Alexander Hamilton
1931-09-12The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
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Another Way
1982-05-01Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she m...
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The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
1895-08-28A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution block and made to kneel down with her neck over it....
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Empire of the Nude: The Victorian Nude
2001-01-01The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the period's artists created a strong tradition surroundi...
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The Three Musketeers
1935-11-01In 17th century France, young d'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers — Athos, Porthos, and A...
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My Perestroika
2010-01-24Tells the story of five people from the last generation of Soviet children who were brought up behind the Iron Curtain. Just coming of age when the US...
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Thou Shalt Not: Sex, Sin and Censorship in Pre-Code Hollywood
2008-03-03A look at the forces that shaped Pre-Code Hollywood and brought about the strict enforcement of the Hays Code in 1934.
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If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
2011-06-22Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved ...
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The Incredible Time-Travels of Henry Osgood
1986-03-09A college professor wishes he could live in Victorian England. Through a scientific experiment that goes wrong, he is able to make his dream come true...
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The Second Game
2014-02-11A deceptively simple set-up: the director and his father watch a 1988 football match which the father refereed, their commentary accompanying the orig...
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The Man from Tehnogas
2022-01-01Years before going to politics, young Slobodan Milosevic, a fledgling executive, argues with a more experienced colleague about what is the best way t...
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Vision - From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
2009-09-24Hildegard von Bingen was truly a woman ahead of her time. A visionary in every sense of the word, this famed 12th-century Benedictine nun was a Christ...
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Latin for a Dark Room
1995-01-01In 19th century Edinburgh, against her husband's wishes, Maria McKillop opens the first camera obscura visitor attraction, but to one man it is Maria ...
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Speeches That Shook the World
2013-11-06Speech-making is the art of persuasion. Well-honed rhetoric appeals not just to the mind, but to the heart and, deeper down, in the guts. Examining th...
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Rat Pack: A Conference of Cool
1999-12-31For a glittering five years, Frank Sinatra and his band of Hollywood pals became the bad boys of fame - and the unofficial rulers of American culture....
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