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Country: United States, Hong Kong
Genre: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2010
On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...
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2010
31 min
Once Upon A Rooftop
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2011
Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...
2011
96 min
Nicky's Family
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2009
Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...
2009
100 min
Into The Storm
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, News, Thriller
IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...
85 min
If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 2008
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...
2008
Hunger
Country: United States
Year: 1961
The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...
1961
168 min
King Of Kings
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Year: 1999
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1999
50 min
John Wayne Gacy: A Monster In Disguise
Year: 2012
The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...
2012
82 min
Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance
Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 1991
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
1991
189 min
Jfk
Country: France, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1995
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
1995
139 min
Jefferson In Paris
Genre: Drama, History, War
Year: 1987
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
1987
152 min
Empire Of The Sun
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...
89 min
Holy Rollers
Country: United States, Italy
Year: 1976
Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive...
1976
155 min
Fellinis Casanova
Country: Canada, United States
Year: 2003
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...
2003
130 min
Hitler: The Rise Of Evil
Country: South Korea
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 2004
2004
120 min
Fighter In The Wind
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 1989
King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...
1989
137 min
Henry V
Year: 1993
The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...
1993
140 min
Heaven & Earth
Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg
Year: 2007
James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...
2007
118 min
Goodbye Bafana
Country: Italy
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1962
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...
1962
91 min
Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie
Country: Spain
A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...
88 min
Garbo: The Spy
Country: India
Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England became a Barrister returned home and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal...
136 min
Gandhi, My Father
English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....
93 min
My Boy Jack
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Year: 1997
Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...
1997
105 min
Mrs Brown
Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan
The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...
126 min
Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan
This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...
106 min
Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present
Country: United States, France, Japan
Year: 2006
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
2006
123 min
Marie Antoinette
Country: United States, Japan
Year: 1992
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...
1992
202 min
Malcolm X
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...
113 min
Made In Dagenham
Year: 1977
The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...
1977
Macarthur
Country: United States, Germany
Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...
Luther
Country: United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Genre: Adventure, History
The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947 together with five men to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers while the world was waiting for the result...
Kon-tiki
Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...
Koch
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany
Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...
114 min
Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich
Year: 1998
This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...
1998
124 min
Elizabeth
Country: Philippines
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
El Presidente
Country: United States, Italy, Germany
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: Now appoint a king to lead us such as all the other nations have. I Samuel 8:5. And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king Saul a simple farmer who with Gods help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul however has incessant doubts...
190 min
David
Country: France, Poland
Year: 1983
Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...
1983
Danton
Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time he changes his opinion. They meet several times and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody he writes a book about...
157 min
Cry Freedom
Year: 1970
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...
1970
Cromwell
Country: China
The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher...
125 min
Confucius
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Year: 1963
In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...
1963
192 min
Cleopatra (1963)
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...
Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...
102 min
Charlie Wilson's War
Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa
A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...
101 min
Catch A Fire
New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper Siegel doesnt hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life the movies and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives...
Bugsy
Country: United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic
Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History
Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and...
141 min
Bathory: Countess Of Blood
Genre: Biography, History
Year: 1972
1972
121 min
Augustine Of Hippo
Country: Hong Kong, China
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
Assembly (ji Jie Hao)
Country: Soviet Union
Year: 1966
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...
1966
205 min
Andrei Rublev (andrey Rublev)
Country: United States, Canada, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, Mystery, News, War
A devoted son of Holocaust survivors and ardent critic of Israeli foreign policy the polarizing American political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein has been called a lunatic and self-hating Jew by some and an inspirational revolutionary by others. Exploring the deeply complex issues at the heart of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict American Radical is the insightful and enraging...
84 min
American Radical: The Trials Of Norman Finkelstein (2009)
In 1797 William Wilberforce the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery is taking a vacation for his health even while he is sicker at heart for his frustrated cause. However meeting the charming Barbara Spooner Wilberforce finds a soulmate to share the story of his struggle. With few allies such as his mentor John Newton a slave ship captain turned repentant priest who penned...
117 min
Amazing Grace (2006)
Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
In the run-up to the 1972 elections Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward covers what seems to be a minor break-in at the Democratic Party National headquarters. He is surprised to find top lawyers already on the defense case and the discovery of names and addresses of Republican fund organizers on the accused further arouses his suspicions. The editor of the Post is prepared to run with the...
138 min
All The President's Men (1976)
Year: 1956
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...
1956
Alexander The Great
Year: 1930
Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...
1930
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...
108 min
A Mighty Heart
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellors life the struggle between More and his King Henry VIII hinges on Henrys determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and...
A Man For All Seasons
Country: France, Spain
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants and Columbus struggle to civilize the New...
154 min
1492: Conquest Of Paradise
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Year: 2001
Summer 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports Babe Ruths single-season 60 home runs. Its a big story and the intense plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent fans cheer Mantle the leagues golden boy and baseballs commissioner announces that Ruths record stands unless its broken within...
2001
129 min
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Country: Ireland, Canada
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Year: 2014
Ragnar and King Horiks forces begin their fight against Jarl Borg who is joined by Rollo; Princess Aslaug makes her way to Kattegat with a surprise that will change...
2014
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Vikings: Season 2