Jules Ferry
1993-04-10The romanticized life story of lawyer and journalist Jules Ferry, who fought for the freedom of citizens.
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The Real T Rex with Chris Packham
2018-01-02A documentary examining what the Tyrannosaurus Rex was really like - both appearance and behaviour - using the recent palaeontological and zoological ...
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Brigitte Bardot Forever
2022-10-21Inspired by the tale of Telemachus in Homer’s Odyssey, young Adam’s mother is persecuted by the state police because his father fought in WWII as a pi...
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A Nightingale Falling
2014-08-04Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a crucial ti...
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Zakhar Berkut
1972-04-03This film is based on the classic novel of the same name by writer Ivan Franko, one of the most famous figures of Ukrainian literature. It is set duri...
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The Enlightener
2010-09-08Returning from Mecca, Darwis changes his name to Ahmad Dahlan as he is disturbed by the trend of Islamic laws in his society; that borders on heresy, ...
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Nikolai Podvoysky
1987-11-01On the life and activities of N.I. Podvoysky (1880-1948), a professional revolutionary and commander of the Red Army.
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
2018-05-29How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), a pioneer in the field of propaganda and public re...
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Girl for a Day
2024-05-0818th century. Anne, grown up, has to "change her clothes" because of her attraction to women. Now a man, he marries and has a great love affair with h...
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Voltaire et l'affaire Calas
2007-04-04A Protestant businessman, Jean Calas, is tortured to death for allegedly killing his son to stop him becoming a Catholic. Voltaire launches a Europe-w...
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Red Poppies of Issyk-Koul
1971-12-05Directed by Bolotbek Shamshiyev, the movie shows Kyrgyzstan under early Soviet rule; and tells us about opium contrabanda across the border.
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Unconquered: Allan Houser and the Legacy of One Apache Family
2008-10-24In decades past, Native American artists who wanted to sell to mainstream collectors had little choice but to create predictable, Hollywood-style west...
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Boris Godounov
1989-12-20A possible impostor torments a newly crowned medieval czar who may have ordered the real successor's death.
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A Woman of the North
1999-09-30Young Dutch widow Emilie travels to a seaside resort in Italy, where she falls in love with Italian officer Aldo. Meanwhile, her deceased husband's as...
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Portrait of a Thief
2015-06-25A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
1942-05-09This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.
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Who killed the Neanderthal?
2018-04-10Neandertal man disappeared abruptly 30,000 years ago. Who was that "other" man and what is the most plausible hypothesis leading to his extinction? An...
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