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A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household

Echoes That Remain paints a rich portrait of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust Folk stories, parables, and anecdotes come together in a complex tapestry woven from archival research and oral histories

The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel

Taiwans earliest modern poetry group LE MOULIN emerged in the 1930s, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule Part of the wave of modernist literature and avant garde thinking sweeping Asia from the West, what impact did these

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition

Sasquatch

A renowned painter and a free thinker, Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun is still considered ahead of her time Follow the artists adventures over the course of her nearly 90 year life in this captivating docudrama

Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war In assumin

Close your eyes and try to imagine A man, a woman and their families The fastest and most systematic genocide in history He is Hutu, she is Tutsi He must kill She must die A fate similar to many others in that bloody spring Bu

A documentary following the journey of xinyao literally songs of Singapore in Mandarin since its birth

The series recounts Leonardo da Vincis extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfectio

The murals of Northern Ireland are an expression of the regions violent Troubles The Art of Conflict examines these murals through their painters and the people who live there, exploring this unique street arts impact, purpose,

Set during the fading glory of the Austro Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl Brandauer, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensn

In Edo era Japan, a ukiyo e artist languishes in his masters shadow Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle A mystery emerges involving two portraits and th

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A young woman is searching, today, in Paris, for the collection of paintings stolen from her Jewish family during WWII

Nero is on holiday at the seaside Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to c

A documentary fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims o

In the 13th century, an amnesiac soldier vows to get his revenge on the Mongol army that ransacked his village

When you marry for status be prepared for unsuspected consequences

In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marats last days through a theater play The actors are the patients

The story is set in Rome in 1900 In a seedy area of the city, Nino Patroni seeks to marry a fellow rogue with his sister

A young woman named Cora makes an amazing discovery during her attempt to break free from slavery in the deep south

One Man and His Shoes tells the story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers showing their social, cultural and racial significance and how ground breaking marketing strategies created a multi billion dollar business

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart However, they dont realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well to do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German ar

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire Selima Enakshi is a princess foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz Rai She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan Roy,

Fall River

John Riley, an Irish immigrant soldier recruited in the American army during the Mexican American War faces anti immigrant and anti Catholic bigotry from his fellow servicemen and defects to the Mexican army

In 19th century Central America, a few entrepreneurial cowboys built an empire that enslaved populations and corrupted governments for over 100 years The United Fruit Company thrived on

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment jus

A softcore, adult oriented version of the tales from the Bible

A depiction of the lovehate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex

This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam

The story of Crown Princess Martha, who fought for her country and her marriage during the tragic events of World War II

Kandahar Journals is the story of a photojournalist who reflects on the events behind his psychological transformation after covering front line combat in Kandahar, Afghanistan from 2006 to 2010 April 2006 Photojournalist Louie Pal

A wealthy wife and a failing businessman on a quest for answers, journey in different ways, to a path to higher consciousness Their hunger for understanding and spiritual being leads them to a phenomena that has existed since the be