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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

Two Catalonias 2018 A documentary that tackles the ideological conflicts surrounding the December 21 election in the country, to the push for sovereignty and subsequent parliamentary declaration of independence and the aftermath

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

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

Shikonmado Dai tatsumaki 1964 After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety

Keyboard Fantasies 2019 As a sci fi obsessed woman living in near isolation, Beverly Glenn Copeland wrote and self released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville, Ontario back in 1986 Recorded in an Atari powered home studio, the cassette featured seven tracks of a curious folk electronica hybrid, a soun

Freedom Riders 2010 This is the story of more than four hundred Americans who participated in a bold and dangerous experiment designed to awaken the conscience of a complacent nation These self proclaimed, Freedom Riders challenged the mores of a racially segregated society by performing a disarming

The Eugenics Crusade 2018 Tracing the movement to breed a better American race, which turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control that led to forced sterilization campaigns

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

Kid 90 2021 An intimate look at young Hollywood starlets growing up in the 1990s, using hundreds of hours of footage captured by Soleil Moon Frye

Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities (2017) A haven for Black intellectuals, artists and revolutionaries-and path of promise toward the American dream-Black colleges and universities have educated the architects of freedom movements and cultivated leaders in every fi

Jingle Bell Rocks 2013 An exclusive backstage pass into a fascinating underground world of alternative Christmas music Starring an eclectic cast of characters The Flaming Lips, Run DMC, John Waters plus two dozen amazing and original songs, JINGLE BELL ROCKS is a cinematic sleigh ride into the stran

Manu 2018 The Belgian filmmaker Manu Bonmariage, known as the spiritual father of the Striptease show, now has Alzheimers at 76 Although his memory plays tricks on him, his daughter Emmanuelle goes back in time to portray a direct cinema filmmaker who was always close to the characters he so loved t

Snowy Road 2015 Follows two Korean girls who unwillingly get taken from their homes during the Japanese occupation of Korea

D C Sniper 23 Days of Fear 2003 John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo went on a serial killing spree in October 2002 in Virginia, Washington, D C , and Maryland

The Fourth World 2011 One out of every six human beings lives in a very hidden world the world of slums Filmed on five continents, The Fourth World takes viewers deep inside this hidden world, a world the United Nations says could triple in the next 30 years Getting past the statistics is tough One

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

Battle of the Japan Sea 1969 Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo Japanese War An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with resul

Mis Ston 1958 Macedonia on the turn of the century is enslaved by decaying Ottoman Empire Freedom fighters, in order to raise money for their cause, kidnap American lady who works in Protestant mission

Electoral Dysfunction (2012) 'Electoral Dysfunction' uses irreverent humor to illuminate how voting works - and doesn't work - in America. Hosted by Mo Rocca (a Correspondent for CBS News, a panelist on NPR's 'Wait, Wait ... Don't Tell Me!' and a former Correspondent for 'The Daily Show'), the film

Az aranyember 1962 Michael Timar, captain of the St Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Timar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom

Club Frontera (2016) Club Frontera is a riveting documentary about the Club Tijuana Xoloitzcuintles (Xolos) professional Mexican soccer team and their positive impact on the city of Tijuana, Mexico. The compelling film follows players, fans, political figures, sports personalities, and enthusiasts f

Septet The Story of Hong Kong 2020 Seven of Hong Kongs leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s

Decade of Fire 2019 As a kid in the South Bronx in the 1970s, Vivian Vazquez watched her tight knit community become a burned out ruin as an epidemic of fires raged through her Black and Puerto Rican neighborhood As Vivian seeks to understand the lasting effects of this tragedy on her family and com

Rebellion in Patagonia 1974 In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored

Adieu Bonaparte 1985 A story during the French Occupation of Egypt 1797 1803, depicting the conflict between tradintion and modernization in the context of fighting the French invadors

Secret Nation 1992 A graduate history student returns to her native Newfoundland, searching for proof of a conspiracy surrounding the referendum that saw Newfoundland join Canada

The Heineken Kidnapping 2011 Rems Amsterdam family lives a nightmare since his father got an alcohol abuse problem related to working for multinational Heinekens brewery distribution and was fired before it became terminal Rem Reinout Scholten van Aschat learns that his bully work colleague Cor Gijs

Loving Vincent The Impossible Dream 2019 The journey of two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream creating the worlds first fully painted feature film

The Motion Picture Camera (1979) The history and development of motion picture machinery is lovingly and authoritatively presented and narrated by ASC cinematographer and film preservationist, Karl Malkames, using actual early motion picture cameras from 'The Malkames Collection'.

The Decent One 2014 Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the The Decent One exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless Architect of the Final Solution

All in My Power 2022 On March 1st, 2020, New York recorded its first COVID 19 case Just nine weeks later, 12 healthcare professionals were asked to share their experiences fighting a new kind of war no one could have prepared them for The country salutes them as heroes, but theyre also human Their p

Hibiscus Town 1987 Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution

Belizaire the Cajun 1986 A Cajun man attempts to save his town

The Automat 2021 Documentary centers on the vending machine popularized in the 20th century that offered fresh cooked meals in a commissary style eatery

Sharpes Waterloo 1997 Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, Sharpes Waterloo brings maverick British officer Lt Col Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815 Sharpe is assigned to the Prince of Oranges staff, and is rejoined with Sgt Harper retired and riflemen Hagman an

Perm36. Reflexion (2016) 3 former prisoners speak of their time in Perm-36 gulag, now a museum. "Pilorama" reflects Russian society haunted by post-Soviet phantom pains. Red-brown activists denounce the existence of Perm-36, attracting support. Dark clouds gather.

Agamenon The Film 2012 The trajectory of the clumsy reporter Agamenon Mendes Pereira, always present in key events of history, his biggest scoops and his eternal love for Isaura, who survives his unexpected travels around the world, in search of news and fame

Big Jim McLain 1952 U S House Un American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter attempt to break up a ring of Communist Party troublemakers in Hawaii ignoring somewhat, as do their superiors in the Congress, that membership in the Communist Party was, at the time, legal in the

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Sembene 2015 Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon

The Five Days 1973 In the chaos of the final days of the Italian revolution a thief and a baker hook up and travel the streets of Milan witnessing the historic events, which quickly take a dark turn

Woodstock 3 Days That Changed Everything 2019 a look at the famous music festival

911 The Heartland Tapes 2013 Across America, the morning of September 11, 2001 began routinely, with news and radio broadcasts sharing local human interest stories and traffic reports But by 9 a m , the days narrative had taken a tragic turn Most of us are

Song for a Raggy Boy 2003 In 1939 William Franklin, an anti Franco veteran of the bloody Spanish Civil War, arrives as first ever lay teacher in a strict Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School for wayward boys He soon learns the academic challenge is formidable, many boys being still illiterate,

Jesus 1999 Jesus dreams of a medieval battle in the name of Jesus Christ and of a dying world war soldier who, in desperation, calls out the name Jesus Jesus awakes, distraught What is the meaning of this nightmare Why are these strangers using his name Jesus is a simple carpenter, like his father J

Love Destiny The Movie 2022 Destined couple, Bhop and Gaysorn, have their love and beliefs challenged in the midst of savage threats during the expansion of colonial rule

Go hime 1992 Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan