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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2011
The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill «Dont ask dont tell» where sexual orientation was a non-talk policy in the American forces leading to 13.368 getting kicked out before...
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2011
85 min
The Strange History Of Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Genre: Short, Comedy, History, Sci-Fi
Year: 2008
A young baby booming couple get caught up in a nuclear communist plot while taking a walk in the...
2008
8 min
Super Atomic Commies!
Country: United Kingdom, France
Genre: Comedy, History, Romance
Year: 1995
Monsieur Cinema a hundred years old lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever...
1995
104 min
One Hundred And One Nights
Year: 2019
A Japanese-American director digs deep into the controversial comfort women issue to settle the debate on whether the women were paid prostitutes or sex slaves and reveals the motivations and intentions of the main actors...
2019
120 min
Shusenjo: The Main Battleground Of The Comfort Women Issue
Country: Moldova, Romania
A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic...
76 min
The Soviet Garden
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 2004
Cologne-Ehrenfeld November 1944. Theyre young wild and rebellious like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis and are...
2004
111 min
The Edelweiss Pirates
Genre: Documentary, Comedy, History
Year: 2018
A love letter to film history Sickies Making Films looks at our urge to censor movies and asks Why? By focusing on the Maryland Board of Censors the nations longest lasting censor...
2018
83 min
Sickies Making Films
Year: 2010
The origins of Halloween are explored and how it became the holiday we know and enjoy...
2010
42 min
The Real Story Of Halloween
Country: Canada, Japan
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
Year: 2014
After WWII the blacksmiths once valued by warlords and samurai faced the industrial value for cheap. Many quit but a few have dedicated their lives to join the familial bloodline to keep...
2014
49 min
Springhammer
Country: Canada, Germany
Controversial director Uwe Boll depicts the harsh reality of the process inside one of the most infamous Nazi death camps by using brutally realistic imagery. Book-ended by documentary footage as well as interviews with German...
73 min
Auschwitz 2011
Year: 2003
A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and...
2003
Tibet: Cry Of The Snow Lion
Country: Turkey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2013
In a small Turkish town two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love their life would never be the...
2013
138 min
The Butterfly's Dream
Country: United Kingdom, France, Italy
Year: 1972
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. He is still busy with politics promoting socialism to the world. Stalin has sent out an assassin Frank Jackson. Jackson befriends a...
1972
103 min
Mordet På Trotskij
Corporations have hijacked congress and are running roughshod over Americans especially the Middle...
101 min
Corporate Fascism: The Destruction Of America's Middle Class
Genre: Documentary, Short, History
From PBS - The Nazi death camp at Sobibor was created solely for the mass extermination of Jews. But on October 14 1943 the inmates fought back in the biggest and most successful prison...
38 min
Escape From A Nazi Death Camp
Country: Italy, West Germany
Year: 1970
The story of the Finzi-Continis a noble family of Ferrara during the Jewish persecution in Italys...
1970
94 min
The Garden Of The Finzi-continis
Country: Brazil
The Trial documents the trial of Dilma Rousseff focusing on the defense team who struggles to prove her innocence against a majority vote by a Congress riddled with corruption. A tale of betrayal and corruption the film presents...
140 min
The Trial 2018
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 1928
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia when the monarchy was...
1928
95 min
October
Country: France, New Caledonia
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take...
136 min
Rebellion
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Comedy, History
Year: 1969
Through the childhood and the adolescence of Giacomo Casanova from his memoirs this is a description of how people live in the Venice of the 18th century: customs habits medecine religion and most of all - the omnipresence of...
1969
123 min
Infanzia, Vocazione E Prime Esperienze Di Giacomo Casanova, Veneziano
Year: 1976
The myth of Giacomo Casanova the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. A sex scandal lands him in prison but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of...
1976
155 min
Fellini's Casanova
Country: Lebanon, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, History, War
A feature length documentary exploring violence and social change through the stories of ex-fighters from the Lebanese Civil...
84 min
About A War
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 1962
In the tenth year of the Trojan War tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the...
1962
118 min
Fury Of Achilles
Year: 2012
The unsinkable floating palace set sail from Southampton on 10th April 1912 on her maiden voyage to New York. An iceberg ended this monumental journey 5 days...
2012
70 min
Titanic: 100 Years On
Genre: History
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45 min
Seven Wonders Of Ancient Rome
Country: Lebanon, Libya, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt
Year: 1977
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic...
1977
177 min
The Message 1977
Year: 1980
The story of Clarence Earl Gideon and his fight for the right to have publicly funded legal counsel for the...
1980
Gideon's Trumpet
Country: Italy, Spain
Genre: Adventure, History, War
Year: 1965
The stories of Gideon and Samson from chapters 6-8 and 13-16 of The Book of...
1965
I Grandi Condottieri
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 1959
During World War II a British actor impersonates Field Marshal Montgomery in order to confuse German...
1959
Hell, Heaven Or Hoboken
Country: United States, Belgium, France, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Action, History
Year: 2015
Seven years in the making and filmed on three continents The Millionaires Unit documentary tells the dramatic story of a group of Yale students who were the first to fly for America in WW1 some of them making the ultimate...
2015
The Millionaires' Unit
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1935
A pair of lookalikes one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French...
1935
128 min
A Tale Of Two Cities 1935
Year: 1940
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the...
1940
121 min
Virginia City
Country: West Germany
Year: 1974
A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828 barely able to talk or walk and bearing a strange...
1974
110 min
The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1956
In 19th century Russia a Tartar rebellion led by Feofar Khan separates Russia from Siberia where the Tsars brother and his troops are making a last stand. The Tsar entrusts Captain Michel Strogoff to deliver a vital message to...
1956
Michel Strogoff 1956
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History, War
Year: 2007
On November 8th 1983 World War III almost began and with it a nuclear apocalypse. This day is now acknowledged as one of most perilous on the whole of the Cold...
2007
Soviet War Scare 1983
Country: United States, Monaco, Morocco
Year: 1997
From childhood to adulthood Tibets fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other...
1997
134 min
Kundun
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary, History, Sport
Year: 2021
THIS IS PORT ADELAIDE takes viewers across the 150-year journey of Australias most successful football club and then goes behind the scenes as the club was repeatedly challenged in 2020 by the impact of a global pandemic in what...
2021
90 min
This Is Port Adelaide
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1971
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccios...
1971
The Decameron
Country: Canada
Vimy Ridge: Heaven To Hell
In 1940 the Channel Islands became the only part of Britain to fall under Nazi rule. Now in this film Islanders speak from the heart about one of the most extraordinary periods in our...
60 min
Nazi Britain
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 1957
Survivors of the World War 2 German Resistance Group attend an annual reunion at an English country house. The reunion is hosted by Colonel Price who intends to find out which guest had betrayed their...
1957
78 min
The Accursed
Country: Portugal
Year: 2017
At the request of the Catholic Church in Lisbon members of the Royal Archeology and Historical Association RAHA of Portugal excavate 78 mummies in a crypt beneath the altar of the...
2017
50 min
The Secret Mummies Of Lisbon
Country: Hungary, West Germany, Austria
Year: 1988
A mans story parallels Hitlers rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider wounded in World War I recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers...
1988
Hanussen
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner...
Max Manus: Man Of War
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Italy, France
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
A man steals the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. His 84-year-old daughter thought he did it for patriotic reasons. A filmmaker spends more than 30 years trying to find the...
The Missing Piece: Mona Lisa, Her Thief, The True Story
Year: 1992
The Sharp End takes the Australian perspective of what it was like to be in Vietnam during the war. Told through the eyes and voices of Australian servicemen correspondents doctors...
1992
56 min
The Sharp End: Witnesses Of Vietnam
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, Denmark, West Germany, Sweden
Year: 1987
The story of the great Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich 1906-1975 and his life and career during the rule of...
1987
157 min
Testimony
Country: Senegal, France
Year: 2016
Africa shares a white and black memory with Europe and America. A history shared by twelve million Africans and told by few. A very lucrative commerce from which many prospered through four centuries abolished or...
2016
Bois D'ébène
Country: United Kingdom, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1973
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitlers final days in an underground bunker his military henchmen and his stormy relationship with Eva...
1973
108 min
Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Country: Thailand
Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in...
100 min
Yamada: Samurai Of Ayothaya
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Afraid of Dark is a wonderfully insightful and entertaining yet remarkably serious documentary about Black men. This documentary aims to destroy the misconceptions and stereotypes...
75 min
Afraid Of Dark
Country: France, Italy
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Anton Ludvik aka Gerard is vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia. He realizes he is watched and followed. One day he is arrested and put into jail in solitary confinement. We are shown the mental tortures during...
139 min
The Confession 1970
Country: Russia
Russia 1917 WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Womens Battalion of Death formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of...
Batalion 2015
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2000
Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola...
2000
87 min
Tesla: Master Of Lightning
The history of the longstanding American comic book company that launched such legendary superhero characters such as Superman Batman and Wonder...
Secret Origin: The Story Of Dc Comics
Genre: History, War
Year: 2006
The Battle of...
2006
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Fields Of Freedom
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
The story of Hadji Murad a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against the invading forces of the Russian...
91 min
The White Warrior
Year: 1916
Fenella a poor Italian girl falls in love with a Spanish nobleman but their affair triggers a revolution and national...
1916
112 min
The Dumb Girl Of Portici
A dramatized historical recreation of the Chicago Conspiracy trial with present testimonies by many of the...
Conspiracy: The Trial Of The Chicago 8
