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Country: United States, New Zealand
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Year: 2009
What would you do if you were confronted with death? What gives someone the strength to survive? Is it luck chance instinct? I Survived allows survivors to explain in their own words...
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2009
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I Survived...: Season 2
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Year: 1977
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda the son of a Sardinian shepherd and how he managed to escape his harsh almost barbaric existence by slowly educating himself despite violent...
1977
114 min
Padre Padrone
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Year: 2013
A drama based on Jimi Hendrixs life as he left New York City for London where his career took...
2013
118 min
Jimi: All Is By My Side
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Family
Year: 2010
Toyland takes you inside the high stakes world of the 23 billion dollar toy industry where fun and fortune awaits those who know how to get inside the mind of a child. Meet the people...
2010
68 min
Toyland
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2008
A mini-series that explores the inner workings of Saddam Husseins family and his relationship with his closest...
2008
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House Of Saddam: Season 1
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama
Year: 1993
A lionized account of the life of the martial arts...
1993
120 min
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Fantasy, Music
Year: 1983
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1983
72 min
Digital Dreams
Genre: Documentary, Biography, News
Year: 2015
REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky widely regarded as the most important intellectual alive on the defining characteristic of our time - the...
2015
73 min
Requiem For The American Dream
Year: 2011
2011
65 min
Undaunted... The Early Life Of Josh Mcdowell
Country: Canada, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Year: 2000
A white South African girl finds herself in a difficult situation when she is sent to spend a term with a black family in...
2000
87 min
The Color Of Friendship
Genre: Biography, Documentary, History
King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons is a documentary series presented by Michael Wood. He takes a look at the lives of King Alfred the Great and his children and grandson who helped to shape the nation founded cities established law and government and revived the language and literature that still defines the English...
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King Alfred And The Anglo Saxons: Season 1
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
ravelers who survived potentially deadly situations share their...
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Got Home Alive: Season 1
Year: 1964
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant who finds his true honor by observing Gods divine will rather than the...
1964
148 min
Becket
Year: 2015–
Z is a biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald the brilliant beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild flamboyant...
2015–
27 min
Z: The Beginning Of Everything
Country: United States, Canada
Year: 1994
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table a circle of friends whose barbed wit like hers was fueled by alcohol and flirted with...
1994
125 min
Mrs. Parker And The Vicious Circle
Country: Canada
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime
Year: 2016
A pastor and professional wrestler accepts a position at a struggling church where he helps the community both in his official capacity and as his alter ego The...
2016
111 min
The Masked Saint
Country: United States, Germany, Canada
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime
Year: 2002
An adaptation of the cult memoir of game show impresario Chuck Barris in which he purports to have been a CIA...
2002
113 min
Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind
Country: United States, Japan, France, Italy
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Year: 1992
A film about the troubled and controversial life of the master comedy filmmaker Charles...
1992
143 min
Chaplin
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, France, United States
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal...
110 min
The Duchess
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom, United States
A mans coerced confession to an IRA bombing he did not commit results in the imprisonment of his father as well. An English lawyer fights to free...
133 min
In The Name Of The Father
Year: 1990
Actress Patty Duke portrays herself in this autobiographical film that details her long-time struggle with mental...
1990
97 min
Call Me Anna
Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry...
115 min
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
Country: Germany, United States, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography
Year: 2004
Alexander the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare conquers much of the known...
2004
175 min
Alexander
An unemployed single mother becomes a legal assistant and almost single-handedly brings down a California power company accused of polluting a citys water...
131 min
Erin Brockovich
The amazing true story of one white Southern womans courage to choose her convictions and join the Civil Rights Movement. By the time she was 19 Joan Trumpauer was shot at attacked and...
91 min
An Ordinary Hero: The True Story Of Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Music
Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplins evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends family and...
103 min
Janis: Little Girl Blue
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
Year: 1963
Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen...
1963
192 min
Cleopatra
Country: United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Soviet Union, Germany, Italy
Year: 1991
A German princess is chosen to marry the heir to the Russian Throne but faces plots and intrigues against...
1991
150 min
Young Catherine
90 min
Dillinger
When a young drug researcher is hired by a tobacco company Victor DeNoble unexpectedly discovers the ingredients of addiction and fuels a national campaign to have it...
100 min
Addiction Incorporated
Country: Japan
Genre: Drama ; Family ; Biography
The Homeless Strudent film adaptation of a national best-seller autobiography novel The Homeless Junior High School Strudent. After a term closing ceremony Hiroshi comes up home and finds the yellow tape says attachment on the house entrance. Dismissed! Hiroshis father says unexpected word and dissappears without a trace. Hiroshi suddenly becomes a homeless at fourteen. He starts to...
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The Homeless Student
Country: Hong Kong
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city Master Ip is forced to take a...
105 min
Ip Man 3
Genre: Biography
This documentary film follows the footsteps of Rudyard Kipling 19th-century English writer and a Noble Prize-winner. Patrick Hennessey travels to Lahore to reassess Kiplings adventures and their impact on his...
59 min
Kipling's Indian Adventure
Based on the book Walt Before Mickey covers the early years of Walt Disneys...
Walt Before Mickey
Director Gabriel Leif Bellman embarks on a 12 year search to solve the mystery of mathematician Richard Bellman inventor of the field of dynamic programming- from his work on the Manhattan project to his parenting skills to his...
78 min
The Bellman Equation
Adapted from their letters and journals this is a portrayal of the unique 25-year friendship shared by Dame Laurentia McLachlan Benedictine nun Sir Sydney Cockerell museum curator...
81 min
The Best Of Friends
Country: United States, West Germany
Year: 1953
Biopic of German priest Martin Luther covering his life between 1505-1530 A.D. and the birth of the Protestant Reformation...
1953
Martin Luther (1953)
Genre: biography, drama
Year: 2012
Based on the life of Santetsu Yasui December 27 1639-November 1 1715 appointed as the first official astronomer in the Edo Period and would go on to create the Jokyo calendar at the imperial...
2012
Tenchi The Samurai Astronomer
A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car thats parked in his...
104 min
The Lady In The Van
Country: Australia, Iraq
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware transplanted into the Middle East by the...
77 min
Only The Dead
Country: Canada, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Adventure, Biography
In 1971 a group of friends sail into a nuclear test zone and their protest captures the worlds imagination. Using never before seen archive that brings their extraordinary world to...
How To Change The World
Country: China, Hong Kong
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Year: 2014
The life story of Xiao Hong one of Chinas most famous essayists and novelists who reflected the progressive thinking not frequently seen during the...
2014
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Age Of League: Season 1
A neighborhood petty criminal is accused of raping a woman who falsely identifies him in a police line up. He is eventually vindicated and released from prison after more than 20 years and he describes his readjustment to...
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Vindicated: Season 1
Genre: Drama ; Biography
Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari TBS Drama Special 09 July 2012 tells about the brief life of poet and songwriter Kaneko Misuzu real name Kaneko Teru. The story starts in the spring of 1920 Kaneko Teru Ueto Aya has just graduated from high school. She is young and vibrant and has dreams of becoming a poet. Her cousin Masasuke Imai Tsubasa is very fond of her and yearns to tell her of his...
Kaneko Misuzu Monogatari Sp
Year: 1987
Actress is not just the story that charts the rise of Kinuyo Tanaka played brilliantly by Sayuri Yoshinaga who mesmerized and illuminated the screen with her charismatic performance of a legend from her naively youthful days in pigtails to coiffed professional veteran of the industry. We see how she started off in the studio system being one of many potential talents available having her...
1987
Eiga Joyu Actress
Year: 1985–
1985–
American Masters: Season 28
American Masters: Season 27
Curtis Duffy a teen who fought and stole for the thrill discovered his place in the kitchen after a home economics teacher nurtured his talents. After an unimaginable tragedy involving...
92 min
For Grace
Genre: Drama, Biography
During the summer in 2014 popular actor Takayuki Yamada is filming his role in a new movie. During this time he is having problems separating his character from his real self. Takayuki Yamada decides to read manga “Uhyo! Tokyo-to Kita-ku Akabane.” The manga depicts unique real people living in the Akabane area of Tokyo. Takayuki Yamada is impressed with the manga. He also decides to go to...
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Yamada Takayuki No Tokyo-to Kita-ku Akabane
Year: 1946
This movie shows the idealized career of the singer Al Jolson a little Jewish boy who goes against the will of his father in order to be in showbiz. He becomes a star falls in love with...
1946
128 min
The Jolson Story
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Freddie Steinmark an underdog on the gridiron faces the toughest challenge of his life after leading his team to a championship...
My All American
Country: China
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Biography
The film tells the story of China flower one family suffered brutal babes crazy story. A girl came to a China family all make me on the spot turns staged: wonderful mother Xu Fan ornaments forcing the subway family husband bed jealousy on lips temptation to send her daughter go abroad to the dead makeup is also willing to. There is no sense of being invisible father Chen Jianbin...
When A Peking Family Meets Aupair
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Year: 1979
Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from the most infamous prisons in the...
1979
112 min
Escape From Alcatraz
Year: 1999
Memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian her daughter her inventor husband their ten year old son and his...
1999
98 min
My Life So Far
A portrait of the late gonzo journalist Hunter S....
Gonzo: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Country: Australia
Tim and John fell in love while teenagers at their all-boys high school. John was captain of the football team Tim an aspiring actor playing a minor part in Romeo and Juliet. Their...
127 min
Holding The Man
Country: Turkey
From 1520 follows Suleiman the Magnificent and his relatives from his great conquests to the Battle of...
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Magnificent Century: Season 1
Year: 1997
Ayn Rand was born in 1905 in St. Petersberg Russia. She escaped to America in 1926 amidst the rise of Soviet Communism. She remained in the United States for the rest of her life where...
1997
145 min
Ayn Rand: A Sense Of Life
Genre: Drama ; Crime ; Biography
The second part of the trilogy chronicling the rise and fall of Hong Kongs top corrupt official. During this time period Lee Rock enjoys his sucess and has found a new love. But jealousy within the ranks and a...
Lee Rock Ii
