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A documentary that tackles the ideological conflicts surrounding the December 21 election in the country, to the push for sovereignty and subsequent parliamentary declaration of independence and the aftermath

A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned t

While leading the Third Crusade, King Richard the Lionheart George Sanders battles treachery in his own camp as well as the Saracens and their charismatic leader Emir Hderim Sultan Saladin Sir Rex Harrison

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This documentary film chronicles the process of renaming Ft James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island after one of The Gambias most well renowned sons It sh

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Documentary based on Owen Hart and his life outside of the ring, containing footage of his family after his sudden and tragic death

An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jeronimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government offi

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandak

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re established, but partisans carry on with violent actions In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them

In 1936 when 18 African American athletes participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, history forgot all except one This is the story of the other 17

Tells the story of the last months of the 20 year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained

An alien ship encounters a strange flying object the Voyager spacecraft Professor Dr Georg Friedele wants to teach the aliens about evolution on earth but the more the aliens listen the angrier they turn towards the humans

In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career,and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes

In the chaos of the final days of the Italian revolution a thief and a baker hook up and travel the streets of Milan witnessing the historic events, which quickly take a dark turn

April 1940 The eyes of the world are on Narvik, a small town in northern Norway, source of the iron ore needed for Hiters war machinery Through two months of fierce winter warfare, Hitler is dealt his first defeat

The story is set in the 12th century in Arab ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone The caliphs politic

Filmmaker Trevor Graham is an Australian hummus tragic Every week in his Bondi Beach home he observes the hummus making ritual, mashing chickpeas, lemon juice, garlic and tahina But when the Hummus War erupted in 2008, among t

Ukraine, 1918 As a Bolshevik army of about 4 000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers about 300 of which are students is resisting

Looking for work as a violinist, Josef comes into the orbit of a rich young woman She introduces him to a hedonistic existence free from religious intolerance Josef gets an incredible commission to write an opera for the San Ca

Young man, from now on you will only work for me These were Adolf Hitlers words to the young sculptor Arno Breker in 1936 What would he commission from his new Phidias

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events

December 7, 1941 On a Sunday morning, TOMIKAZU TOMI NAKAJI and his best friend BILLY DAVIS are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when the Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor As Tomi looks up

During second world war,Philippe Petain gets absolute powers The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial

A documentary that uses a cache of letters, diaries and documents to reveal the life of SS leader Heinrich Himmler

Across America, the morning of September 11, 2001 began routinely, with news and radio broadcasts sharing local human interest stories and traffic reports But by 9 a m , the days narrative had taken a tragic turn Most of us are

Michael Timar, captain of the St Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Timar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom

Henry IV is dead and Hal is King With England in a state of unrest, he must leave his rebellious youth behind, striving to gain the respect of his nobility and people Laying claim to parts of France and following an insult from

Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together In Perico, Cuba is an Afro Cuban group that has kept alive songs and dances brought aboard a slave ship by their ancestor, known only as

Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution

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

Between 1998 and 2005, a wave of murders targeting elderly women hit Mexico City, triggering the hunt for and capture of a most unlikely suspect

Farrah Fawcett plays real life Beate Klarsfeld, a German Protestant housewife who, with the help of her Jewish law student husband, Serge, began an unrelenting campaign after World War II to bring Nazi war criminals to justice, mo

In 19th century Wallachia war bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachias Phanariote rulers dont oppose them