A Great Day in Harlem
1994-09-27Art Kane, now deceased, coordinated a group photograph of all the top jazz musicians in NYC in the year 1958, for a piece in Esquire magazine. Just ab...
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Young Stalin
A diminutive twentysomething 'Soso' (a nickname given to him by his mother) leads a group of revolutionaries in a massive bank heist to rob the Imperi...
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Abdul the Damned
1935-08-05In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the le...
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Ernst Thälmann
1986-02-07This elaborate two-part television film features a section from the life of communist worker leader Ernst Thälmann. It begins with the bloody riots on...
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Stjenka Rasin
1936-05-01Russia, 1667: The Cossacks, led by Rasin, are ill-treated by Prince Dolgoruki who arrests and sentences Rasin to forced labor on the ship that brings ...
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The Silver Mask
1985-05-25Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the go...
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La face cachée de l'homme en noir
2025-07-16You've seen him interview Mikhail Gorbachev, Angelina Jolie, Robbie Williams, Mariah Carey, Brad Pitt, Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro... You know him, but...
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March: the Southern South
2021-10-23The elderly photographer, Chie, told a childhood story about her sister Iòng-Hâ and the sister's admiration Kong-Suī, in a time when Taiwan's cultural...
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The Great King
1942-03-02King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going...
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Death of Zygielbojm
2021-11-05A story about the tragic fate of a Jewish political activist who committed suicide on 12th May 1943 in London. What he did was supposed to be a sign o...
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Inés de Castro
1944-12-28In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noblewoman, for political reasons; but the impulsive pr...
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Przhevalsky
1951-07-18A Russian scientist spends a year documenting the natural world in Central Asia.
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The Crossing of the Andes
2011-04-07Buenos Aires, 1880. A journalist interviews Manuel Esteban Corvalán, one of the last living men who crossed the Andes in 1817 with José de San Martín,...
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Hotel Meina
2008-01-25How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is th...
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Jim Morrison: The End
2021-07-02Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, in the apartment of his girlfriend Pamela Courson. ...
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Report from the Aleutians
1943-07-30A documentary propaganda film produced by the U.S. Army Signal Corps about the Aleutian Islands Campaign during World War II. The film opens with a ma...
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916-01-30Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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Noel: The Samba Poet
2007-11-02The biopic of Noel Rosa, one of Brazil's best poets and composers.
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