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Besieged
Besieged
Serbia, autumn 1942, The SS has dispatched 200 men to the mountains to flush-out Commander Nikola Kalabic after receiving intelligence from a local informer of his whereabouts. The commander is accompanied by an elite unit of his Royal Mountain Corp troops.
Besieged 2022
La Grotte Cosquer, un chef-d'œuvre en sursis
La Grotte Cosquer, un chef-d'œuvre en sursis
A short distance from Marseille, at Cape Morgiou, in the depths of the Calanques massif, lies the Cosquer cave, discovered only about thirty years ago by a diver, Henri Cosquer. With its bestiary of hundreds of paintings and engravings - horses, bison, jellyfish, penguins - the only underwater decorated cave in the world allows us to learn a little more about Mediterranean societies 30,000 years ago. Today, threatened by rising water levels accelerated by global warming, this jewel of the Upper Paleolithic is in danger of being swallowed up. To save the cave from disappearing, the Ministry of Culture has chosen to digitize it. From this virtual duplicate, a replica has been made on the surface to offer the public a reconstruction that allows them to admire these masterpieces.
La Grotte Cosquer, un chef-d'œuvre en sursis 2022
N.Y. State of Mind Tour
N.Y. State of Mind Tour
From the slums of Shaolin Wu Tang Clan strikes again, paired with the great Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones. In this back-to-back event the Hip-Hop legends take us on a cinematic musical journey through Hip-Hop itself, their discography, whilst channeling an Abel Ferrara "King of New York" aesthetic. All preformed in the name of love and unity.
N.Y. State of Mind Tour 2022
After Rock
After Rock
Frank Morris and John Anglin are two escaped Alcatraz convicts, lying low in small-town Orcutt, California, 1965. They plan to pull off a daring heist and live out the rest of their days in recluse. How will they make it out when troubled teenager Michael Andrew Clark goes on a killing spree?
After Rock 2022
Paris is in Harlem
Paris is in Harlem
On the eve of New York City’s controversial “No Dancing” Law getting repealed, the lives of several strangers are forever changed by a shooting at a historic jazz bar in Harlem.
Paris is in Harlem 2022
Europe's Deadliest Border: Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain
Europe's Deadliest Border: Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain
During the Cold War, many of those who tried to flee westward across the dangerous and blurred line separating communist Czechoslovakia from freedom were gunned down: the story of Europe's deadliest border.
Europe's Deadliest Border: Czechoslovakia's Iron Curtain 2022
Falklands War: The Forgotten Battle
Falklands War: The Forgotten Battle
Ben Fogle uncovers one of the untold stories of the Falklands War - a battle fought by 30.000 British Marines against an Argentine invading force ten times that number.
Falklands War: The Forgotten Battle 2022
Hanau: Germany in Winter
Hanau: Germany in Winter
During a racially motivated rampage in Hanau, Hesse, Tobias R. kills nine citizens on February 19, 2020, his mother and then himself. The words of his manifesto indicate severe psychological problems. This psychogram of a mass murderer shows how withdrawn Tobias R. radicalized himself through fake news and delusion for years before it came to a catastrophe.
Hanau: Germany in Winter 2022
Marusarz. Tatrzański orzeł
Marusarz. Tatrzański orzeł
Stanislaw Marusarz, a well-known Polish jumper, including: the 1938 world vice-champion in Lahti, four-time Olympian, seven-time participant in the ski world championships, as well as a second lieutenant of the Home Army, a Tatra courier. From the first months of the occupation, he was active in the underground as a courier of the Underground State to Hungary. In 1940, he jumped from the second floor and escaped from the Gestapo prison in Krakow. After the war, he was one of the longest active ski jumping athletes in the world. Marusarz became the guest of honor at the 4-Hills-Tournament in the 1965-66 season. He stood on the famous Gross-Titlis-Schanze at the age of 53 - his jump in a suit and tie has made his legacy. Marusarz's spectacular jump in a suit during the Four Hills Tournament '66 became a pretext to tell his fate, as well as the story of his sister Helena - a talented skier, participant of the Resistance Movement, murdered by the Nazis in 1941.
Marusarz. Tatrzański orzeł 2022
Cavewoman
Cavewoman
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.
Cavewoman 2022
Jack the Ripper: 5 Victims
Jack the Ripper: 5 Victims
Three forensic psychology, law enforcement, and historical experts reexamine the infamous case and cast doubt on the widely accepted version of events. The team’s goal is to distinguish truth from fiction and determine how much of what is believed to exist about this renowned murderer is a myth. And why has history hidden the only truth—the account of the five brutally murdered women?
Jack the Ripper: 5 Victims 2022
The Marvellous Spiral
The Marvellous Spiral
Spain, early 20th century. As a child, Leocadia Cantalapiedra was dazzled by a new art: cinema; but she lives in a society where directing films is something only men can do.
The Marvellous Spiral 2022
Malacabra
Malacabra
What if a goat ended the Mayan civilization ?
Malacabra 2022
Lady at Number 16
Lady at Number 16
Based on the tale by Dale Jarvis, "Lady at Number 16" tells the story of two sailors in the 1800s that help a young lady back into her mansion. They return a few hours later to realize that their night was not all that it had seemed, and it may have had a more sinister twist than expected.
Lady at Number 16 2022
D'Annunzio: l'uomo che inventò se stesso
D'Annunzio: l'uomo che inventò se stesso
D'Annunzio: l'uomo che inventò se stesso 2022
Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World
The amazing story of electronic music: its epic journey from its origins in Europe, at the hands of the great artists of the post-war classical avant-garde, to the great post-industrial cities of the USA, where this genre of genres took over music stores, shady clubs and, eventually, the big stages.
Electronic Vibrations: A Sound Changes the World 2022
Ireland's Dirty Laundry
Ireland's Dirty Laundry
The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by the Irish State but supported by all strata of Irish society, which enslaved more than ten thousand women between 1922 and 1996.
Ireland's Dirty Laundry 2022
Aracy: Der Engel von Hamburg
Aracy: Der Engel von Hamburg
Aracy: Der Engel von Hamburg 2022
Dějiny třetí světové
Dějiny třetí světové
Dějiny třetí světové 2022
Kautela, Photographer
Kautela, Photographer
After the discovery of a suitcase hidden in the family home of Francisco Martínez Gascón, known as Kautela, a photojournalist who lived through the Spanish Civil War from the perspective of the rebel side, his granddaughter decides to carry out an investigation into his life and work.
Kautela, Photographer 2022
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power
Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, this documentary tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Power in Lowndes County, Alabama.
Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power 2022
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien
Les Trésors du Paris haussmannien 2022
Assassino na Pista de Dança
Assassino na Pista de Dança
Assassino na Pista de Dança 2022
James Joyce’s Ulysses
James Joyce’s Ulysses
A hundred years after its publication, this film reveals the tawdry, shocking, poetic, uplifting and gloriously kaleidoscopic humanity of James Joyce’s masterpiece, Ulysses.
James Joyce’s Ulysses 2022
Ilha Engraçada Histórias - O Macaco Ferreiro
Ilha Engraçada Histórias - O Macaco Ferreiro
Ilha Engraçada Histórias - O Macaco Ferreiro 2022
Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control
Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control
World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Algeria, the prized French colony in North Africa, remains part of the territory controlled by the Vichy regime of Marshal Pétain. A strict colonial order is maintained: the French of European origin rule, while local Jews are stripped of French citizenship and discrimination against the mainly Muslim population increases.
Algeria 1943: A Colony Under Vichy Control 2022
Republic of Silence
Republic of Silence
They grew up in the land of dictators and surveillance, where images are censored, photos are burned, thoughts are discreet, and mouths are kept shut. They grew up in Syria.
Republic of Silence 2022
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
Delve into a treasure trove of recently unearthed archives to tell a brand new story of Spike Milligan as film, scripts, letters, objects, photographs, recordings, and art all come together to paint a portrait of a comic genius.
Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive 2022
The Pitești Experiment
The Pitești Experiment
The life story of Herman, a promising young man who under extreme circumstances changed into Romania's most effective torture machine in the infamous Pitesti Experiment during the Communist Regime
The Pitești Experiment 2022
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time
A new film made from more than a hundred fragments of archive film, Echoes of the North transports you back to Northern England a century ago, taking its audiences down the highways and byways of northern life in the early 20th century - its industries and rural life, its wartimes and festivals, its transport, holidays, family excursions and huge, city-wide occasions.
Echoes of the North: Four Chapters in Time 2022
Zwei Leben für Europa
Zwei Leben für Europa
Zwei Leben für Europa 2022
Black Soldier
Black Soldier
France, 1986. When Hughes, a young man from the French West Indies, discovers the new Freetime ad, it is a shock : France, the country where he was born, to which he owes his life and his identity, considers him a cannibal. This is the start of a radical awareness fueled by anger and frustration.
Black Soldier 2022
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love
Victim of a terrible plot, Captain Dreyfus was sentenced in December 1894 to deportation for high treason. His wife Lucie made a pact with him: to live, whatever the cost, while awaiting rehabilitation. During five years, the Dreyfus spouses exchanged hundreds of letters. They became a weapon of survival for Alfred. This film is the story of the correspondence of a man and a woman who unwittingly became the unsung heroes of the case that bears their name.
Alfred and Lucie Dreyfus, with Kiss as Deep as My Love 2022
Rothschild Saga
Rothschild Saga
This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the story behind the family's phenomenal economic success. The film tells the dynasty’s incredible saga, from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto to the halls of royal palaces, all the while emphasizing the importance they placed on family unity and the profound role Judaism played in their lives, later using their influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe. A definitive work of documentary cinema with a thoroughly engaging narrative, The Rothschild Saga brings their mysterious and fascinating history to life.
Rothschild Saga 2022
1821: Άνεμος Ελευθερίας
1821: Άνεμος Ελευθερίας
A documentary film on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the outbreak of the Greek Revolution.
1821: Άνεμος Ελευθερίας 2022
Theatre. Non-Creative Professions
Theatre. Non-Creative Professions
A documentary telling about the life of the most inconspicuous, but ones of the most important people in theatre. Prop masters, make-up artists, costume and lighting designers – they all don’t receive the proper praise.. but on the other hand, where is their creativity? About this and many other secrets of the cult Moscow theatre RAMT in the film by Matvey Nikolaev and Elena Tyukhanova. Filming took place at the Russian Academic Youth Theatre on June 28-29, as well as on November 4 and 6, 2021 in Moscow. Mounting was produced in January 2022. On February 6, a draft version of the film was released, but later the premiere date was postponed to February 16, due to a request to remove the scene of Elena Tyukhanova at the end of the costume part, where she leaves a historical photograph for the students of “Class-Center”, hugging Polina Lashkevich and Marianna Ilyina-Baltika. This version is kept private on YouTube and is 13 seconds longer.
Theatre. Non-Creative Professions 2022
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
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
The Golden Bull
The Golden Bull
Valentine Gallardo, a Mexican matador is torn between the love of his life and his love for bullfighting after having a near-death injury in his last fight. Valentin has to come to terms with what is truly important to him, family or fame.
The Golden Bull 2022
Four Hours a Day
Four Hours a Day
Four Hours a Day 2022