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HD 149
Director: W.S. Van Dyke, Julien Duvivier
Stars: Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore
The tragic life of Marie Antoinette who became queen of France in her late...
HD 97
Director: George Butler
Stars: Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow
A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914-1916 featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members plus archived audio...
HD 20
Director: Andrew Legge
Stars: Serena Brabazon, Jeremy Irons, Kevin Brownlow
A documentary about the Irish scientist Charlotte Keppel who in the 1930s invented a machine that could see into the...
HD 124
Director: Andrey Kravchuk
Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Sergey Bezrukov
The story of admiral Aleksandr Kolchak who remained faithful to his oath to the Russian Emperor and fought against the Bolshevik rule after the 1917 October...
HD N/A
Director: N/A
Stars: Alex Lanipekun, Kasia Smutniak, Matthew McNulty
The life and rise of Livia Drusilla the powerful wife of the Roman emperor Augustus...
HD 175
Director: Bruno Nuytten
Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while she would like to get out of his...
HD 157
Director: Nikita Mikhalkov
Stars: Nikita Mikhalkov, Nadezhda Mikhalkova, Anna Mikhalkova
A bitter story of the time of World War II which depicts that for the victims of Stalins repression peaceful life was sometimes even worse than burdens of battlefields against...
HD 330
Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
A film about the French generals youth and early military...
HD 31S
Director: N/A
Stars: Naomi Ackie, Gary Beadle, Khali Best
Small Axe is based on the real-life experiences of Londons West Indian community between 1969 and...
HD 105
Director: Kazuo Mori
Stars: Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizô Ichikawa, Shintarô Katsu
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...
HD 125
Director: Vicente Aranda
Stars: Ana Belén, Victoria Abril, Ariadna Gil
At the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War the nun Maria is forced to flee her convent. She takes refuge in a brothel until it is liberated by a womans anarchist group. Maria joins the group and eventually goes to the front. The...
HD 107
Director: Percy Adlon
Stars: Eva Mattes, Jürgen Arndt, Norbert Wartha
In 1914 with men gone to war Marcel Proust hired Céleste Albaret as his attendant. More than eight years later she was at his side when he died. During this entire time she only entered his room when he rang for her sleeping...
HD 90
Director: Manuel von Stürler
Stars: Carole Noblanc, Jean-Paul Peguiron, Pascal Éguisier
A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep accompanied by 3 donkeys 4 dogs and led by two shepherds Pascal and...
HD 142
Director: Martin Scorsese
Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith
In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylans 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for...
HD 60
Director: N/A
Stars: Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn, Tom Pinfold
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a...
HD 112
Director: Thomas Clay
Stars: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox
Fanny lives in an English farmhouse in 1657 when militant Puritans rule. Two fugitives with radical new ideas arrive. When the sheriff arrives things deteriorate badly prompting Fanny to make drastic decisions about her...
HD 84
Director: Anders Østergaard
Stars: George W. Bush, Ko Muang, Aung San Suu Kyi
Using smuggled footage this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of...
HD 119
Director: Cho Jung-Rae
Stars: Kim Ha-Yeon, Dong-wan Kim, Min-Joon Kim
Ten years of King Yeongjos reign Hak-gyu a talented street singer travels all over Joseon in search for his kidnapped wife. By his singing one by one people start following to his journey filled in sorrow and...
HD N/A
Director: Richard Reisz
Stars: N/A
This two hour special explore the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bronze Age from the Hittites to the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians revealing the tumultuous events that brought an...
HD 92
Director: Benjamin Cantu
Stars: N/A
A glittery nightclub in 1920s Berlin becomes a haven for the queer community in this documentary exploring the freedoms lost amid Hitlers rise to...
HD 106
Director: Harun Farocki, Andrei Ujica
Stars: Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, Nicolae Ceausescu
This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romanias 1989 revolution and the fall of dictator Nicolae...
HD 76
Director: Toshio Gotô
Stars: Tetsuya Okazaki, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Keiko Takeshita
Over 6000 people die when the 1995 Kobe earthquake hits Japan. In the aftermath of the tragedy a young student turns his attention outward to deal with death console a friend and confront reality. Here is the story of one...
HD 107
Director: Pavel Chukhray
Stars: Rinal Mukhametov, Yuliya Peresild, Yelisey Nikandrov
He miraculously escaped death to return to the house where lives the love of his life. But the hope of happiness turns into a terrible discovery. His beloved is the daughter of his...
HD 100
Director: Göran Olsson
Stars: Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, Bobby Seale
Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by a contemporary Swedish...
HD 78
Director: Doug Hawes-Davis
Stars: N/A
FACING THE STORM is the epic account of our tempestuous relationship with the iconic symbol of wild America. It explores the visionary quest to protect and restore bison and details the...
HD 60
Director: Takashi Watanabe
Stars: Yuri Amano, Lowell Bartholomee, Jose Brown, Charles C. Campbell
The year is 1580. Using an army of soldiers equipped with sophisticated weaponry Nobunaga Oda is on the verge of ruling Japan with an iron fist. One of his enforcers is Ginnai Doma - a...
HD 91
Director: Yimou Zhang
Stars: Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits her drunkard lover and the invading Japanese...
HD 84
Director: Jean-Michel Carré
Stars: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Pranab Mukherjee
Since Russia was brought to its knees in the 1990s by crippling debt and the grip of the oligarchs following the collapse of the Soviet Union Vladimir Putin has made it his mission to return superpower status to Russia. While...
HD 122
Director: Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Erik Stocklassa, Bror Berger, Richard Lund
In 16th century Sweden the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicars family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen...
HD 115
Director: Oliver Dommenget
Stars: Ken Duken, Torben Liebrecht, Jesse Albert
In the 1920s the two brothers Adolf and Rudolf Dassler start manufacturing sport shoes. Adolf is a talented craftsman and his dream is that one day all the best sportsmen in the world will wear his shoes. Rudolf on the other hand...
