El buscador de tesoros Benjamin Franklin Gates ha dedicado su vida a buscar el legendario tesoro de Los Caballeros Templarios, del que se decía que era el botín más increíble de todos los tiempos y que estaba escondido en algún lugar de América. Durante siete generaciones, los miembros de la familia Gates buscaron las pistas que los Padres Fundadores de América dejaron, y recorrieron cada rincón del país en busca del tesoro. Ahora, el inconformista Ben al fin ha conseguido descubrir la pista definitiva que le llevará hasta el tesoro: un mapa oculto en el reverso de la Declaración de Independencia. La existencia del mapa llega a oídos del gran competidor de Gates, Ian Howe, y Ben se enfrenta a un difícil dilema: O es el primero en robar el documento más importante de América, que está protegido por el sistema de seguridad más sofisticado del mundo, o dejará que caiga en manos extremadamente peligrosas.
En esta segunda parte, el buscador de tesoros Ben Gates se ve de nuevo envuelto en una increíble aventura en la que se relacionan capítulos desconocidos de la historia con tesoros ocultos. Cuando una página del diario de John Wilkes Booth, el asesino de Abraham Lincoln, sale a la luz, el tatarabuelo de Ben se ve implicado como el principal conspirador del magnicidio. Decidido a probar la inocencia de su ancestro, Ben y su equipo emprenden un viaje para intentar descubrir uno de los tesoros más buscados del mundo.
España, 1792. Goya (Stellan Skarsgard), el pintor de la Corte de Carlos IV (1788-1808), se ve implicado en un gran escándalo cuando su musa adolescente (Natalie Portman) es acusada de herejía por un importante miembro de la Inquisición (Bardem).
An immigrant Indian mother fights the Norwegian foster care system and legal machinery to win back custody of her children.
Fictionalized account of how Clement C. Moore came to write "A Visit from St. Nicholas." His young daughter, stricken with pneumonia, asks for a Santa Claus story for Christmas. No such story had been written, so Moore writes his famous poem, set to Ken Darby's music and sung by The Norman Luboff Choir.
The film follows the life of social reformer and writer Mahatma Jyotiba Phule.
Near Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, is the Schleißheim Palace, where French filmmaker Alain Resnais shot his film Last Year at Marienbad in 1960. Nearby is the Dachau concentration camp, where thousands of people were killed between 1933 and 1945. An essay about the present and the past, beauty and horror, life and death.
A fictional biography of Hollywood actors Martin Kosleck and Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, both of whom fled Hitler-era Germany to live a long-lasting relationship.
In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the actor's screen (and public) image with his real life and shows certain scenes, lines and situations in his films to insinuate that Hudson may have been gay.
How does the most famous man in the world go missing overnight and is never heard from again for three years? That's what our host Leo is trying to find out, delving into the depths of the Brett Pick timeline, documenting his process of interviewing, researching, and finding answers to his questions. This is the Brett Pick story.
A tribute to actresses, approaching their presence in and out the screen, humanizing the icons. From the Ukrainian Anna Sten to the French Anna Karina, we can see some close-up faces that marked the history of the cinema, and whose demand is more relevant than ever.
Following the victory at Sinhagad in 1670, the Moghuls began to notice the threat from the Marathas. The unique guerrilla tactics developed by Shivaji helped his warriors forge ahead with power.
A fictionalized biography on John Dall who was in two great movies - Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope (1948) and Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950).
Joan Crawford's close-up in Humoresque. Michelangelo's David and Boticelli's "Birth of Venus". Stendhal was overwhelmed by the cultural overstimulation in Florence, which Graziella Magherini described scientifically in 1979 as Stendhal syndrome. Mark Rappaport describes his fascination for the Austrian actor Turhan Bey, who made a career in exotic roles in Hollywood in the 1940s. A very personal essay about the effect of close-ups, the canvas idols of the dream factory and the role of their admirers and fans.