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The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimers at 76 Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema fil

In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union

A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide

Trinh T Minh ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contra

Baratometrajes 2 0 is a more than a documentary that radiograph the cinema in Spain, giving a lead role and voice to filmmakers of low budget films, to cultural promoters which make things differently, and to distribution and ex

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created

Based on the book by Vilhelm Moberg published in 1949 depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1840 early 1850

The story of the rise and fall of the Boleyn family during the reign of Henry VIII Told through the narration of historical academics juxtaposed with actors performing several significant scenes

Film maker Oliver Stone revisits material used in the making of the film JFK along with additional material that has come to light since

The story of Queen Victoria from her coronation, focused on her meeting and marriage to Prince Albert and the way they established shared responsibilities until his death

The 1746 Battle of Culloden, the last land battle fought in the British Isles and the battle that ensured that Scotland was controlled by England

Based on real life events that led to tragic deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera

Documentary feature film focusing on the life and times of Eva Hesse, a ground breaking artist who was active in New York and Germany in the 1960s

Ondrej, a young boy who loves bees and bats, is introduced to his new mother, a woman much younger than his father He brings her a basketful of flowers which she starts to throw in the air and then gives out a shriek, as she disc

One of the greatest and bravest incident from the life of The Great Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj where he defeated Afzalkhan with his brilliant tactics and courage

BERLIN, 1948 During the few days of the blockade, a teenager, a man, and a young woman constitute a gang They profit from the fear, the disorder, and the black market, and commit many, many thefts

Interviews and archival footage focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs and the free love movement of the 1960s

The nearly forgotten story of Nicholas Winton, who organized the rescue of 669 children just before the outbreak of WWII

Follows two Korean girls who unwillingly get taken from their homes during the Japanese occupation of Korea

Presented by Dr Clare Jackson of Cambridge University, this new three part series argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britains defining royal family

Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr David Livingstone

Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war

SHAKEDOWN chronicles explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles The story functions as a legend where money is both myth and material Cumulatively, questions arise about how to diagram the before and aft

The story of the Civil Rights Movement interstate busing protest campaign

Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraqs first wave of refugees From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away

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

The story of Hitler and his penchant for barbarism and destruction, starting with his surprise Russian invasion and the anarchy that followed

A story about a group of soldiers last days before the battle of the Somme in 1916

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

Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge

A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble rousing workers in the field and factory

It showcases the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through the Colosseum, one of the most exhilarating and brutal arenas in the history of humanity