The French Revolution
2005-01-17On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage ...
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The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords
1999-02-08The history of black newspapers in America.
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Peter the First, Part I
1937-08-30This, the first Soviet depiction of Peter the Great, set the stage for what would become the post-Revolutionary line concerning the early Romanovs. Ru...
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Made in Mexico
2012-09-21From Diego Luna and Alejandro Fernandez, to Carla Morrison and Chavela Vargas, Duncan Bridgeman weaves a cinematic tapestry composed of original songs...
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Harishchandrachi Factory
2009-01-15In 1913 India's cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalke's efforts to make Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature-length B&W silent fil...
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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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The Long Winter
1999-03-13In 1838, François-Xavier Bouchard fights beside his Québec countrymen and the English minority.
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Uncle Saddam
2000-07-04Everything you've ever wanted to know about Saddam Hussein (but were afraid to ask).
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Hope & Redemption: The Lena Baker Story
2008-11-06Based on true events, The Lena Baker Story recounts one African-American womans struggle to rise above the challenges of her life, to face the choices...
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Who Killed JFK: The Conspiracies
2020-10-27Over the decades, unanswered questions, tampered evidence, ulterior motives, and witness testimony surrounding the assassination has perpetuated consp...
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Battlefield Gender
2019-04-28Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the artis...
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The Anthem of Leuthen
1933-02-02The story of the rise to power of King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia of his military campaigns to make Prussia a major power in ...
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Nights and Days
1975-09-23A family saga of Barbara Ostrzeńska-Niechcic and Bogumił Niechcic against the backdrop of the January Uprising of 1863 and World War I. The film is a ...
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Primo Levi's Journey
2006-09-12In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, ...
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Pearlescent Fog
2025-10-02In 1882, when Jelena Ilka Marković – the widow of Jevrem Marković, accused of participating in the Topolska Rebellion and summarily executed – attempt...
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Året var 1974
2023-12-29The year begins with an energy crisis and petrol rationing. And there will be parental insurance so that even fathers can stay at home with their chil...
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Victorian Sex Explorer
2008-06-09Part history, part travelogue, Victorian Sex Explorer is a revealing, witty journey through Queen Victoria’s Empire, from the late 1830s to the turn o...
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Paramanandayya Sishyula Katha
1966-04-07Eight unsuspecting people stumble across a bathing woman -- but she's no mere mortal, she is a mighty goddess. The goddess is angry when she learns sh...
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