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Laval, le collaborateur

2021

Laval, le collaborateur

2021
8
Several times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of Marshal Pétain's strongmen, a loyal collaborator for the Germans. Rounding-up Jews, forced labour, tracking the French resistance..., he served Hitler faithfully to the end. When France was liberated, he was tried, condemned, shot.
Secrets of Stonehenge

2010

Secrets of Stonehenge

2010
8
Dated to the late Stone Age, Stonehenge may be the best-known and most mysterious relic of prehistory. Every year, a million visitors are drawn to England to gaze upon the famous circle of stones, but the monument's meaning has continued to elude us. Now investigations inside and around Stonehenge have kicked off a dramatic new era of discovery and debate over who built Stonehenge and for what purpose. How did prehistoric people quarry, transport, sculpt, and erect these giant stones? Granted exclusive access to the dig site at Bluestonehenge, a prehistoric stone-circle monument recently discovered about a mile from Stonehenge, NOVA cameras join a new generation of researchers finding important clues to this enduring mystery.
Emily

2022

Emily

2022
6.9
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini

2014

Margherita, The Woman Who Invented Mussolini

2014
Margherita Sarfatti, Mussolini's lover and advisor, was a woman who exerted a great influence on the Duce and on Italian cultural life. Through archival documents, autobiographical texts and love letters, the documentary paints a portrait of the woman who helped create the myth of the Duce.
This Ain't California

2012

This Ain't California

2012
6.5
A retrospective look at the youth cultures born in the German Democratic Republic. A celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary trip into the world of skate, a tale on three heroes and their boards, from their childhood in the seventies, through their teenage rebellion in the eighties and the summer of 1989, when their life changed forever, to 2011.
The Land of the Ancestors

1979

The Land of the Ancestors

1979
Second World War. The fascists attack Svaneti. Old Betkili, whose son was killed in the war, lives far from the village. The old man comes across a Soviet soldier, Lasha, and shelters him in the mountains, but soon finds the soldier’s behavior suspicious.
The Body of Emmett Till

2016

The Body of Emmett Till

2016
Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. This short documentary was commissioned by "Time" magazine for their series "100 Photos" about the most influential photographs of all time.
Panduranga Mahatyam

1957

Panduranga Mahatyam

1957
1
Panduranga Mahatyam is a 1957 Telugu film directed by Kamalakara Kameswara Rao and starring N. T. Rama Rao playing the role of Pundarika. The Lyrics written by Samudrala Ramanujacharya are excellent. The songs of Ghantasala Venkateswara Rao particularly Jaya Krishna Mukunda Murari and Amma Ani Pilichina are ever remembered as the best film songs expresses the human feelings of devotion and sorrow.
Mahpeyker: Kösem Sultan

2010

Mahpeyker: Kösem Sultan

2010
4.9
Casey Stengel

1981

Casey Stengel

1981
Charles Durning appears as the legendary baseball manager Charles Dillon "Casey" Stengel in this one-man show presented before a live studio audience.
Bert & Dickie

2012

Bert & Dickie

2012
6.2
Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it - not only by pushing physical and emotional limits, but also by overcoming their vast professional and personal differences.
Each of Us

0000

Each of Us

0000
Inside the Ravensbrück concentration camp, one hundred thousand women from forty-two different nations live together - the camp brings out the best and the worst in each of them. This is the story of four of these women: Gertrud, Leah, Aga and Mar.
Qiu Jin

1983

Qiu Jin

1983
7
Biopic of Qiu Jin (1877-1907), early Chinese womens’ liberationist and martyred revolutionary.
Titanic: The Aftermath

2012

Titanic: The Aftermath

2012
6
Explores what happened after the Titanic sank: the lives the disaster affected and the changes it brought to sea travel.
Legend of Carpathians

2018

Legend of Carpathians

2018
5.5
As Carpathian legend has it, Oleksa Dovbush was a heroic outlaw with excellent fighting skills and a gift to predict the future. He was left an orphan as a small boy after a local lord murdered Oleksa's mother. After spending his childhood in exile in the mountains, he returned as a grown man to avenge his mother's death. Oleksa gathered followers to begin a crusade against the lord, but destiny made other plans for him.
Cleopatra

1943

Cleopatra

1943
A historic drama that chronicles the story of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, and Mark Antony, the Roman commander who fell in love with her, and the war that Octavian led to eliminate them, as the fate of the three intertwines in this conflict.
Cinema Girl

1930

Cinema Girl

1930
This film presented a fictionalized biography of its maker. One of the major characters is a producer modeled on Kohinoor's proprietor, D.N. Sampat, including a reference to the real life occasion when the studio, on the verge of bankruptcy, survived only because its employees donated money and gold ornaments to keep it afloat. Another character referred to a financier at the Imperial Studio. The plot also touched on the way a producer can curtail the freedom of a director.
Reformation: Europe's Holy War

2017

Reformation: Europe's Holy War

2017
8
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the face of modern Europe, unleashing fundamentalism, terror and religious violence.
Story of Sim-chung

1937

Story of Sim-chung

1937
A film adaptation of a classic novel in which a filial daughter, Shim Cheong-i, donated 300 rice cakes to open the eyes of her blind father.
Cavewoman

2022

Cavewoman

2022
6
During the Nazi invasion of Greece, a female resistance fighter embarks on a revenge operation to assassinate her own mother, in the name of God. Inspired by Euripides’s Electra.