1919, fragments of the Qing Empire. A young Red Army soldier leads a Tuvan arat into the city to be shot because he helped a small detachment of Cossacks escape from encirclement. But a seemingly simple task does not go according to plan and along the way the heroes have to go through many tests.
A German physician worked tirelessly to bring back hope and pleasure to a country that was uncertain of its future.
In 1927 southern Louisiana, subversive housewife Ada LeBoeuf is put on trial alongside her alleged lover for the grisly murder of her husband in one of the most explosive sex-murder trials ever reported.
A biography of the Islamic saint Al-Sayyid Al-Badawi, from his birth in Morocco, to his refusal to marry the girl who loved him, to his journeys to study religion and worship God, to his strength in the face of the hostility he faced and how he triumphed over his enemies with God on his side.
New 7-hour restoration of Abel Gance's Napoléon by Georges Mourrier, with a new score by Simon Cloquet-Lafollye.
Loosely based on a true story. Roman Wardas and Gantscho Ganev dig up Charlie Chaplin's grave and plan to steal his body for a ransom of $600,000. Their plan is ruined when Chaplin suddenly wakes up and runs off to Hollywood. The two robbers chase him through the city as Charlie Chaplin begs strangers for help.
An abbess, visionary, naturalist, playwright and composer, Hildegard of Bingen (played by Patricia Routledge) was a remarkable woman of the Middle Ages, her legacy comprising some of the most radiant accounts of religious experience ever.
At the end of the Han Dynasty, the feudal lords engaged in a fierce battle, with numerous heroes vying for the deer and smoke of war rising everywhere. Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu fought fiercely for power, causing the people to suffer from conscription and exile.
Meet the Christian community that survived Roman persecution, Byzantine rule, and has successfully co-existed with Islam for 14 centuries.
Depicts how Bobby Fischer tortuously considers his next move-hands gripping his head and eyes fastened to the board-as his 1972 World Chess Championship opponent, Boris Spassky, looks on.
When the Tanana River bridge was installed in Salcha, Alaska, the community worried about the levee's effects on fish wildlife. Salcha Elementary School, along with the help of Tanana Valley Watershed Association, conducted a 10-year scientific project with students to study the effects the levee had on Piledriver Slough. Tori Brannan - the filmmaker's mother - is a retired principal at Salcha Elementary and was the project's centerpiece. She shares her experiences with the project, the community, and how her daughter's involvement strengthened their relationship.
An exchanged Turkish fisherman finds himself in the middle of Anatolia. While starting a new life here, he will share their home with the Greek family for a while.
Paris, 2027. A public television network celebrates the tenth anniversary of the breakup of the European Union by broadcasting a documentary about what triggered the demise of the EU...
Georgian England, two aristocratic women take up pistols, risking their lives to duel over a petty insult.
Mt. Hakkoda (ドキュメンタリー八甲田山, Documentary Hakkōda san) is a 2014 film about the Hakkōda Mountains incident. It is based on the non-fiction book Tragedy in a Blizzard by Koshu Ogasawara.
Dorothea Mitchell – A Reel Pioneer recounts in Mitchell’s own words the amazing life of a pioneer filmmaker. Seventy years later a group of local enthusiasts in Thunder Bay, reinvent the silent pictures, by finishing “The Fatal Flower”,the murder mystery Dorothea had bequeathed to the national Archives of Canada. With no script to work from and some missing scenes, the group nurtured “The Fatal Flower” back to life.