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His home is war Her home is Portugal Yet the young, newly married wife of Lord von Ketten is determined to make her husbands family abode, an inhospitable castle on a cliff in northern Italy, into her home

Playwright Oscar Wildes homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lovers father, leading to his own prosecution

As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar

Paris, June 1940 The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus

A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine

An extraordinary look into the political career of Imelda Marcos, this documentary tells a cautionary tale of a powerful leader whose questionable sense of reality divided the Philippines

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterio

While on holiday in Rhodes, an Athenian war hero becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king one from Rhodian patriots, and the other from sinister Phoenician agents

When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Nea, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neanderthal, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was born His aim is to join his twin brother, from w

This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major works having belonged to Jewish collectors From

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days

A news reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems

A small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines

1899 The fates of the women in two families become entangled when the Soareses, former land and slave owners, request help from Ina, a woman of African descent they once dismissed due to religious differences

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 historical film about King Sejong who risked everything of his to invent the Hunminjungeum Korean Script for his people and the people who werent recorded in history

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

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

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

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

Based on the best selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus life were based on a Roman military campaign, his supposed second coming refers to

Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war

Powerful and deadly, all knowing, all seeing, they were the original Masters of the Universe,prepare for the original Game of Thrones

Documentary leading up to, during and after the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City Features interviews with athletes, including John Carlos, Tommie Smith and George Foreman, activist Dr Harry Edwards, journalists and archival

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitlers birthday A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what h

The remarkable story of the Mount St Helens volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became a Master Mason, was elected Congressman representing the state of Oaxaca three times, and led the National Charro Association In 1942, he formed the Legion of Mexican Fighters, a

Documentary about North Korea, set in the future after the regime has collapsed Harnessing the power of hindsight the film questions the morality of the current inaction by regional and global powers towards the North Korean dictato

The Hidden Hand is a controversial Award winning documentary that explores the possibility of an extraterrestrial presence here on Earth The film takes a keen look at a spectrum of topics like alien abduction, humanalien hybridizat

The unusual meeting between three deserters from different nationalities Brazil, German and Italy during World War II

The story of one man entering the culture and character of Santa Claus for a single season We follow Jack as he bleaches his hair and goes to Santa School He tries to do everything that Santa is asked to do He works as a sidewalk

The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII

Tracing the movement to breed a better American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns