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7 Days in Entebbe (2018) Inspired by the true events of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, and the most daring rescue mission ever attempted.

The young Jewish girl, Hadassah, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its archenemy.

The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) D'Artagnan and the musketeers are the only ones who know of the existence of a twin brother, and Fouquet uses his influence to keep everyone silenced. The main story was changed by portraying Louis XIV as selfish, cruel, and incompetent, and Philippe the kind-hearted

Iron Jawed Angels (2004) Alice Paul and the women of the 1917 Women's Suffrage movement fight for future generations right to vote and run for office. Sacrificing their health, marriages and the limited amount of freedom they had, women were imprisoned and force fed after picketing and hunger-striki

Teenage (2013) Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

The Lost Viking (2018) A young Viking called Vitharr arrives in Britain with dreams of conquest and adventure, but when his family and clan are ambushed and killed, he must survive alone in this strange,dangerous...

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008) Zeitgeist Addendum, attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption, while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics, morality, laws, or any other "establishment" notions of human affairs, but rather on a modern, non-super

Home from Home Chronicle of a Vision 2013 Jakob longs for a new life for himself and his troubled family in Brazil

From fashion to pop culture, the series examines how through decades Americas style and iconic moments reflected the countrys political and social climate

The Advocate (1993) In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for

Dveselu putenis 2019 The love story of the sixteen year old Arturs gets interrupted by the First World War After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time the Russian Empire permits national battalions However, war is nothing like A

Beneath Hill 60 (2010) The extraordinary true story of Oliver Woodward. It's 1916 and Woodward must tear himself from his new young love to go to the mud and carnage of the Western Front. Deep beneath the German lines. Woodward and his secret platoon of Australian tunnelers fight to defend a leaking

The Toys That Made Us (2017 ) Toys can be more than simply children's playthings, the biggest ones can say so much about popular culture and the generations raised in it. This series covers the history of the major toylines of the post-World War II generations, the media franchises they represented,

Call Jane 2022 A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she cant get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help

The Farthest (2017) Is it humankind's greatest achievement? 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space. It is the first human-made object ever to do so. Slowly dying within its heart is a plutonium generator that will beat for perhaps anoth

La Belle Vie: The Good Life (2015) La Belle Vie: The Good Life is a story of self-discovery as Haitian-American filmmaker; Rachelle Salnave ventures to confront the grace, and simultaneously the unseemliness, of her native ideologies. Born in New York City, but raised by an upper class patriotic Hai

Alone Yet Not Alone (2013) The year is 1755, and the English colonies are being ravaged by the atrocities of war. Opposing European powers have clashed over the fertile Ohio valley, and entire families are devastated by the ensuing violence. Hostile native tribes are raiding the vulnerable frontier

A Real Vermeer (2016) Young and talented Han van Meegeren is a rebel in the early 1920's Amsterdam art-scene. Because he paints in the style of his idols Rembrandt and Vermeer, critics find his work old-fashioned and they call him a copycat. Just to prove a point, he produces a fake Vermeer and trie

The Battle of Port Arthur (1980) Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War 1904 - 1905. In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same ti

Can the greatest mysteries of the past be solved by modern science The truth is up there, hidden among the stars, in a place we call The Universe

The Fighting Preacher (2019) When Willard and Rebecca Bean are called on a mission to a town that's hostile towards them, they must choose whether to fight for their right to live there or love their hostile neighbors.

American Epic 2015 Go inside one of the greatest ever untold stories how the ordinary people of America were given the opportunity to make records for the first time This four part film, narrated by Robert Redford, melds space, time and technology to reveal the raw roots of American music Tracing th

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.

Hong Cheon Gi (2021 ) Set during the Joseon era, Hong Chun Gi is a female painter with genius like painting talent. She is picked as the first female painter of the Dohwaseo. For her, painting is everything. One day, she meets Ha Ram.

Lady Oscar 1979 Oscar Francois de Jarjayes was born female, but her father who longed for a son and a heir insisted she be raised as a boy, alongside, Andre Grandier, the grandson of her nanny When Oscar matures into an adult she is selected to be captain of the guards at the Palace of Versailles un

Chinas Warrior Queen Fu Hao 2022 Over 3,500 years ago, the powerful Shang Dynasty emerged from the Central Chinese plains Their armies were led by a fierce and brilliant young general her name was Fu Hao

A Night to Remember (1958) A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) luxury liner R.M.S. Titanic's sinking from the standpoint of 2nd Officer Charles Herbert Lightoller, himself the most senior of the ill-fated ship's Deck Officers to survive th

Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y de la Pedrueca, in 1868, accidentally discovered Patheolitic paintings with the help of a hunter named Modesto Cubillas inside Altamiras caves, located in Cantabria, north to Spain. Trying to expose their discovery to the academic world for that they study the paintings,

9th Company (2005) The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980's. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like a boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The

The Emperor and the Assassin (1998) In the 3rd Century BC, Ying Zheng, heir to the Kingdom of Qin, seeks to dominate the remaining six Chinese kingdoms. Ying's strategy is to seem invincible. Ying sends his concubine Zhao to the Han Kingdom as a spy, to enlist an assassin he can conquer. Zhao persua

Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation. Twenty ...

Iceman 2014 During the Ming Dynasty four orphans Ying, Sao, Yuanlong and Niehu are raised in Taoyuan Village and become close to being brothers Their exceptional martial arts skills allows them to reach the highest rank within the imperial guards After a successful attempt to kill a Japanese troop l

The Shadows of Men (2017) For eight years during the Vietnam War, the Razorback gunship platoon had only one mission... combat.

Band of Angels (1957) Living in Kentucky prior to the Civil War, Amantha Starr is a privileged young woman. Her widower father, a wealthy plantation owner, dotes on her and he sends her to the best schools. When he dies suddenly however, Amantha's world is turned upside down. She learns that her fat

The Champion 2020 The story of the pre war boxing champion Tadeusz Teddy Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp There, camp officers force him to fight for his and other prisoners lives However, with every win, he st

Z (1969) In a mid-sized metropolis (population 500,000) in a right-wing military led country, a pacifist organization, which supports the opposition party in the government, is planning on holding an anti-military, nuclear disarmament rally. The organization's charismatic leader - the deputy - is sc

Woman Walks Ahead (2017) The story follows Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), who moved from Brooklyn to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sioux chieftain Sitting Bull keep the land for his people. Weldon wrote letters to the federal government on behalf of Sitting Bull and

The Long Way Home (1997) After WWII, Jewish Holocaust survivors are moved into Displaced Persons' camps. After delays, more physical hardship, and years of uncertainty, they are permitted to begin new lives in Israel and the U.S.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings

Brave: Gunjyo Senki (2021) Like most students Aoi is a member of an extracurricular club at school and practices archery. Due to ample practice, Aoi is good at it. The members are mostly good friends. All is well until blitz and thunder hit the premises and the school and its students are not the sa

Hinterland 2021 When an ex prisoner of the Great War returns home and finds his comrades brutally murdered, he decides to bring the serial killer to justice

Kidnapped 2023 A Jewish boy is kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858

The Heroes of Telemark (1965) Set in German-occupied Norway, this is an embellished account of the remarkable efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destro

Montford The Chickasaw Rancher 2021 A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail

The Invisible Woman (2013) In the 1850s, Ellen Ternan is a minimally talented actress who catches the eye of the hailed British author, Charles Dickens. Bored with his intellectually unstimulating wife, Dickens takes the educated Ellen as his mistress with the cooperation of her mother. What follows

The Search for General Tso (2014) Who was General Tso, and why are we eating his chicken? This feature documentary explores the origins and ubiquity of Chinese-American food through the story of an iconic sweet and spicy chicken dish.

1 (2013) Set in the golden era of Grand Prix Racing '1' tells the story of a generation of charismatic drivers who raced on the edge, risking their lives during Formula 1's deadliest period, and the men who stood up and changed the sport forever.

White Feather (1955) The story of the peace mission from the US cavalry to the Cheyenne Indians in Wyoming during the 1870s. The mission is threatened when a civilian surveyor befriends the chief's son and falls for the chief's daughter.