Dalida was an international star, selling over 140 million records in 10 languages. But behind her glittering career and dramatic and tragic personal life, was her ever supportive younger brother Orlando. The documentary sheds light on the professional and personal relationship between the music icon and her producer, between sister and brother.
A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawmen Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the most hated leaders in contemporary history. Between 1940 and 1945, these two enormously contradictory personalities faced each other in both politics and war. A clash of giants whose story begins in the trenches of the World War I and ends with the debacle of the World War II.
The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adventures, loves and excess was largely played out in front of the camera - either making movies or filling the newsreels and gossip magazines. Tragically he was dead from the effects of drugs and alcohol by the time he was only 50 & the myths live on. But there is another side of Flynn that is less well known - his ambitions to be a serious writer and newspaper correspondent, his documentary films and his interest in the Spanish Civil War and Castro's Cuba
A historical drama about Prince Yeon-san of Joseon as a prince trying to restore the status of his mother, the deposed and executed Queen Yun.
The story of the Russian-born, Wisconsin-raised woman who rose to become Israel's prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
The true story of German-Czech businessman Oskar Schindler (1908-74) as told by some of the Jews — more than a thousand people — whose lives he saved from extermination during World War II.
A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.
A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act of cooking food a true art by creating the modern concept of haute cuisine, and who also became the main reference point for many generations of future chefs.
Take a look behind the curtain to see the vast history and recent renovation of one of Rochester, New York's most famous landmarks. Architects, theater personnel, historians, community leaders, and citizens provide in depth insight from start to finish in one of the most extensive renovations the city has ever seen.
A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated and hosted by Peter Ustinov and written by Nigel Calder.
In deze documentaire wordt de laatste dag uit het korte leven van gitaargod Jimi Hendrix gereconstrueerd aan de hand van theorieën rond een CIA-hitlijst, maffiaschulden en politietoezicht.
De Duitse tiran Adolf Hitler brengt de laatste dagen van zijn heerschappij door in zijn bunker onder Berlijn. Het Rode Leger heeft met grote overmacht Berlijn omringd en daarbij vooral burgerslachtoffers gemaakt.
Helen Keller is blind en doofstom tegelijkertijd, waardoor het voor haar praktisch onmogelijk is om te communiceren met de buitenwereld. Daardoor is ze in de loop der jaren gefrustreerd en gewelddadig geworden, maar haar ouders geloven niet dat een inrichting de oplossing is.
1879. Na de burgeroorlog begint Wyatt Earp een nieuw leven met zijn broers in Arizona. Zijn vriend Doc Holliday gaat met hem mee in de hoop dat zijn TBC geneest. Ze verdienen goed en kunnen zich overal buiten houden tot zijn broer Virgil de misdaad in de stad niet meer kan aanzien.
1963: Jim Garrison neemt de taak op zich om de moord op president John F. Kennedy in Texas te onderzoeken. Garrison staat erg argwanend ten opzichte van het officiële verhaal dat door de FBI verteld wordt.
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.
Malcolm X noemt zichzelf de kwaadste neger van het land. In tegenstelling tot Martin Luther King, predikt hij als militante zwarte moslimleider de radicale bevrijding van de zwarte bevolking. En dus is hij levensgevaarlijk en staatsvijand nr. 1.
De film vertelt het verhaal van generaal George S. Patton, tijdens zijn opmars van Noord-Afrika naar Duitsland, gedurende de Tweede Wereldoorlog. De generaal, beroemd (en berucht) om zijn geniale leiderschap en woede-uitbarstingen, ligt constant overhoop met zijn meerderen.