolores Duran.
A Noite do Meu Bem 1968
Zaynab, the Rose of Aghmat
Zaynab, the Rose of Aghmat
The film follows Zaynab an-Nafzawiyyah, wife of husband Prince Yusuf ibn Tashfin, founder of the city of Marrakech during the Almoravid era
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Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa
A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in Daiei's shift in emphasis from thrillers to ghost stories.
Ghost Story: Passion in Fukagawa 1952
Nero's Sunken City
Nero's Sunken City
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among Rome’s elite. What made Baiae such a special place? What really went on there? And why did it disappear?
Nero's Sunken City 2017
The Strait Story
The Strait Story
The year is 1943 and Taiwan is under Japanese colonization. After finishing his studies in Japan, famous Taiwanese sculptor and painter Ching-Cheng Huang receives an offer to teach in Beiping Art School. He decides to visit friends and family back home before leaving for China. He boards the passenger liner "Takachiho Maru" in Kobe, Japan, with his girlfriend, a pianist. Tragically, the luxurious liner is torpedoed by an American submarine and sinks off the coast of Keelung, Taiwan. Decades later, Shou-shou, a fine art restorer with a crippling illness, finds one of Huang's paintings in an exhibition. As she restores the painting, Shou-shou learns about the artist, the stories behind his work and his death at sea. She recreates the story of the painting "Woman in Black", and romantically imagines the ways the artist painted his girlfriend. The more she studies, the more she was inspired by Huang's value of art and of life. Restoring Huang's painting thus becomes Shou-shou's way of ...
The Strait Story 2005
Beyond Barbed Wire
Beyond Barbed Wire
World War II documentary narrated by Pat Morita
Beyond Barbed Wire 1997
We Weren't Given Anything for Free
We Weren't Given Anything for Free
Annita Malavasi was just 22 when the Germans occupied Italy, their former allies, in 1943. As a partisan in the Italian resistance named “Laila”, she moved throughout the Apennines with and between fighting units, delivering information, transporting weapons, and taking part in battles. She spent over a year in the Apennines, fighting against the German occupation. At the same time, she had to assert herself against the men of the mountain villages. By the end of the war, Laila had risen among the ranks to become one of the few female commanders in the Italian resistance. This film chronicles the story of a lifelong struggle for emancipation that began with the battle for Italy’s liberation from fascism. Laila and her two comrades, Gina “Sonia” Moncigoli and Pierina “Iva” Bonilauri talk about their time in the Resistenza and what it meant to them and many other women.
We Weren't Given Anything for Free 2014
Incas: The New Story
Incas: The New Story
Where did the Inca people come from, how were they organised, and why did they disappear so suddenly? Recent archeological exploration has allowed researchers to uncover another truth that contradicts the generally accepted history based on the texts of the Conquistadors - who viewed the Incas as bloodthirsty warriors. The patient work of a new breed of Peruvian, Belgian, Argentinian and American archaeologists is today revealing a new face of the pre-Columbian giants.
Incas: The New Story 2023
The Sudbury Devil
The Sudbury Devil
In the late 17th century, two Puritan witch hunters travel to a small Massachusetts town investigating rumors of devil worship, and are irrevocably transformed by the ungodly forces they encounter.
The Sudbury Devil 2023
Tapavica
Tapavica
A story about the first Serbian Olympian who won bronze medal at the first Olympic games in 1896, also a world class architect.
Tapavica 2016
A Season in Hell
A Season in Hell
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
A Season in Hell 1971
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars
In 2002, the greatest prison in Latin America, Complex Carandiru, was demolished. A couple of months before its implosion, director Paulo Sacramento trained some inmates and together with his crew, they produced many hours of footage, showing daily life in prison.
The Prisoner of the Iron Bars 2004
Outside Us
Outside Us
As Percival Lowell, an optimistic astronomer, fervently believes he has discovered extraterrestrial structures across various planets, he races against skepticism and scientific scrutiny to try and validate his groundbreaking discovery.
Outside Us 2024
Riddle of the Stone Age Giants
Riddle of the Stone Age Giants
The discovery of Gobekli Tepe 20 years ago changed our understanding of the history of humankind. Now, newly-discovered skull carvings reveal even more about how and why civilized societies developed.
Riddle of the Stone Age Giants 2019
We've Been Around
We've Been Around
In this documentary, director Rhys Ernst tells the previously untold histories of transgender pioneers. Trans people have always been here, throughout time, often hidden in plain sight.
We've Been Around 2016
Chinese Four Given Names People Prostitute: Li Xiangjun
Chinese Four Given Names People Prostitute: Li Xiangjun
The ancient costume ethics film "Four Famous Prostitutes: Li Xiangjun", the peerless singer and legendary Li Xiangjun is from Qinhuai, beautiful and charming, and works equally well in poetry and music. After making love with Hou Chaozong, he stayed alone in the empty building and was forced by Ruan Dacheng to serve wine and have fun. Li Xiangjun angrily reprimanded the traitor and was sentenced to hard labor in the palace. Jinling City was destroyed, and Li Xiangjun shaved off her hair to become a nun, and was taken home by Hou Chaozong. After Hou became a nobleman in the Qing Dynasty, she committed suicide in anger. Hou erected a stone tablet for Xiangjun. Containing depression, my husband is ashamed of the small print in this life.
Chinese Four Given Names People Prostitute: Li Xiangjun 2005
Conquest of Hawaii
Conquest of Hawaii
History Channel documentary which chronicles the history of Hawai'i and the rarely told story of the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy by the American government.
Conquest of Hawaii 2003
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe 2010
Le Parti du cinéma
Le Parti du cinéma
Le Parti du cinéma 2021
Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke
Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke
Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love.
Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke 1937
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence
Hannibal is one of the most famous warlords in history. To invade Rome, he crossed the Alps in just 16 days with 30,000 men, horses and an elephant army. How was that possible? Investigators are now looking for evidence of Hannibal's mythical warfare.
Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence 2018
Sydney in Time
Sydney in Time
Sydney in Time is a rich and powerful story that charts the evolution of Sydney from its early years as a colonial outpost through to its emergence as a dynamic world city. The one-hour documentary looks back at the people, places and front page stories that have shaped a great city and helped define Australia.
Sydney in Time 2006