Maya Angelou at the BBC
2024-05-26Bonnie Greer looks back on the extraordinary life of one of literature’s most significant and inspirational figures, Maya Angelou, through an explorat...
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Without a Trace...
2021-09-09Golden autumn. Yakut hinterland. More than ten years have passed since the end of the Great Patriotic War. A 23-year-old boy named Mahees is given th...
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Save the Last Bullet
Based on events from the Balkan Wars. 1991: Amidst the cruel battle of Vukovar, a brave squad of Croatian soldiers fights its way through the besieged...
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Princess of Cleves
1961-03-22When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to ...
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Legend of the White Horse
1987-07-13A satire of Cold war politics, where Red bureaucrats meet U.S. corporate greed - and a witch and a dragon.
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Solo, Solitude
2017-01-19The Suharto regime has been holding power in Indonesia for over 30 years, shutting down democracy time and time again. Highly critical of the regime a...
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Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024-09-04A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godd...
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Ae Watan Mere Watan
2024-03-21In the midst of India's struggle for freedom in 1942, a brave young girl starts an underground radio station to spread the message of unity, setting o...
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Bittersweet
2018-04-20In Glasgow 1952, Scottish single mother, Elizabeth has to choose between the safety of herself and her son or financial stability by inviting in her d...
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The Last Partisan
2018-03-02An integral part of Greek folklore, Manolis Glezos is best known as the man who tore the swastika flag from the Acropolis during the Nazi invasion in ...
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At River's Edge
2011-08-02A samurai Sakunosuke gets an order from clan chamberlain to kill another samurai who is married with his own younger sister. As a loyal samurai he has...
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Untitled George Washington's Secret Six Film
An unlikely group of citizens—a reserved Quaker merchant, a tavern keeper, a brash young longshoreman, a curmudgeonly Long Island bachelor, a coffee h...
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Canada Vignettes: Spence's Republic
1978-01-01An animated vignette about the role of Thomas Spence in the formation and demise of the Republic of Manitoba at Portage la Prairie in 1867-68.
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Le jour du bain
1994-01-01At dawn on September 29, 1941, tens of thousands of Jews from Kyiv set off for Babi Yar and never returned. Lena, a young woman, watched them leave. T...
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Golden Gate Girls
2013-04-01The film traces the life and times of Esther Eng, a San Francisco native known as Hong Kong’s first “directress.” She directed 10 Cantonese talkies.
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