Tsushima Maru: Goodbye, Okinawa
1982-10-24A documentary anime retelling the shipwreck of the freight boat Tsushima Maru, which was carrying 836 schoolchildren home in July 1944 when it was att...
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The Man with the Miraculous Hands
Felix Kersten, a renowned, apolitical medical masseuse, becomes the personal doctor of one of the most powerful and feared men in Nazi Germany: the ch...
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Carl & Bertha
2011-05-20A great historical film about the origins of the automobile: Bertha Benz wrote herself into the history of technology with the first, daring ride in a...
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L'Épreuve du 100 mètres
2024-07-23Pushing the limits of the human race: that is what runners aspire to when they take to the Olympic 100-meter track every four years. But for Usain Bol...
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First Joys
1978-07-04A TV film based on the novel of the same name by Konstantin Fedin. The film is set in a small provincial town on the Volga River in the pre-revolution...
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Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
2017-03-23Known for his mournful "Adagio for Strings," Samuel Barber was never quite fashionable. This acclaimed film is a probing exploration of his music and ...
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The Uprising
1999-06-26In the late 19th century Catholicism was gaining a foothold on Jeju island, much to the horror of the Confucian community, who were seeing their influ...
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Alice by Heart
2019-02-26Alice by Heart is a musical with music by Duncan Sheik, lyrics by Steven Sater inspired by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, set in a WWII London bomb...
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Lipstick: Make-up Power
2022-07-24Lipstick, which has been around since the beginning of time and over the centuries has been considered both a symbol of power and an instrument of sub...
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Saturday's hunter
2011-12-10About the secret history of a certain geographic zone and the gradual change of an innocent child into a wild beast.
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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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Juana Azurduy, Guerrillera de la Patria Grande
2016-06-01Doña Juana Azurduy, widow of Padilla, is visited in November 1825 by the liberators Simón Bolívar and Antonio José de Sucre in the city of Chuquisaca.
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Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown
2026-03-01Marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, this documentary series examines the reactor explosion, the Soviet government’s cover-up, and ...
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Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light
2025-04-23The artistic career of American actress Mia Farrow has been that of a passionate and committed woman who became the embodiment of a special kind of fe...
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