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Wondrous Boccaccio 2015 Florence, Thirteenth Century The Black Death is spreading Ten kids three boys and seven girls decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how

Donner Party: The Musical (2013) Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

Il Boemo 2022 Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance Josef gets an incredible commission to write an opera for the San Ca

11 Flowers (2011) 11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great

The Patriot Game (1979) A history of the Northern Irish conflict from 1922 until the 1970s.

The Day Kennedy Died 2013 Captures the frantic rush to the local hospital, the public chaos that ensued, the quickly mobilized manhunt by law enforcement looking for a suspect after witnesses identified the source of the gunshots as the Texas Book Depository, and the clash and confusion of media and

Man in Red Bandana 2017 On 911, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower between the 93rd and 98th floors 1,355 people died at or above the crash site No one survived United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower 17 minutes later between floors 77 to 85 killing 599 people Miraculously,

Surname Viet Given Name Nam 1989 Trinh T Minh ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions

Adesso tocca a me (2017) The story of the death of Paolo Borsellino.

King Richard and the Crusaders 1954 In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however Two nobles in particular, Sir Gil

Eastern Memories (2018) A journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).

The story of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic, from his struggles for Dominican independence to his exile at Venezuela in the final years of his life

Ride Tonight! (1942) In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

The Attempt Dossier 2010 Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel 1996 The true life story of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clockmaker, who writes The Barber of Seville, works as a secret agent for the French king, runs guns to the American revolutionaries, and along the way finds himself on a collision course with

They Are We 2014 Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together In Perico, Cuba is an Afro Cuban group that has kept alive songs and dances brought aboard a slave ship by their ancestor, known only as Josefa They preserved them proudly despite slavery, p

The Moulin (2015) Taiwan's earliest modern poetry group-LE MOULIN-emerged in the 1930s, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Part of the wave of modernist literature and avant garde thinking sweeping Asia from the West, what impact did these young Taiwanese poets have, and what questions di

Delphi: Why It Matters (2010) The site of the famous Oracle, Delphi spanned two great c.

Surviving the Mount St. Helens Disaster (2020) The remarkable story of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material.

The Black Press Soldiers Without Swords 1999 The history of black newspapers in America

One Sings, the Other Doesnt 1977 The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the womens movement in which Agnes Varda was involved Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford They lose contact

Couleurs de lincendie 2022 Paris, 1927 After the death of her father, Madeleine Pericourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin Now she will have her vengeance

The Butterflys Dream 2013 Last days of 1941 summer, the era of Obligation, during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil, there are two poets in their early twenties Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in

Stanley and Livingstone 1939 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 blissf

Days of Rage the Rolling Stones Road to Altamont 2020 The decade that began with peace and love was shattered in the late 1960s amidst riots, assassinations and a war that wouldnt end The Rolling Stones became the voice of this new era, which came to a horrific end at the Altamont festival

Winter in Wartime 2008 In the Nazi occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot

You Got to Move 1985 You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix Winter Soldier and Veronica Selver Word Is Out that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change The films centerpiece is the Highlander Folk

Gosanja: Daedongyeo Jido (2016) At a time when maps weren't readily accessible for the public, 'Gosanja KIM Jeong-ho' (CHA Seoung-won) sets out to walk across the Korean peninsula to make the Daedongyeojido - the Great Map of the East Land, with hopes of providing an accurate and accessible map for

Maralinga Tjarutja 2020 When the dust settles, culture remains The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country

Marakkar Lion of the Arabian Sea 2021 The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

Descendant 2022 Follows members of Africatown, a small community in Alabama, as they share their personal stories and community history as descendants of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to illegally transport human beings as cargo from Africa to America The ships existence, a centuries old o

The Female Closet 1998 Lesbian photographer Alice Austen is profiled in this documentary

Kate Bornstein is a Queer Pleasant Danger 2014 For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender And, her own identity Trans dyke Reluctant polyamorist Sadomasochist Recovering Scientologist Pioneering Gender Outlaw Kate Bornstein Is a Qu

Samurai Pirates 2013 Long ago, Japan was home to several navies The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his campaign against the Tartars in Kazan, his illness when all think he will die,

The Great Hack 2019 The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons

Nazi Art Thieves (2017) This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions. It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major ...

Roseanne for President! (2015) Comedian Roseanne Barr embarks on the most off-the-rails presidential campaign in U.S. history. 25 years after bringing working-class struggles to the pinnacle of show business, Roseanne is uniquely qualified to fix everything. What begins as a political journey become

Hawai · Maree oki kaisen (1942) When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is ...

Prehistoric Astronomers (2007) Cave paintings and lunar calendars exist in the caves and remains of prehistoric hunters studied recently. What if Prehistoric Man were clever enough to develop in depth scientific knowledge? As unlikely as it may seem, new data tend to prove that Prehistoric Man actua

Die Pest in Florenz (1919) Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual deba

O Roshiya koku suimu tan 1992 This epic story starts out interesting, if rather gently paced, and gradually builds up to involving and terrific The scenery and cinematography range from grim to spectacular, and are always effective The Japanese actors do a sterling job, whilst the Russians are adequ

History Lessons 1972 A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brechts unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar In a second part set in contemporary Rome, a young researcher discusses the economic and political manipulation that drove

Francos Settlers 2013 Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco The translation for the villages name Llanos del Caudillo is The High Plains of the Caudillo Caudillo is the equivalent to the German Fuehrer Hitler or th

What Was Ours 2016 On the isolated Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, three tribal members attempt to learn the location of vanished artifacts Thousands of ancestral artifacts are in the darkness of underground archives of museums and churches, boxed away and forgotten Like millions of indigenous pe

Perfect Bid: The Contestant Who Knew Too Much (2017) The story of Ted Slauson, a contestant who gamed the rules of The Price Is Right (1972) through extensive analysis and became a sensation on the game show.

Kinyarwanda 2011 A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror

Karin Månsdotter (1954) The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karin's rise and fall. The rest is normal B&W movie. Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the mentally ill king Erik XIV and become