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History of the World Part II 2023 Sequel to the 1981 film, History of the World Part I

This Earth of Mankind 2019 A native Javanese boy and a mixed Dutch girl fall in love during the early 20th century colonial turbulence in Dutch East Indies now Indonesia

Il Boemo 2022 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

Platform 2000 Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio economic changes sweep across the mainland The film commences

Iran Is My Land 1999 Iran Is My Land documents the journey of Sohrab, an itinerant writer, whose latest work, a book of Iranian poetry, requires a permit from Irans censors in order to be published Sohrab thus sets off on the road to Tehran in pursui

Winter in Wartime 2008 In the Nazi occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot

One Sings, the Other Doesnt 1977 The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the womens movement in which Agnes Varda was involved Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pr

The Heineken Kidnapping 2011 Rems Amsterdam family lives a nightmare since his father got an alcohol abuse problem related to working for multinational Heinekens brewery distribution and was fired before it became terminal Rem Reinout Scholten van As

Lord of the Ants 2022 Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti is jailed in 1968 under a law criminalizing grooming The informant is his partners father

The Knowledge of the Forever Time 2015 The film opens with the howling voices of the last 50,000 years, and believe it or not, their voices are actually screams of fear and desperation Every cave painting of a cow or horse is actually an encrypted pr

African Queens Njinga 2023 Expert interviews and other documentary content with premium scripted docudrama about different queens

Waking the Titanic 2013 The story of RMS Titanic has been told in grand style many times the monumental unsinkable ship, the scarcely believable hubris of its owners and the dreadful events of 1912 Waking the Titanic is something new a living history

Sharaku 1995 A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relationship betwe

Parkland Inside Building 12 2018 Acclaimed director Charlie Minn brings attention to the victims of the infamous massacre that occurred on February 14th, 2018 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School A normal day at school became a true nightmare for

The Gold 2023 Drama series inspired by true events surrounding the 1983 Brinks Mat robbery, and the remarkable story that followed

Beyond the Front Line 2004 A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns infantry regiment 61 The story follows the regiment during the Continuation War from 1942 to 1944 and from Syvari to the Karelian Isthmus w

Angelique 2013 In France, prior to Louis XIV ascending the throne, a young baroness is forced to marry against her will and is caught up in a web of treachery and murder, threatening her and her husband, whom she has come to love deeply

Age of the Gods 1992 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

Mysteries of the Abandoned Hidden America 2022 Scattered across the United States are abandoned structures, forgotten ruins of the past and monuments to a bygone era that reveal the secrets of a hidden America

Death of a Tea Master 1989 Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the masters death Years before Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth c

Horrible Histories 2009 2022 Horrible histories is a British program for all ages The writers have made learning history entertaining, with funny skits, spin offs of TV shows like Wife Swap Historical Wife Swap, Master Chef Historical Master Chef, an

The Entertainers 2012 A heartwarming comedy about six piano players striving to win the World Championship of Old Time Piano mostly ragtime With brilliant showmanship and skill these competitors vie for the glow of victory, for escape from the trials

Drunk History 2013 2019 Historical reenactments by A list talent are presented by inebriated storytellers

The 1619 Project 2023 Connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel 1996 The true life story of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clockmaker, who writes The Barber of Seville, works as a secret agent for the French king, runs guns to the American revolutionaries, and along

Museum Revolution 2015 A revolution changes the social and political landscapes of a country, but first and foremost it changes the physical landscape For centuries none of the city centers of the world capitals looked nothing like the Maidan in the

Rise of the Nazis 2019 2022 In 1930 Germany was a liberal democracy Just four years later democracy was dead, Germanys leader is a dictator and its government is in the hands of murderers This series tells the story of how this happened Leading histo

Kruty 1918 2019 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 near t

Harry Chapin When in Doubt, Do Something 2020 A documentary that tells the story of singersongwriteractivist Harry Chapins dedication to trying to end world hunger before his tragic passing

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga 1959 LUCKY ADVENTURER ODA NOBUNAGA 1959 is a lively samurai film dramatizing a pivotal turning point in the life and career of Nobunaga Oda, who figured prominently in efforts to unify the warring states of Japan under a central r

The Female Closet 1998 Lesbian photographer Alice Austen is profiled in this documentary

Marian Anderson The Whole World in Her Hands 2022 Documentary on Marian Anderson an African American woman, an international singing star in the twentieth century, who succeeded over racial prejudice and became an inspiration for Americas civil right

Make Hummus Not War 2012 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

H H Holmes Original Evil 2018 In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal Meet the Dark Lord of a murder castle who killed roughly 200 people in a self made house of horrors who may have also been the notorious Jack the Ripper

Effigy Poison and the City 2019 1828 in the German port city of Bremen Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them One strives for a career in law, at a time when women arent even admitted to universities The other

Magnetic Beats 2021 A kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin

Destiny 1997 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 political rivals

The Hero 2016 Sara Silverstein suddenly finds herself involved in various violent attacks She realizes she needs to unravel her fathers past to stop this threat

Shchedryk 2022 Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, Carol of the Bells adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world The peacef

Bezos 2023 Bezos chronicles the true life story of Jeff Bezos a humble yet awkward entrepreneur on his mission to create Amazon, the worlds largest e commerce company, and turning himself into the richest man in the world

Women at War 2022 France, 1914 The destinies of four women intersect Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist n

Vatican Girl The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi 2022 A 15 year old girl living in Vatican City, disappeared under mysterious circumstances that are believed to have involved the Vatican

Kampen om Narvik Hitlers frste nederlag 2022 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 firs

Tutankhamun 2016 Young, penniless and ostracized archaeologist, Howard Carter, whose obsession is to find the legendary tomb of the boy king, Tutankhamun, in the so called Valley of the Kings, is hired by British aristocrat, Lord Carnarvon, to do jus

The Five Days 1973 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

Septet The Story of Hong Kong 2020 Seven of Hong Kongs leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s

History Lessons 1972 A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brechts unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar In a second part set in contemporary Rome, a young researcher discusses t

D C Sniper 23 Days of Fear 2003 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D C , and Maryland