Golden Leggings

2022-10-19

August 19, 1991. USSR. Moscow is filled with rallies, barricades and tanks. But a summer school camp on the South is living its own life.

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Demon Blade: The Assassin Katana of Onimaro

1995-12-28

Once praised as "Yotsuya Masamune," the renowned swordsmith Kiyomaro was living in seclusion in the mountains with his apprentice Onimaro. However, Ki...

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The Lone Sabre

1994-11-14

In the late Qing Dynasty, the policeman Wang Wu (played by Zheng Haonan) was dedicated to arresting imperial criminals for the court. He was called th...

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Yamazakura, The Cherry Tree in the Hills

2008-05-31

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade, Love and Honor), the film depicts the uneasy lif...

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David Macaulay: Cathedral

1986-04-30

Author David Macaulay hosts CATHEDRAL, based on his award-winning book. Using a combination of spectacular location sequences and cinema-quality anima...

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S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine

2003-05-17

Documentary of the S-21 genocide prison in Phnom Penh with interviews of prisoners and guards. On the search for reasons why this could have happened.

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Taikoki

1987-01-01

Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period.

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The Fall of Rome

1963-02-28

After the death of Emperor Constantine in Rome, the persecutions of the Christians threaten the centurion Marco forced to become a gladiator.

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I Invite You to My Execution

2019-10-30

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago is published in the Soviet Union, because it suppo...

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Rose

2012-02-03

This harrowing tale of survival centers on Rose, a Masurian woman, whose German soldier husband was killed in the war, leaving her alone on their farm...

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Letters from Karelia

2004-09-26

Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.

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Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things

2019-02-12

Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem. Within months she was a star. Over...

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Defending Europe

2026-05-12

For decades, European security has depended mainly on NATO, under-written by America. But under the Trump White House, the spectre of US disengagement...

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Neighbor

2013-10-15

After wars, many people do not see their neighbors ever again. In Cyprus, this has become associated with a local custom of leaving flowers at the doo...

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Girls Can't Surf

2021-03-11

It’s the 1980s and the world of professional surfing is a circus of fluorescent colors, peroxide hair and radical male egos. "Girls Can't Surf" follow...

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My Crimes After Mein Kampf

1940-03-09

The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hyb...

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La Dernière Reine de Tahiti

2022-11-21

In the kingdom of the lagoons where the custom wants that only the men can become kings. The young Aïmata Pomaré will break this law. Faced with the h...

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Kiribati? Here We Are

1980-01-01

On 12 July 1979 the Gilbert Islands in the central Pacific became independent from British rule. The country then became known as Kiribati. This film ...

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Palaces of Pity

2011-09-02

Haunted by their own directionless lives, two pre-adolescent girls reunite while visiting their ailing grandmother. In the midst of her fantasies of a...

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Nail Bomber: Manhunt

2021-05-26

This documentary examines the 1999 London bombings that targeted Black, Bangladeshi and gay communities, and the race to find the far-right perpetrato...

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