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The Composer
The Composer
The Composer 2019
D-Day: The Untold Stories
D-Day: The Untold Stories
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Europe and the subsequent battles that captured the control of the Normandy coast. Some of the last surviving veterans recall in detail the terror, patriotism and drama from the frontlines of war. This special also honors the diverse backgrounds of all who served.
D-Day: The Untold Stories 2019
Censored
Censored
This is a metaphorical story about the tragic and mysterious death of the most powerful poet of 1960s, human rights activist, hero of Ukraine Vasyl Stus and his struggle with the Soviet system. The events of the film unfold during the last attempt by the KGB to seduce the poet with a whimsical "freedom".
Censored 2019
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day
Vestiges de guerre : les chars disparus du D-Day 2019
The General
The General
Movie follows life of Croatian war hero general Ante Gotovina.
The General 2019
The General
The General
Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.
The General 2019
Born Out of The Ashes
Born Out of The Ashes
Uzbek historical epic about Mongol tyranny in Uzbekistan.
Born Out of The Ashes 2019
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
"Sri Ramana" a humble tribute to the Maharshi | A DOCU-FEATURE FILM
Sri Ramana Maharshi A DOCU-FEATURE FILM 2019
Three Nobunagas
Three Nobunagas
Warlord Oda Nobunaga has lost the battle in sixteenth century Japan and is currently being pursued by Ujinori Kanbara who was Yoshimoto Imagawa's vassal. Yoshimoto was slayed by Nobunaga and the former vassal is burning with the fires of revenge. Yet, success is seemingly tripled when he captures not one but three Nobunagas. Each prisoner claims to be the warlord.
Three Nobunagas 2019
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro
An account of the life and work of controversial German orchestra conductor Herbert von Karajan (1908-89), celebrated as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century.
Karajan: Portrait of a Maestro 2019
Viking Warrior Women
Paramount+
Viking Warrior Women
Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by revenge, becomes an explorer and trader in the lands of the Rus Vikings.
Viking Warrior Women 2019
Purpurinis rūkas
Purpurinis rūkas
'Purple Smoke' tells the complex story of Lithuanian Jew Jozef, partisan commander Vlad and their two beloved Janes.
Purpurinis rūkas 2019
Edward II of England: The Unhappy King
Edward II of England: The Unhappy King
His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arguments to do so. He would not have failed if he had proved himself to be an energetic king. But Edward II of England (1284-1327) never was a king like Edward I Longshanks, his father, or Edward III, his son, were. And his end is shrouded in myth and mystery.
Edward II of England: The Unhappy King 2019
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
The Blackout
Prime Video
The Blackout
Centers around a group of friends and strangers at an apartment party, set against the backdrop of Hurricane Sandy.
The Blackout 2019
Lux Æterna: The Art of Filmmaking
Lux Æterna: The Art of Filmmaking
The French premiere of Lux Æterna at L'Étrange Festival was screened a surprise: a 15-minute short film entitled "The Art of Filmmaking."
Lux Æterna: The Art of Filmmaking 2019
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons
Le Pen : Secrets, pardons et trahisons 2019
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
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
Berlin Escape Artists
Berlin Escape Artists
An ideological and physical barrier fell on 9 November 1989 in Berlin. For 28 years, this 155 km wall divided Germany in two, separating friends and family. The recent discovery of some documents reveals the stories of those who managed to escape to join their loved ones, or simply to regain their freedom. Demonstrating imagination and courage, some dug tunnels to get under the Berlin Wall, others inflated balloons to fly over it, while others disguised themselves with fake uniforms. By combining archives, reconstitution sequences and intrigue scenes, this documentary plunges us into a Berlin that has now disappeared, through the prism of the art of escape under the GDR.
Berlin Escape Artists 2019
Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg
Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg
For all its talk of racial, spiritual, and physical purity, the self-anointed “Master Race” harbored a secret…theirs was an axis of drug addicts. This two-hour special explores the origin, impact, and lasting effects of the state-sponsored drug use that helped build—and eventually burned—the Third Reich. Incredible new sources of information, including a detailed journal maintained by Hitler’s personal physician, reveal the extent of not just his, but the entire Nazi Party’s reliance on drugs to power their war effort.
Nazis on Drugs: Hitler and the Blitzkrieg 2019
Jallianwala Bagh: Punjab Da Dil
Jallianwala Bagh: Punjab Da Dil
Over 1,000 people were martyred to British bullets as they celebrated Baisakhi in Amritsar on 13 April 1919. Watch our retelling of this heartwrenching incident on Jallianwala Bagh: Punjab Da Dil’, a salute to all these brave freedom fighters who made the ultimate sacrifice for the nation.
Jallianwala Bagh: Punjab Da Dil 2019
Benyamin
Benyamin
Benjamin is the story of a boy of the same name who is forced to go on a dangerous journey to save his mother's life from the hands of Pharaoh's soldiers.
Benyamin 2019
Legends of War: Battle of Baideng
Legends of War: Battle of Baideng
The war units of the Hun Emperor Mete Han and the Chinese Emperor Gao-Zu, the father of the turan tactic used by the Turks for centuries, come face to face in the Battle of Baideng. The war genius Mete Han was going to surround the Chinese with an unexpected war tactic and inflict a heavy defeat on them.
Legends of War: Battle of Baideng 2019
Ascensão do Nazismo
Ascensão do Nazismo
Ascensão do Nazismo 2019
Maginot vs Siegfried : la guerre des lignes
Maginot vs Siegfried : la guerre des lignes
Maginot vs Siegfried : la guerre des lignes 2019
The Shooting of 319
The Shooting of 319
The movie revisits the shooting of then-president Chen Shui-bian and vice president Annette LU on the eve of the presidential election in 2004. After the shooting, the two won the presidential election. Moreover, the crime suspect was drowned in a near port days after the incident. The assassination case has been investigated by the authority for 15 years; however, several questions surrounding the "319 Shooting" remain unanswered to this day. The movie approaches a dark period of Taiwan history and shows the mechanics of power - in a witty and creative way.
The Shooting of 319 2019
A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley
A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley
Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties like it is 500 years ago - discovering long-lost traditions as well as familiar customs.
A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley 2019
Whelm
Prime Video
Whelm
Set during the Great Depression, two Midwest brothers get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and an eccentric young criminal.
Whelm 2019
The SS: A Barbaric State
The SS: A Barbaric State
Nuremberg is where Nazi congresses were held. In the city where Hitler gathered huge crowds of fanatics, the court hosted in 1945 the greatest trial in History. The Allied victors judged those responsible for the Third Reich. Among the defendants are the Führer's closest surviving accomplices. But not only them: defendant number 27 is not even a man. It is an entire organization: the SS were a state within the state – which ruled all the police – with its own army, within the Nazi regime.
The SS: A Barbaric State 2019
1989: Z dopisů psaných přes železnou oponu
1989: Z dopisů psaných přes železnou oponu
An original film testimony about the time 30 years ago. Peter Kořínek is 21 years old, hailing from Pardubice. He listens to underground bands, reads samizdat books, and faces school troubles due to his long hair. He dreams of emigration. It is the beginning of 1989, and there is no indication that he will experience freedom in communist Czechoslovakia.
1989: Z dopisů psaných přes železnou oponu 2019
Guerilla
Guerilla
In 1849, the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Having hidden from military draft, Barnabás leaves his hometown and walks across the country to find and save his wounded brother who has been hiding with a guerilla group deep in the forest. Despite their exhaustion, lack of food or information, they are still fighting for their cause. Barnabás finds his brother alienated and distrustful. The tension between the boys further increases when they turn out to be attracted to the same nurse in the camp. Hoping he can earn his brother's trust and take him home, Barnabás decides to stay and lie about his past. In the meantime, he has to face the cruelty of war.
Guerilla 2019
The Swamp
The Swamp
The history of the Florida Everglades and the efforts to reclaim, control and preserve the vast area once viewed as a wasteland.
The Swamp 2019
Agontimé
Agontimé
Priestess, slave, queen. After two centuries trapped in Sao Luis, Brazil, Agontimé breaks free and embarks back to her homeland, the Kingdom of Dahomey – current Benin –, hoping to retake the sacred place that is her by right.
Agontimé 2019
Mosolyka – Majd helyett MOST
Mosolyka – Majd helyett MOST
Mosolyka – Majd helyett MOST 2019
Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified
Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified
Oversimplified explains the Chinese history of The Three Kingdoms.
Three Kingdoms - OverSimplified 2019
狂暴大蜈蚣
狂暴大蜈蚣
狂暴大蜈蚣 2019
Lola Mame's Vegetable Soup
Lola Mame's Vegetable Soup
A war-torn grandmother, Lola Mame conceals her past from her tenacious and curious grandson Sen. He is persistent in uncovering his grandmother's past. He is motivated not only by academic recquirement but also his longing to puzzle a part of his identity. However, for Lola Mame, there is no secret kept forever. The past is a continuing present.
Lola Mame's Vegetable Soup 2019
A Journey
A Journey
A holocaust survivor's journey, combined with the younger generations' one. Two parallel stories with a common destination. Auschwitz.
A Journey 2019
L’Echec du rideau de fer
L’Echec du rideau de fer
L’Echec du rideau de fer 2019