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Stepan Kolchugin
Stepan Kolchugin
Stepan Kolchugin 1957
Sundays at Café Tabac
Sundays at Café Tabac
Tells the story of lesbian bar Café Tabac's No Day Like Sunday parties in the 1990's
Sundays at Café Tabac 1
Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall
Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall
Joyous scenes in Redruth, Cornwall at the wedding of a Nigerian couple in 1964 - who incorporate both British and traditional attire into the day's festivities.
Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall 1964
Britain on Film: Black Britain
Britain on Film: Black Britain
Featuring footage spanning from 1901 to 1985, this little-seen footage has been found from all across the UK. This programme allows an exploration into stories of migration, community and also the struggle against inequality, while also providing the opportunity to celebrate black British culture and life on screen. Films in the programme include: Miners Leaving Pendlebury Colliery (1901), Hull Fair (1902), For the Wounded (1915), From Trinidad to Serve the Empire (1916), Hello! West Indies (1943), Mining Review 2nd Year No. 11 (1949), To the Four Corners (1957), Black Special Constable (1964), Black Police Officers (1966), Cold Railway Workers (1964), Nigerian Wedding in Cornwall (1964), Coloured School Leavers (1965), London Line No. 373 (1971), African Student Families (1975), Liverpool 8 (1972), Blood Ah Go Run (1982), The Jah People (1981) and Grove Carnival (1981)
Britain on Film: Black Britain 2017
Antigone
Antigone
Diploma work of the Kabardino-Balkar State University (Alexander Sokurov's workshop)
Antigone 2015
Shin Janki
Shin Janki
This is based on a true story, recited, directed by the real Sakurai Shouichi, who has now retired from the underworld mahjong. An elite bureaucrat clashes with Sakurai, a lone wolf, wishing to hire him as rep player. However no matter the money offered, Sakurai will not respond to any offer...
Shin Janki 1998
Cinematograph
Cinematograph
The film depicts the Lumière Brothers discussing and examining their Cinématographe machine. This film has traveled through time since 1925, moving between different conservation sites before finally being stored in the Moving Image Research Collections of the University of South Carolina. Every degradation of the image is the result of a natural decomposition, and the filmmaker presents the material sans alteration.
Cinematograph 2018
Minas Conspiracy
Minas Conspiracy
Minas Conspiracy 1948
The Wash
The Wash
"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot the wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video. It is a collaboration between us, describing the ways the wash is used, and the people who use it, ourselves included. It charts the way this land has changed since they began developing Newhall and the surrounding community of Valencia for housing, a development that is expected to bring over 250,000 more people into the area by the year 2015."
The Wash 2009
The Monster Among Us
The Monster Among Us
In the Bagong Lipunan Negros Island, Philippines of 1985, a family of dumaan farmers and their community faces a brutal threat of the Amomonggo. While the community struggles for their rights and safety, the Magbuelas family is haunted by the tragic loss of their first-born Isio in Escalante and the trouble of preserving the childhood life of their remaining child Ani.
The Monster Among Us 2021
The Steel Animal
The Steel Animal
Klaassen receives a phone call, and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway line's controlling team. He accepts well his change of job, but when he meets his co-workers, uncultured and rough people, he starts having second thoughts. However, he takes it easy, recognizes that they're highly trained works, and teaches them a number of (flashback) stories of pioneers of the present steam train: the early invention by Denis Papin (1679); the three legendary land-surveyors of Caton Hill; the 1769 experiment by Nicolas-Joseph De Cugnot; the 1813 machine test of William Hedley; the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson; and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of Nürnberg-Fürth - stories in which man's will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster.
The Steel Animal 1935
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory
Between the arrival and departure of the train.
You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory 2021
When I Get Grown - Reflections of a Freedom Rider
When I Get Grown - Reflections of a Freedom Rider
Trauma experienced by a seven-year-old sets him on a course to become a civil rights legend and change the course of a nation.
When I Get Grown - Reflections of a Freedom Rider 2022
The Universe
The Universe
This educational show explores many scientific questions and topics about the universe (Big Bang, the Sun, the planets, black holes, other galaxies, astrobiology etc.) through latest CGI, data and interviews with scientists.
The Universe 2007
Under the Eightball
Under the Eightball
In 1951 at Fort Detrick, Maryland, construction crews built a hollow metal sphere four stories high. Inside germ weapons were to be exploded, creating mists of infectious aerosols for testing on animals....and people. Employees called it the eight ball. In their eighteen month long journey Grey and Russell travel the country in search of answers and interview top experts in the world of Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases. Under the Eight ball includes live footage, historical documents, original animation and archival military footage.
Under the Eightball 2009
The Chronicles of the Gray House
The Chronicles of the Gray House
Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both families. But when he actually offers marriage to her, this is going too far. The return of his brother Detlev, with an unscrupulous aristocratic bride of his own and a rival claim to their father's estates, proves to be the trigger for tragedy.
The Chronicles of the Gray House 1925
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
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Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall
Adolf Hitler spent the last ten days of his life in a bunker underneath the Chancellery of the Reich. Unwilling to face the consequences of defeat, the dictator ended his own life on April 30, 1945 in this fortified underground complex. Featuring exclusive interviews with the last survivor’s of Hitler’s inner circle and extensive archival footage, Death in the Bunker is an illuminating look at the Führer’s final decisions in preparation for his suicide.
Death in the Bunker: The True Story of Hitler's Downfall 2004
Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die
Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die
This unique recreation of an 18th-century home, in London's Spitalfields, has to be seen to be believed. Dan Cruickshank smells the rotting food and warms his hands by the roaring fires and asks whether this living museum is really more accurate than a National Trust treasure, or just an eccentric one-off from its outlandish Californian creator, the late Dennis Severs. A follow-up of sorts to the 1985 BBC series Ours to Keep episode "Incomers" focused on this residence.
Dan Cruickshank & The House That Wouldn't Die 2003
Horses Die at Dawn
Horses Die at Dawn
When Ione moves into the house of the deceased García siblings, she discovers that their rebel spirit still remains in the many objects they left behind. Antonio worked as a comic book artist for the Bruguera publishing house and Rosita was a pianist and opera singer. Both, together with their brother Juanito, transformed their home into a space dominated by fiction, to escape the dark reality imposed by the Franco dictatorship.
Horses Die at Dawn 2022
One Hundred Crowded Years: The Centennial Film
One Hundred Crowded Years: The Centennial Film
The coming of the pioneer settlers in 1840, the making of their first homes in the wilderness, the gold rushes, the Maori wars, the stage coaches, and the frontier towns. A panorama of New Zealand's history and scenery, its social and economic development from 1840 to 1940.
One Hundred Crowded Years: The Centennial Film 1941
Black Holes
Black Holes
cel animation, repetition, and disappearance... color, sound, 5:20 loop, 2015
Black Holes 2015
Moonlight on Second Spring
Moonlight on Second Spring
Dramatization of the life of blind musician ABing (Huà Yànjūn).
Moonlight on Second Spring 1979
Victory of Mongolian People
Victory of Mongolian People
Victory of Mongolian People 1951
My Survival as an Aboriginal
My Survival as an Aboriginal
Essie Coffey gives the children lessons on Aboriginal culture. She speaks of the importance of teaching these kids about their traditions. Aboriginal kids are forgetting about their Aboriginal heritage because they are being taught white culture instead.
My Survival as an Aboriginal 1979
Where the Wind blew
Where the Wind blew
Where the Wind blew 1
Dans les pas de Marie Curie
Dans les pas de Marie Curie
Dans les pas de Marie Curie 2011
Gregorius auf dem Stein
Gregorius auf dem Stein
Gregorius auf dem Stein 2012
I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man
I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man
Empire of Brazil, 1870. A queer indigenous body slowly dies on the cross while a transgender gypsy woman is banned by her people. A half-breed soldier stands in the middle of the way. A child and an old woman cross their stories like destined lines on the palm of a hand.
I Seek Your Help to Bury a Man 2023
Autopsy of a triple murder: Sakine, Fidan, Leyla, Kurdish Militants
Autopsy of a triple murder: Sakine, Fidan, Leyla, Kurdish Militants
Documentary about the murder of three Kurdish women activists in Paris in 2013 and the investigations against an agent of the Turkish intelligence service MIT.
Autopsy of a triple murder: Sakine, Fidan, Leyla, Kurdish Militants 2020
Longsince
Longsince
In 1980s Apartheid South Africa, a woman's tenuous relationship with her boyfriend is threatened by memories of a past lover, and the possibility of their re-entry into her life.
Longsince 2022
Béke - A nemzetek felett
Béke - A nemzetek felett
Béke - A nemzetek felett 2022
Tippi Hedren: The Birds and Other Wild Animals
Tippi Hedren: The Birds and Other Wild Animals
Tippi Hedren, the unforgettable actress who starred in The Birds (1963), made in her memoirs a relentless portrait of its director, the genius British filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980), the same one who, despite his disturbing personality and questionable working methods, made her a Hollywood star. From Minnesota to Hollywood, the true story of a unique performer and a free woman.
Tippi Hedren: The Birds and Other Wild Animals 2022
Wallflowers, Blooming...
Wallflowers, Blooming...
A married man talks to his married neighbour in a cafe in 1970s Singapore. Adapted from the Wong Kar-Wai film "In the Mood for Love".
Wallflowers, Blooming... 2020
Barkomo
Barkomo
Set in the 17th century in a small cave-dwelling village in northeastern Mali, the film follows Yamio — a woman who, unable to conceive after 10 years of marriage and shamed by the fertility of her husband's second wife — throws herself off a cliff. When she miraculously lands without suffering any harm, she wanders in exile, finally taking refuge in Barkomo, a kingdom that has fallen on hard times. When she discovers that she is pregnant with a miracle child, she has the chance to change the fortunes of everyone around her.
Barkomo 2020
Tsushima Fiction
Tsushima Fiction
From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tranquility in 13th century Japan during the Mongol invasion or a collection of 48 moving images captured entirely within the virtual world of Ghost of Tsushima.
Tsushima Fiction 2020
Sila
Sila
The destiny of a group of Cangaceiro bandits after the death of their captain Virgulino Ferreira da Silva, better known as Lampião.
Sila 2020
El origen de las minas de sal de San Mateo
El origen de las minas de sal de San Mateo
The Chuj tell the story of three brothers and the reason behind the origin of the largest salt mines in San Mateo.
El origen de las minas de sal de San Mateo 2020
39-45 : Les Cheminots dans la résistance
39-45 : Les Cheminots dans la résistance
39-45 : Les Cheminots dans la résistance 2020
Enchained
Enchained
In this lush historical drama set in 1916 Ethiopia, Gobeze is a timid, peace-loving literature student who has dedicated his life to studying Sem Ina Werq — riddles with dual meaning. After spending years searching for his first love, Aleme, who was abducted seven years earlier, he finally finds her married to Gonite, a wealthy judge and landlord. When Gonite catches the two reunited lovers, a fight ensues. Following tradition, the feuding men are bound together, and, side by side, must make the long journey to stand trial in the royal court.
Enchained 2020
Rancho de mis recuerdos
Rancho de mis recuerdos
Rancho de mis recuerdos 1946