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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
Julius Caesar 2017
Stronger Than a Bullet
Stronger Than a Bullet
Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Tehran and proclaims the Islamic Republic on April 1st, 1979. In the same year, Saddam Hussein seizes power in Iraq and, after several border skirmishes, attacks Iran on September 22nd, 1980, initiating a cruel war that will last eight years. Since its outbreak, correspondent Saeid Sadeghi documented it from its beginning to its bitter end.
Stronger Than a Bullet 2017
Wagner: Parsifal
Wagner: Parsifal
German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of the title character's quest to save the Knights of the Holy Grail by returning the Holy Spear, healing King Amfortas, and carrying out the sacred ceremony of uncovering the Holy Grail.
Wagner: Parsifal 2017
Six Rounds
Prime Video
Six Rounds
Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.
Six Rounds 2017
Newton's Grace
Freevee
Newton's Grace
John Newton was a troubled young man with a violent temper and a penchant for vulgarity that literally made his fellow sailors blush. Whipped for desertion and sold into slavery, it seemed his life would end early in a West African grave...until he was rescued by a ship captain sent by his father. Following a powerful conversion experience during a storm at sea, Newton would eventually become a pastor in the Church of England and the writer of several of the church's most beloved hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
Newton's Grace 2017
The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street
The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street
After selecting a building at random in a Jewish neighborhood in Paris, French director Ruth Zylberman meticulously reconstructed its community of inhabitants during the German occupation. What results is the spellbinding 209 RUE SAINT-MAUR, an experimental historiography that tells the emotional story of lives uprooted and destroyed under the Nazis.
The Children of 209 Saint-Maur Street 2017
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
Canaletto & the Art of Venice
EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view-painter. No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto. The remarkable group of over 200 paintings, drawings and prints on display offer unparalleled insight into the artistry of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and the city he became a master at capturing. The film also offers the chance to step inside two official royal residences - Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle – to learn more about the artist, and Joseph Smith, the man who introduced Canaletto to Britain.
Canaletto & the Art of Venice 2017
July 14
July 14
Turkey, after the 1980 military coup. In the notorious Diyarbakır prison the prisoners decide to resist against the tortures. 14 July 1982 is the day when the biggest resistance starts.
July 14 2017
Beyond the Spectrum
Beyond the Spectrum
What has Nasa been hiding from us beyond the visual spectrum?
Beyond the Spectrum 2017
Nazi Creatures
Nazi Creatures
Hitler, Goring, Himmler...the three architects of the Final Solution. But these three men, like many other high ranking Nazis, shared another obsession: a fascination with animals. Whether it was experiments to create the purest bred of horse or trying to resurrect the long extinct wild auroch, they sought to control and purify the animal kingdom We investigates these secret Nazi programmes.
Nazi Creatures 2017
Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage
Adventurer, pilgrim, penitent but above all outstanding writer, Fernão Mendes Pinto left us an unparalleled romance, the living and human palpitation of one of the greatest historical adventures of man.
Pilgrimage 2017
Ober Ost: The Forgotten Colony in the Heart of Europe
Ober Ost: The Forgotten Colony in the Heart of Europe
While the First World War and its battles on the Western Front are still very much anchored in our memory of history, the simultaneous battle in the East appears now to have been largely forgotten. During the course of this military action, a peculiar, state-like entity was created, a German colony in Eastern Europe, a military utopia: the Land of Ober Ost. The occupied region was to become a productive state, completely under military command; a state that was to serve not least as a deployment zone for the impending war.
Ober Ost: The Forgotten Colony in the Heart of Europe 2017
The Story of the Green Line
The Story of the Green Line
A story set in the Green Line in Nicosia, Cyprus, where a wall divides a country. Two soldiers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, decide to embark on a secret journey that is dangerous no matter which side you are at.
The Story of the Green Line 2017
The Real Doctor Zhivago
The Real Doctor Zhivago
Dr. Zhivago is one of the best-known love stories of the 20th century, but the setting of the book also made it famous. It is a tale of passion and fear, set against a backdrop of revolution and violence. The film is what most people remember, but the story of the writing of the book has more twists, intrigue and bravery than many a Hollywood blockbuster. In this documentary, Stephen Smith traces the revolutionary beginnings of this bestseller, to it becoming a pawn of the CIA at the height of the Cold War.
The Real Doctor Zhivago 2017
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels
Hitler was undoubtedly the cruelest figure of Nazism, but not the only one. This documentary reconstructs the stories of crimes committed by Paul Joseph Goebbels and Hermann Wilhem Goering, up to the Nuremberg war crimes trial that took place between 1945 and 1946.
Anime nere: Goering y Goebbels 2017
The Cage
The Cage
Based on 1947's book 'Ekoi Namer Golpo' by Hasan azizul Haque.
The Cage 2017
The Haunting of Deiana Wood
The Haunting of Deiana Wood
Two young gay friends, Luke and Toby, go camping in local beauty spot Deiana Wood. As darkness falls, they share ghostly bedtime stories about Deiana Wood's blood-soaked history.
The Haunting of Deiana Wood 2017
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg
The Obersalzberg retreat was the summer residence and retreat of Adolf Hitler, Eva Braun and his closest confidants in the Nazi regime. The public are mainly familiar with fi lm footage and photographs from the alleged Nazi idyll. For the first time, eye witnesses are willing to talk about their experiences in Obersalzberg.
Hitler and the Children of Obersalzberg 2017
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis
Mélenchon, la campagne d'un insoumis 2017
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948.
Third movie in the series.
Russian Jews. Part Three. After 1948. 2017
Habit & Armour
Habit & Armour
History of Teutonic Order and Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania.
Habit & Armour 2017
Exodus 1826
Exodus 1826
Exodus 1826 2017
Nero's Sunken City
Nero's Sunken City
Beneath the turquoise waves of the Bay of Naples lies an extraordinary underwater archeology site, the ancient Roman city of Baiae. From the first century to the third century AD, Baiae was the exclusive playground for the rich and powerful among Rome’s elite. What made Baiae such a special place? What really went on there? And why did it disappear?
Nero's Sunken City 2017
Treaty of Rome
Treaty of Rome
From Jean Monnet's idea of a transnational European army to the abolition of customs borders, seven years behind the scenes towards the Treaty of Rome. A docu-fiction "embedded" in the great and small histories of Europe.
Treaty of Rome 2017
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song
Elton John on his extraordinary career and his songwriting partnership with lyricist Bernie Taupin.
Elton John: The Nation's Favourite Song 2017
"Dream Factory" for Comrade Stalin
A documentary study of the circumstances and course of the drama that played out in the second half of the 30s around the project of creating "Soviet Hollywood" in the USSR - the center of the film industry in the image and likeness of the American "dream factory". Dramas in which human characters, ideological conflicts, and the spirit of the era were vividly manifested…
"Dream Factory" for Comrade Stalin 2017
Зүрхний хилэн
Зүрхний хилэн
Зүрхний хилэн 2017
Aga
Aga
Aga is a story about a Kurdish child who escaped the Ba'ath regime during the Anfal of his family and village. Aga is also a reminder of the suffering that Kurds have suffered at the hands of their enemies.
Aga 2017
Morazán
Morazán
Francisco Morázan has been in Costa Rica for five months where he has been appointed Provisional Chief of State. It has called for elections to install a National Constituent Assembly, which should be a legal structure to the Costa Rican state. The Assembly has decreed the validity of the constitution of 1825, the same as that of the Central American Federation; It has declared the accession of Costa Rica to the Republic of Central America. Two months later Francisco Morazán is shot one afternoon on September 15, 1842.
Morazán 2017
Out North: MNLGBTQ History
Out North: MNLGBTQ History
This film explores the untold past of Minnesota’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community, and celebrates the strides the state has made since the gay liberation movement began in the 1970s. The film also reveals some of the important ways that Minnesota has played a significant role in the national movement for LGBTQ equality, from the first legal challenge to marriage equality, the first gay student body president, and more.
Out North: MNLGBTQ History 2017
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI
Paramount+
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI
An amazing discovery has been made beneath a farm field in Northern France: a vast underground city where World War I soldiers, on both sides of the conflict, took refuge a century ago. Even more remarkable, it is one of hundreds of buried havens set up close to a 45-mile stretch of the Western Front. Follow American explorer and photographer Jeff Gusky as he documents one of these long forgotten shelters, and witness his attempts to connect the names of the American soldiers etched into the limestone walls to their living descendants.
Americans Underground: Secret City of WWI 2017
Memoria de la sangre
Memoria de la sangre
Memoria de la sangre 2017
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas
Film by Tatyana Borsch “Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas" (2017) talks about the Central Asian expedition of the outstanding artist, thinker and public figure Nicholas Roerich. It was the largest journey of the 20th century through the most unexplored areas of Asia. The route ran through the majestic, inaccessible mountain ranges of the Himalayas, Tibet, China, Kashmir, Mongolia and Altai. ... Altai - Himalayas.
Nicholas Roerich. Altai-Himalayas 2017
The Good Samaritan
The Good Samaritan
A stop motion film based on the biblical parable about the good Samaritan.
The Good Samaritan 2017
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats
Algérie, Les Deux Soldats 2017
Ghostbrothers
Ghostbrothers
How do you know that someone is a ghost? You can't see his legs.
Ghostbrothers 2017
The Porchlight Sessions
The Porchlight Sessions
A rare look at the inventiveness of the human spirit through reimagining the history of Bluegrass Music from Bill Monroe to today's musicians.
The Porchlight Sessions 2017
Kobzar 2015
Kobzar 2015
In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.
Kobzar 2015 2017
Love Letter Rescue Squad
Love Letter Rescue Squad
"Our history was disappearing as quickly as we were making it." With that realization, Deborah Edel and Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians. More than 40 years later, Deb must consider the future of the collection.
Love Letter Rescue Squad 2017
Football War - OverSimplified
Football War - OverSimplified
OverSimplified’s comedy documentary on the Football War
Football War - OverSimplified 2017