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Richelieu La pourpre et le sang 2014 In the Kingdom of France from 1640 is the old with his body ailing Cardinal Richelieu, powerful man under Louis XIII, faced with the machinations of his tipped designated successor, the Marquis de Cinq Mars

Hitlers Disastrous Desert War 2021 When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolinis Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements the Afrika Korps led by General Rommel The Desert Fox is on winning form until Montgomery, the British commander, sets up a plan t

Monsieur Mayonnaise 2016 Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artists epic adventure into his familys secret past Australian artist and film maker, Philippe Mora, investigates his fathers clandestine role in the French Resistance in WW2 and his mothers miraculous escape enroute to Auschwitz Philippe, a Hollywo

Confucius 2010 The life story of the highly influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius

Jagun Jagun 2023 A young man determined to become a mighty warrior joins an elite army, encountering the wrath of a maniacal warlord and the love of a woman

Jeronimo 2019 Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jeronimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government official in the Castro regime, until he rediscovers his ethn

Chinas Hidden Kingdoms 2020 With unique access to locations across the country, viewers go on a journey through these magical realms, exploring five very different worlds high mountains, tropical jungles, bamboo forests, great plains and temperate forests

The 11th Green 2020 A respected journalist uncovers the truth behind the mythology of President Eisenhowers long alleged involvement in extraterrestrial events

Sir Doug and the Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove 2015 Sir Doug amp The Genuine Texas Cosmic Groove tells the story of Doug Sahm, the wild man musicians musician and unsung hero of Texas music A country music child prodigy and teenage rhythm amp blues dynamo who caused a riot at his San Antonio high scho

Newsfront 1978 Surprisingly adventurous saga of an intrepid group of cinematographers and reporters who risk life and limb to capture footage of breaking news for the movie going public

Georg Baselitz Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden 2009 Georg Baselitz Making Art after Auschwitz and Dresden explores the artists brilliant career through his 2007 retrospective exhibition at Londons Royal Academy of Arts Accompanied by curator Norman Rosenthal, who first exhibited paintings by

Die Geschichte der Menschheit leicht gekurzt 2022 An alien ship encounters a strange flying object the Voyager spacecraft Professor Dr Georg Friedele wants to teach the aliens about evolution on earth but the more the aliens listen the angrier they turn towards the humans

Blitz Spirit with Lucy Worsley 2021 Documentary looking predominantly at the plight of the poor in the East End of London during World War II air raids of 1940 How much of what is now seen as an example of British Bulldog bravado was actually acts of desperation an

Marian Anderson The Whole World in Her Hands 2022 Documentary on Marian Anderson an African American woman, an international singing star in the twentieth century, who succeeded over racial prejudice and became an inspiration for Americas civil rights movement

American Hot Wax 1978 This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock n roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s Freed was a source of great controversy criticized by conservatives for corrupting youth with the devils music hated by racists for p

Since the World Was World 2015 Gonzalo is a farmer living with his family in a small village in Castile, in the north of Spain The ancient and sage tradition of producing their food, from the slaughter of a pig to his own wine, has worked very well for him at this time of crisis in Spain Sowing and

The Martha Mitchell Effect 2022 The Cabinet wife who spoke out during Watergate and the Nixon administrations campaign to gaslight her into silence

Right to Fight 2023 Sky Original documentary revealing how the pioneers of womens boxing battled the odds to find their place in the ring

Shackleton The Greatest Story of Survival 2023 28 lost adventurers must fight for their lives after their only lifeline is destroyed in the most uninhabitable place on Earth Antarctica

Once Upon a Star 2023 Join the crew of a traveling pharma cinema troupe as they go on the road to spread the joy of live dubbed movies, all while overcoming difficulties, deceits, and reaching for their dreams

Occupied City 2023 The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life affirming reflection on memory, time and whats

Juarez 1939 The newly named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, arrives in Mexico in the early 1860s with his wife Carlotta to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juarez and popular demand for democracy With an elite group of Mexican monarchists, Maximillian tries

Parador Hungaro 2014 Parador Hungaro is the touching story of a friendship spanning generations and national boundaries a Hungarian soldier escapes to the West in the 1950s The son of a U S soldier runs to the East in the 1990s When their paths cross in Bogota, Colombia, they become friends by shari

Iran Is My Land 1999 Iran Is My Land documents the journey of Sohrab, an itinerant writer, whose latest work, a book of Iranian poetry, requires a permit from Irans censors in order to be published Sohrab thus sets off on the road to Tehran in pursuit of this elusive document As he ventures deeper i

Harry Chapin When in Doubt, Do Something 2020 A documentary that tells the story of singersongwriteractivist Harry Chapins dedication to trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing

Kingdom 3 2023 It follows Li Xin and Wang Qi as they stand on the battlefield for the first time to fight off an invasion by Zhao, and it also follows Ying Zhengs unknown past

The Zone of Interest 2023 Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoss and his wife Hedwig strive to build a dream life for their family in a house and garden beside the camp

Dragon Rapide 1986 The two weeks leading up to the Spanish Civil War in 1936 are dramatized from many different locations in Spain, Morocco and London

Make Hummus Not War 2012 Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian hummus tragic Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among the usual suspects, Israel, Lebanon and Palestine,

An eerie whodunnit adventure, set in 16th century England during the dissolution of the monasteries. Shardlake's sheltered life as a lawyer is turned upside down when Cromwell instructs him to investigate the murder of one of his commissioners at a monastery in the remote town of Scarnsea. The comm

Le dialogue des Carmelites 1960 This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution

The Hitler Gang 1944 The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film The historical facts are portrayed accurately, with the exception of some minor errors

Yaathisai 2023 A periodical fiction based on the 7th century Pandiyan prince Ranadheeran who ruled during a time when the Chola dynasty lost its power and its people were forced to live in the woods

Einstein and the Bomb 2024 Will combine archival footage with dramatization and explore key moments in science genius Einsteins life, and how his work have changed historys course Everything he says in the film is taken from words he said or wrote

The Paw Project 2013 This is a David and Goliath story of one veterinarians battle to protect her patients tigers, lions and even house cats from big corporations, with their big corporate money, that will shamelessly do anything to animals to increase their bottom line She starts a grassroots movem

Museum Revolution 2015 A revolution changes the social and political landscapes of a country, but first and foremost it changes the physical landscape For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked nothing like the Maidan in the last few months, which resembles a medieval town a

Secrets of the Celtic Grave 2021 A bizarre iron age grave has been uncovered in the United Kingdom, archaeologists expect that this site will help unlock the hidden story of the violent birth of Roman Britain

Waking Sleeping Beauty 2009 The story of the Disney Renaissance, an incredibly prolific, successful and prestigious decade lasting from 1984 to 1994 that saw the fallen Walt Disney Animation Studios unexpected progressive triumphant return to excellence

Age of the Gods 1992 Young man, from now on you will only work for me These were Adolf Hitlers words to the young sculptor Arno Breker in 1936 What would he commission from his new Phidias

A Woman Called Golda 1982 The story of the Russian born, Wisconsin raised woman who rose to become Israels prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s

Himmlers Folly 2022 In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops

The Last Daughter 2022 Brendas first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal family Decades later, she feels disconnected from both halves of her life But the trau

Okinawa 1952 Basically the story of the sea battle for Okinawa between the ships of the U S Navy and the Japanese suicide planes the Kamaikazes and, as such, is filled with stock footage from official U S war department films and newsreels and from Japanese newsreels and even a movie within a movie

Reconstruction of Occupation 2021 Documentary filmmaker Jan Sikl came across several hours of footage showing the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in private film archives 53 years later, historical memory awakens from a long slumber with this reconstruction of the occupation, a cinematic adve

The Long Game 2023 In 1955, five young Mexican American caddies, out of the love for the game, were determined to learn how to play, so they created their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert

The Savage Killers 1976 The Chinese styles of two schools, the tiger and the crane, have been split for many years No one can determine which technique is the best, nevertheless the two schools musts put away past differences and combine as one so that they can defeat the iron skinned Manchu Lung Fe

Face to Face with ETA Conversations with a Terrorist 2023 An in depth interview with Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA

Before the Wrath 2020 While scholars debate the timing of the Rapture, the world has lost why this event is prophesied to occur in the first place knowledge that was once understood by those in the first century Today, researchers in the Middle East have rediscovered ancient anthropological evidence