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Francos Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past

A documentary on Jacques Verges, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy

Black baseball greats, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, vie to be the first afro American major leaguer, only to see the outspoken rookie, Jackie Robinson, be chosen

1941 An Italian soldier heads to the Eastern Front, the bloodiest theater of conflict of World War II 2018 Another war starts in the same area, reopening old wounds in Europe

The documentary Midnight Return explores the enduring and emotional power of film as seen through the lens of the blockbuster success Midnight Express 1978

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

You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix Winter Soldier and Veronica Selver Word Is Out that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social

Gregory Doran directs Shakespeares epic pair of plays with a cast including Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff, Jasper Britton as King Henry and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal

They grew up under the Nazi regime They pledged to give their lives for Hitler They were fanatics who would not be stopped They were the 20,000 teenagers who made up the 12th SS Panzer Division Unleashed in France to halt the

An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10 year old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional ArrernteGarrwa upbringing with a state education

Four Third World Christs try to stop the American industrialist John Brahms in Glauber Rochas experimental film inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolinis murder

At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life

An extravagant odyssey from Communism to Capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romanias most charismatic symbols, the Dacia automobile

Diamond Sword is a large scale historical drama of first Kazakh Khans, which BBC called Kazakh Game Of Thrones The action takes place in the XV century, and the plot demonstrates the key events in formation of Kazakh statehood

Billy Graham explores the life and career of one of the best known and most influential religious leaders of the 20th century From modest beginnings on a North Carolina farm, Graham rose to prominence with a fiery preaching style

The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life affirming reflection on memory, time and whats

The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century

The story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejovs Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two

The reputation of Thomas Cromwell is as a notorious thug who became Henry VIIIs Chief Minister yet this documentary reveals another side to him as a principled statesman and pioneering law maker who laid the foundations of the mo

Cute lover boy Heo Saek becomes Joseons first male gisaeng and a flower like woman named Hae Won who thinks ahead of her time, search for true love together

A documentary following the Black Arm Band, a gathering of Australias finest Aboriginal musicians, as they take to the road with their songs of struggle, resistance and freedom

The remarkable true life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe

At the end of the 19th century, Ignacio de la Torre married the daughter of the president of Mexico, Porfirio Diaz Ignacio leads a double life he rises in the traditional world of politics while being a member of a clandestine s

When the Second World War ended, the people of liberated Europe celebrated their freedom from Nazi tyranny Their years of suffering had ended, but for millions of Germans, the end of the conflict opened a new and terrible chapter

A group of Jewish American war pilots smuggle planes out of the U S and fly for Israel in its War of Independence

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years ear

In White Like Me, anti racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege

The story of four Italian children facing the racial laws and the wave of hate brought by fascism against the Jews

Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D C from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003

Capitao, a bandit, terrorizes poor villages in the Northeast region of Brazil, looting and frequently killing with his armed gang, until he kidnaps and becomes attracted to a beautiful schoolteacher, creating discord in his group

An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife

At the height of his career, Charles Dickens meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

When Queen Victorias husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil

American Experience Walt Disney

A documentary that questions the cost and value of higher education in the United States