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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

Omoiyari A Song Film by Kishi Bashi 2022 Follows Kishi Bashi as he goes on a journey to learn about history and its relevance when a media interview links the muslim ban and the immigration crisis at the USA Mexico border with the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII

Amanat 2022 The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century

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

Iancu Jianu, haiducul 1981 the adventures from the first part continue the break with his old world is total justice becomes more important than personal happiness romantic aura of hero has the perfect bright the atmosphere from Haiducii series is mixed with crumbs of fairy tale and one of the good

The Goldman Case 2023 Chronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered

Willem Frieda 2023 Stephen Fry investigates the inspiring and moving story of a gay man and a lesbian who led anti Nazi resistance in Holland

Hitlers Madman 1943 Somewhat fictionalized account of the destruction of the village of Lidice in Czechoslovakia and the events leading up to it In 1942, the Allies parachuted a Czech resistance fighter into the area He quickly reunites with his former girlfriend and many of the villagers who knew h

My Generation 2017 The cultural revolution that occurred in the 1960s England is explored in this documentary

Plague at the Golden Gate 2022 The bubonic plague outbreak in San Franciscos Chinatown in 1900 and the hunt to identify its source leads to a spate of violent anti Asian sentiment

Fire in the Blood 2013 An intricate tale of medicine, monopoly and malice, FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the years after 1996 causing ten million or more unneces

Once Upon a Time in High School The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do 2004 By Fist of Fury, Kim Hyun Soo Sang Woo Kwone addicted to Bruce Lee Year 1978 Hyun Soo moved to KangNam, Seoul Hyun Soo transferred to JungMoon High, Maljuk Street, Kangnam, Seoul He goes schooling by No 78 Bus First day a senior male to

The Riot 2023 In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners

The Young Karl Marx 2017 26 year old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialists son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working class Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard 2021 The Blinding of Isaac Woodard How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in W

They Shot the Piano Player 2023 New York, 2010 Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenorio Junior, a young Brazilian samba jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976

The Codebreaker Who Hacked Hitler 2015 Thanks to the movie The Imitation Game many people know that Alan Turing was one of the men behind breaking the german coding machine Enigma during World War II But an equally important person was Gordon Welchman, who invented

The Man in Grey 1943 At an estate auction in WWII England, two strangers meet and muse about their families history and possible connections Flashbacks reveal the story of the sweet, rich, and beautiful Clarissa Richmond and her friendship with bitter, impoverished Hesther Shaw Their fates are inter

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

Jesus Christ Superstar Live Arena Tour 2012 Celebrating 40 years since it first opened in Londons West End, Andrew Lloyd Webbers new production of Jesus Christ Superstar

The Empty Mirror 1996 Adolf Hitler faces himself and must come to terms with his infamous career in an imaginary post war subterranean bunker where he reviews historical films, dictates his memoirs and encounters Eva Braun, Josef Goebbels, Hermann Goring and Sigmund Freud

Dog Valley 2020 When Lance Wood contacts authorities to tell them of the abduction, torture, rape and murder of gay student Gordon Church, committed by Michael Archuleta, they become suspicious of his own involvement in the case

Tsareubiytsa 1991 A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918 He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell

The Last Survivors 2019 Documentary compiling the testimonies of the last remaining Holocaust survivors living in Britain, all of whom were children at the time, and following them over the course of a year as they embark upon personal and profound journ

Miss Austen Regrets 2007 In the later years of her life, as shes approaching the age of forty, the novelist Jane Austen helps her niece find a husband

Inherit the Wind 1988 A teacher has taught about evolution in a small town in Tennessee He has violated state law by doing this Two great lawyers appear, one to assist in his defense, the other to help prosecute him The town is divided in many ways which become apparent as the trial progresses This

American Pain 2022 American Pain traces the rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history

North Korea Dark Secrets 2024 Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions

American Coup 2010 AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA Iran, 1953 Explores the blowback from this seminal event, as well as the coups lingering effects on the present US Iranian relationship Includes a segment on the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis and its relatio

If I Were King 1938 In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve But there are traitors in Paris, and King Louis goes undercover to find one, thereby meeting Francois Villon, poet, philosopher and rogue By chance Villon

Bardejov 2024 The story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejovs Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two

1815 2022 During the Highland Clearances, William Chisholm sets out on a journey to seek out what was taken from him William strikes up an uneasy companionship with battle weary Andrew Gunn

June Zero 2022 This thrilling yet, at its core, empathetic and humanist film looks at the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the mass extermination of Jews during the Second World War Depicting the events preceding Eichmanns ex

Billy Graham 2021 Billy Graham explores the life and career of one of the best known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century From modest beginnings on a North Carolina farm, Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching style

King A Filmed Record Montgomery to Memphis 1969 Follows Martin Luther Kings life and decades long civil rights activism

Fake News A True History 2019 Ian Hislops sharp, provocative take on 200 years of fake news and its consequences from Victorians on the moon to 21st century deepfake, and Hislop as never seen before

The Big Freeze Winter 63 2022 When snow began falling in the UK on Boxing Day 1962, it barely stopped for the next 10 weeks It was the coldest recorded winter since 1739 when temperatures plummeted to minus 22 degrees

The Black Prince 2017 The Black Prince is a story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh His character as it evolves, torn between two cultures and facing constant dilemmas as a result His relationship with Queen Victoria will be the most impactful relationship in the

The Condemned of Altona 1962 A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact

Las 13 rosas 2007 The true story of 13 totally normal young women who suffered harsh questioning and were put in prison under made up charges of helping the rebellion against Franco back in the 1940s Despite their innocence, the 13 were soon executed without even a trace of evidence of any wrongdoin

Hill of No Return 1992 Set in 1920s Taiwan under Japanese rule, two men join the Chiu Fen gold rush hoping for riches, while a widow struggles and a prostitute yearns for freedom A mine collapse traps miners as the widow leaves town

She Said Boom The Story of Fifth Column 2012 She Said Boom The Story Of Fifth Column is the story of a group of young female artists from Toronto in the early eighties They united to use music, film, and self publication to defy conventions of art practice, gender ideas, and to challenge homophobia

Nova Zembla 2011 This fact based drama chronicles the last journey of Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerk on their search for a new passage to the Indies Due to icy waters, they are stranded on the island of Novaya Zemlya and have to spend the winter there The story is told through the eyes of G

The Big Fisherman 1959 Exploring the life of Peter, from being a successful fisherman to becoming a follower of Jesus Christ and being dependent on Jesus Christ

Stockholm Bloodbath 2023 Anne and Freja seek revenge on the men who murdered their family They end up in Stockholm, where they are drawn into a political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark which culminates in a mass execution

On Camera Photographers at the BBC 2017 Drawing on the BBCs rich archive, this documentary reveals the working practices, lives and opinions of some of the greatest photographers of the last 60 years bringing into focus the key genres of photography

Henry VIIIs Enforcer The Rise and Fall of Thomas Cromwell 2016 The reputation of Thomas Cromwell is as a notorious thug who became Henry VIIIs Chief Minister yet this documentary reveals another side to him as a principled statesman and pioneering law maker who laid the foundations of the mo

Pompeii The Mystery of the People Frozen in Time 2013 Margaret Mountford investigates how and why the people of Pompeii became frozen at the moment of their deaths, and views the reconstruction process of life like wax recreations of two of its people