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Midnight at the Pera Palace
Midnight at the Pera Palace
At a historic Istanbul hotel, a journalist is thrust into the past and must stop a plot that could change the fate of modern Turkey.
Midnight at the Pera Palace 2022
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Insiders recount the events, controversies and effects of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
Meltdown: Three Mile Island 2022
Smyrna
Smyrna
A century after the disaster of Smyrna comes to life the critically acclaimed and moving drama about an elderly Greek American woman whose family diary recounts the 1922 burning of the cosmopolitan city of Smyrna where Greeks, Turks, Jews, Armenians, and Levantines once lived together harmoniously.
Smyrna 2022
1815
1815
During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human cost of the clearances as they go.
1815 2022
Steel Will
Steel Will
Steel Will 2022
Bandırma Füze Kulübü
Bandırma Füze Kulübü
Bandırma Füze Kulübü 2022
Malazgirt 1071
Malazgirt 1071
The story of the war, which is the beginning of the history of Turks in Anatolia.
Malazgirt 1071 2022
Our Brothers
Our Brothers
Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill
Our Brothers 2022
The Viking Sisters
The Viking Sisters
In 10th century Norway, a young shaman is forced to hunt down her outlaw sister.
The Viking Sisters 2022
Esterno Notte (part II)
Esterno Notte (part II)
The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists
Esterno Notte (part II) 2022
Danny 45: El terror de La Victoria
Danny 45: El terror de La Victoria
Danny 45, sentenced to 30 years in the penitentiary of La Victoria de Santo Domingo, is the absolute control of the dreaded prison, his abuses and macabre actions against the other inmates, make people of the same environment betray him, and so between all of them try to take his life.
Danny 45: El terror de La Victoria 2022
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
Paramount+
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s)
Elizabeth is an archive-based documentary film about the Queen. A celebration. A truly cinematic mystery-tour up and down the decades: poetic, funny, disobedient, ungovernable, affectionate, inappropriate, mischievous, in awe. Funny. Moving. Different. The Queen as never before.
Elizabeth: A Portrait in Part(s) 2022
Pathonpatham Noottandu
Prime Video
Pathonpatham Noottandu
Arattupuzha Velayudha Panicker, a 19th century fiery social reformer and his unswerving fight against the dominant caste oppressions by the upper classes.
Pathonpatham Noottandu 2022
Whina
Whina
Biopic about the life of Whina Cooper, an activist who worked tirelessly to improve the lives of fellow Māori women.
Whina 2022
War Sailor
War Sailor
War Sailor is a magnificent drama that tells the story of the more than 30,000 Norwegian war sailors and their families' fate during and after the Second World War.
War Sailor 2022
Waterman
Waterman
Five-time Olympic medalist and Native Hawaiian Duke Paoa Kahinu Mokoe Hulikohola Kahanamoku shattered records and brought surfing to the world while overcoming a lifetime of personal challenges. Waterman explores his journey and legacy as a legendary swimmer, trailblazer, and the undisputed father of modern-day surfing, following the sport’s first-time inclusion in this year’s Summer Olympics – a fitting tribute to his work promoting the sport around the globe.
Waterman 2022
Dayılar Tarihi
Dayılar Tarihi
Dayılar Tarihi 2022
Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor
Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor
The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites the minds of people all over the world. The creators answer the questions of how to take the throne when you are the fourteenth child in the family; how to win access to the sea when there is no professional army and navy in the country; how to bring a country that no one considered before into world leaders in a few decades, and many others.
Peter I: The Last Tsar and the First Emperor 2022
Hugo Sanchez, the Goal and the Glory
Prime Video
Hugo Sanchez, the Goal and the Glory
The definitive chronicle of the best Mexican athlete in history. From his beginnings in Mexico's university team, his transcendental time in Spain's Real Madrid, his international falls and his very personal obsession for success.
Hugo Sanchez, the Goal and the Glory 2022
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God
An account of the life and work of the influential Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), an iconic figure and a godless demigod who dared to enter the darkest depths of the human mind; through his correspondence and his own voice, and that of his family and friends.
Sigmund Freud: A Jew Without God 2022
Story of Annette Zelman
Story of Annette Zelman
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausion's parents decide to keep young Annette Zelman away from them... and denounce her to the Gestapo. The machine was launched, but it was too late. Annette was deported to Auschwitz on June 22, 1942.
Story of Annette Zelman 2022
Honecker und der Pastor
Honecker und der Pastor
January 1990: After they got deposed and the fall of the wall, Erich and Margot Honecker are virtually homeless. Because the government housing estate in Wandlitz got dissolved. The Modrow government offers no protection to the former dictator couple. Solely the protestant pastor Uwe Holmer and his family, who, like many others, have suffered under the GDR regime, offer the Honeckers refuge. In front of the parsonage, fierce protests take place, so that Pastor Holmer and his wife have to personally obstruct the primed for violence protestors. The half-hearted attempt of the Modrow government to accommodate the Honeckers in a state-own vacation home in March 1990 fails due to massive political protests and violent attacks against the motorcade. Once again, the Holmers have to take the couple in. All in all, for 10 weeks, the staunch socialists and the devout Christians are living under one roof in the parsonage.
Honecker und der Pastor 2022
The Mute Man of Sardinia
Freevee
The Mute Man of Sardinia
Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano Tansu, a deaf-mute since birth, is one of its protagonists. Mistreated and marginalized since his childhood, after his brother Michele was murdered he joined forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, and put at his service his fury and his amazing aim, becoming a highly feared assassin. The State and the Church try to stem the wave of terror and only after more than 70 deaths, the peace of Aggius arrives. At first, Bastiano finds peace in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. Thus, he chooses to confront his own destiny.
The Mute Man of Sardinia 2022
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush
Desperate to help her son, Rabiye Kurnaz, a housewife and loving mother from Bremen, goes to the police, notifies authorities and almost despairs at their impotence and in the end, against all the odds, something truly remarkable happens.
Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush 2022
Hanau: Germany in Winter
Hanau: Germany in Winter
During a racially motivated rampage in Hanau, Hesse, Tobias R. kills nine citizens on February 19, 2020, his mother and then himself. The words of his manifesto indicate severe psychological problems. This psychogram of a mass murderer shows how withdrawn Tobias R. radicalized himself through fake news and delusion for years before it came to a catastrophe.
Hanau: Germany in Winter 2022
The Deserter
The Deserter
A deserting soldier is caught and sentenced to death and his only way to win his freedom back is to convince the judge that he had no other choice. His plead tells of both supernatural entities and an extreme fear of death.
The Deserter 2022
Vera
Vera
Vera has young woman as the main heroine, who is in the jaws of the war spy network in WW2 and also of the patriarchal society in the Balkans with full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly.
Vera 2022
Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf
Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf
Ukraine - 1636. Someone has attacked a battalion of cossacks that were transporting the gold of the Polish king. A cossack - Maksym Osa - tries to find the missing gold, but soon becomes one of the main suspects.
Maksym Osa: The Gold of Werewolf 2022
After Jackie
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After Jackie
After Jackie celebrates the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s integration into Major League Baseball. Robinson opened the door for other African Americans to join the league and this documentary taps into key people and events in the aftermath.
After Jackie 2022
Lola Índigo: La Niña
Lola Índigo: La Niña
Lola Índigo: La Niña 2022
Costa Concordia: Chronicle of a Disaster
Costa Concordia: Chronicle of a Disaster
A reconstruction of the shipwreck of Costa Concordia, occurred on the night of 13 January 2012 in front of the Island of Giglio. A tragic night, full of emotions, that changed the life of those who were on board and the history of tourist navigation.
Costa Concordia: Chronicle of a Disaster 2022
Expédition Pétra : sur la piste des Nabatéens
Expédition Pétra : sur la piste des Nabatéens
Expédition Pétra : sur la piste des Nabatéens 2022
The March on Rome
The March on Rome
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire world in the dark years to come.
The March on Rome 2022
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
The story of Brazil’s first emperor, returning to Europe on board the English ship Warspite. The trip makes Pedro conquer his fears and face his life from a personal point of view. He goes back in time and relives outstanding moments of his earlier life – since his childhood, when in 1808 he arrived coming from Portugal with his family, until he left in the dead of the night, in 1831, running away from Brazil.
Pedro, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea 2022
Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France
Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France
Summer 1953. Françoise Sagan, a young French girl, begins writing Bonjour Tristesse. A few months later she becomes a published author, while France is scandalized by her frank description of female youthful sexuality.
Bonjour Tristesse, Hello Scandal: The Raunchy Book That Shocked France 2022
Washington's Armor: The Journey
Freevee
Washington's Armor: The Journey
Follows the trajectory of George Washington as a boy and a young man as he develops his relationships and ideals.
Washington's Armor: The Journey 2022
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War
HISTORY Vault
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War
This one-hour documentary takes viewers through an evolution of African American involvement over the course of the Civil War through the stories of some of the most crucial and significant figures of the day including Harriet Tubman, Robert Smalls, Frederick Douglass, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment, and the most celebrated regiment of black soldiers during the Civil War, the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
Black Patriots: Heroes of the Civil War 2022
Amanat
Amanat
The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a "great hostage", and the film is an attempt to answer the question: a hostage of big politics or big love. The historical context of the decline of the Nikolaev era, against which the story of love and betrayal, honor and duty, service to the motherland and loyalty to this word unfolds, will become the key to the film.
Amanat 2022
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt
At the beginning of the 20th century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna, Austria. But Hermann Merz, a factory owner and baptised Jew now married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. We follow his family’s story across half a century, passing through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and the Holocaust. A company of 40 actors represent each generation of the family in this epic, but intimate play.
National Theatre Live: Leopoldstadt 2022
The Shadow of the Day
The Shadow of the Day
Italy, after the promulgation of the racial laws (1938). Luciano, a Fascist-abiding restaurateur, nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules inside his business. However, everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, starts to work at his restaurant.
The Shadow of the Day 2022