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The Line
A project as crazy as it was deadly was born in the early days of aviation in the 1920s: L'Aéropostale. They needed pilots - young guys who had everything to prove and nothing to lose. And all this to honor the promise of faster mail. Jean Mermoz, a young ex-Air Force officer, proves to be the best pioneer of the skies. Against nature and against mechanics, he always delivers mail to its destination. Captivated by his conquests and prodigies, he sees only the success of the airline: Faster. Further. The dawn of progress. But a few years later, with many pilots now dead and the world still reeling from the 1930s Wall Street Crash, l'Aéropostale is at the brink of bankruptcy. Mermoz is forced to question the true meaning of his idealism.
Congo: A Journey to the Heart of Africa
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is a vast, mineral rich country the size of Western Europe. Alastair Leithead takes an epic journey from the Atlantic Ocean to the far reaches of the Congo river to explore how history has shaped the Congo of today and uncover the lesser told stories of this beautiful, if troubled country. In the largest rainforest outside of the Amazon he comes face to face with its gorillas and hunts with pygmies, he travels into the heart of the Ebola outbreak with United Nations peacekeepers, and explores the cobalt mines which will drive our electric cars of the future.
An Unknown Country: The Jewish Exiles of Ecuador
Story of European Jews who fled Europe escaping the Nazi terror to find refuge in an unlikely destination: Ecuador -- barely known at the time.
Musical Touken Ranbu: Paraiso of the Silent Sea
Six Touken Danshi go on a mission to the Shimabara Rebellion.
The First Republic
The young Soviet country is becoming a country of unique opportunities, labor and cultural victories. Bashkortostan, as the first republic to become part of the new Russia, is experiencing its heyday. Science and culture are developing rapidly. Art is getting closer to the people. The sudden murder of Kirov causes a wave of party purges. The flywheel of repression is inexorably unwinding…
Precarious
A haunting evocation of the aftermath of the explosion at Chernobyl, 25 years on. This visually stunning road movie takes the spectator on a bleak journey from the shores of the Black Sea to the frozen heart of Chernobyl, passing through desolate, snowy landscapes, littered with abandoned villages. Squatting in this icy wasteland, the ghostly sarcophagus of Reactor No.4 is a constant reminder of the threat still lurking below. Accompanied by testimony from a group of unseen veterans of the disaster, Precarious bears witness to both the folly and resilience of humans and to nature's fragility.
The Mundial
In 1986, during the World Cup, John, a conservative man with right-wing beliefs and his brother, Antonis, with Communist authorities are waiting for the crossbar of the Soviet football match Union-Belgium.
Satisfaction
Georgian England, two aristocratic women take up pistols, risking their lives to duel over a petty insult.
Chess History
Depicts how Bobby Fischer tortuously considers his next move-hands gripping his head and eyes fastened to the board-as his 1972 World Chess Championship opponent, Boris Spassky, looks on.
Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi
A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.
5½ years
In October 2020, the biggest trial in modern Greece comes to an end. The court ruling is clear: The Parliament’s third-largest party over several years is a criminal organization. What is it like to cover such a trial for five and a half years? A conversation with the people who were there.
The Great Indian Wars: 1540-1890
The year 1540 was a crucial turning point in American history. The Great Indian Wars were incited by Francisco Vazquez de Coronado when his expedition to the Great Plains launched the inevitable 350-year struggle between the white man and the American Indians. From that point forward, the series of battles between the military and civilian forces of the United States and the native American Indians began when blood was shed and ultimately tens of thousands of lives were lost on both sides. The Battle of Tippicanoe, the Battle of Horseshoe Band, all three Seminole Wars and the Battle of Little Big Horn were some of the most important conflicts that led up to the last massacre, the Battle of Wounded Knee, where America's landscape would be forever changed!
Milunka Savic: Heroine of the Great War
Documentary about the life of the most decorated woman warrior of all time, Milunka Savic and her struggles after the end of WW1 in her homeland of Serbia.
The Battle of Gettysburg
The Battle of Gettysburg is a moving, original account of the great climatic confrontation—the turning point in the War Between the states. Unique in its perspective, this program tells the story from a distinct Southern viewpoint, through the eyes of General Robert E. Lee—commander of the Confederate Army, and General George E. Pickett—leader of the doomed assault on the Unio’s Army of the Potomac. The Battle of Gettysburg is a thought-provoking depiction of honor, bravery, and personal tragedy that forever changed the course of American history.
Ninety Six: Crossroads of a Revolution
Positioned at the crossroads of critical trade routes that linked Cherokee territory to the city of Charleston, the town of Ninety Six was a seat of power in the British colony of South Carolina. Ninety Six in the 1700s was a land of hope and opportunity, of conflict and revenge, a land of frontier justice. This was the site of violent struggles between Cherokee and settlers and among settlers themselves - those loyal to the King pitted against "Patriots" for freedom. Ninety Six played a significant role in the struggle for American independence from British rule. It was the site of the first southern land battle of the Revolutionary War in 1775, and the scene of the longest field siege in 1781.
Private Detective DOBU 6: The Origami Murder Case
A spree of murders in the city targets peddlers and komuso monks, all killed in the same method. Dobu investigates after a ronin's death with a unique clue.
Inventor Crazybrains and the Girl Called Bird
The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.
Leathanach Deiridh
Based on true events. Unfortunate circumstances prompt a young woman to recount her story, from her birth at a mother and baby home to a life spent wondering about her lost family.
The Freedom of Herds
The history and trauma of two men, brought together by war, is exposed when a mysterious visitor treads familiar ground.
Tip y Coll: regardez la gilipolluá
An account of the life and work of Luis 'Tip' Sánchez Polack (1926-1999) and José Luis Coll (1931-2007), a peculiar pair of comedians who, between 1967 and 1995, followed the twisted path of Spanish absurdist humor, of long tradition, later followed by many others.
Coyote's Canoe
Inspired by the land formation known as Coyote’s Canoe, located near Gloria’s home in Splatsin community, this visual story shares the legend of the coyote bringing salmon to the people of the Interior of British Columbia.
9/11 A.M.
This is a story about America in the final hour before it would change forever. Two young lovers - one a Muslim college student and the other an employee at the World Trade Center - go about their mundane morning, unaware of the terror that awaits. Set to real FAA & NORAD transmissions.
Hora staccato
On the night of 5th to 6th of May 1950, DGSP, the political police of the communist regime, which was recently installed with the help of the Red Army, arrested in Bucharest 69 former politicians, generals, secretaries of state, ministers and prime ministers, in an operation later called »The Night of the Dignitaries«. Due to the specificity of the NKVD modus operandi, the former officials arrested that night didn’t receive any kind of information regarding the reason of their arrest. Moreover, in the next days they were sent directly to Sighetu Marmatiei prison, without a trial.
La maquisarde
Algeria, 1956. Plunged into a war that does not speak its name, a young peasant girl becomes, in spite of herself, a maquis. But during an attack, she is captured by a group of commandos who take her to a forbidden interrogation site, where she is locked up with a former French Resistance fighter.
Lost Generation
Four outnumbered hungarian soldiers hold a stand in the woods, against the soviet army, near the end of the second world war.
Paris romantique, Paris érotique
The image of Paris as the capital of love seems to be obvious today. However, it is only in the 19th century, with its "haussmannisation", that it acquired this title. How did this reputation impose itself on the whole world? From the grand boulevards to the banks of the Seine, through the darkness of the porte cochères, the documentary "Romantic Paris, Erotic Paris" looks back at the making of this myth and revisits, through emblematic characters and tasty archives, a century of cultural and social history. From the boudoirs of the great courtesans of the Second Empire to free love in the post-war Saint-Germain-des-Prés, through the interloper nights in the cabarets of the Occupation, a look back at a part of the history of the capital.