In One Hundred Years in May
1987-07-24Viktor Kingissepp has been the underground head of the Communist Party of Estonia for three years. He corresponds with Moscow, writes speeches for the...
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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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Revolt of the Praetorians
1964-09-04Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a ...
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One Against the World
1939-08-19This short film presents the story of Dr. Ephraim McDowell, who came under scrutiny for his pioneering of surgical practices.
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Kamo's Last Feat
1974-08-26The third film of the film trilogy ("Personally known", "Emergency assignment", "Kamo's Last Feat") about the Bolshevik revolutionary S.A.Ter-Petrosya...
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President Kennedy's Birthday Salute
1962-05-19President Kennedy's birthday celebration was held at the third Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962, and more than 15,000 people attended, including ...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Kaga Conspiracy
1993-07-12The crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he deems to be a villain. A strong performance that refle...
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Theodora, Slave Empress
1954-07-02Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide betwee...
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The Last Days of Pompeii
1926-03-09Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Moun...
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Orwell Rolls in His Grave
2003-10-23Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine ...
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Martin Luther King by Trevor Mcdonald
2018-03-22On the anniversary of Martin Luther King's death, Sir Trevor McDonald travels to the Deep South of America to get closer to the man who meant so much ...
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The Traitor
2024-10-24Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn into underhand dealings. Determined to escape a s...
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Santa Cruz, the guerrilla priest
1990-07-30Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the savi...
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The Poem of Love and Revolution ~Andrea Chénier~
2013-10-15This is the story of a poet who lived at the time of the French Revolution. The poet's name was Andrea Chénier. He lived and died amongst love and bl...
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Princess Tarakanova
1910-11-09Russia, 1775. Count Orlov writes a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great in which he denounces Princess Tarakanova as a traitor and pretender to th...
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