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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A Nightingale Falling
2014-08-04Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial ti...
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Between Pain and Amen
2019-10-04A young composer and double bass virtuoso, who returns to Romania after studying in Vienna, is arrested by the political police soon after getting eng...
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Lovec senzací
1989-02-01Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the years before World War I and recorded in his reports a...
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Forest of the Hanged
1965-03-16In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romania...
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The Cat's Bridge
1927-08-08In 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a corps of Pr...
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The Dumb Girl of Portici
1916-01-30Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
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Irena Sendler
2008 Nobel Prize nominee, Irena Sendler, saved 2500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Based on a true story.
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The Fifth Empire
2004-09-09Manoel de Oliveira directs José Régio's historical epic of religious and political power struggles. King Sebastião plans to make Portugal the world's ...
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Eagle in a Cage
1965-10-20Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
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The Taika Reforms
2005-01-01A drama introduces the well known coup in the 7th Century Japan followed by the Taika reform which marks the start of the nation by portraying the fri...
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How Freyja Saved Asgard
2025-03-01Based on the old Norse poem, 'Þrymskviða', Freyja is called to Asgard to help Thor and Loki find Mjǫllnir, hoping it will satiate Asgard's hunger for ...
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Elton John: Live at Dodger Stadium
1975-12-12Documentary originally from The Russell Harty Show chronicling Elton John’s iconic two-day concert at Dodger Stadium in 1975.
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