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Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2016
A documentary exploring the birth death and resurrection of the illustrated movie...
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2016
99 min
24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters
Country: Pakistan, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Year: 2015
An unsettling and eye opening exploration into the spread of the radical Islamic school Red Mosque in Pakistan which trains legions of children to devote their lives to jihad or holy war from a very young...
2015
84 min
Among The Believers
Country: United States
Year: 1994
This documentary brings out the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his importance to the conquest of rights for the Black People in the US in the 50s and...
1994
52 min
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective
Country: Australia
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Ben Hall is drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend John Gilbert. Reforming the gang they soon become the most wanted men in Australian...
139 min
The Legend Of Ben Hall
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 2017
Set in 1935 when the Englishwoman Louisa Durrell whose life had fallen apart decided to move from Bournemouth to the Greek island of Corfu. Her husband had died some years earlier and...
2017
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The Durrells: Season 2
Country: France, Canada
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
In 1667 28-year-old all-powerful king of France Louis XIV decides to build the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. But drained budget affairs and political intrigues complicate...
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Versailles: Season 2
Country: France
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2011
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2011
95 min
A Life For Ballet
Historian Lucy Worsley visits the time of Henry VIII and tells the story of his six successive...
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Six Wives With Lucy Worsley: Season 1
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 1980
The story of Harold Krents who became totally blind at 9 years old but graduated Harvard and Oxford and became a...
1980
97 min
To Race The Wind
Year: 1940
Starting with a small flock of carrier pigeons nineteenth-century entrepreneur Julius Reuter turns his small company into Europes most respected news wire...
1940
90 min
A Dispatch From Reuter's
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Year: 1947
In 1865 the cadets of a Russian Naval Academy ship have shore leave in Morocco; among them is fictionalized future composer Nicky Rimsky-Korsakov. In search of a piano Nicky and...
1947
105 min
Song Of Scheherazade
Country: Austria, United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Comedy
A Personal Journey Into The Uncharted Depths Of Nerd Culture A Realm Full Of Dangers Creatures And More Or Less Precarious Working...
120 min
Traceroute
Year: 2009
Just after losing her husband to a similar condition Dr Anne Turner is diagnosed with a fatal neurological condition. So she plans to end her life herself. Based on a true...
2009
A Short Stay In Switzerland
Country: United States, Germany
First hand witness to the infamous World War II fire bombing and destruction of his hometown Dresden Germany 15-year-old Diether Warneck lost his girlfriend and bicycled to the...
70 min
The Color Of Fire
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Year: 1979
Jesus of Nazareththe son of God raised by a Jewish carpenter. Based on the gospel of Luke in the New Testamenthere is the life of Jesus from the miraculous virgin birth to the calling of...
1979
117 min
The Jesus Film
Country: Italy, United Kingdom
Year: 1977
Beginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Ressurection JESUS OF NAZARETH brings to life all the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus as told by the...
1977
382 min
Jesus Of Nazareth
Country: France, China
Year: 2002
Two youths sent for a Maoist re-education in the mountains fall in love with the village tailors...
2002
110 min
Balzac And The Little Chinese Seamstress
Country: United States, Bermuda
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime
Narrated by John Waters Wall Writers is a documentary about graffiti in its innocence. Through unprecedented access to TAKI183 CORNBREAD and other legendary writers Wall Writers...
77 min
Wall Writers
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
The Glamour & The Squalor is the story of Marco Collins one of Americas last great rock radio DJs and a musical tastemaker that changed our culture. Before the Internet made sourcing new...
80 min
The Glamour & The Squalor
Country: Chile, Argentina, Brazil
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
A portrait of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra filled with her musical work her memories her loves and her...
Violeta Went To Heaven
A personal documentary about a public subject My Fathers Vietnam personifies the connections made and unmade by the Vietnam War. Featuring never-before-seen photographs and 8mm footage...
79 min
My Father's Vietnam
Country: Japan
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama
Year: 1995
A Jewish girl Ann Frank hides from the Nazis and writes a diary. Based on a true...
1995
102 min
The Diary Of Anne Frank 1995
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Year: 1973
Historical evocation of Ludwig king of Bavaria from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886 as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner betrayed by him in love with his cousin...
1973
235 min
Ludwig
Year: 2014
Graffiti is one of the most misunderstood sub cultures in history. It is a culture not for the faint of heart. Up until now the story of T-Kid 170 has for the most part been kept within...
2014
49 min
The Nasty Terrible T-kid 170: Julius Cavero
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Year: 1939
English nurse Edith Cavell is matron in a small private hospital in German-occupied Brussels during WWI. When the son of a recently deceased patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war...
1939
108 min
Nurse Edith Cavell
Movie version of Frank Ferruccios book Diamonds to Dust: The Life and Death of Jayne Mansfield. This film focuses on the exciting 1960s turbulent life of Legend Jayne...
Diamonds To Dust
Country: United Kingdom, Belgium
The story of American poet Emily Dickinson from her early days as a young schoolgirl to her later years as a reclusive unrecognized...
125 min
A Quiet Passion
Country: Czech Republic, United Kingdom, United States
Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late...
111 min
A United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
A revealing look into the lives of students who put it all on the line to be selected proving that a free education is never without a cost. Selected is a documentary about the...
Selected
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Genre: Biography | Documentary | History
On Camera: Photographers At The Bbc
Country: Portugal, France, Spain
Upon returning from a hunting expedition King Louis XIV feels a sharp pain in his leg. He begins to die surrounded by loyal followers in the royal...
115 min
The Death Of Louis Xiv
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
CODE documentary exposes the dearth of female and minority software engineers and explores the reasons for this gender gap and digital divide. The film highlights breakthrough efforts that...
Code: Debugging The Gender Gap
Directed by Rachel Viollet and featuring interviews with soccer legends; Sir Alex Ferguson Bryan Robson Denis Law Nobby Stiles and Paddy Crerand this inspiring documentary showcases...
65 min
Dennis Viollet: A United Man
Genre: Biography | Documentary | Drama | Family
Year: (2015)
(2015)
Be Here Now
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Thriller
Year: 1993
Err the title is almost a summary itself. Based on the true story of a Texas mom who tries to hire a hitman through her exs brother to kill either or both a cheerleader and her mother....
1993
The Positively True Adventures Of The Alleged Texas Cheerleader-murdering Mom
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography
A tale about a farmer and his ill daughter seeking for a doctor can bring back her...
88 min
The Unheard Woman
Country: Canada
Year: 2010
Widely recognized as the planets worst film director Uwe Boll embarks on a quest to conquer Hollywood and take vengeance upon the film fanatics striving to destroy him. Filmed over three...
2010
85 min
Raging Boll
Science documentaries about various...
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Nova: Season 44
Country: South Korea
It is set in the Joseon Dynasty. The Japanese killed King Gojeung And princess Deokhye became the Queen. The Japanese army wanted to kill queen Deokhye. When princess Deokhye was young...
127 min
The Last Princess (2016)
Based on the rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford on the set of Whatever Happened to Baby...
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Feud: Season 1
Country: Germany, United States
A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground to cult...
67 min
Nico Icon
Year: 1960
The story of Franklin Roosevelts bout with polio at age 39 in 1921 and how his family and especially wife Eleanor cope with his illness. From being stricken while vacationing at...
1960
144 min
Sunrise At Campobello
George Iii: The Genius Of The Mad King
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 1992
An exploration of certain conspiracy theories surrounding the JFK assassination from Jack Rubys perspective. Ruby owns a run-down strip club in Dallas and does what he can for...
1992
Ruby
Genre: Adventure, Biography, History
Year: 1953
In 44 BC after the assassination of the leader of Rome Julius Caesar Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and one of the highest ranking Roman generals and Caesars possible successor Mark Anthony begin a tragic love...
1953
81 min
Serpent Of The Nile
Genre: Biography, Western
At the end of the Civil War Frank and Jesse James and other former guerillas who rode with Quantrill and Bill Anderson take the oath of allegiance to the Union. Feeling oppressed by...
Frank & Jesse
Country: Ireland
Irishwoman Mary Reynolds journey from rank outsider to winner of a Gold Medal at the Chelsea Flower...
100 min
Dare To Be Wild
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Year: 1954
In 1796 Captain George Brummell of the 10th Royal Hussars Regiment offends the Prince of Wales with his straightforward outspokenness and gets fired from the army but is chosen as the Princes personal...
1954
113 min
Beau Brummell
Legendary American asocial backwoods inventor Joseph Newman haps onto a brilliant discovery that ends the need for oil gas and nuclear dependency as we know it but spends most of his life...
Newman
A recreation from one of the worlds greatest jam sessions. On December 4th 1956 Carl Perkins career was flying high from his hit Blue Suede Shoes. New to the scene Jerry Lee Lewis is brought in to work on a new song with Perkins. Then low and behold super star Elvis Presley and country music legend Johnny Cash stop by the studio for a visit. The songs they sang on that epic day became the...
Sun Records: Season 1
Year: 2008
Documentary that charts the rise of Tim Minchin - comedian actor composer songwriter pianist musical director and rock n roll...
2008
89 min
Rock N Roll Nerd
Year: 2005
Simon Jackson fights to save the endagered Spirit Bear from extinction by going up against the foresting...
2005
91 min
Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy
Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly tongue in cheek mischievous -- and...
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Urban Myths: Season 1
Country: France, West Germany
Year: 1955
The film tells the tragic story of Lola Montès a great adventurer who becomes the main attraction of a circus after being the lover of various important European...
1955
116 min
Lola Montès
Country: Spain
David Prowse the actor who played Darth Vader at the first Star Wars Trilogy never revealed his face during the films. He could have done it only once at Return of the Jedi but...
83 min
I Am Your Father
Year: 2003
While working at a Seattle clinic for women in the 1970s aspiring crime writer Ann Rule unwittingly becomes friends with serial killer Ted...
2003
The Stranger Beside Me
Addicted to breaking records this former world champion puts his mind and body on the line one last time. 20 years after his last world record he is in the American desert looking for purpose and salvation on a speed machine he built in his Scottish...
Battle Mountain: Graeme Obree's Story
A chronicle of the life and career of singer Britney Spears from humble beginnings on the Mickey Mouse Club to mega stardom a heavily publicized fall from grace and a monumental...
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Britney Ever After
Genre: Biography | Documentary
June Brown At 90: A Walford Legend
