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Revelation of Ivan Efremov
Revelation of Ivan Efremov
About the life and work of the scientist and writer Ivan Efremov.
Revelation of Ivan Efremov 1990
The Island of Wind
The Island of Wind
The first fiction feature by Spanish director Manuel Menchón reconstructs the banishment of writer and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936) from Bilbao to Fuerteventura by Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, as punishment for his openly dissident statements against the military regime, the King and the monarchic system.
The Island of Wind 2015
Días de poder
Días de poder
The film tells the story of Fernando Quintero (Gustavo Camacho), revolutionary leader who, after the fall of the dictatorship of Marcos Perez Jimenez, ascends to power, betraying their ideals to become an accomplice of repression against whom he fought.
Días de poder 2011
Manthralaya Mahathme
Manthralaya Mahathme
Mantralaya Mahatme is a 1966 Indian Kannada-language film directed by T. V. Singh Thakur, based on the book Sri Raghavendra Vijaya written by Rajaguru Rajacharya, and stars Rajkumar in the role of Raghavendra Swami, a Hindu saint who lived in the 17th century India
Manthralaya Mahathme 1966
Sarvadhikari
Sarvadhikari
Sarvadhikari 1951
Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Napoleon and the Empress Josephine
Part one of Blackton’s “The Life of Napoleon". Napoleon meets Josephine, falls in love with her, marries and then divorces her.
Napoleon and the Empress Josephine 1909
O Natal do Menino Imperador
O Natal do Menino Imperador
O Natal do Menino Imperador 2008
The Rhythm and the Blues
The Rhythm and the Blues
Blues legend Eddie Taylor struggles against financial hardship and music industry exploitation to make a name for himself and provide a better life for his family.
The Rhythm and the Blues 2024
Adrift Potentials
Adrift Potentials
This pseudo diary film is made of found materials from an unfinished 16mm film. Potenciais à Deriva is a film started by a Brazilian artist under a pseudonym while living in exile in Los Angeles, California. Isolated shots and previously assembled scenes reveal an intention to create a mysterious film comprised of disembodied interviews, empty rooms, radio recordings, soccer games, and sudden apparitions of the filmmaker that slowly ruminates on Brazil's colonial past, North American Imperialism and the military dictatorship of the time in a paranoid and anxious manner. Be aware that the film's final version never came to exist. This version presented is my mere attempt to produce a film with these otherwise lost images.
Adrift Potentials 2024
Heroes Returning to the East
Heroes Returning to the East
In 1771 the oppression of Tsarist administration forced the larger part of Kalmyk's approximately 170,000-200,000 people to migrate to Dzungaria. Ubashi Khan, the great-grandson of Ayuka Khan and the last Kalmyk Khan, decided to return his people to their ancestral homeland Dzungaria, and restore the Dzungaria Khanate and Mongolian independence. Their goal is not an easy one and a lot of fighting and drama unfolds.
Heroes Returning to the East 1993
The Ceausescu Trial: A Stolen Revolution
The Ceausescu Trial: A Stolen Revolution
30 years after the fall of the Romanian dictator Ceausescu in 1989, we get a reconstruction of one of the most violent events during the fall of the communist regimes. The investigation exposes the gray areas of a coup d'état sparked by the ex-communist elites under the guise of a people's revolution. And zooms in on the role of the media in the mock trial and execution of Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife Elena.
The Ceausescu Trial: A Stolen Revolution 2019
A bras-le-corps
A bras-le-corps
A bras-le-corps 1
Le voyage de la Veuve
Le voyage de la Veuve
Le voyage de la Veuve 2008
The Amish
The Amish
Lyrical and meditative, The Amish answers many questions Americans have about this insistently insular religious community, whose intense faith and adherence to five hundred year-old traditions have by turns captivated and repelled, awed and irritated, inspired and confused for more than a century. With unprecedented access to the Amish built on patience and hard-won trust, the film is the first to deeply penetrate and explore this profoundly attention-averse group. In doing so, it paints an extraordinarily intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life. It questions why and how the Amish, an insistently closed and communal culture, have thrived within one of the most open, individualistic societies on earth.
The Amish 2012
Pitch-Dark Period Drama
Pitch-Dark Period Drama
Tales include: THE HILL OF OLD AGE, which tells of a conspiracy hatched against Japan's unifier, Oda Nobunaga. SEEING THE TRUTH, about the assassin sent to murder Nobunaga's successor leyasu Tokugawa. THE EAR OF JINSUKE, about a wandering swordsman saving a damsel in distress from evil spirits. PRINTS FROM THE FALL OF THE BAKUFU, features a tomboy from a woodcut works charged with making a print of the young warrior Okita Soji.
Pitch-Dark Period Drama 1995
Konflit
Konflit
USSR General Petrov hijacks French television to transmit a message of the utmost importance.
Konflit 2022
Alert at the Border
Alert at the Border
"Alert at the Border" tells the story of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian War of 1941, one of the most important military campaigns in Latin America during the twentieth century, with unpublished scenes taken by war correspondents and recreations made by the team of Amauta Films (1937-1940). Despite his patriotic tone, the Peruvian government banned the film because peace negotiations with Ecuador in early 1942.
Alert at the Border 1941
Raphael - A Sensitive Genius
Raphael - A Sensitive Genius
A documentary that restores to the world, five hundred years after his death, the universal and sensitive genius of one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance: Raphael Sanzio. Guided by the art historian Luca Tomìo, we decided to start our journey from the Renaissance atmosphere of Raphael’s birthplace, the Duchy of Urbino, to retrace, from the very beginning, Raphael's artistic education. From a young age, he found himself confronted with giants of the Renaissance art such as Piero della Francesca and Antonio del Pollaiolo, in the workshop of his father Giovanni Santi, also an excellent painter of the Urbino court.
Raphael - A Sensitive Genius 2021
Les Trésors de Marie-Antoinette à Versailles
Les Trésors de Marie-Antoinette à Versailles
Les Trésors de Marie-Antoinette à Versailles 2024
Russia, Land of the Tsars
Russia, Land of the Tsars
The history of the Russian Tsars.
Russia, Land of the Tsars 2003
1961
1961
In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities.
1961 2023
Elmore Leonard:
Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write"
Elmore Leonard, author of more than 40 novels, is renowned in the literary community. From his westerns and early novels of crime based in Detroit and South Florida, right through his complex and virtually plotless later work, Elmore Leonard dissected an America whose founding sins have continued to haunt it all the days. Leonard’s depiction of America is as real as Twain’s Hannibal, Faulkner’s Mississippi and Steinbeck’s Monterey. The new documentary ELMORE LEONARD: “But don’t try to write” explores the prolific author’s legacy and his influence on generations of writers. The documentary features exclusive images and previously unseen home movie footage, family photographs, and in-depth interviews with both literary experts and those who knew him well, including colleagues, family, and childhood friends.
Elmore Leonard: "But Don't Try to Write" 2021
Ghosts of War
Ghosts of War
Northern France, 1917. Australian Private Joseph Richmond and his fellow soldiers from the 18th Battalion A.I.F. have retreated into a supply trench during an artillery barrage. After being left by himself to act as a listening post, Joe discovers the all-important trench periscope has been damaged, meaning he has to poke his head above the parapet to determine enemy movements after he can overhear them close by. After exchanging shots with an unseen enemy, he retreats, but is confronted by a mysterious soldier. The soldier tells Joe go with him, even though he is not Joe’s relief. Joe refuses to leave his post without proper orders. The soldier reveals himself to be Joe as well, that Joe’s shooting exchange was fatal, and he has been dead ever since. The mysterious soldier represents everything Joe had to leave behind to become a soldier, but now he is dead, the two must reunite so Joe’s soul can meet its destiny.
Ghosts of War 2010
So Far, Yet So Near
So Far, Yet So Near
A film about the resistance against history, not the history against resistance. The film’s dialogues are excerpted from five essays by Go Han-Yong, the first Dadaist during the Korean colonial period, and Max Stirner’s “The Ego and Its Own,” the cause of Joseon anarchism. Following the trajectory of the floating camera, the film intersects the landscape of contemporary Seoul and the newsreels of modern Gyeongseong (the former name of Seoul).
So Far, Yet So Near 2024
A Paisagem de Artur Pastor
A Paisagem de Artur Pastor
A Paisagem de Artur Pastor 2014
La Grande Aventure du France
La Grande Aventure du France
La Grande Aventure du France 2020
The Night of Queen Isabeau
The Night of Queen Isabeau
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
The Night of Queen Isabeau 1920
Neo-Northeast Hero
Neo-Northeast Hero
A robber named Zhang Kui hid in a coffin to avoid the authorities before being transported to another associate. Instead of joining his friend in a major robbery, Zhang Kui ran away together with wife and daughter. Zhang failed to escape, but his daughter would train as a marital artist until she can take revenge for her father.
Neo-Northeast Hero 1949
The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa
The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa
A short drama featuring three fictitious scenes of the Spanish War of Independence (1808-1814).
The Heroes of the Siege of Saragossa 1905
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day
Tradition says that on 13 June, Saint Anthony’s Day (the national holiday of Lisbon’s patron), lovers must offer small vases of basil with paper carnations and flags with popular poems as a token of their love.
Morning of Saint Anthony's Day 2012
Maralinga Tjarutja
Maralinga Tjarutja
The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country.
Maralinga Tjarutja 2020
Dawn of the Abyss: The Spiritual Birth of Swamiji
Dawn of the Abyss: The Spiritual Birth of Swamiji
This documentary presents an awakening inspired by the life of the Benedictine monk Henri Le Saux. After living in a monastery in Brittany for 20 years, he left for South India with the objective of bringing the best of Christian monastic life with him. To achieve his goal, he believed it important to first open himself to the spiritual heart of India. In doing so he encountered Ramana Maharshi, one of the great sages of his time, at the foot of the sacred mountain Arunachala. The impact of this meeting on him was so powerful that Le Saux’s initial plan was turned upside down. In the presence of this mystical mountain, and its Sage, Le Saux began a spiritual adventure that would lead to his own rebirth.
Dawn of the Abyss: The Spiritual Birth of Swamiji 2016
July 11
July 11
July 11 1938
Falsely Accused
Falsely Accused
An Original Video Animation (OVA) released in 2 Parts based on the PC game of the same name. The protagonist is Guys, a young boy from a poor family, who gets caught for stealing candy from a Paris store. However, after being railroaded by a city detective named Guildias, Guys finds himself accused, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a man he never met. From that point on, most Enzai takes place inside a dark, claustrophobic, dirty prison, in there, Guys experiences humiliation and torture of various kinds, much of it involving sexual acts such as rape and forcible sodomy.
Falsely Accused 2004
The Red Man's View
The Red Man's View
Epic remake of a Native American film originally done 100 years ago about a Shoshone band who lived in a secluded valley in the 1860's, during the time of the last 'free' roaming Native Americans in the midst of the US Civil War. They are discovered by a group of Union soldiers and squatters and forced to move from their home. They are moved from valley to valley as the Union takes more and more of their land in a plan to eradicate the country of 'savages' exterminating all Native Americans. But there is hope when the band find a new beginning.
The Red Man's View 1
Titanic: The History & Maiden Voyage of the Luxury Liner
Titanic: The History & Maiden Voyage of the Luxury Liner
This documentary uncovers the facts behind the tragedy of the RMS Titanic, a British passenger liner that sank on April 15th, 1912. Directed by: Top5sMedia
Titanic: The History & Maiden Voyage of the Luxury Liner 2017
Red Sands
Red Sands
The red commander Mirsharapov was sent to fight the Basmachi gang in Khiva. After the fighting, Junaidkhan's gangs are defeated.
Red Sands 1970
They Carry Death
They Carry Death
1492. Among the crew led by Christopher Columbus travel three men who by now should have been dead. They managed to avoid their sad fate by participating in this uncertain journey. After reaching the Canary Islands they flee taking with them one of the ship's sails. Meanwhile, in the "Old World", a woman tries to save her dying sister by taking her to a healer. Both of these trips attempt to make fun of death. Both of these trips are at the mercy of history
They Carry Death 2021
The Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
The Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius
Professor Alice Roberts uncovers the science being used by computer scientist Professor Brent Seales as he utilises cutting-edge technology to read hundreds of carbonised scrolls that were buried in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in the year 79 AD.
The Lost Scrolls of Vesuvius 2023
La scelta di Maria
La scelta di Maria
In a stirring blend of archival footage, fictional recreations, interviews, and animation, the film delves into the story of Italy’s ‘Unknown Soldier’. November 4, 2021, in fact, is the hundredth anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria in Rome. Thanks to a collaboration with the Ministry of Defense, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the city of Aquileia, and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, this film reconstructs the events that led up to that event in 1921
La scelta di Maria 2021