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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2012
Follows John McCains 2008 presidential campaign from his selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate to their ultimate defeat in the general...
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2012
118 min
Game Change
Country: United States, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Music
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid...
108 min
Under African Skies
Country: Finland, Iceland
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
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101 min
Tähtitaivas Talon Yllä
Country: Mexico
Genre: Drama, History, War
A chronicle of the Cristeros War 1926-1929; a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican...
145 min
For Greater Glory: The True Story Of Cristiada
Country: Netherlands
Genre: Crime, History, Thriller
Year: 2011
A bold amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Freddy Heinekens 1983 abduction which would go on to become one of The Netherlands most infamous...
2011
127 min
De Heineken Ontvoering
Country: France
Genre: Adventure, History
Year: 2010
When his clan including his wife and baby girl Néa are massacred Ao a desperate Neandertal man decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was...
2010
84 min
Ao, Le Dernier Néandertal
Country: France, Spain
Genre: Drama, History
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the first days of the French...
100 min
Les Adieux À La Reine
Country: France | Germany
Year: 2013
In the 16th century in the Cévennes a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights...
2013
122 min
Age Of Uprising: The Legend Of Michael Kohlhaas
Three days before his execution the elderly Apostle Peter tells his jailer about his time with...
Apostle Peter And The Last Supper
Country: Japan
Genre: Action, Drama, History
In 1868 after the end of the Bakumatsu war the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without killing. Kenshin wanders through Japan with a reverse-edged sword...
134 min
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
Country: Australia, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History, Thriller
DANCING WITH DICTATORS is a film about Burma and the battle for control of a newspaper. Central to the story is Australian publisher Ross Dunkley who owns The Myanmar Times. Like all media...
80 min
Dancing With Dictators: The Story Of The Last Foreign Publisher In Burma 1
Genre: Animation, Action, History, Anime
Year: 2014
The story of three brothers who live in a place that is always cloudy because of the curse of a great demon snake that is reborn every 300 years. Tears will be shed and smiles will be shed...
2014
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Donten Ni Warau
Country: South Korea
Amid national chaos and fear for his life tyrannical King Gwanghae orders his trusted councilor Heo Kyun to find a royal body double. He hires Ha-seon a peasant mimic who bears a perfect...
131 min
Gwanghae, Wangyidoen Namja
Country: Italy, Poland
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
In the summer of 1683 300000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the...
114 min
11 Settembre 1683
Genre: Documentary, History, News
The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG Treatment Action Group -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable...
110 min
How To Survive A Plague
Genre: Animation, Short, Family, Fantasy, History
Year: 2008
Joji a young Japanese boy learns that following your hearts desire is the only way to survive in the...
2008
6 min
The Boy Who Drew Cats
Country: United Kingdom, India
Interwoven stories of people in India and US as they face dilemmas of life time in the months leading to the biggest Industrial disaster in human history that claimed 10000 innocent lives within a few hours. Inspired by real...
96 min
Bhopal: A Prayer For Rain
Genre: Drama, Family, History
The courage to make a difference the courage to stand the courage to bring about change. The movie Sybil Ludington is a period film that inspires and encourages all to boldly go...
87 min
Sybil Ludington
Year: 1976
In the late 19th and early 20th century working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The workers of Marusia go on a strike but the owners and the government decide to quell the mutiny in blood if...
1976
Actas De Marusia
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History, Thriller
A documentary derived entirely from Black Box transcripts of six real-life major airline...
Charlie Victor Romeo
Genre: Animation, Drama, History
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast... and on the unhealed border in this remote...
102 min
Jobanni No Shima
Country: Canada, United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland
A stylish in depth look at the renaissance in psychedelic drug research in light of current scientific medical and cultural knowledge. The film explores these socially taboo substances...
85 min
Neurons To Nirvana
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Genre: Adventure, History, Romance
Year: 1964
In the first of the Angélique series the beautiful feisty teenage heroine becomes entangled in a political assassination plot and is betrothed to a stranger who is twelve years her senior and a reputed...
1964
115 min
Angélique, Marquise Des Anges
The story of Abraham Lincolns childhood in the harsh wilderness of Indiana and the hardships that shaped him the tragedy that marked him for ever and the two women who guided him to...
95 min
The Better Angels
Genre: Action, Comedy, History
In late 18th century ice is a commodity more valuable than gold. When corrupt officials conspire to form a monopoly and fix its price a gang of 11 professionals is formed to steal all the royal ice blocks in five storage for a...
121 min
Baramgwa Hamjje Sarajida
Country: Ireland
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
On the night of September 29 2008 the Irish government decided to guarantee the entire domestic banking system. That decision was made by a handful of men in a room in the middle of the night. By the time the costs can be fully counted in another 30 years or so it will have cost over EUR60 billion - the most expensive bank rescue in history. The Guarantee tells the story of that night and...
76 min
The Guarantee
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic, Austria
113 min
Angélique
Country: United State
A look at the life and music of Nigerian singer Fela...
119 min
Finding Fela!
Country: United States, United Kingdom
The unforgettable true story chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965 when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965 one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava...
Selma
Her name is Dinah. In the Bible her life is only hinted at during a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters about her father Jacob and his dozen sons in the iBook of Genesis. Told through Dinahs eloquent voice this sweeping miniseries reveals the traditions and turmoil of ancient womanhood. Dinahs tale begins with the story of her mothers: Leah Rachel Zilpah and Bilhah...
The Red Tent
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
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The Borgias: Season 3
The Borgias: Season 2
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The Borgias: Season 1
Genre: Documentary, History, Music
The tradition of the Irish pub. Speaking to pub owners all over Ireland Alex Fegan gets into the heart of what makes the Irish pub the institution that it...
The Irish Pub
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 2006
2006
Deadwood: Season 3
Year: 2005
2005
Deadwood: Season 2
Year: 2004
2004
Deadwood: Season 1
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 2007
2007
Rome: Season 2
Rome: Season 1
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Da Vinci's Demons: Season 2
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Da Vinci's Demons: Season 1
Country: France, Portugal
On September 27 1810 the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from the enemy numerically superior in order to attract them to Torres Vedras where Wellington had built fortified lines hardly surmountable. Simultaneously the...
151 min
Linhas De Wellington
In 1868 after the end of the Bakumatsu war the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without killing. Kenshin wanders through Japan with a reverse-edged sword during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production...
Rurouni Kenshin
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? reveals how American corporations orchestrated the dismantling of middle-class prosperity through rampant deregulation the outsourcing of jobs and tax policies favoring businesses and the wealthy. The collapse of the U.S. economy is the result of conscious choices made over thirty five years by a small group: leaders of corporations and their elected allies...
90 min
Heist: Who Stole The American Dream?
Genre: Drama, History, Western
On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted...
92 min
The Retrieval
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story is the definitive documentary on porn magazine Hustler from its nightclub inception as it adapts to pornography in the 21st century. Director Michael Lee Nirenbergs father was one of the original art directors in the 1970s and 1980s. Back Issues is a complete look at the personalities and features that made this the most offensive magazine of all time....
89 min
Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story
Boardwalk Empire: Season 4
Boardwalk Empire: Season 3
Boardwalk Empire: Season 2
Boardwalk Empire: Season 1
Genre: History
Customers from all over come to taste Don Tacos secret tasty meat unaware of what they are consuming and the dark family secret behind his...
83 min
Carne The Taco Maker
Country: Czech Republic, Canada
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
After years of decline the Roman Empire is desperate to recapture its past. Amidst war and political confusion Urbina Prima schemes to make her son Cassius the next emperor. The only thing standing in their way is Maximus a once great Roman commander with his own dreams of nobility. Can Rome reclaim its glory or will the chaos lead to civil...
The Lost Legion
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. The conference would become Japans first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi... ...
Kiyosu Kaigi
Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of...
157 min
Zero Dark Thirty
Genre: Documentary, History
The Perfect Human Diet is the unprecedented global exploration for a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related diseases - the #1 killer in America. This film by broadcast journalist C.J. Hunt bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science previous historical findings ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution -...
In Search Of The Perfect Human Diet
Country: Australia, United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Action, History, Horror
A documentary about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus - two movie-obsessed cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed - and the tale of how this passion ultimately led to the demise of the company they built...
107 min
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story Of Cannon Films
Country: United States, Ecuador, Germany, Norway
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, History, Mystery
Darwin meets Hitchcock in this feature-length documentary. THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR is a gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands. Featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett Diane Kruger Connie Nielsen Sebastian Koch Thomas Kretschmann Gustaf Skarsgard and Josh Radnor this film skillfully interweaves an unsolved...
120 min
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden
Country: United Kingdom
Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner 1775-1851. Profoundly affected by the death of his father loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea where he dies. Throughout this he travels paints...
150 min
Mr. Turner
Country: Republic of Macedonia, Czech Republic, United States
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Sport, War
Determined to build the best football club in the country Dimitry hires the German coach Rudolph Spitz to galvanize his rag tag team but - when the first Nazi tanks roll through the city and Rebecca the beautiful daughter of a local banker elopes with his star player all Dimitrys plans must...
Treto Poluvreme
