The Watchmaker and the Chicken
1989-06-12In 1913, chance brings together a young high school teacher Yurkevich, his first love Lida, a wealthy landowner Lundyshev and a German watchmaker Karf...
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Casablanca revisitada
1992-01-01A lyrical and nostalgic analysis of how Casablanca, the mythical film directed by Michael Curtiz in 1942, has influenced both film history and pop cul...
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What's My Line At 25
1975-05-28A retrospective of the classic game show, What's My Line, in which a four-member celebrity panel attempted to identify a contestant's occupation throu...
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The Light on the Gallows
1976-05-13Europe in 1793. For years, England and France have been at war with each other. Now, France sends three men to the British colony of Jamaica to organi...
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Songs for After a War
1976-02-09A particular reading of the hard years of famine, repression and censorship after the massacre of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), through popular cul...
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Assassination
1965-08-20In autumn 1941, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich’s brutal rule in occupied Bohemia and Moravia fuels Czech resistance. In spring 1942, the government...
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Space Shuttle Challenger
2026-01-03Tragedy struck when the Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated just 73 seconds into flight. Hours earlier, engineers argued to cancel the launch, amid...
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As Long As I'm Famous
2020-05-01Writer/Director Bruce Reisman pays homage to the Golden Age of Broadway during the summer of 1948. Inspired by true events, this is the story of priva...
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The Dawn of Kaiju Eiga
2019-04-02Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs in 1945. The creature's name is Godzilla. The film ...
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Happy Birthday, Marsha!
2018-03-10It's a hot summer day in June, 1969. Marsha throws herself a birthday party and dreams of performing at a club in town, but no one shows up. Sylvia, M...
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Antar: The Black Prince
1961-12-04Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab lang...
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Cadet Rousselle
1954-10-20The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer...
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Mademoiselle Fifi
1944-07-28In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. Bu...
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The Fencing Master
1992-09-18A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before he is fasci...
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Jack Benny: Comedy in Bloom
1992-10-05Co-stars and celebrity admirers go through Benny's entire career
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Black Far West
2022-10-15Did you know that the first cowboys were black? Using magnificent archives and testimonies from historians, Cécile Denjean restores justice to African...
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Brazilian Cinema in the 20th Century
2017-03-31Two years of research and visits to collections, cinematheques and museums; almost seventy interviews that generated 30 hours of recorded material; mo...
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The Laws of War
1961-05-08During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot ...
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Alexander Hamilton
1931-09-12The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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