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Golden Era
Golden Era
A look into the history and tradition of Queen's Football in it's golden era, featuring never before seen footage of the university in the 1960s.
Golden Era 2024
Piłsudski
Piłsudski
The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner - Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing their mission to rescue the famous activist. Pilsudski is freed, but he will not get back his idyll family life that he once knew. Uncertain years are coming, marked by revolutionary events, violence and betrayal. Pilsudski must find a way to man oeuvre on the boggy ground - between the conservative passivity of the Polish Socialist Party and the aggression against the invaders, resulting in retaliation. The year 1914 is coming, and the chance for restoring an independent country, independent Poland, is now or never.
Piłsudski 2019
Même les anges ont le coeur brûlé
Même les anges ont le coeur brûlé
Même les anges ont le coeur brûlé 2024
Air
Air
Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and lose their closest ones as well as take their place in the world of men. The air has become their home. However, at war no one knows whose fate is to live and who is doomed to die.
Air 2024
Stanley and Livingstone
Stanley and Livingstone
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
Stanley and Livingstone 1939
Piaf
Piaf
Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage play with its original Broadway cast.
Piaf 1984
1945
1945
Set in Burma in the year 1945, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose plans to launch the INA to fight the British. This is also the time when Adi comes back to Burma to take care of his family business. Upon his arrival, he gets engaged to a British Tasildar’s daughter. Just as he is set to get married, the atrocities of the British keep growing and Adi is forced to fight the British.
1945 2022
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The Sinking of the Lusitania
Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.
The Sinking of the Lusitania 1918
Old Glory
Old Glory
Porky Pig balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.
Old Glory 1939
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
Bealu Girma Bermuda
Bealu Girma Bermuda
Theater at Hager Fikir Theater
Bealu Girma Bermuda 2024
The All Golden
The All Golden
A laid-up polyamorous bicycle courier discovers that her older, scholarly boyfriend has been keeping a sinister secret in his closet.
The All Golden 2023
Anwar: The Untold Story
Anwar: The Untold Story
It follows the story of Anwar's fight against corruption while in government between the years of 1993 and 1998, which led to his eventual imprisonment and the birth of the reformasi movement.
Anwar: The Untold Story 2023
Ludwig II
Ludwig II
Life and death of King Ludwig II of Bavaria.
Ludwig II 1955
Gloria!
Gloria!
It is late 18th century in Venice, and in a convent school for girls Teresa, a girl with prophetic gifts, joins forces with some amazing music-makers. They create a new kind of music that is pop, bright and bold, and challenge the ancient and rigid system.
Gloria! 1
Secret Chronicle - Prostitute Sacrifice
Secret Chronicle - Prostitute Sacrifice
pinku from japan 1977
Secret Chronicle - Prostitute Sacrifice 1977
Rebellion in Patagonia
Rebellion in Patagonia
In 1920, workers from Patagonia, in Southern Argentina, gather around an anarcho-syndicalist society and go on strike, demanding better working conditions. When the situation turns unsustainable, President Yrigoyen sends Lieutenant Colonel Zavala to impose order.
Rebellion in Patagonia 1974
Albert R.N.
Albert R.N.
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Albert R.N. 1955
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
In their songs, comedy and exuberant music, a travelling theatre company give a fiercely polemic account of Scottish history, from the aftermath of Culloden to the oil boom. Their production before a live audience is intercut with filmed reconstructions of the Highland Clearances and the Victorian obsession with hunting stags.
The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil 1974
Louise Violet
Louise Violet
Louise Violet 2024
The Life of Buddha
The Life of Buddha
Over 2,500 years ago, one man showed the world a way to enlightenment. This beautifully produced Buddhist film by the BBC meticulously reveals the fascinating story of Prince Siddhartha and the spiritual transformation that turned him into the Buddha.
The Life of Buddha 2007
Frères ennemis
Frères ennemis
Frères ennemis 2023
Roma
Roma
Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of loyalty and the intimate relationship with his mother, Roma.
Roma 2004
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
Prime Video
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable love for his Northerner wife, Eveline McCord (Gwendolyn Edwards). Based on the true story of Robert Adams and produced by his descendents, this stirring historical drama -- a film festival favorite -- delves into the themes of honor, patriotism and love.
The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams 2005
Aurora's Sunrise
Aurora's Sunrise
The story of how Aurora Mardiganian (1901-94), a survivor of the Armenian genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire (1915-17), became a Hollywood silent film star.
Aurora's Sunrise 2023
Cafundó
Cafundó
Cafundó is a 35 mm color film which blends fact with fiction in the life of João de Camargo, a former black slave (1858-1942, Sorocaba, Brazil) who, in his old age, works miracles and devotes himself to assisting others in order to attain his freedom. João de Camargo represents the genesis of religious and cultural syncretism in Brazil.
Cafundó 2005
Dorotheus
Dorotheus
In medieval Serbia, a young monk, a master of herbal medicine, grabs the attention of warlord's wife.
Dorotheus 1981
Jacob's Century
Jacob's Century
Human history, which is against the will was drawn into historical conflicts.
Jacob's Century 2016
Tarkan and the Silver Saddle
Tarkan and the Silver Saddle
Atilla the Hun gives a Silver Saddle to Altar as a gift. The intention of Kostok is the get rid of the Huns and seize the valuable saddle. Little Tarkan's foster mother is forced to leave him in a cave. His cry attracts the attention of a wolf, who raises Tarkan like his own cub.
Tarkan and the Silver Saddle 1970
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
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden
A look into what has shaped President Donald Trump and presidential candidate Joe Biden, where they came from and how they lead.
The Choice 2020: Trump vs. Biden 2020
The Sealed Room
The Sealed Room
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
The Sealed Room 1909
The Unlucky Rabbit
The Unlucky Rabbit
A group of animators pitch “The Unlucky Rabbit” to Walt Disney, a documentary about how his earliest creation, Oswald The Lucky Rabbit, was forgotten to time.
The Unlucky Rabbit 2023
Groenten uit Balen
Groenten uit Balen
The story of the laborer family Debruycker during the turbulent strike by Vieille Montagne in 1971.
Groenten uit Balen 2011
The Hut
The Hut
An attractive young woman has been called on to help rid a haunted family of its demons - the male heirs all die young, and one is now in a coma - she has to clear the environment where several exorcists have failed before her.
The Hut 1981
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine
An intimate portrait of Matthew Shepard, the gay young man murdered in one of the most notorious hate crimes in U.S. history. Framed through a personal lens, it's the story of loss, love, and courage in the face of unspeakable tragedy.
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine 2014
La manzana
La manzana
La manzana 2024
Drain The Sunken Pirate City
Disney+
Drain The Sunken Pirate City
Explore the ruins of Port Royal, once a flourishing pirate city, known for extravagance, women and liquor. The city which went by the sobriquet "wickedest city on earth", lies in shambles deep below the waters of Jamaica's Kingston Harbor after a devastating tsunami struck it on June 7, 1692
Drain The Sunken Pirate City 2017
The Gorgeous Hussy
The Gorgeous Hussy
It's the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O'Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O'Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment where most out-of-town politicians and military men stay when they're in Washington. Peggy is pretty and politically aware. She is courted by several of those politicians and military men who all want to marry her, except for the one with who she is truly in love.
The Gorgeous Hussy 1936
A Grin Without a Cat
A Grin Without a Cat
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
A Grin Without a Cat 1977