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Alexandre Astier - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Alexandre Astier - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
In 1733, Johann Sebastian Bach gives an explosive and unexpected music lesson at the Leipzig church.
Alexandre Astier - Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring 2012
Sarabha
Sarabha
Young revolutionary Kartar Singh Sarabha fights for Indian Independence in the early 1900s.
Sarabha 2023
The Crusades
The Crusades
King Richard the Lionhearted launches a crusade to preserve Christianity in Jerusalem.
The Crusades 1935
Citizen Cohn
Citizen Cohn
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Citizen Cohn 1992
Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral
Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral
The staff of "The Admiral: Roaring Currents", the biggest film of all time at the South-Korean box office, has assembled once again for a documentary. Critically acclaimed director KIM Han-min and his team delves into the actual background, prelude, and preparations of Admiral YI Sun-sin in 1597 and how the admiral’s battle plans have won him his most remarkable victory throughout his career.
Roaring Currents: The Road of the Admiral 2015
Honegger’s “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher” with Alan Gilbert and Marion Cotillard
Honegger’s “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher” with Alan Gilbert and Marion Cotillard
On June 8, 2024, Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra for a performance of Arthur Honegger’s oratorio Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake), conducted by Alan Gilbert, performed at the Berliner Philharmonie in Berlin, Germany and broadcast live on Digital Concert Hall, the online concert hall of the Berliner Philharmonie. In the oratorio, Joan of Arc looks back on her life, her visions, and her successes during a show trial in which she is sentenced to be burned at the stake.
Honegger’s “Jeanne d’Arc au bûcher” with Alan Gilbert and Marion Cotillard 2024
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its completion. Among the 20 victims is Okou, the lover of Yokichi, a member of the theatrical entertainment district controlled by Samon Kamiyama. A body of a bridge carpenter is also found in the debris causing Samon to suspect the construction, which prompts him to launch an investigation. The superintendent, Horitome Tamba rules that the bridge collapse is due to a natural disaster and cleared the wrongdoing of master carpenter Jinbe, who was responsible for building the bridge. Yotaro, who is filled with grief and anger surrenders his jitte and joins forces with his former gambling buddies Juzaburo and Onami to abduct Tamb’s Daughter O-Sono to extract revenge…
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3 1983
Zhukovsky
Zhukovsky
A biographical film about the fate of the great Russian mechanic and creator of aerodynamics Nikolai Egorovich Zhukovsky.
Zhukovsky 1950
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
A Hill in Korea
A Hill in Korea
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
A Hill in Korea 1956
Westward Ho
Paramount+
Westward Ho
Ballard's trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John's parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a vigilante posse, The Singing Riders, who all ride white horses, dress alike, and ride the trails singing and rounding up outlaw gangs. Meanwhile, John is ever on the lookout for the gang that murdered his parents As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon When Ballard and his men attack the Wyatt wagon train, they kill all except two young brothers. Twelve years later one brother John has organized a vigilante group. The other brother Jim is now part of Ballard's gang and the two are destined to meet again
Westward Ho 1935
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
L'Oriana
L'Oriana
The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.
L'Oriana 2015
Suleiman the Conqueror
Suleiman the Conqueror
Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Suleiman the Conqueror 1963
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 2015
Volodka's Life
Volodka's Life
Volodka's Life 1984
Greyhound Attack: Stormbirds
Greyhound Attack: Stormbirds
In the early days of WWII, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first command of a U.S. destroyer, crosses the treacherous North Atlantic while hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.
Greyhound Attack: Stormbirds 2019
A Matter of Valour
A Matter of Valour
Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a widescreen version with all natural colors and a new look. Written by Masato Ide and directed by Tatsuo Osone. This is a magnificent scroll of images that depicts on a grand scale the triumph of the Genroku era that shook the citizens of Edo, the peaceful capital of Japan. The top stars of the film, shinpa, shingeki, and kabuki worlds at the time of production were lavishly cast, and a huge budget was invested to create a large set for this highly acclaimed and moving epic.
A Matter of Valour 1957
Eve Giden Yol 1914
Eve Giden Yol 1914
Eve Giden Yol 1914 2006
The Making of the President 1960
The Making of the President 1960
The story of the 1960 US Presidential election
The Making of the President 1960 1963
Guerra Civil
Guerra Civil
Guerra Civil 2024
Sonata
Prime Video
Sonata
Diagnosed as an autistic child, Grzegorz lives in his own, hermetic world not being able to connect with others. When he is a teenager, it turns out that the cause of Grzegorz’s isolation is not autism but a deep hearing impairment, underneath which a great musical talent has been hidden for years.
Sonata 2021
Brothers
Brothers
Based on the true story of brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin.
Brothers 2023
Screwball
Netflix
Screwball
Investigates the MLB's infamous doping scandal involving a nefarious clinician and his most famous client: the New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez.
Screwball 2019
Born a King
Born a King
A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abd Al-Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country.
Born a King 2019
Les Fantômes du Tonkin
Les Fantômes du Tonkin
Les Fantômes du Tonkin 2024
The Sun
The Sun
Biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.
The Sun 2005
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin
Russian monk Grigori Rasputin rises to power, which corrupts him along the way. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.
Agony: The Life and Death of Rasputin 1981
Titanic's Final Mystery
Paramount+
Titanic's Final Mystery
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs alike have floated theories for why it occurred and who was to blame for the extraordinary loss of life, but no one answer could fully explain what happened. Until now. To mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous disaster, Smithsonian Channel will premiere Titanic's Final Mystery. The two-hour special investigates a century of theories and uncovers astonishing new forensic evidence that proves the most likely theory for the case.
Titanic's Final Mystery 2012
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
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
Prime Video
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy 2019
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer
Born into a Bavarian bourgeois family, Heinrich Himmler became the driving force behind the indescribable crimes that made the Nazi regime so unique in modern history.
Heinrich Himmler: Portrait of a Mass Murderer 2008
Man of Will
Man of Will
Young Kim Chang-Soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, Kim Chang-Soo sees how Koreans are persecuted and grows into a fighter for Korean independence.
Man of Will 2017
Roaring Across the Horizon
Roaring Across the Horizon
General Feng Shi and Dr. Lu Guangda return from America to lead a team of scientists and soldiers to research and develop China's own atomic bomb.
Roaring Across the Horizon 1999
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists! 2021
The Retrieval
Prime Video
The Retrieval
On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
The Retrieval 2014
Anchieta, José do Brasil
Anchieta, José do Brasil
Life and death of the jesuit who fought for the peaceful relationship between colonists and the indigenous peoples of Brazil.
Anchieta, José do Brasil 1977
11 Flowers
11 Flowers
A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugitive and struggles to understand the adult world.
11 Flowers 2012
The Five Days
The Five Days
In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a cannonball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited to have a chance to see the change taking place in person, Cainazzo hits a bumpy road when one of his former fellow prisoners yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot, but is in fact a traitor!
The Five Days 1973
Minin and Pozharsky
Minin and Pozharsky
Minin and Pozharsky 1939