The Bill of Rights
1939-08-19This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political figur...
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Henry IV, Part 2 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
2012-06-25Hotspur is dead and Prince Hal has proved his mettle on the battlefield, but King Henry IV lies dying and the rebels show no sign of surrendering. Eve...
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Dust Under the Sun
1978-11-06A movie about the suppression of the rebellion in Simbirsk, raised in 1918 by the left SR Muravyov, then commander of the Eastern Front of the Red Arm...
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
2006-10-16Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the ar...
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The Trail of Dracula
2013-12-12Diabolical. Seductive. Immortal. Vampires have been an icon of evil in folklore and popular culture for more than three centuries, yet only one name s...
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Spies and Lies
2010-11-14A true story. 1942. New Zealand is at war. Times are desperate. The Japanese invasion seems imminent. At this perilous moment, confidence trickster Sy...
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Untitled Joni Mitchell Biopic
Described as an unconventional biopic, 'akin to an autobiography', telling the story of Joni Mitchell's life from her point of view, while also offeri...
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Song of Revolt
1937-05-29This MGM Tabloid Musical short tells the story of how France's national anthem, "La Marseillaise", came to be written during the French Revolution.
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Shylock's Ghost
2015-10-27As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan Yentob to...
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From Caligari to Hitler
2015-05-28Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into ...
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Esterno Notte (part I)
2022-05-18The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
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The Four Minute Mile
1988-11-09For two brilliant young athletes - Roger Bannister of England and John Landy of Australia - the 1952 Helsinki Olympics present an exciting challenge. ...
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The Kennedy Dynasty
2023-07-02The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent destiny of the United States of America throughout ...
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A Chivalrous Romance
2000-03-06The action of the movie is set in the late 11th century Constantinople during the time of the 1st Crusade. The crusaders need the help of the emperor ...
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Britain's Greatest Codebreaker
2012-10-17Alan Turing is the genius British mathematician who was instrumental in breaking the German naval Enigma Code during World War II, arguably saving mil...
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