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The Bodies of Pompeii With Bettany Hughes

2021

The Bodies of Pompeii With Bettany Hughes

2021
Bettany Hughes draws on her investigative skills and the latest technology to offer a new insight into the lives and deaths of the victims of one of the worst natural disasters in history. As well as travelling to Pompeii and Herculaneum, she sets up her own incident room, complete with DNA tests, to learn more about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 72AD.
Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel

2021

Corsini Sings Blomberg & Maciel

2021
6.2
On 9 July – Argentina’s Independence Day – Llinás sets off in Buenos Aires with his regular cameraman Agustín Mendilaharzu to re-record ‘Corsini interpreta a Blomberg y Maciel’, an album made in 1929 by lyricist Hector Pedro Blomberg and composer Enrique Maciel, as an ode to Juan Manuel de Rosas, leader of the Argentine Confederation.
Kalemegdan Under the German Shovel

2021

Kalemegdan Under the German Shovel

2021
It is little known that in addition to World War II, which began in 1941 (in Yugoslavia), the another war was fought in Donji Kalemegdan that year - the one for the cultural heritage and heritage of the fortress, the symbol of Belgrade. Ahnenerbe, an organization famous for the misuse of archaeological and pseudoarchaeological research, wanted to put the history of the Belgrade fortress for the purpose of Nazi propaganda by excavating it on Kalemegdan.
Trümmermädchen - Die Geschichte der Charlotte Schumann

2021

Trümmermädchen - Die Geschichte der Charlotte Schumann

2021
9
Germany, 1946. Hunger, rubble, returning soldiers. Charlotte is pregnant, but her beloved returnee does not want her or his child. In order to win him over and escape the impending shame, she enrolls in the "missing course" of actress Gloria Deven, who was an up-and-coming film star under Fascism and is now banned from working. But Gloria, with her merciless lessons, is not interested in reviving the coquetry of girls that became superfluous in the war. Instead, she awakens in Lotte a longing for something too long denied her: Freedom.
Chasing the Line

2021

Chasing the Line

2021
7.2
Barely 22, Franz Klammer finds himself at the “eye of the storm” when he shows up for the men’s downhill competition at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Since the previous season the charismatic newcomer has won virtually every race. The pressure from the media and the public and the hopes of an entire nation are off the scales. His sponsor is pushing him to switch equipment right before the competition, the weather is getting steadily worse, and his toughest rivals know that Franz has to do better than just a flawless run. Franz senses that he has to find his own path and that only the love of his life can give him the strength to do that. This is the most important race of his life in which he skis a line that nobody even thought was possible and which will make him to this day a legend in the sport of downhill skiing.
The Shadow in My Eye

2021

The Shadow in My Eye

2021
7.8
On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were killed, 86 of whom were children.
Martyrs of Striving

2021

Martyrs of Striving

2021
When Death wants to bring the plague to Württemberg in 1349, he has not reckoned with the two guard soldiers Volckel and Utz, who engage him in a heated argument about plague ordinances and entry regulations.
The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

2021

The Cars We Drove into Capitalism

2021
7
A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.
Develop Viriyaporn Who Dared in 3 Worlds

2021

Develop Viriyaporn Who Dared in 3 Worlds

2021
"Viriyaporn Boonprasert" is the name of a filmmaker who has been making social satire films since 2012, and no one knows who she is until now. But Viriyaporn's films reflect the condition of Thai society and Thai politics in the past to the present.
Berlanga!!

2021

Berlanga!!

2021
8
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
Sharedol

2021

Sharedol

2021
Chauve-souris: alliée ou ennemie?

2021

Chauve-souris: alliée ou ennemie?

2021
Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan

2021

Lapulapu, Ang Datu ng Mactan

2021
This play unpacks many events chronicling the Victory at Mactan in 1521.
Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice

2021

Carceller, the Man Who Died Twice

2021
7.5
The life story of Vicente Miguel Carceller (1890-1940), a Spanish editor committed to freedom who, through his weekly magazine La Traca, connected with the common people while maintaining a dangerous pulse with the powerful.
More than just families

2021

More than just families

2021
8.6
A film made in honor of the families of this world with great phrases from great people.
Irving Undead

2021

Irving Undead

2021
2
Henry Irving is dead. Join Irving’s restless spirit as he tells the story of how he transformed himself from a stuttering, spindly country boy into the most formidable actor of the nineteenth century. It is a story of a man who petrified London with his Gothic portrayals of mad monarchs, guilt-stricken murderers and the devil himself. A story of a man who could never escape his monsters – even in death. A filmed version of the live one-man stage play by James Swanton.
The Mauthausen Resistance

2021

The Mauthausen Resistance

2021
7.8
During World War II, the photographer Francisco Boix and other Spanish Republican prisoners of the Mauthausen concentration camp, where 120,000 people died, managed not only to survive their indescribable experience, but also, after the war, to reveal to the world what really happened in that hell, saving from destruction thousands of official photographs taken by the SS.
A Tour of the Louvre

2021

A Tour of the Louvre

2021
8
The tumultuous history of the Louvre Museum, founded in 1793, and its fabulous art collections, an immortal testimony to the destiny of France and all of Europe.
March: the Southern South

2021

March: the Southern South

2021
6
The elderly photographer, Chie, told a childhood story about her sister Iòng-Hâ and the sister's admiration Kong-Suī, in a time when Taiwan's cultural and linguistic identity have undergone dramatic changes after the Pacific war.
The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason

2021

The Lancaster Bomber at 80 with David Jason

2021
8
The incredible story of one of history's most iconic aircrafts - the Lancaster bomber - and its instrumental role in the defeat of Nazi Germany