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L'Affaire Farewell : l'espion de la vengeance

2009

L'Affaire Farewell : l'espion de la vengeance

2009
7
Stealing Lincoln's Body

2009

Stealing Lincoln's Body

2009
A band of Chicago counterfeiters hatched a plot to steal the President's body from its tomb outside Springfield, Illinois, and hold it for a ransom of $200,000. The story shows how important this beloved President remained to a public so unprepared for his violent death in 1865.
Polanski Unauthorised

2009

Polanski Unauthorised

2009
2.2
An unauthorized chronicle of the life of Roman Polanski.
Empire of Silver

2009

Empire of Silver

2009
5.5
In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking empire. When circumstances dictate that he appoint his unreliable youngest son, family bonds are pushed to the limit as father and son clash in a climate of political turmoil. Winner of the Special Jury Award at the 2009 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Picturing the Presidents

2009

Picturing the Presidents

2009
7
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

2009

I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured: Identity Crisis at the Cape of Good Hope

2009
In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to look at the legacy of Apartheid from the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured. A people who in 1994, embraced the concept of Desmond Tutu's all encompassing 'rainbow nation', but soon thereafter realized that freedom, privilege, economic growth and equality would not include them. A people who for more than 350 years has been disregarded, ignored, belittled, and stripped of anything they can call their own enduring a complex psychological oppression and identity crisis unparalleled in South African history.
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009

The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

2009
4.5
Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth. The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln tracks the converging paths of the president and his killer, then tracks and draws connections between their last journeys, in the forms of Lincoln's funeral train route and Booth's desperate efforts to escape.
The Wash

2009

The Wash

2009
"The Wash is a portrait of the river wash that runs behind the older part of Newhall, California, where Lee and I used to live. We shot the wash on Super8 film and then finished it on video. It is a collaboration between us, describing the ways the wash is used, and the people who use it, ourselves included. It charts the way this land has changed since they began developing Newhall and the surrounding community of Valencia for housing, a development that is expected to bring over 250,000 more people into the area by the year 2015."
A Vida Privada de Salazar

2009

A Vida Privada de Salazar

2009
3.8
Na fase final da vida de Salazar, o estadista recorda a sua vida, as suas opções, as decisões que tomou e as que podia ter tomado. Dar a conhecer o homem por detrás de quem governou Portugal durante 40 anos foi o grande desafio: Salazar, enquanto estadista, é conhecido do grande público. O mito do estadista estóico, convictamente religioso e assexuado tem o contraponto neste filme.
The Polio Crusade

2009

The Polio Crusade

2009
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Polio: An American Story by David Oshinsky, Features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner.
Estampas de Teyo Gracia

2009

Estampas de Teyo Gracia

2009
A compilation of twelve short stories from one of Puerto Rico's most prolific writers, Abelardo Díaz Alfaro. These are: "El figurín", "El ejecutivo", "El muerto encogío", "La historia de la polilla", "Julia Rosa", "El funerario", "La mujer y su poder de dominio", "La locura del Rock & Roll", "Las píldoras juvenilinas", "Una estatua al ñame", "El bautizo de la leche", and "Una suegra lista".
The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

2009

The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce

2009
5.8
Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.
Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

2009

Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh

2009
7.3
The story of Hannah Senesh, a Hungarian poet who was captured by the Nazis, while trying to rescue Jews in WWII.
L'Abolition

2009

L'Abolition

2009
5.7
The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .
Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

2009

Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution

2009
The Haitian Revolution represents the only successful slave revolution in history; it created the world's first Black republic --- traumatizing Southern planters, inspiring U.S. Blacks, and invigorating anti-slavery activist world-wide. At the forefront of the rebellion was General Toussaint Louverture, an ex-slave whose genius was admired by allies and enemies alike.
Prayers for Bobby

2009

Prayers for Bobby

2009
8.1
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much less understood, Bobby finally came out to his family.
A Room and a Half

2009

A Room and a Half

2009
6.3
A semi-fictional account of the life of Russian poet Joseph Brodsky, who was forced into American exile in 1972.
Khureldei: The Great Khan's Envoy

2009

Khureldei: The Great Khan's Envoy

2009
At the moment when Yesukhei the hero marches against the Tatars, captures Temujin-Ugeg, and issues a death warrant, time seems to have stopped when Mother Uulen gives birth to the future great ruler Genghis Khan, and the adventure of the film begins when Yesukhei's friend Khureldey arrives in the present day. Khureldey returns, finds the bear's claw needed to give birth to the great khan safely, and gives it to Mother Uulen, and the great khan is born. Through this event, the cultural differences and social conditions that Khureldey encounters are presented in a comical way in this film.
Notorious

2009

Notorious

2009
6.9
"Notorious" is the story of Christopher Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Wallace transforms himself from Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to pregnant women) to one of the greatest rappers of all time: The Notorious B.I.G. Follow his meteoric rise to fame and his refusal to succumb to expectations - redefining our notion of "The American Dream."
Harishchandra's Factory

2009

Harishchandra's Factory

2009
6.4
In 1913 India's cinema industry is born from Dadasaheb Phalke's efforts to make Raja Harishchandra (1913), India's first feature-length B&W silent film.