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The Real American: Joe McCarthy
The Real American: Joe McCarthy
An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in US history.
The Real American: Joe McCarthy 2012
Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island
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Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island
During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers find themselves trapped in dense swampland infested with deadly saltwater crocodiles. As the men are picked off one by one by the hungry reptiles, those that remain resort to increasingly desperate measures to survive the onslaught of carnage and get off the island alive.
Saltwater: The Battle for Ramree Island 2021
Judas' Kiss
Judas' Kiss
The story of Judas's betrayal of Christ.
Judas' Kiss 1954
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess
Postwar Japan as it is described by Etsuko, the manager of a bar catering to foreigners in Yokosuka. The way of life of a woman brimming with vitality, who skipped the countryside right after the war and, with her womanhood as a weapon, lived through atomic bombings, black markets, prostitution aimed at American soldiers and the Korean War. Inserting newsreels, Shohei Imamura depicts the history of twenty-five years in the Japanese postwar by way of the female body. (doclisboa)
History of Postwar Japan as Told by a Bar Hostess 1970
Black Thursday
Black Thursday
In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.
Black Thursday 1974
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street
The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.
The Wolf from Royal Vineyard Street 2016
Wallis & Edward
Wallis & Edward
In 1936, Edward VIII abdicated in order to marry the woman he loved, Wallis Simpson, a twice divorced American. These events caused a scandal around the world and Wallis has since been demonised as the woman who stole the King of England. Wallis and Edward is the first time that the events have been considered from Wallis's point of view. The drama follows the beginning of their affair whilst Edward was Prince of Wales and Wallis was still married to Ernest Simpson.
Wallis & Edward 2005
The Wager
The Wager
In the 1740s, British naval ship the Wager is wrecked on a desolate island off the tip of South America. The captain and crew struggle to survive and maintain order, while battling not only the most extreme elements but their own human natures.
The Wager 1
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things
Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over the next six decades, her sublime voice would transform the tragedies of her own life and the troubles of her times into joy. JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS retraces this extraordinary journey.
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things 2019
The Nine Muses
The Nine Muses
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
The Nine Muses 2010
Song Ci
Song Ci
There are frequent disasters in Linglong Town, and rumors have it that it's because of the dragons. Young boys and girls need to be sacrificed into the Dragon Well to feed the dragons in order to enjoy peace. The evil customs of sacrifice continued for a long time, and countless children were buried in the belly of the dragon. The cries of Linglong Town were loud, and everyone with young children at home panicked. After Xinke Jinshi solemnly served as the master clerk, he insisted on entering the Dragon Well to investigate the Dragon incident, but he did not want to be imprisoned for offending the Dragon King.
Song Ci 2022
May the Lord Be With Us
May the Lord Be With Us
The Defenestration of Prague, which took place on May 23, 1618, was the decisive historical moment that unleashed the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) between several Catholic and Protestant states and changed the course of European history forever. (Additionally released as a heavely edited historical documentary entitled The Defenestration of Prague, 85 min.)
May the Lord Be With Us 2018
One Against the Wind
One Against the Wind
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
One Against the Wind 1991
A Month With the Girls
A Month With the Girls
The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.
A Month With the Girls 2024
Pathfinders
Pathfinders
At the beginning of the last century, in the ancient city of Jiangnan, three teenagers from declining families became good friends.They were Qu Qiubai, Zhang Tailei and Yun Daiying who would later become the early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. Qu Qiubai is the highest-ranking CCP leader who died at the hands of the enemy; Zhang Tailei is the highest-ranking leader who died on the front line of the battle; the "China Youth" magazine founded and edited by Yun Daiying turns 100 this year. The film tells the story of the "finding" life of three teenagers...
Pathfinders 2023
In the Town of S.
In the Town of S.
A portrait of a Russian community in the late 19th century based on Chekhov's stories, featuring the author as observer and narrator.
In the Town of S. 1966
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. But even as she gained renown in the Harlem literary circles, Hurston was also discovering anthropology at Barnard College with the renowned Franz Boas. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore.
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space 2023
Cleopatra
Cleopatra
A biopic about Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
Cleopatra 1
Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC
Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC
An independent documentary directed by Bobbito Garcia and Kevin Couliau. The film explores the definition, history, culture, social impact and global influence of New York's outdoor summer basketball scene, the worldwide 'Mecca' of the sport.
Doin' It in the Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC 2012
Mysteries of Egypt
Mysteries of Egypt
Filmed in IMAX, a young girl questions her grandfather about the alleged curse of King Tutankhamen. His response takes us up to the source of the nourishing river Nile, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, to the Valley of the Kings.
Mysteries of Egypt 1998
Misery
Misery
The story takes place in Ohrid, at the end of XI century. Slavic population gives resistance to Byzantium and the Christian dogma leads to the persecutions and murders. The villages are plagued with outbreak of smallpox, and all the people with the symptoms were thrown into the lime. The film follows the fate of Abraham's family as the story of survival in the Balkan intersections.
Misery 1975
Story of San Michele
Story of San Michele
A biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The Story of San Michele. It follows the physician, psychiatrist, and adventurer as he travels the distances from Lapland to his Villa San Michele on Capri, with special stops in Paris and Rome. Personal physician to Queen Victoria, also physician to the Swedish royal family (he spent his last years living in the Royal Palace in Sweden), "Axel Munthe" knew everyone from the poorest clients to the most well-endowed. His love of animals, his support of bird sanctuaries, his involvement with architecture as he constructs his impressive villa throughout five summers, and his interests in archaeology and hypnotism are all explored.
Story of San Michele 1962
Monsieur Léon
Monsieur Léon
During the Occupation, a kid is taken in by his old grandfather, wrongly considered a collaborator.
Monsieur Léon 2005
Shinran
Shinran
A biographical movie about Shinran
Shinran 1960
Long Dark Night
Long Dark Night
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croatian University student, his role as a Partisan fighting Hitler's troops during W.W. II, his involvement in his nation's post-war government, and his eventual downfall.
Long Dark Night 2004
Petra: Secrets of the Ancient Builders
Petra: Secrets of the Ancient Builders
In the heart of the Jordanian desert, the ancient city of Petra is full of mysteries. How was this architectural wonder created over 2,000 years ago? The technical prowess of Petra, an ancient city in southern Jordan, which was a wonder in the middle of the desert.
Petra: Secrets of the Ancient Builders 2019
An Optimistic Tragedy
An Optimistic Tragedy
1918 year. A woman commissar has been appointed from the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party to the Russian warship Gromoboi, which is ruled by anarchist sailors. The leader of the ship is the anarchist Vozhak. The Commissioner was instructed to reorganize the naval detachment into the First Sailor Regiment. She faces a difficult task: to win the authority of the sailors and eradicate anarchy. Of the remaining officers on the ship — lieutenant Bering, who served in the tsarist fleet on the battleship "Emperor Paul I". He must become the commander and, together with the sent commissar, lead the regiment to the front in the Black Sea region.
An Optimistic Tragedy 1963
The Diary of Diana B.
The Diary of Diana B.
Firmly believing her own life is no more precious than the lives of the innocent people being persecuted, with the help of a few friends, Diana embarks on a perilous campaign of rescuing more than 10,000 children from the Ustasha camps in Nazi-occupied Croatia.
The Diary of Diana B. 2019
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness
A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness tells the tale of the rebellious genius who created an entirely new literature. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing In The Darkness 2012
Jindřich IV.
Jindřich IV.
Jindřich IV. 1968
Rise Against the Sword
Rise Against the Sword
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved, he attempts to recruit him to fight in a conflict between Asakura and another clan. Goemon refuses, and Lord Asakura sets out to destroy him.
Rise Against the Sword 1966
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
The history of black newspapers in America.
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords 1999
Narco Wars: In Their Own Words
Narco Wars: In Their Own Words
Narco Wars: In Their Own Words presents the inside story of how DEA agents and the Colombian National Police brought down the most vicious drug cartel in the world. This program combines never-before-broadcast recordings with rare archival footage, photos and interpretive re-enactments to tell the story of how Pablo Escobar’s massive billion-dollar drug empire was taken out.
Narco Wars: In Their Own Words 2019
Nostradamus and the Queen
Nostradamus and the Queen
An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and herself.
Nostradamus and the Queen 1953
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann
Ernst Thälmann 1986
Eurasia Handsomest Sovereign: Принц Оьклейский เจ้าชายโอคหล่อแท้ไม่ศัลยกรรม
Eurasia Handsomest Sovereign: Принц Оьклейский เจ้าชายโอคหล่อแท้ไม่ศัลยกรรม
An ultra extraordinary adventure of Prince Oak Oakleyski started while he was studying bachelor at a certein university in Asia. He remembered that his ancient ancestor was a conqueror so he attempted to do the same thing but without harmful violence. His conquest was to touch down at every sensational spot of the globe. As he chose to dropped out of the college, he occasionally took a flight to the places where his girls at. Like a circus of Thailand, Mongolia, Krygyzstan, Kazakhstan, Nepal, Ukraine, and Russia, etc. as places of oriental-ish destinations. The smelly warmth of his girl's body odour was an indicator of pheromone releasing when his girl was seduced by him, as he commanded his hot-scented girl to stay with him. He untitled himself, because he's a king without crown. He preferred naturality, without any artificial equipment. Because his royal highness is in his physical genetics, phenotype taxonomy, and soul. He throw away the worthless crown, as he discarded his title.
Eurasia Handsomest Sovereign: Принц Оьклейский เจ้าชายโอคหล่อแท้ไม่ศัลยกรรม 2022
Spring of Life
Spring of Life
The film, 'The Spring Of Life', brings to light a little-known operation of the Nazi SS, started just before the outbreak of World War II. Through the careful selection and re-education of young women, it was the Nazi's mad dream to create an Aryan 'master race'.
Spring of Life 2000
177 Productions Presents...
177 Productions Presents...
What is 177 Productions?
177 Productions Presents... 2023
Riot at the Rite
Riot at the Rite
In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
Riot at the Rite 2005
Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà
Sul Tetto del Mondo - Walter Bonatti e Rossana Podestà 2021