1915, USA. John Reed er overbevisende, karismatisk og bolshevik. En overbevisning der ikke er velset alle steder, men som han vælger at kæmpe for på trods af personlige omkostninger. Bedre bliver det ikke da Reeds tager til Rusland og oplever hvor langt der er fra idealerne til virkeligheden.
Renowned actress Joan Crawford, at the height of her career, adopts two orphans — Christina and Christopher — to fill the lonely gap in her personal life. However, as her professional and romantic relationships sour, Joan's already callous and abusive behavior towards Christina intensifies.
Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men.
Hvad skete der efter, at Einstein flygtede fra Nazityskland? Gennem arkivoptagelser og hans egne ord dykker denne dramatiserede dokumentar ned i det forpinte genis sind.
An unprecedented and intimate look at the life, work and enduring legacy of British actress Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993).
The Naked City portrays the police investigation that follows the murder of a young model. A veteran cop is placed in charge of the case and he sets about, with the help of other beat cops and detectives, finding the girl's killer.
Based on real near-death experiences, the afterlife is explored with the guidance of New York Times bestselling authors, medical experts, scientists and survivors who shed a light on what awaits us.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
Between light and darkness stands Olfa, a Tunisian woman and the mother of four daughters. One day, her two older daughters disappear. To fill in their absence, the filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania invites professional actresses and invents a unique cinema experience that will lift the veil on Olfa and her daughters' life stories. An intimate journey of hope, rebellion, violence, transmission and sisterhood that will question the very foundations of our societies.
Løgne og familiehemmeligheder i personlig film af den Oscar-nominerede instruktør og skuespiller Sarah Polley. Mange mennesker har haft en fantasi om, at deres forældre ikke er deres rigtige forældre. Men hvad sker der, når fantasi bliver til virkelighed?
Virkelig spændende iscenesættelse af det virkelige angreb på nogle tyske dæmninger i foråret 1943 og hvilke forberedelser der skulle til, før militæret begyndte at tro på at det kunne lade sig gøre. Takket være Michael Redgraves fremragende portræt af den distræte, men utrættelige videnskabsmand, undgår den lidt lange forberedelsestid at blive langtrukken. Filmens sidste halve time er virkelig intenst lavet.
When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.
2013 var et godt år for Nick Cave. 'Push the Sky Away' blev vidt og bredt kåret som årets album, og koncerterne blev rost til skyerne. 20,000 Days on Earth zoomer ind på den australske kunstners dag nummer 20.000. Grænserne mellem dokumentarisme og fiktion flyder sammen i en frapperende dissekering af Caves kunstneriske proces – fra skrivemaskine til scenekant. Vi er blandt andet med til psykiater, på besøg hos vennen og kollegaen Warren Ellis og på landevejen i Caves Jaguar, hvor blandt andre Kylie Minogue og Ray Winstone fra passagersædet supplerer hovedpersonens varme og indsigtsfulde beretninger fra sit livs frontlinjer.
In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
Bombs tear through Bombay, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at large, the state launches a massive drive to unmask the truth behind these events.
After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.
The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who managed to survive for 72 days, at an altitude of almost 4,000 meters, in the heart of the Andes Mountains, after their plane, en route to Chile, crashed there on October 13, 1972.
The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.
In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…