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Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 2015
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...
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2015
79 min
My Father's Vietnam
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
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
Country: Poland
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 2016
Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to...
2016
150 min
Hatred
Country: Dominican Republic
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 2010
This is the story of three brave women; Patria Minerva and Maria Teresa they were known as the Mirabal Sisters born into a privileged family in the fields of Salcedo. At that time the...
2010
116 min
Tropic Of Blood
Country:
Genre: Documentary | History
Year: 2001
On the shores of Israels Mediterranean coast lay Ashkelon a seaport since 3500BC. It became one of the most important cities of the ancient world. The Romans conquered Ashkelon in 37BC and stayed for four centuries. Archaeologists have excavated here and the most surprising finding was a pit with numerous skeletons of newborn babies thrown into the sewers beneath a Roman bathhouse. The...
2001
Skeletons Of Roman Ashkelon
Country: France, Germany
In the aftermath of WWI a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancés grave to lay...
113 min
Frantz
Genre: History
An all-new original series centered around our nations most iconic...
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Blood Feuds: Season 1
Country: Australia
Genre: Documentary, History
Year: 2011
This is not a surf movie it is a film about surfings deepest roots: in the subconscious; in ancient lore; in the craft of surfboard building; in mans perpetual quest for a joyful relationship with the natural...
2011
90 min
A Deeper Shade Of Blue
Country: Japan
Genre: Comedy, History
Year: 2013
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honno-ji powerful figures Katsuie Shibata Hideyoshi Toyotomi Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor....
2013
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Doubutsu Kankyou Kaigi (dub)
Genre: History, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Year: 2017
Zak Bagans Aaron Goodwin Billy Tolley and Jay Wasley investigate the scariest most notorious haunted places in the...
2017
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Ghost Adventures: Season 14
Genre: History | War
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Britain At War: Imperial War Museums At 100
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
Bayou Maharajah explores the life and music of New Orleans piano legend James Booker the man Dr. John described as the best black gay one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever...
Bayou Maharajah
Year: 1961
During the Cold War in the 1960s the U.S.A.F.and NASA tested the experimental rocket-powered aircraft X-15 that set altitude and speed records and reached the edge of outer...
1961
107 min
X-15
Genre: Drama | History | Short
Two Angry Men
Genre: History | Sport
The annual end-of-season gala in London celebrated the best of motorsport with accolades handed out across 14 categories spanning club racing to F1 the majority voted on by Autosport...
Autosport Awards 2016
Smile! The Nation's Family Album
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
Pedalling Dreams: The Raleigh Story
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action, History, Romance
The year is 872 and many of the separate kingdoms of what we now know as England have fallen to the invading Danes leaving the great kingdom of Wessex standing alone and defiant under...
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The Last Kingdom: Season 2
Genre: History, Horror, Thriller
Year: 2014
When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would-be investors they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister...
2014
Ascent To Hell
Country: Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Genre: Documentary, History, Reality-TV
League of Exotique Dancers explores vintage Burlesques world of fun frolic and feathers yet also turns the spotlight on the poverty racism and sexism that were rampant under all that...
League Of Exotique Dancers
Country: United States, France, Canada
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh David Lynch and Jonas Mekas...
80 min
What Is Cinema?
Underground centers on a group of slaves planning a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the...
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Underground: Season 2
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1929
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for...
1929
95 min
The Iron Mask
Liverpool music from the post war years to the present day. Liverpool is one of the most vibrant cities in the world. The film puts into context the musical outpourings of nearly 60 years...
Get Back
Year: 1979
Philip KentAndrew Stevens takes part in the american revolution and the newly formed...
1979
240 min
The Rebels
George Iii: The Genius Of The Mad King
Genre: Documentary, History, News
The film does an outstanding job of laying out the many ways women are disadvantaged in the United States under the Constitution. Using facts figures interviews colorful graphics news...
93 min
Equal Means Equal
Country: Denmark
Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews escape to Sweden in October...
94 min
Across The Waters
Documents the works of three generations of Gothic architects Sir George Gilbert Scott 1811-1878 George Gilbert Scott Jr 1839-1897 and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 1880-1960. Between...
60 min
Dan Cruickshank & The Family That Built Gothic Britain
Professor Alice Roberts joins the team excavating a 3000-year-old Bronze Age village in the Cambridgeshire Fens thats been called the British Pompeii due to the remarkable levels of...
59 min
Britain's Pompeii: A Village Lost In Time
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: Action, Drama, History
Year: 1997–
Undersecretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt resigns to form a volunteer militia unit called The Rough Riders to fight in the Spanish American...
1997–
Rough Riders
Genre: Documentary, History, Mystery
Focusing on the most important discoveries from the world of the ancient Egyptians Egypts Greatest Mysteries journeys back in time to explore the unveiling of the tomb of Tutankhamun the reign of Ramesses II and Champollions deciphering of the...
Egypt's Greatest Mysteries: Season 1
Year: 2006
George Beau Brummel a penniless but witty London gentleman maintains a refined lifestyle with his loyal servant cook Robinson. Only the friendship of the unpopular Hanoverian heir and...
2006
78 min
Beau Brummell: This Charming Man
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
Beau Brummell
Year: 1988
The characters of Kunta Kinte and Fiddler from Roots are back in this movie. In this movie the two of them accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that...
1988
100 min
Roots: The Gift
Genre: Action | Drama | History | War
Panfilov's 28 Men
Country: Portugal, Spain
Joaquim Pinto who has been living with HIV for more than two decades looks back at his life in cinema at his friendships and loves at the mysteries of art and nature - while undergoing an experimental drug...
164 min
What Now? Remind Me
Genre: Documentary | History | War
As households struggle to make ends meet illegal money lenders are preying on the vulnerable by encouraging them to take out unlicensed loans charging huge interest rates and then using extreme levels of violence intimidation and shame to make them...
The War On Loan Sharks
Genre: Drama | History | Romance
Year: 1935
1935
Les Misérables 1935
Year: 1956
1956
Bhowani Junction
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History
Year: 1994
An all-enveloping darkness. Suddenly a childs voice frightened questioning pierces the darkness... The first flickering rays of light begin to sculpt mysterious shapes out of the darkness ... Among them a very old man. He reassures the child exhorting him to see the wonders of the earth. And it is with this childs eyes that we will witness the creation of the world. Nature comes to life...
1994
Genesis: The Creation And The Flood
Genre: Drama | History | War
Year: 1959
During WW II British commandos visit occupied Holland to keep a fortune in diamonds out of Nazi hands. Tense action follows as Anna Jan and their colleagues play cat and mouse with the Dutch army knowing that one of their number may be a...
1959
Operation Amsterdam
Genre: Drama | History
Year: 1985
The elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos where he gets inspiration to write the Book of...
1985
Patmos
Year: 1957
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste river in 1949 the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge Lieutenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international...
1957
Battle Hell
Genre: Animation | Biography | Documentary | History | Music
Danny Says is a documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields. Since 1966 Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late 20th century: working for the Doors Cream Lou Reed Nico Judy Collins and managing groundbreaking artists like the Stooges the MC5 and the Ramones. Danny Says follows Fields from Phi Beta Kappa whiz-kid to Harvard Law dropout to the Warhol...
Danny Says
Devil's Bride
King Lear The Film starring Don Warrington is an epic stage to screen film of the hit sell out Royal Exchange Theatre and Talawa Theatre Company co-production in association with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre and directed for the stage by Talawas award-winning Michael Buffong; and for the screen by Bridget...
King Lear
1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights Illinois over his and his wife Ethels heads. Ethel...
The Founder
Play It Loud: The Story Of Marshall
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1970
A Mogul king decides to take stealthy action to help overpower his greatest rivals. He chooses nine out thirteen of his loyal generals who he treats as sons to embark on the mission....
1970
117 min
The Heroic Ones
Country: France, United States
Year: 1966
The departure of the German army from Paris in...
1966
173 min
Is Paris Burning?
Country: China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, United States
Year: 2009
The disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds himself stranded in a village populated by a strange clan with mystical connections to...
2009
101 min
The Warrior And The Wolf
Year: 2004
The history of Hollywoods handling of the Nazis and its later depiction of the Holocaust they...
2004
92 min
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood And The Holocaust
The film led by the leadership of Guizhou Province in 1964 to Beijing to ask Chairman Mao inscribed Zunyi meeting site when Chairman Mao recalled Zunyi because of inaccurate information led to the defeat of the Tucheng campaign to form the story of the Red Army intelligence advance team mainly about the Red Army advance The small unit to overcome difficulties and the enemy wits and eventually...
Pioneer 2016
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
GANGSTA WALKING THE MOVIE! First collaborative movie about Memphis Hip Hop and Dance culture EVER! Gangsta Walking the Movie tells the hidden secrets of how the Memphis Rap Music and...
57 min
Gangsta Walking The Movie
Follows the lives of two volunteer nurses on opposing sides of the Civil War - New England abolitionist Mary Phinney and Confederate supporter Emma...
Mercy Street: Season 2
