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Recent DNA and ballistics evidence have raised new questions and suspicions about Adolf Hitler's death. Hitler's Escape—filmed in Europe and Argentina—revisits these questions, examining the hypothesis of his secret escape to Patagonia. By challenging the official story of his suicide, it opens up the mystery of his final whereabouts.
Hidden in a house, about to be demolished, in the town of Sant Cugat del Vallès, located in the Spanish province of Barcelona, two red boxes are found; and inside them a totally unexpected treasure: thousands of photographs that the Republican photographer Antoni Campañà Bandranas (1906-89) took during the three years of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39); an enormous frieze of daily life in cruel times.
The Big 12 Champion Oklahoma Sooners take on the WAC Champion Boise State Broncos in the Fiesta Bowl at The University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. An intense back and forth game that ended with a thrilling overtime touchdown.
In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome Film Festival.
A lavish period costume picture that traces, from birth to death, the life of Ravjaa Khutagt, a 19th century Mongolian priest, "a living Buddha" who exerted a large influence over his country's literature, music, and drama.
In this filmed version of the original musical, Leiden student Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and his friends see their carefree student life disrupted when the Germans invade the Netherlands in 1940. The boys, then around 23 years old, realize out of the blue that nothing is the same anymore. Friendship and love are no longer self-evident. The war turns everything upside down, all relationships are on edge. Everyone has to make their own choices…: Are you going to fight for Freedom, People, Fatherland? Do you bury your head in the sand and continue studying? Or do you deliberately choose the enemy?
A story about of one of the darkest periods in German history, an era in which the belief in occult forces was widespread. In Bamberg, witch hunts were fostered by a greedy and delusional Bishop Prince and reached their peak around 1630. This Bamberg ruler used the witch trials to purge his political enemies and enrich himself with their goods. Almost 1000 innocent men, women and children became his victims. BURNING SOULS deals with the era seen through the eyes of Johanna Wolff, a pharmacist's daughter, and the young physician Cornelius Weinmann. To save the innocent, he and a few courageous men revolt against the Bishop Prince.
1983: After more than seven years of terror, the Argentineans recover the democracy. The reconstruction of a climate of time and an event that marked a point of break not only in the policy but in the culture and the arts of Argentina
This film focuses on how a group of African American pioneers became respected masters in a subculture dominated by Chinese and white men.
In the early years of the Republic He Changsheng followed his grandfather around the world and learned a lot about medicine. One day, while He and Hu are tending to the shop, a woman dressed as a Miao, Ah Man, comes to the door and asks He Changsheng to pay his father's debt to his son and fulfil his promise.
When Azhar mysteriously emerges in a foreign land, he is captured by the natives and imprisoned for being considered a bringer of calamity to them. One night, he is set free by a native girl. Confused and exhausted, he runs until he passes out. A mute native youth saves him and he integrates into the tribe. But he must find his way back to his reality and his time.
Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by brick. But with awful work conditions protests quickly arise and a strike begins. Violent confrontations happen during manifestations. Until one man falls. The next day René Vautier lands at Brest clandestinely to make a movie about the movement.
How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic Germans who had lived peacefully for centuries in Germany's neighboring countries, such as Czechoslovakia and Poland. A heartbreaking story of revenge against innocent civilians, the story of acts as cruel as the Nazi occupation during the war years.
The 23rd June 2023. The Russo-Ukrainian war rages on. In an unexpected turn of events, the Wagner Group chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin, orders his men to seize Russia's southern city of Rostov-on-Don. The opening salvo of a mutiny against the Kremlin.
A look at the history of the Statue of Liberty and the meaning of sculptor Auguste Bartholdi's creation to people around the world.
