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Hriech Kataríny Padychovej
Hriech Kataríny Padychovej
Hriech Kataríny Padychovej 1973
A Life of Jesus
A Life of Jesus
A Life of Jesus 1
The Musketeer
The Musketeer
When an attempted breakout of a prisoner ends in mass bloodshed, a power struggle erupts between the lawmen and a group of civilians in a rural province. As hostilities between the two sides slowly escalate, the animosity felt by the rebel leader towards his enemies slowly grows. Violence only begets more violence as a brutal attack is met with an act of revenge. A Bloody historical epic from Jamshid Heydari.
The Musketeer 1984
Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro
Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro
Padre Cícero: Os Milagres de Juazeiro 1976
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda
A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda 2011
Carpathian Gold
Carpathian Gold
West of Ukraine, 1945. According to the intelligence of the First Ukrainian Front, a special detachment led by Hauptmann Hintze entered the Carpathian region in search of gold for the needs of Germany. In order to get ahead of the enemy, the Chekists recruit a forester. Together with the Chekist Olga, they are supposed to be looking for a place to cut down the forest. In fact, Krapivych is tasked with protecting Olga, who is gathering information about the actions of a German group of saboteurs, which she is hiding in a pursuit squad, and looking for gold ...
Carpathian Gold 1991
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins
A morally questionable lord comes to the aid of a working class man who is to be executed for speaking out about thieving rich scoundrels sticking it to the poor.
The Guild of the Kutná Hora Virgins 1938
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
Let's Ask Nostradamus 1953
Shadow Hunters
Shadow Hunters
The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.
Shadow Hunters 1983
China, My Sorrow
China, My Sorrow
In August 1966, the Cultural Revolution in full swing, 13-year-old Tian Ben is arrested for playing a pop record; he's sent to a remote mountain camp in Niu-Peng. There he's called "Four Eyes" and, with about 16 other older boys and men, he's made to carry muck up a mountainside, make bricks, saw logs, and sing daily to Chairman Mao of his faults. There's camaraderie among the five youths, especially with a young pickpocket named Baimao, and Tian is also drawn to a silent monk who cares for him when he falls ill and the others expect him to die. The camp is remote, so there are no fences or walls. Tian longs to escape.
China, My Sorrow 1989
The Tattered Banner
The Tattered Banner
Film about the Ashio Copper Mine Incident and Shozo Tanaka.
The Tattered Banner 1974
Sa Bang-ji
Sa Bang-ji
Sa Bangji was an intersex person who according to historical records lived during Korea’s Joseon Dynasty. Taken in by a kindly benefactor, Sa Bangji lives in a monastery that is one day visited by a young widow, Lee So-sa, who is in mourning following the death of her husband. The pair’s meeting seems predestined, with the erotic attraction between Sa Bangji and Lee So-sa soon evolving into something far more transcendent – and dangerous. While aspects of the film – its stylised depiction of female actors and sex – identify it as a product of its time, Sa Bangji is undeniably a milestone in screen representations of intersex people, a film that refuses to shy away from the horrendous stigmatization faced by its titular character.
Sa Bang-ji 1988
Skokie
Skokie
A dramatization of the controversial trial concerning the right for Neo-Nazis to march in the predominantly Jewish community of Skokie, Illinois.
Skokie 1981
Angels of Revolution
Angels of Revolution
Five friends – a poet, an actor, a painter, an architect and a primitivist film director – are five red avant-garde artists who try to find the embodiment of their hopes and dreams in the young Soviet state. The Revolution is boiling up like a bottle with apple cider: winged service dogs and heart-shaped potatoes, dead Semashko, the People’s Commissar for Health, and cheerful angels, love for the Tsar and love for the young secretary Annushka, executions and pregnancies – everything is interlaced and inseparable!
Angels of Revolution 2014
Jesus the Revolutionary
Jesus the Revolutionary
A man named Jesus takes on the ruling military junta.
Jesus the Revolutionary 2002
Dopisy v krajkách
Dopisy v krajkách
Dopisy v krajkách 2003
Saint-Ex
Saint-Ex
The story takes us back to 1930 and centres around Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, an Airmail pilot in Argentina. When his best friend who happens to be Airmail’s best pilot Henri Guillaumet disappears in the Andes, Saint-Ex decides to set out in search of him, against all odds. This impossible quest forces him to push beyond his limits, turning his capacity to dream into his greatest strength...
Saint-Ex 2024
Secret Agents
Secret Agents
1977. In a Brazil tormented by the military dictatorship, Marcelo, a man in his forties fleeing a troubled past, arrives in the city of Recife where he hopes to build a new life and reconnect with his family. That's without taking into account the death threats that lurk and hover over his head.
Secret Agents 1
The Eichmann Trial
The Eichmann Trial
In 1961, history was on trial... in a trial that made history. Just 15 years after the end of WWII, the Holocaust had been largely forgotten. That changed with the capture of Adolf Eichmann, a former Nazi officer hiding in Argentina. Through rarely-seen archival footage, The Eichmann Trial documents one of the most shocking trials ever recorded, and the birth of Holocaust awareness and education.
The Eichmann Trial 2024
December 20th
December 20th
Set in December of 1917 after the Bolshevik revolution in Russia. Lenin and the communists are making every effort to strengthen their power. Lenin appoints Felix Dzerzhinsky the Commissar for Internal Affairs and the head of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (CheKa). It became the predecessor of GPU and KGB.
December 20th 1982
Martin Luther
Martin Luther
Learn how one man reluctantly took on the most powerful institution of his day and won. Martin Luther is credited with expounding a new vision of man's relationship with God and, by extension, a redefinition of man's relationship with authority. Filmed across Europe -- from the rustic rural Germany to the opulence of the Vatican City -- you'll witness the collapse of the medieval world and the birth of the modern age.
Martin Luther 2003
Unbowed
Unbowed
This movie challenges ones mind to see racism from another perspective. It forces the issue of racism not on a black/white side of things, but an African American and Indian proportionally view.
Unbowed 1999
Saša
Saša
Saša 1983
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding
Peter the Great takes a Russian man of African heritage - Ibrahim Petrovich Hannibal - under his wing as the tsar builds his grand navy. After having a disastrous affair in France, Ibrahim vows to never fall in love again, until he sees the daughter of a wealthy boyar. Peter the Great insists the two be married, but Ibrahim goes against the tsar's wishes, refusing to force her to marry him since she doesn't consent. When another man tries to marry her, however, Ibrahim's loyalties and generous nature are put to the test.
Tale About Czar Pyotr Arranging Arap's Wedding 1976
9/11: Cleared for Chaos
9/11: Cleared for Chaos
On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable transpired when devastating attacks on the World Trade Center forced the shutdown of the entire U.S. airspace. Thousands of kilometres away in Gander, Newfoundland, a group of Nav Canada air traffic controllers suddenly had the lives of 33,000 people in their hands and had to think fast to find a place for them to go. Discovery uncovers how these unsung heroes managed to safely land 224 planes in four hours, without incident.
9/11: Cleared for Chaos 2019
The Demon
The Demon
Two brothers, who are both hunters and live with their mother, go to the mountains to set traps for deer. Suddenly, a demon grabs the younger brother. The older brother shoots an arrow, severing the demon's arm, which they plan to take home. But they make a grisly discovery on the journey home.
The Demon 1972
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden
HISTORY Vault
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden
The History Channel marks the 20th anniversary of 9/11 with a new groundbreaking documentary about the biggest manhunt in human history. This documentary draws on interviews and stories told in the Museum's special exhibition of the same name, and features interviews with Jan Seidler Ramirez, chief curator and executive vice president of collections, to tell the sweeping tale, linking policy, intelligence, and military decision-making as they converged on a mysterious compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Revealed: The Hunt for Bin Laden 2021
Sharpe: The Legend
Sharpe: The Legend
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Sharpe: The Legend 1997
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class
This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.
Ernst Thälmann – Son of the Working Class 1954
The Civil War on Drugs
The Civil War on Drugs
Comedy troupe "The Whitest Kids U Know" present a film that follows two young men who mistakenly believe the American Civil War is being waged over the legalization of marijuana. They join the cause and embark on a journey that brings them face to face with the Union, the Confederates, the Pony Express and eventually Abraham Lincoln himself.
The Civil War on Drugs 2011
Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death
Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable young boss. This is a story in that Kanda solves the murder spree in Edo where a famous boss of Otamaga pond, Sashichi lives in.
Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death 1984
Przhevalsky
Przhevalsky
A Russian scientist spends a year documenting the natural world in Central Asia.
Przhevalsky 1951
Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei
Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei
Voivode Michael the Brave travels through time, together with his wife, discovering, deeply touched, the new world.
Mihai Viteazul: Prințul intrat în legenda Europei 2022
Heroes of Shipka
Heroes of Shipka
Heroes of Shipka was the first solo effort for Soviet director Sergei Vasilyev, who had previously collaborated with his late brother Georgi. As head of the Leningrad Film Studios, Vasilyev was obliged to traffic in propaganda, but he never forgot how to make his material entertaining. The film is set in 1887 during the pivotal battle between the Russians and the Turks at the Shipka Pass. Stressing the solidarity of the Soviet states, tribute is paid to the courageous Bulgarian volunteers who helped the Russians fend off their mutual enemy. American critics were impressed by Heroes of Shipka, but felt that the film would have been twice as effective had it been lensed in Cinemascope rather than "standard aspect."
Heroes of Shipka 1954
The Iron Swordsman
The Iron Swordsman
The Iron Swordsman 1949
Musical
Musical "Moriarty the Patriot" Op.2 - A Scandal In British Empire -
William James Moriarty, now known as the "Lord of Crime" to the public, and his allies are still working towards an ideal country by punishing the corrupt nobility. One day the government branch MI6, led by his brother Albert, is given the mission to eliminate a woman called Irene Adler for stealing confidential documents. In the meantime, Adler makes contact with Sherlock Holmes, who has become captivated by the mystery of the Lord of Crime.
Musical "Moriarty the Patriot" Op.2 - A Scandal In British Empire - 2020
Eye of the Astronomer
Eye of the Astronomer
During the summer of the year 1610 one of the first telescopes made by Galileo ends up in the hands of Jean Kepler in Prague who at the time was the astronomer of Emperor Rudolp II. Kepler observes the night-sky as nobody has seen it before him. His observation platform becomes the meeting place of Prague's imperial court. In this entourage Kepler separates science from superstition, freedom from intolerance.
Eye of the Astronomer 2012
Lost Treasure of Jesse James
Lost Treasure of Jesse James
A backwoods team of Missouri kids race to solve a 100 year old mystery and save their friends in this family friendly action adventure. Chased deep into ancient caves they must escape treasure hunters hot on their trail or be lost forever.
Lost Treasure of Jesse James 2019
The Arrival of Cinema at the Station
The Arrival of Cinema at the Station
A dramatized reenactment of the events surrounding the first showing of "The Arrival of a Train at the Station" by the Lumiere brothers.
The Arrival of Cinema at the Station 2022
Roanoke: The Lost Colony
Prime Video
Roanoke: The Lost Colony
A fictional tale based on the true events of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in 1587.
Roanoke: The Lost Colony 2007