Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970-08-14The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into Manchuria...
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A Real Vermeer
2016-11-03Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Verm...
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Xiao Hua Cross Shandong and Hebei War Zone
2009-12-01In July 1938, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China appointed Xiao Hua as commander and political commissar, and formed an eastward an...
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The End Will Be Spectacular
2019-11-11Zilan, a young woman, returns to her home town looking for traces of her dead brother, killed by ISIS. But her town is not what it used to be: social ...
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Paulo Coelho's Best Story
2014-06-23Paulo Coelho is the world’s most translated living author, his books having sold over 165 million copies. But he was not always the inspirational glob...
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In the Footsteps of Frantz Fanon
2021-10-14Who was Frantz Fanon, the author of Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin, White Masks, this Pan-African thinker and psychiatrist engaged in anti-colon...
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Dumas: Black Devil
2027-10-13Thomas Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie Dumas was born a Caribbean slave in 1762 and beat the odds by rising through the ranks to become a revolutiona...
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They Fought for Their Motherland
1975-11-05In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the re...
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The Heavenly Vow
1991-01-15This film shows the extraordinary life of nuns or mothers-in-law.
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Same Sex America
2005-04-22In the spring of 2004, Massachusetts began the final battle of its journey towards legalizing same-sex marriage. This documentary follows a few local ...
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The Pioneer
2021-07-01The story of Li Dazhao's revolutionary deeds from 1912 to 1927, and the story of the benevolent and revolutionary pioneers who were led by him to devo...
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Louis Riel
1969-10-29Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion. 1969 CBC-TV production based on the original 1967 opera.
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Charlotte Salomon: Life and the Maiden
2022-11-17In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and mus...
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The Cable That Changed the World
2024-08-05The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago wa...
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Taira Clan Saga
1955-09-21Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
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The Star Dreamer
2002-08-09The Russian filmmaker, Pavel Klusjantsev, has had an extraordinary influence on an entire genre of films. Throughout his career at the film studio in ...
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Joseph Kessel, la mallette de l'ogre
2025-11-28To tell the story of Joseph Kessel is to tell the story of the entire 20th century. He lived a thousand lives in one: reporter, novelist, exile, resis...
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