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Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

Its Gonna Blow San Diegos Music Underground 1986 1996 chronicles a period when San Diego was touted as the next Seattle A motley community of musicians with a do it yourself ethos and an aversion to mainstream culture dev

A former astronaut recently went on record to allege that there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted by Alien races and that these civilizations have been visiting us for a very

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter amid the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942

About the life and death of the legendary SwedishAmerican agitator Joe Hill

When the Germans invade Czechoslovakia the four sons of a Czecho German family follow different paths Czech patriot, Nazi supporter, artist in America, and heroic German soldier

On March 1, 1932, the infant Charles Lindbergh, Jr , the son and namesake of the famed pilot, is kidnapped After he is later found dead, a German immigrant named Bruno Hauptmann is tried for kidnapping and murder

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s

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

A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies

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

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha

In the middle of a broadcast about Typhoon Yolandas initial impact, reporter Jiggy Manicad was faced with the reality that he no longer had communication with his station They were, for all intents and purposes, stranded in Tacloba

As a conscript in war time Japans military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals

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

When the blacksmiths daughter gets infected by the black plague, he must do everything he can to prevent her from the kings execution orders

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U S S R from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britains declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitlers invasion of Poland

An 11th century noblewoman opens her Saxon husbands eyes by riding bareback through town

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertsons young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band

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

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asuncion, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires

Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive When the sheriff arrives, things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her life

The Sultana was a river boat that exploded in 1865 killing many passengers, mostly Union Soldiers

In late nineteenth century America, Rising Free portrays the story of a young woman living in the aftermath of racial prejudice Surrounded by danger of being sold and further stripped of freedom, she discovers hope through a graciou

A chronicle of Oscar Wildes libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War

At the time of Caesars conquest of Gaul, a Roman tribune falls in love with the daughter of a Gallic chieftain during a dangerous mission

In 1905, Polish horse thieves living near the Russian border find their livelihoods threatened by the new Russo Japanese conflict because the Russian army requisitions all horses and forcibly conscripts all men for the war

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy

William Hoy was one of the first Deaf Major League Baseball players in the 1800s Being deaf, he introduced hand signals for strike and ball to the game and overcame many obstacles to become one of the greatest players of his time

Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada

A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return

Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages

Belle Melina Mercouri is a tempestuous gypsy girl who is after Sir Paul Deverill Keith Michell Her plan is to marry him and take him for every cent he has before moving on to other lovers