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On October 15, 2011, thousands of people gathered at the Vancouver Art Gallery to support the global Occupy movement As the day progressed, hundreds of people set up tents and turned the

Filmmaker Joe Berlinger meets with historians and scholars to discuss the Armenian Genocide and the continuing denial by the Turkish government of it ever happening

Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards on Sea in East Sussex The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck Bits of King Harold

DArtagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin brother Phillipe, who is the firstborn and rightful King

The story of Japanese American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II

Dont build prisons, they cost too much In this era of Great Recession, the conservative and tough on crime State of Texas takes an unprecedented path by becoming a social justice leader with programs that rehabilitate offenders

La Belle Vie The Good Life takes a look into a filmmakers journey to discover her Haitian roots by examining the complexities of the Haitian society but also chronicles her voyage to find hope in this nation on the brink of a new H

The Silent Movie Theater has been screening the films of the silent era for over 65 years It was almost lost to us completely when its previous owner, Lawrence Austin, was murdered in the

A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder yup, serious clan and cult rivalries, and lots of magic and flying

A detailed account of the McDonalds Monopoly game scam during the 1990s as told by the participants in the case, including the prizewinners and the FBI agents involved

A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, depicted through non narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi occupied France

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in Venice and traveling in Europe, learning about

Seen by over 120 million people worldwide one of the worlds most popular musicals Now cinema audiences can experience a live broadcast of the musical phenomenon which broke box office records and sold out its entire 16 week season

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career

The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war time Japans military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival

1936 A country taken by the fascism A husband marked for the killing A wife determined to all for saving him An endless incarceration in his own home

The British army fights off rampaging locals in 1850s India

Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman

When Russias first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster

Two decades before she would gain fame and some fortune as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty 1981, Dame Joan Collins starred as Esther in this melodramatic, routine Biblical story The setting is Persia in the fourth century B C , as Es

Noreno, a half Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwins investigation

During the sixteenth century, the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots engages in over two decades of religious and political conflict with her cousin, the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I of England, amidst political intrigue in her native lan

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships

During the height of World War II, commander Stan and a courageous group of resistance fighters are given a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine filled with atomic uranium Hunted down by Hitlers army, the motley crew

Princess Cleopatra becomes Egypts Queen and has an out of wedlock son with the son less Roman ruler Julius Caesar Through two romances, she strives to protect Egypt from the Romans, and make her son the heir to Caesars Roman Em

A dramatic retelling of the life of Ludwig II, King of Bavaria, one of the most fascinating monarchs of modern times From his accession to the throne at the age of 18 to his passionate support of Richard Wagner and his music From h

The story of the invention of football and how it quickly rose to become the worlds most popular game by crossing class divides

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries

Based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization late 1600s New Fran

In 1803 France, Napoleon Bonaparte Robert Cornthwaite orders the capture of notorious highwayman Purple Mask Tony Curtis, who routinely rescues imprisoned nobles and harasses the Revolutionary officials

Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts

On the H M S Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second in command Lieutenant Scott Padget, whose heavy handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny

A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango The slaves capture the captains mistress, forcing a showdown