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Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices she makes, and to ultimately triumph over her...Lena Baker was the first and only woman to be sentenced to death by the electric chair in the state of Georgia and was executed in 1945. She was pardoned posthumously in 2005.
Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story 2008
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens
Two hundred and fifty thousand years ago, the first direct representative of our species appeared on earth: Homo Sapiens... From 400,000 to 20,000 BC, we follow the destiny of Homo Erectus, Neanderthal and Sapiens. We will thus discover the appearance of language, art, cults, agriculture, and breeding.
Homo sapiens 2005
Stratton Castle: Tale of Jessie Goldenheart
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Stratton Castle: Tale of Jessie Goldenheart
Set in the 1800's of Scotland when servants didn't rise above their station comes a love story for the ages. As the master of Stratton castle lies dying he makes his son promise to take over the lands and find an appropriate match, however, unbeknownst to his father, Walter has already fallen in love with Jessie, a beautiful servant girl. Now he must fight against his forbidden passion for fear of scandal and ruin or risk it all for Jessie the Golden Hearted.
Stratton Castle: Tale of Jessie Goldenheart 2021
Galileo Galilei - Urknall der modernen Physik
Galileo Galilei - Urknall der modernen Physik
Galileo Galilei - Urknall der modernen Physik 2021
The Final Days
Freevee
The Final Days
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
The Final Days 1989
The Devil's Disciple
The Devil's Disciple
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
The Devil's Disciple 1959
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Daniel Anker’s 90-minute documentary takes on over 60 years of a very complex subject: Hollywood’s complicated, often contradictory relationship with Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. The questions it raises go right the very nature of how film functions in our culture, and while hardly exhaustive, Anker’s film makes for a good, thought provoking starting point.
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust 2004
Fly High, Run Far
Fly High, Run Far
In mid-19th Century Korea, the people of Joseon Dynasty embrace the new religion Donghak. After the founder is executed, Choi Si-hyeong becomes Donghak’s second-generation leader and successfully propagates the religion, but in doing so becomes the object of oppression by the royal court.
Fly High, Run Far 1991
An Enemy of the People
An Enemy of the People
In a modern version of Ibsen's stage play, we meet TV-celebrity Tomas Stockman returning to his native village to produce the world's purest bottled water. The plant will bring new life and hope to the village, but unexpected trouble occurs.
An Enemy of the People 2005
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth
The Almeida Theatre production of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021).
The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021
Vivat, Naval Cadets!
Vivat, Naval Cadets!
In the second movie the Naval Cadets are guarding the princess coming from Germany to marry a Russian prince.
Vivat, Naval Cadets! 1991
The Battle of Stalingrad
The Battle of Stalingrad
A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.
The Battle of Stalingrad 1949
Hochelaga, Land of Souls
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Mohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
Hochelaga, Land of Souls 2017
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War
This is the story of the feud between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and the Kennedys. It shows how much Hoover hated them and how they tried to stand up to him from the day John Kennedy was elected President until Bobby was assassinated.
Hoover vs. the Kennedys: The Second Civil War 1987
Narušitel
Narušitel
Narušitel 2019
A Night in 67
A Night in 67
If you thought TV shows in which audiences and juries judge musical acts were a relatively new phenomenon, you'd better think again. In the 1970s, such "festivals" were incredibly popular in Brazil. They were recorded before a live studio audience, and usually featured a number of elimination rounds. They also formed the springboard for the career of many a big-name star, such as Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso, Roberto Carlos and Gilberto Gil. Appearing on such a program was no cakewalk, however: audiences could be as wild in their condemnation as in their appreciation of an artist. Extensive archive footage (including performances and behind-the-scenes interviews) from a turbulent final of the Festival of Brazilian Popular Music one evening in 1967 paints a fascinating picture, not only of the transformation of Brazilian music into real "festival" music, but also of a society starting to buck against the yoke of military rule.
A Night in 67 2010
Frontline: The Tank Man
Frontline: The Tank Man
On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. FRONTLINE investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership.
Frontline: The Tank Man 2006
Evita Peron
Evita Peron
Aspiring actress Eva Duarte rises from a minor celebrity to the wife of a powerful Argentine dictator, but her all consuming fiery rage, ambition, and hatred eventually become her downfall.
Evita Peron 1981
Hitler's Children
Hitler's Children
Their family name alone evokes horror: Himmler, Frank, Goering, Hoess. This film looks at the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime: men and women who were left a legacy that indelibly associates them with one of the greatest abominations in history. What is it like to have grown up with a name that immediately raises images of genocide? How do they live with the weight of their ancestors' crimes? Is it possible to move on from the crimes of their ancestors?
Hitler's Children 2012
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel
Nech sa niekto opováži alebo Ako Ďuro Konôpka o fujaru prišiel 1982
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
At the Beginning of Glorious Days
Late 17th century. With no access to the sea, Russia suffers great losses in foreign trade. Peter tries to capture the Turkish fortress of Azov, but with no success: he can win only if he has a fleet. Peter’s ukases provoke the Boyars’ indignation. Europe looks in amazement: the Russian tsar begins to work at a Dutch shipyard learning the subtleties of shipbuilding?! But his training is cut short. Peter has to return to Russia in order to brutally suppress the Streltsy rebellion organized by his sister Sophia.
At the Beginning of Glorious Days 1980
1961
1961
In 1961, father and son travel to Porto Alegre. Their severance leads both to unknown realities.
1961 2023
Wait for the Signal from the Sea
Wait for the Signal from the Sea
The film is about commissary Chingiz Ildirim.
Wait for the Signal from the Sea 1986
The Busing Battleground
The Busing Battleground
The Busing Battleground pulls back the curtain on the volatile effort to end school segregation, detailing the decades-long struggle for educational equity that preceded the crisis. It illustrates how civil rights battles had to be fought across the North as well as the South and reckons with the class dimensions of the desegregation saga, exploring how the neighborhoods most impacted by the court’s order were the poorest in the city.
The Busing Battleground 2023
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture
Jonathan Meades examines the cult of Stalinism through its buildings and monuments.
Joe Building: The Stalin Memorial Lecture 2006
Indigo
Indigo
Indigo, a stuttering college student, finds a magic cubicle that transports him back in time. Upon abusing this power to improve his speech condition, Indigo gets lost in time and experiences the history of student activism in the university from the 2000s to the 1970s in the Philippines.
Indigo 2023
Tenko Reunion
Tenko Reunion
In 1950, five years after their release from internment, the women return to Singapore for a reunion, unaware of the intrigue that is to involve them in treachery and murder.
Tenko Reunion 1985
The Parachute
The Parachute
As the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
The Parachute 1968
Parnell
Parnell
Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.
Parnell 1937
Shafiqa and Metwally
Shafiqa and Metwally
The authorities summon many young men for forced labor in the Suez Canal, so Metwally leaves his sister Shafiqa alone with their old grandfather, whereupon Shafiqa is forced to succumb to the temptations of Diab, the district chief's son. As their sinful relationship is revealed, she is forced to leave for Asyut, where she becomes the mistress of Al Tarabishi, the supplier of slaves.
Shafiqa and Metwally 1978
Hiralal
Hiralal
The Bengali-language biopic looks back on Hiralal Sen, who is credited with making India’s first advertising film and political documentary.
Hiralal 2021
25 October, the First Day
25 October, the First Day
A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - the First Day recounts that day using art from the revolutionary period.
25 October, the First Day 1968
Story of the Golden Boot
Story of the Golden Boot
Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of Stwosz's greatest masterpiece, the Altar of St. Mary's Church in Cracow.
Story of the Golden Boot 1961
Kaaviya Thalaivan
Prime Video
Kaaviya Thalaivan
The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good holding and the other wobbles away as a drunk loser only for them to cross paths again when the ongoing Indian Independence Movement gives another chance for the tables to turn!
Kaaviya Thalaivan 2014
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard 1993
A Day Longer Than a Year
A Day Longer Than a Year
The film tells of devastating earthquake in Banja Luka in 1969 and follows a group of prisoners in prison during devastating earthquake and people and residents of Banja Luka. Fate of prisoners,the fate of the city and residents of Banja Luka, are light motive of this movie.
A Day Longer Than a Year 1971
Maiko and the Assassin
Maiko and the Assassin
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Maiko and the Assassin 1963
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS
La double vie, petite histoire de la sexualité en URSS 2020
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
Subhedar
Prime Video
Subhedar
Jay Shivaray In 'Subhedar', one will experience the thrilling feat of a mighty warrior who sacrifices his life to build the victory pylon of Swarajya on the summit of the fort, setting aside the marriage of his son.
Subhedar 2023