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Betrayal at Attica
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Betrayal at Attica
On September 13, 1971 the State of New York shot and killed 39 of its own citizens, injured hundreds more, and tortured the survivors. Elizabeth Fink tells the story of the Attica prison rebellion, and how she exposed the cover up.
Betrayal at Attica 2021
Hawking: Can You Hear Me?
Hawking: Can You Hear Me?
A documentary telling the remarkable human story of Stephen Hawking. For the first time, the personal archives and the testimonies of his closest family reveal both the scale of Hawking's triumphs and the real cost of his disability and success.
Hawking: Can You Hear Me? 2021
The Passion of Napoleon Bonaparte
The Passion of Napoleon Bonaparte
In his final attempt to escape the complete levelling of his legacy, Napoleon miraculously escapes his island prison of St.Helena, and prepares to reconquer the world once again - starting in none other than Venice, in the midst of his most hated enemy - a defector from days long lamented.
The Passion of Napoleon Bonaparte 2021
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story
In 1981, a film about the misadventures of a German U-boat crew in 1941 becomes a worldwide hit almost four decades after the end of the World War II. Millions of viewers worldwide make Das Boot the most internationally successful German film of all time. But due to disputes over the script, accidents on the set, and voices accusing the makers of glorifying the war, the project was many times on the verge of being cancelled.
Das Boot Revisited: An Underwater Success Story 2021
Witnesses
Witnesses
David Whitmer, Oliver Cowdery and Martin Harris face ridicule and persecution when they claim to have seen angels and hefted golden plates containing ancient inscriptions.
Witnesses 2021
Kaiserspiel
Kaiserspiel
On operated by Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck the German Empire is finally founded in 1871 on the floors of Versailles castle, ancestral seat of the French monarchy.
Kaiserspiel 2021
Musical
Musical "Moriarty the Patriot" Op.3 - The Phantom Of Whitechapel -
Whitechapel, the slums of the East End in London, are being terrorized by a brutal serial killer called Jack the Ripper. While William James Moriarty receives a letter of request from his old teacher Jack Renfield, the Scotland Yard inspector Lestrade also seeks out Sherlock Holmes and John H. Watson for help in this matter.
Musical "Moriarty the Patriot" Op.3 - The Phantom Of Whitechapel - 2021
Beijing Spring
Beijing Spring
The documentary film of the brief window of artistic freedom and democracy movement 1978 - 1982 following China's brutal cultural revolution.
Beijing Spring 2021
La scelta di Maria
La scelta di Maria
In a stirring blend of archival footage, fictional recreations, interviews, and animation, the film delves into the story of Italy’s ‘Unknown Soldier’. November 4, 2021, in fact, is the hundredth anniversary of the burial of the Unknown Soldier in the Altare della Patria in Rome. Thanks to a collaboration with the Ministry of Defense, the Friuli Venezia Giulia Region, the city of Aquileia, and the Istituto Luce Cinecittà, this film reconstructs the events that led up to that event in 1921
La scelta di Maria 2021
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day
Celebrate International Women’s Day with this brand new inspiring film from LETTERS LIVE. In “LETTERS LIVE from the Archive: International Women’s Day”, remarkable letters are read by a diverse array of outstanding luminaries, including stunning performances from Olivia Colman, Gillian Anderson, Daisy Ridley, Caitlin Moran, Rose McGowan, Adwoa Aboah, Louise Brealey and more. Plus music from Roxanne Tataei.
Letters Live from the Archive: International Women’s Day 2021
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita 2021
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
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
Les Trésors du Paris des années folles
Les Trésors du Paris des années folles
Les Trésors du Paris des années folles 2021
Postwar Album
Postwar Album
Winter 2019. Spanish war photographer Gervasio Sánchez, who documented with his camera the long and tragic siege of Sarajevo during the Bosnian War (1992-95), returns to the city in search of the children he met among the ruins, those who survived to grow up, live and remember.
Postwar Album 2021
Les Trésors du Paris de la Belle Époque
Les Trésors du Paris de la Belle Époque
Les Trésors du Paris de la Belle Époque 2021
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles
The story of famous actor and director Orson Welles is told through his two visits to the Republic of Ireland; first in his youth as a promising young actor and finally in later years as a washed up icon of the silver screen.
Tall Tales: The Ireland of Orson Welles 2021
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead with Bettany Hughes
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead with Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes draws on her investigative skills and the latest technology to offer a new insight into the lives and deaths of the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. As well as travelling to Pompeii and Herculaneum, she sets up her own incident room, complete with DNA tests, to learn more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 72AD
Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead with Bettany Hughes 2021
Alvorada
Alvorada
The film narrates, from an intimate point of view, the daily life of President Dilma Rousseff in her official residence, the Palácio do Alvorada, while awaiting the verdict of the impeachment process. Portraying the hallways of the palace, designed by Oscar Niemeyer, we see the coming and going of political meetings, the daily routine of the kitchen, the exchange of guards, whispers and phone calls. We feel the growing tension of officials, advisers and former ministers.
Alvorada 2021
The Ladder
The Ladder
Based on true events, The Ladder follows the spiritual journey of Andrei, a sensitive, socially awkward young man who turns to acting in his search for true happiness. After the fall of communism, he is blinded by the illusion of freedom and democracy and faces a series of brutal events that have deeply marked Romania's recent history. Finding comfort in playing the part of Aliosa in a stage adaptation of The Karamazov Brothers, he becomes closer and closer to his character, gradually discovering the way to understanding divinity.
The Ladder 2021
Golondaaj
Golondaaj
Based on true events, Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikari, "The Father of Indian Football", was the first Indian to play the sport and open a professional football club in the country.
Golondaaj 2021
Killing the Indian in the Child
Killing the Indian in the Child
The Indian Act, passed in Canada in 1876, made members of Aboriginal peoples second-class citizens, separated from the white population: nomadic for centuries, they were moved to reservations to control their behavior and resources; and thousands of their youngest members were separated from their families to be Christianized: a cultural genocide that still resonates in Canadian society today.
Killing the Indian in the Child 2021
Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía?
Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía?
An account of the life and work of the famous Mexican journalist Manuel Buendía (1926-84) that seeks to unravel his murder and the links between Mexican politics and drug trafficking.
Private Network: Who Killed Manuel Buendía? 2021
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.
Blood Money: Inside the Nazi Economy 2021
Enormous: The Gorge Story
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Enormous: The Gorge Story
Enormous: The Gorge Story carves out the never-before-told story of the world’s most iconic music venue, The Gorge Amphitheatre. This music film investigates the venue’s unlikely evolution from a small winery created by a neurosurgeon to becoming one of the greatest outdoor music destinations in the world. Sign up to our mailing list for updates and original music content.
Enormous: The Gorge Story 2021
Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes
Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes
Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapped, embalmed and buried with treasure, each mummy tells the story of the criminals, priests, children and pharaohs of Ancient Egypt.
Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes 2021
Laila in Haifa
Laila in Haifa
The film was shot entirely in a nightclub, with an adjoining contemporary art gallery, whose customers are both Israelis and Palestinians, in one of Israel’s most open cities, Haifa. A long night in a place where the most diverse people meet: Jews, Muslims, gays, heterosexuals, transvestites; and three women, who in that multifaceted microcosm, a gathering peaceful hideout, can find shelter from male bullying and arrogance.
Laila in Haifa 2021
Lost Airmen of Buchenwald
Lost Airmen of Buchenwald
Chronicles the little-known story of Allied airmen imprisoned at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the waning months of World War II. In the summer of 1944, 168 airmen from the US, England, Canada and other Allied countries were captured in Paris by the German Gestapo and sent to the infamous "Koncentration Lager Buchenwald" in Germany. Falsely accused of being "terrorists and saboteurs," the airmen faced a terrifying fight for survival and a race against time to escape their execution. A controversial moment in history that their home countries tried to hush-up, Lost Airmen of Buchenwald tells this harrowing story through interviews with seven surviving members of the group, including their heroic commanding officer. The film follows them from their days hiding with the French Resistance to the darkest corners of the Holocaust, where they struggled to survive as Germany collapsed under the weight of the advancing Russian and Allied armies
Lost Airmen of Buchenwald 2021
American Gangster Presents: Big 50 - The Delrhonda Hood Story
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American Gangster Presents: Big 50 - The Delrhonda Hood Story
Delrhonda "Big Fifty Hood ends up running her own drug empire, becoming one of Detroit's wealthiest and notorious women in the process. With her success, she discovers that money doesn't fix all of her problems, and she can only depend on herself if she wants to stay one step ahead of the law and stay alive.
American Gangster Presents: Big 50 - The Delrhonda Hood Story 2021
Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského
Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského
Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského 2021
AYOR
AYOR
In 1970, during the annual Dutch national commemoration of those fallen in World War II, two men try to make a statement against gay discrimination. In the moments before and after the incident, their doubt, fear and firm belief becomes clear.
AYOR 2021
Khel Khel Mein
Khel Khel Mein
A group of students from the colleges drama society decide to participate in a theatre competition taking place in Bangladesh and choose the 1971 war as their topic for the play Their idea is opposed by almost everyone but the students are determined to stick to their plan. However when they reach Bangladesh, they realize why everyone was concerned, now it is their job to change that perspective and not only win the competition but their hearts as well.
Khel Khel Mein 2021
Getting Away with Murder(s)
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Getting Away with Murder(s)
Almost 1 million people in 22 countries carried out the unprovoked murder of 11 million innocent men, women and children. The Allies knew where a great many of the murderers could be found - Germany, Austria, Italy, the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, and numerous countries in South America. The Allies unanimously agreed to prosecute those responsible when they drew up The London Agreement in August 1945, but, after the late 1940s, these very same Allies did almost nothing. Why were so many were actively permitted to get away with their crimes?
Getting Away with Murder(s) 2021
La poste du paradis
La poste du paradis
Fred Pellerin and Kent Nagano revive the great tradition of the OSM and offer a new symphonic Christmas tale! They take you to Saint-Élie-de-Caxton, where the first post office in history was run by Madame Alice Lavergne. For a long time the only reliable channel through which we could send and receive, this trunk service constituted the privileged link to maintain between us everywhere. Letters, cards, invoices, packages, forms, catalogs: everything went there.
La poste du paradis 2021
Snow Leopard Secret War
Snow Leopard Secret War
Snow Leopard Secret War is set in 1943, when the war in the pacific was still going on, causing the Japanese army to be affected and had to switch to defense mode. However, they were carrying out another battle plan, a large-scale attack began, they also tasked agents with lying in the area and illegally transporting weapons. . At this time, the leader of the Independent Troupe Tiger Tou Son Bat Lo Luu Vien found the spies and successfully prevented an impending war.
Snow Leopard Secret War 2021
1970
1970
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist government organizes a crisis team. Soon after, the police use their truncheons and then their firearms. The story of a rebellion from the point of view of the oppressors.
1970 2021
The Pioneer
The Pioneer
The story of Li Dazhao's revolutionary deeds from 1912 to 1927, and the story of the benevolent and revolutionary pioneers who were led by him to devote themselves to the great cause of Marxism
The Pioneer 2021
Vivandiére
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Vivandiére
Two young women from both sides of the Civil War volunteer as battlefield nurses, facing down scornful commanders and murderous war criminals to accomplish their hazardous duty.
Vivandiére 2021
The Warrior of Weishan
The Warrior of Weishan
The Warrior of Weishan 2021
Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life
Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life
Bob Ballard reveals the inside stories behind his most exciting discoveries, while sharing the personal triumphs, challenges and tragedies that led him to them.
Bob Ballard: An Explorer's Life 2021