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Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dives straight into the fascinating controversy of Louis Farrakhan's Million Man March and the larger question of what it means to be a black man in modern America. The film follows a group of different men traveling from Los Angeles to the march in Washington D.C. On the way, they will make friends, make enemies, and make history.
Series
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Language
Español
Description
France's planned invasion of Mexico provides the backdrop for the writing of the Mexican national anthem.
"Luis se enlista en el ej?ercito para defender a M?exico del ataque de los franceses, paralelamente se enamora de una chica que es sobrina del embajador de Francia. Cuando el ej?ercito mexicano se ve mermado en fuerzas Luis los alienta tocando con su corneta el Himno Nacional de M?exico haciendo que los soldados se recuperen y venzan a los franceses,...
5) The Duchess
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a bitter conflict with her husband and threatens to erupt...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
After two years running from the law, bushranger Ben Hall has gone into hiding, He is soon drawn back into bushranging by the reappearance of his old friend, John Gilbert. Reforming the gang and taking on a new recruit John Dunn, the trio begin a spree of robberies and crimes across New South Wales. After the killing of two policemen, the three become the most wanted men in colony.
7) Gallipoli
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two young men (Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) are brought together in the Australian army in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of GALLIPOLI. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes**. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**. "*Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to...
8) Apollo 11
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
From director Todd Douglas Miller comes a cinematic event 50 years in the making. Crafted from a newly discovered trove of 65mm footage, and more than 11,000 hours of uncatalogued audio recordings, the film takes viewers straight to the heart of NASA's most celebrated mission, the one that first put men on the moon, and forever made Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin into household names.
9) Suffragette
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Anne Boleyn is a doe-eyed vixen who is ordered by her power-hungry uncle to bewitch King Henry VIII. Her shy sister Mary has always been in Anne's shadow. The King picks Mary as his mistress and Anne turns on her sister and schemes to become not only the King's consort, but his new queen.
11) Persian lessons
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Occupied France, 1942. Gilles is arrested by SS soldiers alongside other Jews and sent to a camp in Germany. He narrowly avoids sudden execution by swearing to the guards that he is not Jewish, but Persian. This lie temporarily saves him, but Gilles gets assigned a life-or-death mission: to teach Farsi to the Head of Camp Koch, who dreams of opening a restaurant in Iran once the war is over. Through an ingenious trick, Gilles manages to survive by...
12) Suffragette
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by true events, a moving drama exploring the passion and heartbreak of the women who risked everything in their fight for equality in early 20th century Britain. The story centers on Maud, a working wife and mother whose life is forever changed when she is secretly recruited to join the U.K.'s growing suffragette movement. Galvanized by the outlaw fugitive Emmeline Pankhurst, Maud becomes an activist for the cause alongside women from all...
13) Adam resurrected
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain and healing.
14) Alpha
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the last Ice Age, while on a hunt with his tribe's most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone, he must learn to survive and navigate the harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Reluctantly taming a lone wolf abandoned by its pack, the pair learns to rely on each other and become unlikely allies, enduring countless dangers and overwhelming odds in order to find their way home before the deadly...
Pub. Date
?2005
Language
English
Description
A farmer named Gil Martin brings his well-bred wife from New York to the as-yet-unsettled Mohawk valley, only to be met with unexpected strife as the Revolutionary War goes into full swing. This sweeping film celebrates the strength of the men and women who settled the American frontier.
17) Yellow Jack
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Spanish-American War is over, but not the scourge of death. Yellow fever has killed more U.S. soldiers deployed to Cuba than battle, and a medical team led by Dr. Walter Reed is determined to defeat the microbial enemy. The secret to wiping it out may lie in the once-discredited theory of a dedicated researcher: an infected mosquito.
18) Railroad tigers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
In 1941, Chinese railroad worker Ma Yuan organizes a group of freedom fighters to derail the Japanese war effort. Using his extensive knowledge of the train network, he leads his team of unlikely heroes on the most dangerous mission yet.
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