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In the Forests Near Kovel

1984

In the Forests Near Kovel

1984
Admiral Nakhimov

1947

Admiral Nakhimov

1947
4.2
A biography of a famous Russian Admiral Pavel Stepanovich Nakhimov.
Lost Farmland

1976

Lost Farmland

1976
The film covers the events in Lithuania in 1940-1945 and tells about the life of the Lithuanian intelligentsia. The characters are placed in crisis situations, when the problem of choosing a path, the problem of social and historical self-determination of the fate of the people and each person inevitably arises.
Fatteshikast

2019

Fatteshikast

2019
7.3
The film depicts India's first historical surgical strike from the period of Shivaji.
Vino el remolino y nos alevantó

1950

Vino el remolino y nos alevantó

1950
6
Three generations of a stable, middle-class family in the capitol are scattered to the four winds by blowback from the Mexican Revolution.
Zapata en Chinameca

1987

Zapata en Chinameca

1987
5.8
Urbino Martínez, on his deathbed, regrets his wrongdoing after betraying Emiliano Zapata.
The Last 30 Years

2010

The Last 30 Years

2010
1
It is the love story of Resa and Oskar who meet in the 1970s in the midst if the leftist studen movements. For Resa it is love on first sight when she encounters the handsome and self-confident activist Oskar and is willing to do anything to get his attention. The relationship she dreams of finally comes true, but quickly problems arise. One day Oskar disappears without a trace from her life completely. Years later both meet again - now more mature and with surprising careers...
Aktivistit

1939

Aktivistit

1939
4
In 1916, Finland is still a part of Russian Empire. Eugen Schauman murders the governor of Finland, and his fellow activists take on smaller tasks in the fight for freedom.
Secrets Shared with a Stranger

1996

Secrets Shared with a Stranger

1996
1
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail

1999

Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail

1999
7.3
The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
Behind the Burly Q

2010

Behind the Burly Q

2010
5.2
Dive into more than a century of decadence with this tantalizing look at the evolution of burlesque. Cabaret star Leslie Zemeckis traces the art form from vaudeville-style variety show through its extinction and contemporary rebirth. Vintage photos, film clips and ads illustrate burlesque's resilient history and how the public's sexual appetite kept it alive amid moral and legal ado.
Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française

2019

Kourou et l'épopée spatiale française

2019
8
The Forbidden Street

1949

The Forbidden Street

1949
6.7
In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarrels. During one such fight, Henry slips down a flight of stairs and dies. A neighbor, Mrs. Mounsey, is the only witness, and she blackmails the young widow by threatening to tell the cops that Adelaide killed her husband. Luckily, lawyer Gilbert swoops in to help Adelaide.
The Nine Muses

2010

The Nine Muses

2010
5.6
Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the story of immigrant experience coming into the UK from 1960 onwards.
Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

2010

Hidalgo: la historia jamás contada

2010
4.3
Hidalgo, en su celda del Hospital Militar de Chihuahua, recuerda algunos pasajes de su vida, principalmente su estancia como párroco en San Felipe Torres Mochas; donde se relacionó con las clases bajas y nació la idea emancipadora, tradujo y montó al Tartufo de Molière, se enamoró de Josefa Quintana y se alejó por algún tiempo de la vida eclesiástica.
Pechorin

2011

Pechorin

2011
Based on the Russian classic novel. While maintaining all the main plot-lines of the novel, it follows the events not as they happen but as they are reflected in the mind of the dying hero. Thus make a chain of recollections about the life he had lived through, now seen as a series of irrevocable mistakes and interpreted anew: it is either reconsideration or repentance. Recollections make main hero torment himself over his own past pretenses that seem ridicules now agonize and despair over his perfect indifference to everything except himself, see the horrible aspect of killing his friend, a greenhorn and a show-off. The final action of an intelligent and outstanding man is judging oneself without mercy.
Our Brower - A Dining Hall Autopsy

2024

Our Brower - A Dining Hall Autopsy

2024
Brower Commons, a dining hall at Rutgers University, was a fixture of my freshman year, and then it was gone--but students kept talking about it, complaining about its absence just as they had previously complained about its food. This toxic, confusing relationship fascinated me, and I had to learn more, dig deeper, and uncover the truth. What resulted was a journey that took me through countless student interviews, frustrating university bureaucracy, and hidden Rutgers history.
LE TOMBEAU DE NEFERTITI

2017

LE TOMBEAU DE NEFERTITI

2017
8
Ninomiya Kinjirou

2019

Ninomiya Kinjirou

2019
Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant boy who worked to rescue over 600 poor villages and hamlets from financial ruin by developing new economic policies.
Shooting the Darkness

2019

Shooting the Darkness

2019
7.8
The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.