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A story about a prince who receives a book about ghost stories containing all kinds of curses of life and feels that the curse is happening one by one

The Weight of Chains is a Canadian documentary film that takes a critical look at the role that the US, NATO and the EU played in the tragic breakup of a once peaceful and prosperous European state Yugoslavia The film, bursting

Four Third World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rochas experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolinis murder

After being told that her family had made some of the worst films in the history of Mexican cinema, Viviana spent many years ashamed of that legacy and distanced herself from everything that the Calderon family had ever done But

Documentary centers on the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary style eatery

When the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers to communicate with the dead Together the

Celebrating 40 years since it first opened in Londons West End, Andrew Lloyd Webbers new production of Jesus Christ Superstar

Over seventy five years ago Russias last Tsar and his entire family met their fate at the hands of a murderous assassin Yet, behind the closed doors of a modern day psychiatric hospital a patient is telling the story of the event

Biographical film about Shirley Chisholm, Americas first Black congresswoman

In 1945, Soviet war hero Ignat is sent to work as a locomotive mechanic in a Siberian labor camp where he meets an assortment of Germans and Russians

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton s ill fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914 1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio intervie

Straightforward biography of the Russian Empress, up to her assumption of the throne

In 605 B C Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians and many of their best young men were taken into captivity, including Daniel Daniel was taken to Babylon to serve it As Powerful King , Nebuchadnezzar Daniel as an example of

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory workers daughter The decision changes their lives forever

Near the end of World War II, American and British Special Forces must extract a resistance fighter behind Nazi lines

In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons

Oscar winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Annas forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas

In the summer of 1683, 300,000 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 Turks

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J M W Turners life

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm 2002, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime ministers life and career at the end of WWII

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings

When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one mans life

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden

In 1971, twenty four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building

Get Thrashed The Story of Thrash Metal is the story of how bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus and others pioneered a new form of heavy metal in the early 1980s

A young womans desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from

A retrospective look at the life and work of influential electronic music DJ, Adam Goldstein, known as DJ AM

Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France and captures the oldest known pictorial creations of humanity

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death by starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainian

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 world

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges