Die junge Lehrerin Elizabeth Thatcher ist das Leben in der gehobenen Gesellschaft gewöhnt. Doch ihre erste Anstellung als Lehrerin bekommt sie ausgerechnet in der verschlafenen Minen-Stadt Coal Valley. Um ihrer Familie zu beweisen, dass sie auf eigenen Füßen stehen kann, nimmt sie die Herausforderung an und macht sich auf den Weg in den rauen Westen Kanadas.
The fight of Abdulhamid II to keep Ottoman Empire and caliphate alive.
Nur wenige Menschen haben den russisch-japanischen Krieg der Meiji-Zeit überlebt. Einer von diesen wenigen ist Sugimoto. Er hat es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht die Ehefrau seines verstorbenen Freundes zu unterstützen und versucht in Hokkaido mit Goldschürfen das nötige Geld zu verdienen. Als er von einem Bären angegriffen wird trifft er auf die junge Ainu Asirpa die Ihm hilft den Bären zu erlegen. Mit Ihr begibt er sich auf die Suche nach dem legendären Goldschatz, der den Ainu gestohlen worden sein soll.
Seoul 1945 is a 2006 South Korean television series starring Ryu Soo-young, Han Eun-jeong, So Yoo-jin, Kim Ho-jin, and Park Sang-myun. It aired on KBS1 from January 7 to September 10, 2006 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:30 for 71 episodes.
Set around 1945 right after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule when the nation was engulfed by ideological turmoil, the story revolves around the rivalry between Suk-kyoung, a renowned pianist and daughter of a rich pro-Japanese politician, and Hae-kyung, a headstrong servant; both women love Woon-hyuk, whose ambition to become a lawyer gets thwarted due to his political ideology.
Nichts hätte Amelia Garayoa, eine Tochter der feinen Madrider Gesellschaft, davon abgehalten, mit dem ihr vorbestimmten Schicksal zu brechen. Als revolutionäre Aktivistin, Spionin und Widerstandskämpferin lehnt sich die Heldin gegen die Diktaturen des 20. Jahrhunderts auf. Die spannende Serie umfasst neun hervorragend gespielte Folgen und erscheint wie eine Ode an die Freiheit.
Ry Russo-Young turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family. In the late 70s/early 80s, when the concept of a gay family was inconceivable to most, Ry and her sister Cade were born to two lesbian mothers through sperm donors. Ry’s idyllic childhood was threatened by an unexpected lawsuit which sent shockwaves through her family’s lives and continues to reverberate today.
A story about Emīlija Benjamiņa, the “queen of the press” in interwar Latvia, whose wealth and tragic fate have since become folklore. The film’s narrative covers the period from the beginnings of Emīlija’s magazine Atpūta (Recreation), to her arrest and slow demise in a train en route to Siberia. The most prominent clairvoyant of the time - Eugene Fink’s prophecy that Emīlija would die from starvation in a foreign land (which served to be true) weaves through the narrative as a red thread. With this strong woman at the centre of the story, the film shows Latvian society in all its richness and gives the audience the opportunity to meet many well-known historical figures.
Farmers Maria and Martin wish to adopt a boy from an orphanage and are surprised to receive Anna sent by mistake. Anna quickly wins the heart of Martin but is disapproved of by stern Maria at first.
1942 ist überall Krieg: Menschen, die dieses Jahr erlebt haben, Frauen, Männer und Kinder, meist Zivilisten, erzählen davon in der sechsteiligen Dokumentationsreihe „1942. Die Kriegswende“. Briefe, Tagebücher, Biografien und mündlich überlieferte Zeugnisse lassen die Lebenswege jener vom Krieg geprägten Menschen lebendig werden.
The life story of Madalena das Dores Oliveira, the first woman to reach the rank of Brigade Chief of the PIDE (the Estado Novo secret police), who became known by the inhuman way in which she acted.
20th Century Battlefields is a BBC documentary television series hosted by television and radio personality Peter Snow, and his son Dan Snow.
Episodes cover the major battles of the twentieth century, and is best known for its extensive use of "sand table" CGI effects to help viewers visualize the battles.
1911, A graduate of the Institute of Noble Maidens, Sasha Meshcherskaya returns to a small provincial town. The well-being of her family is based on her relationship with her loving uncle, the owner of the arms factory Nikolai Shumilov. Sashenka's parents: Prince Ivan Sergeevich Meshchersky and Maria Ilyinichna dream of their daughter's early marriage, and she herself dreams of a brilliant career as an architect. Wanting to please her parents, Sasha makes new acquaintances and instantly plunges into a whirlpool of intrigue, where political interests are at stake above personal passions. Cold-blooded murders and blackmail, intricacies of conspiracies, daring provocateurs eluding detection - all this captivates the enthusiastic schoolgirl, who experiences mortal melancholy from the paucity of life prospects. Without noticing it, Sasha becomes an ideal target for terrorist hypnosis.
