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A Dream of Red Mansions

1989

A Dream of Red Mansions

1989
A Chinese serial feature film, released in 6 parts (8 episodes) between 1988 and 1989. The film adapts the major events and incidents of the novel of the same name, depicting the fate of Jia family.
Notches For Memory

1973

Notches For Memory

1973
A difficult historical period in the life of the Moldovan people, who fought in the 1930s against the yoke of royal Romania and for reunification with the Soviet Union.
Kaloyan

1963

Kaloyan

1963
8.5
1197. King Kaloyan ascends the throne in hard times for Bulgaria. The country is still recovering from a century of Byzantine subjugation. He is forced to carry out a very flexible foreign policy in order to strength his positions. Pope Innocent III recognizes him as Emperor (Tsar), but a little later the fourth Crusade crosses the country under Emperor Baldwin. A new conflict is coming. Tsar Kaloyan wages the decisive battle at Adrianople and wins.
Johnny Mad Dog

2008

Johnny Mad Dog

2008
6.1
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unnamed African country.
Into The Light

1968

Into The Light

1968
The action takes place in the Ukrainian provinces of Austria-Hungary at the end of the 19th century.
Wild

2026

Wild

2026
The story of WILD transports viewers to a world where myth intertwines with history – the mysterious, majestic 17th-century Carpathians. At the center of the story is a half-wild, mute warrior – raised by both animals and mountain people. His fate intertwines with the brutal mission of an imperial inquisitor who, under the pretext of recovering stolen papal insignia, unleashes a bloody revenge. Against the backdrop of monumental mountains, a duel between two worlds unfolds – nature and civilization, freedom and fanaticism, instinct and power.
Razia Sultan

1983

Razia Sultan

1983
6.4
The film is based on the life of Razia Sultan (1205–1240), the only female Sultan of Delhi (1236–1240) and her speculated love affair with the Abyssinian slave, Jamal-ud-Din Yakut.
A People on the March

1963

A People on the March

1963
6.5
In 1962, René Vautier, together with some Algerian friends, organised the audio-visual formation centre Ben Aknoun to encourage a "dialogue in images" between the two factions. Together with his students he made a film that shows the history of the Algerian War and of the ALN (National Liberation Army), and life during the reconstruction.
1871

1990

1871

1990
4.5
A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.
Duels of History

2024

Duels of History

2024
From Lucrezia Borgia to Malinche to Marie Curie: Women’s contributions have often been downplayed or misrepresented in the history books. Duels of History (re)tells their stories.
Akelarre

1984

Akelarre

1984
5.4
A small village in Navarre, Spain, XVII century. Garazi's grandmother is burned at the stake when accussed of being a witch and convicted by an inquisitor, something that brings Garazi under suspicion and eventually into prison, where she is atrociously tortured and humiliated.
The Great Samoyed

1982

The Great Samoyed

1982
The eventful history of Tyko Vylka, the first Nenets artist, cartographer, polar explorer, participant in World War II, chairman of the Novaya Zemlya Island Council.
Anniversary of the Revolution

1918

Anniversary of the Revolution

1918
6.7
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to the great socialist October Revolution and the final triumph.
The Viking War

2019

The Viking War

2019
5
Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.
Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

1988

Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

1988
3.5
In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted town, even amid the deprivations of wartime. On the seventh of August, an American bomber changes their lives forever. Broadcast on the 43rd anniversary of Hiroshima in memory of "the girls who lost their lives to the atom bomb." (Source: Anime Encyclopedia)
Full River Red

2023

Full River Red

2023
6
During China's Song Dynasty, a mysterious murder occurs at Chancellor Quin Hui's palace after meeting delegates from the neighboring Jin Dynasty. The members become embroiled not just in a murder mystery, but a larger conspiracy concerning the fate of the empire.
The Train Robbers

1995

The Train Robbers

1995
4
Special agent Xiang Cheng and his men are sent to Russia toinvestigate a Chinese crime ring.
The Professor and the Madman

2019

The Professor and the Madman

2019
7.1
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
The Baby of Mâcon

1993

The Baby of Mâcon

1993
6.9
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

1948

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

1948
6
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.