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King Richard and the Crusaders 1954 In 1191, King Richard the Lionheart, along with several other European monarchs, is in the Holy Land intent on retaking Jerusalem from the Saracens There is much infighting and outright treachery in the European encampment however Two nobles in particular, Sir Gil

Conlanging: The Art of Crafting Tongues (2017) A deep dive into the hidden world of constructed languages and the fascinating people who make them.

Man in Red Bandana 2017 On 911, American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower between the 93rd and 98th floors 1,355 people died at or above the crash site No one survived United Airlines Flight 175 struck the South Tower 17 minutes later between floors 77 to 85 killing 599 people Miraculously,

Donner Party: The Musical (2013) Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

Wondrous Boccaccio 2015 Florence, Thirteenth Century The Black Death is spreading Ten kids three boys and seven girls decide to escape and to seek shelter in the countryside, away from the horrible consequences of the plague In order to kill time, each kid tells a particular story, but no matter how

The Butterflys Dream 2013 Last days of 1941 summer, the era of Obligation, during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil, there are two poets in their early twenties Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in

Jirôchô Fuji (1959) An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area.

11 Flowers (2011) 11-year-old Wang lives with his family in a remote village in China. Life is tough, but they make the most of what little they have. When Wang is selected to lead his school's daily gymnastics, his teacher recommends that he wear a new shirt, which forces his family to make a great

Messenger on a White Horse (2017) In the late 1970s, English journalist Robert Cox risked his life to publish news stories about the shocking human rights crimes of Argentina's military dictators. Decades later, the true ...

The Female Closet 1998 Lesbian photographer Alice Austen is profiled in this documentary

Adesso tocca a me (2017) The story of the death of Paolo Borsellino.

The Patriot Game (1979) A history of the Northern Irish conflict from 1922 until the 1970s.

Surname Viet Given Name Nam 1989 Trinh T Minh ha combines archival footage, text, and interviews to paint portraits of Vietnamese women past and present She explores the fiction of documentary and the truth of subjective experience and all their inherent contradictions

Kate Bornstein is a Queer Pleasant Danger 2014 For decades, performance artist and writer Kate Bornstein has been exploding binaries and deconstructing gender And, her own identity Trans dyke Reluctant polyamorist Sadomasochist Recovering Scientologist Pioneering Gender Outlaw Kate Bornstein Is a Qu

They Are We 2014 Can a family separated by the transatlantic slave trade sing and dance its way back together In Perico, Cuba is an Afro Cuban group that has kept alive songs and dances brought aboard a slave ship by their ancestor, known only as Josefa They preserved them proudly despite slavery, p

The story of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic, from his struggles for Dominican independence to his exile at Venezuela in the final years of his life

Eastern Memories (2018) A journey through Mongolia, Japan, China and South Korea, narrated by the journals of Finnish linguist, diplomat and journeyman G.J. Ramstedt (1873-1950).

One Sings, the Other Doesnt 1977 The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the womens movement in which Agnes Varda was involved Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford They lose contact

Ride Tonight! (1942) In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Surviving the Mount St. Helens Disaster (2020) The remarkable story of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material.

The Attempt Dossier 2010 Tells the story behind an assassination attempt perpetrated in 1897, by a dipsomaniac man, against the President of the Mexican Republic, General Porfirio Diaz

Days of Rage the Rolling Stones Road to Altamont 2020 The decade that began with peace and love was shattered in the late 1960s amidst riots, assassinations and a war that wouldnt end The Rolling Stones became the voice of this new era, which came to a horrific end at the Altamont festival

You Got to Move 1985 You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix Winter Soldier and Veronica Selver Word Is Out that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social change The films centerpiece is the Highlander Folk

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel 1996 The true life story of Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, the son of a clockmaker, who writes The Barber of Seville, works as a secret agent for the French king, runs guns to the American revolutionaries, and along the way finds himself on a collision course with

Kinyarwanda 2011 A young Tutsi woman and a young Hutu man fall in love amidst chaos a soldier struggles to foster a greater good while absent from her family and a priest grapples with his faith in the face of unspeakable horror

The Moulin (2015) Taiwan's earliest modern poetry group-LE MOULIN-emerged in the 1930s, when Taiwan was under Japanese colonial rule. Part of the wave of modernist literature and avant garde thinking sweeping Asia from the West, what impact did these young Taiwanese poets have, and what questions di

The Black Press Soldiers Without Swords 1999 The history of black newspapers in America

Couleurs de lincendie 2022 Paris, 1927 After the death of her father, Madeleine Pericourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin Now she will have her vengeance

Stanley and Livingstone 1939 When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary Stanley finds Livingstone Dr Livingstone, I presume blissf

History Lessons 1972 A shot from a car coursing through Rome in 1972 opens this interpretation of Brechts unfinished experimental novel The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar In a second part set in contemporary Rome, a young researcher discusses the economic and political manipulation that drove

Marakkar Lion of the Arabian Sea 2021 The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

Delphi: Why It Matters (2010) The site of the famous Oracle, Delphi spanned two great c.

Winter in Wartime 2008 In the Nazi occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot

Maralinga Tjarutja 2020 When the dust settles, culture remains The Maralinga people survive aggressive colonisation, including dispossession to enable atomic testing, and through their tenacious spirit and cultural strength fight to retain their country

Descendant 2022 Follows members of Africatown, a small community in Alabama, as they share their personal stories and community history as descendants of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship to illegally transport human beings as cargo from Africa to America The ships existence, a centuries old o

Gosanja: Daedongyeo Jido (2016) At a time when maps weren't readily accessible for the public, 'Gosanja KIM Jeong-ho' (CHA Seoung-won) sets out to walk across the Korean peninsula to make the Daedongyeojido - the Great Map of the East Land, with hopes of providing an accurate and accessible map for

Samurai Pirates 2013 Long ago, Japan was home to several navies The Murakami Navy, said to be the strongest of them all, once defeated even Nobunaga, and refused to join Hideyoshi, choosing to pursue their love of freedom and the sea The man who led these samurai of the sea was the great pirate lord

Francos Settlers 2013 Somewhere on the high plains of La Mancha in Spain resides a village that carries the name of its creator, Francisco Franco The translation for the villages name Llanos del Caudillo is The High Plains of the Caudillo Caudillo is the equivalent to the German Fuehrer Hitler or th

O Roshiya koku suimu tan 1992 This epic story starts out interesting, if rather gently paced, and gradually builds up to involving and terrific The scenery and cinematography range from grim to spectacular, and are always effective The Japanese actors do a sterling job, whilst the Russians are adequ

The Great Hack 2019 The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons

Peace 2010 What is peace What is coexistence And what are the basis for them PEACE is a visual essay like observational documentary, which contemplates these questions by observing the daily lives of people and cats in Okayama city, Japan, where life and death, acceptance and rejection are interming

Roseanne for President! (2015) Comedian Roseanne Barr embarks on the most off-the-rails presidential campaign in U.S. history. 25 years after bringing working-class struggles to the pinnacle of show business, Roseanne is uniquely qualified to fix everything. What begins as a political journey become

Ivan the Terrible, Part I (1944) In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about reclaiming lost Russian territory. In scenes of his coronation, his wedding to Anastasia, his campaign against the Tartars in Kazan, his illness when all think he will die,

Nazi Art Thieves (2017) This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions. It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major ...

The Liberators 2016 Medieval art treasures seized by the Nazis go missing at the end of World War II Were they destroyed in the chaos of the final battles Or were these thousand year old masterpieces stolen by advancing American troops For over forty years, the mystery remained unsolved A true detec

Under the Blood Red Sun 2014 December 7, 1941 On a Sunday morning, TOMIKAZU TOMI NAKAJI and his best friend BILLY DAVIS are playing baseball in a field near their homes in Hawaii when the Japanese launch a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor As Tomi looks up and recognizes the Blood Red Sun emblem on th

The Reformer Zwingli A Lifes Portrait 2019 Zurich in 1519 The young widow Anna Reinhart lives a barren life between fear of the church and worries about the future of her three children, when the arrival of a man in the city causes turmoil The young priest Ulrich Zwingli takes up his new position at

Hawai · Maree oki kaisen (1942) When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot. However, the younger man's mother is ...