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Country: United States, Italy
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2020
Martin Scorsese reveals the story of a single performance in 1826 that forever changed Americas cultural landscape with the introduction of Italian opera to New York City -- an event Mozarts great librettist helped organize....
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2020
63 min
The Oratorio
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Year: 2012
A documentary that chronicles how a generation of artists thinkers and activists used their creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the...
2012
100 min
Let Fury Have The Hour
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Genre: Drama History Biography
Year: 2021
The dramatic true story of C.S. Lewis’ journey from committed atheist to reluctant believer begins with his turbulent childhood. After losing his mother to cancer and becoming estranged from his father a young C.S. Lewis deems existence bleak and unfortunate. His tutelage under atheist William T. Kirkpatrick and his harrowing experiences in The Great War solidify his case for materialism...
2021
The Most Reluctant Convert
Country: Germany, Chile, United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
During her Christmas holidays with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk England Diana decides to leave her marriage to Prince...
111 min
Spencer
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography
Year: 1982
The life story of Groucho...
1982
87 min
Groucho
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2006
Based on the Neil Brands critically acclaimed radio play of the same name the drama follows Stan Laurels last visit to his dying friend and comedy partner Oliver Babe Hardy and Stans...
2006
59 min
Stan 2006
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 2019
Edith returns the abandoned items from Muis house to its original senders after the death of the famous Cant-pop diva Anita Mui in the late 2003. It revives five close fans collective image and memory of...
2019
85 min
Dearest Anita
Genre: Biography, History, Western
A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T. Johnson a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West the Chisolm...
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Montford: The Chickasaw Rancher
Beverly Glenn-Copeland a Black transgender musician becomes a cult icon three decades after the release of his album Keyboard...
Keyboard Fantasies
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
About Face explores beauty and aging through the stories of the original supermodels: women now between fifty and eighty years old whose images defined our sense of beauty over the last half-century. Shot in Timothy...
75 min
About Face: Supermodels Then And Now
Country: United States, Argentina
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
A look at the early life and prolific career of Argentinean football legend Diego...
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Maradona: Blessed Dream: Season 1
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
This drama series from Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay explores Kaepernicks high school years and the experiences that led him to become an...
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Colin In Black & White: Season 1
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1942
Chronicles the early life of gay nineties-era songwriter Paul Dresser as he outgrows his job as carnival entertainer and moves up into New York society writing one hit song after another. Despite his egotistical behavior he...
1942
103 min
My Gal Sal
Year: 2016
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2016
Adele: Someone Like Me
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2018
Filmed in homage to his original TV series this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Irelands comedy greats with just a whiskey a cigarette and...
2018
58 min
Dave Allen At Peace
Year: 1975
Young ski champion Jill Kinmont is left paralyzed after a tragic skiing accident. Her best friend suffers the same fate after contracting polio. Jill must slowly put her life back together again with the help of those close to...
1975
102 min
The Other Side Of The Mountain
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Winstanley explores the attempt by Gerrard Winstanley who formed The Diggers and with a group of followers attempted to form a small farming community in one of the first proto-Communist attempts at collective...
95 min
Winstanley
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2000
A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the...
2000
In His Life: The John Lennon Story
Country: United States, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Through the inspiring journey of a recovering athlete Any One of Us offers an unprecedented glimpse into the world of spinal cord...
Any One Of Us
Year: 1998
Comedian Lenny Bruce struck a subversive chord in an era of change in America. After getting his start as a conventional stand-up comic Bruces increasingly iconoclastic act transformed him into a leading figure of the 1960s...
1998
Lenny Bruce: Swear To Tell The Truth
English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat...
The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain
Country: Canada
Genre: Biography, Drama
The story of the New Orleans-born crooner who began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history melding her music with the civil rights...
Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia
Year: 1997
Biography of country music star Barbara Mandrell looks at her early career and follows her career through the tragic auto accident in 1984 which almost killed her and her ultimate...
1997
93 min
Get To The Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story
Year: 1995
The biographical story of the life of country music legend Dottie...
1995
120 min
Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Musical
Year: 2017
An exploration of the life and innovations of composer and electronic-music pioneer Suzanne...
2017
74 min
A Life In Waves
Tensions run high when a Jewish woman and a gang leader fall in love while fighting racial injustice against the backdrop of the Los Angeles 1992...
California Love
Looking In The Mirror
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present...
92 min
Brexit
Genre: Animation, Short, Biography
Year: 1979
A film about the life and career of Canadas greatest bush pilot and his greatest...
1979
5 min
Canada Vignettes: Wop May
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Year: 1985
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono from before their first meeting to their rise to...
1985
180 min
John And Yoko: A Love Story
Country: Italy
Year: 1999
The story of Joe dAmato Italian director of sexploitation and gore narrated by...
1999
101 min
Joe D'amato Totally Uncut
Year: 1940
Inventor Thomas Edisons boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result the towns folk all think Tom is crazy and creating a...
1940
86 min
Young Tom Edison
Year: 1987
Documentary portrait of the Philippine filmmaker Lino...
1987
90 min
Signed: Lino Brocka
Year: 1977
The Ford dynasty and the effects of the automobile on the history of North...
1977
57 min
Henry Ford's America
Genre: Documentary, Animation, Short, Biography
Year: 1978
A painter recalls the farm work she did as a child during summer...
1978
1 min
Canada Vignettes: Holidays
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Romance
Year: 1944
The story of William Buffalo Bill Cody legendary westerner from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West...
1944
Buffalo Bill
Country: France, Vietnam, Spain
Mai Hua French-Vietnamese single mom with two children brings back her dying grandmother to France. As she miraculously recovers questions are raised on the familys origins and a spell...
96 min
The Rivers
The incredible true story behind the most controversial Italian court cases in recent years. Stefano Cucchi was arrested for a minor crime but in just one weeks time a family is changed...
On My Skin: The Last Seven Days Of Stefano Cucchi
Genre: Short, Biography, Drama
Year: 2013
Based on actual events 5 Words is a short film set in the former Soviet Union in the year of 1958. It is a short episode from the life of a young woman who is persecuted for her...
2013
10 min
5 Words
The professional and personal lives of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are...
98 min
Bud And Lou
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren the author of numerous childrens books and creator of Pippi...
123 min
Becoming Astrid
Country: Russia, United Kingdom
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
The story of Jesus...
The Miracle Maker
60 min
A Pleasant Terror: The Life And Ghost Of M.r. James
The Lost Ghost Story With Mark Gatiss
Country: Australia
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Year: 1906
True story of notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly...
1906
70 min
The Story Of The Kelly Gang
Year: 1988
Fueled by the intense poverty of his youth Walter Valentino Liberace is determined to become the worlds greatest entertainer. Explore the rises and falls the libel and palimony suits...
1988
97 min
Liberace: Behind The Music
Country: Hungary
Year: 1984
From one of the foremost woman directors comes a personal story of how history and the individual impact each other. A young woman Juli returns to her homeland only to find the horrors she escaped have infected it...
1984
106 min
Diary For My Children
Genre: Biography, Music
Year: 2014
Known for his unmistakable cascading strings and recordings such as Charmaine Mantovani enthralled the world with his sublime arrangements. This is the story of the man and his...
2014
73 min
Mantovani, The King Of Strings
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Sport
Explores the fantastic highs and unsettling lows of 8-time All-Star and slam dunk champion Vince Carter as he looks back on his record-breaking 22-season professional basketball...
Vince Carter: Legacy
Country: Poland
Painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the...
Our God's Brother
Country: Germany, Poland, United Kingdom
The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while helping to create the hydrogen bomb and the first...
Adventures Of A Mathematician
Country: India
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
This is a story of a PVC awardee brave Indian soldier - Capt. Vikram Batra who shot to fame and became a household name during the Kargil War in 1999. His indomitable spirit and his unflinching courage in chasing the Pakistani...
135 min
Shershaah
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography
Year: 1964
A group of seven-year-old British children from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects.The original intention was that they would be interviewed again in the...
1964
40 min
Seven Up!
Country: Italy, Soviet Union, United States
Year: 1991
The true story of Ivan Sanchin the KGB officer who was Stalins private film projectionist from 1939 until the dictators death. Told from Sanchins view the sympathetic but tragically flawed hero maintains unwavering faith in...
1991
137 min
The Inner Circle 1991
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Detective Chief Inspector Colin Sutton tracks down a serial...
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Manhunt: Season 2
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Everything in the Song is True is a hilarious and moving cowboy music and poetry doc about hard work and preserving a unique legacy of The American...
80 min
Everything In The Song Is True
Country: United States, Australia
In 1970s New York photographer Martha Cooper captured some of the first images of graffiti at a time when the city had declared war on it. Decades later Cooper has become influential to the global movement of street...
82 min
Martha: A Picture Story
Jeannie Gunn faced being the only civilised woman in an uncivilised land. A story of personal triumph about one woman who reached out in a hard hostile prejudiced world and managed to find...
134 min
We Of The Never Never
Country: Japan, Ghana, Mexico
A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern day Japan. For some hafus Japan is the only home they know for some living in Japan is...
Hafu: The Mixed-race Experience In Japan
