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In the 19th century, a little-known event occurred, given its importance: the largest war in South America, in which four countries were involved. Was it a war between countries? Did Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay join forces against Paraguay? Why is it called by so many different names?
The story is set in 1962, the time of Sino-India war. It revolves around a widowed teacher named Ritu who is transferred to Koronga, a small Assamese village. The school here was destroyed by fire ten years earlier. Ritu takes on the challenge of rebuilding the school and starts campaigning among the villagers.
Historical documentary, on the life and work of the great Greek politician who contributed decisively to the shaping of the physiognomy of modern Greece. Venizelos came to Athens in 1909, after the Goudios Movement, at the invitation of the Military Association and, upon assuming the prime ministership, clashed with the palace. The film follows the man's path, through recorded testimonies (cinematic newsreels, photographs, newspapers), from his beginnings in Mournies, Crete, until his death.
Thousands of years ago there was a warrior who fought and gave his life for a territory that later became Lusitania. Against the advancements of the Roman Empire, which possessed an immense armada, it chose to dedicate its life to the protection of its people and their lands. His name was ... Viriato.
The year 1914 the budding artist pseud. Witkacy returns to his fiancée Jadwiga, whom he left in the care of his friend, the prominent composer Karol Szymanowski. What happened during his absence? Blaga is a story about the birth of an unconventional artist, love and fear of responsibility, the price of living with an artist for whom the greatest art is himself. A short film inspired by the work and life of Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz, one of the most original Polish artists of the early 20th century.
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Year 4, on the eve of the US President's arrival in Tehran, Reza Dargahi, an airport facility worker, is following the high speed of the car, the Passer Rahmati, the Posting Patrol. The guard gun becomes missing. Captain Kiani and Captain Ghasemi officer offers the case. The security agency considers the security of the weapon to be the assassination of the US president. Reza and some of the witnesses are pressured. Reza is killed. Police find the gun at the scene. Captain Kiani and Qasemi are arrested for failing to do so and ordered that the two are not arrested along with other detainees.
The history of skiing is an amazing journey through small and big events starring strong and avant-garde people who were not afraid to break with the prevailing social prejudices of their time and invented a new sporting discipline.
A thriller that dramatizes the last 24 hours in the lives of Jim Jones and The Peoples Temple Church through the eyes of a reporter.
'1781' explores a queer possibility in the lives of two young men in the 18th century.
While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the 9th century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows to take up arms against the invaders, leading the English Christians to fight for their country. Alfred soundly defeats the Danes and becomes a hero. But now, although Alfred still longs for the priesthood, he is torn between his passion for God and his lust for blood.
In this documentary, Joachim Hellwig uses partly unpublished footage to shed light on a dark chapter of German history and shows the entanglements between the politicians' claims to power and the interests of industry and business in Germany from the beginning of the First World War to the end of the Second World War (1914 to 1945). The Nuremberg War Crimes and Industrial Trials served as the basis for this documentary.
Has America entered an Orwellian world of doublespeak where outright lies can pass for truth? The country's leading intellectuals discuss and examine the mix of businesses, politics and ideology that is the mainstream media.
The love affair between Abélard and Héloïse, or the extraordinary passion between a brilliant 37-year-old professor and his young student, has left its mark on their lives. While their uncle Fulbert's criminal jealousy dogged them and tragedy separated them, these events made their romantic adventure all the more unusual and famous. And it is the strength of the bond between these two extraordinary heroes that will overcome all obstacles, whatever they may be.
The Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions bloodthirstily vie with one another for power and control.
To regain his inheritance rights, Severin Nalyvayko (unrecognized son of Prince Dmytro Sangushko and Princess Halshka Ostrozka), at the head of an army of just as disenfranchised daredevils, fights against the army of the Commonwealth for the freedom of Ukraine: only in the free Cossack Republic can he restore justice and become who he is by right.
About the 2003 terrorist attack at Mike’s Place, a beachside blues bar in Israel.
An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.