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Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love

Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japans attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U S

Anachronistic strict Regimental Sergeant Major Lauderdale Sir Richard Attenborough, on a remote colonial African army caught in a local coup detat, must use his experience to defend those in his care

In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public

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

Louis Napoleon III Claude Rains takes advantage of the American Civil War to circumvent the Monroe Doctrine and expand his power by helping Emperor Maximillian Hapsburg Brian Aherne to add Mexico to his empire

Under an Eastern European totalitarian regime, a prominent dissident writer survives repression by resuming a submissive sexual relationship with her former lover After their split up years ago, he had joined the Secret Police in

An extravagant odyssey from Communism to Capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romanias most charismatic symbols, the Dacia automobile

The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

The Paw Project chronicles the David and Goliath story of a tiny grassroots movement taking on big veterinary corporations in an effort to ban the de clawing of cats

Portugal 1813 A band of deserters, including Sharpes old enemy, Obadiah Hakeswill, have captured two women, one the wife of a high ranking English officer, and are holding them hostage

The story of the Russian born, Wisconsin raised woman who rose to become Israels prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s

The history of the Boer War, fought between the British Empire and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State between 1899 and 1902

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

An in depth interview with Jose Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA

The movie details the struggle of Iancu Jianu as hes torn between joining the struggle of the poor peasants from which he came from and being on the other side of the law working for the rich

The Nuremberg Einsatzgruppen trial of 19471948 is considered the largest murder trial in history against members of four death squads from the security police and SD the security service of the SS During World War II, six mill

After a brutish, hedonistic Marquis marries a pretty young Clarissa to act as a brood sow, he begins an affair with her friend who plots to take her place

The Blinding of Isaac Woodard How a horrific incident of racial violence became a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in W

Billy Graham explores the life and career of one of the best known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century From modest beginnings on a North Carolina farm, Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching style

In Chile in 1901, three horseman are paid to protect a vast estate Accompanying a British soldier and an American mercenary is a mixed race sniper, who realizes that his true mission is to kill the indigenous population

Chronicles the trial of Goldman, a French left wing revolutionary who was convicted of several robberies and was mysteriously murdered

Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex commander Grey after his capture by ISIS With the help of U S military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by

In 1907, the miners in Sulitjelma in Fauske in Nordland made a famous rebellion against greedy mine owners

Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions

Anne and Freja seek revenge on the men who murdered their family They end up in Stockholm, where they are drawn into a political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark which culminates in a mass execution

Sergeant Suleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War He takes her and names her Ayla Fifteen months later, Suleymans brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her beh

Julia travels to the Indo Burma border to perform for the troops during World War II on the insistence of her lover Billimoria, and ends up falling in love with a soldier there, Jemadar

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II

One of 12 Westerns made in 12 months during 2020, The Wilderness Road tells the story of the most notorious land pirates who stalked the Southeast during the turn of the 19th century Samuel Mason Creek Wilson, a Revolutionary W

A spot light on an often forgotten episode in British history Nazi Germanys occupation of the British Channel Islands

An action, spy film set in the backdrop of the Japanese colonial era

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexicos history, without any narrative sequence The film spins constantly round the question Where are the singers from De donde son los cantantes in spanish the

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

A documentary following the Black Arm Band, a gathering of Australias finest Aboriginal musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor