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Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages

Frictions develop when Yisroel Izzy Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art world iconoclast na

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessels officers The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre

The last three days in the life of Ryoma Sakamoto, an imperial loyalist who tried to unite the warring Choshu and Satsuma clans in order to overthrow the Shogunate

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois

In 1948, at the U S embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U S Senator

Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer DArtagnan

Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti

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 mysterio

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitlers close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their t

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay

Tommy Tommy Trinder is called in to smooth things out after Wally King Chips Rafferty encroaches upon Aboriginal tribal ground

In the early 1920s, Georges Laffont, traumatized by the horrific trench warfar, decides to leave his life behind and travel to West Africa into the vast territories of Upper Volta in the company of Diofo, artist and also survivor of

George Washington is central to understanding Americas founding He was the crucial figure in winning the American Revolution, in creating the Constitution, and in establishing the precedents for effective self government as our fir

Camille Claude impresses already famous sculptor Auguste Rodin He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow

In the second of the Angelique series, the heroine joins a group of bandits, rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman, and once again becomes entangled in politics and matters of the heart

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wang

In the Pennsylvanian coal mines of 1876, a group of Irish immigrant workers begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment

Documentary on the famed jazz singer Billie Holiday

A small American contingent tries to train rural tribesmen to defend themselves against fanatical Muslim radicals in 1906 Philippines

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany

A 600 kilometre winter trek for 800 sheep, accompanied by 3 donkeys, 4 dogs and led by two shepherds, Pascal and Carole

When a boy who is in the navy college returns home for vacation he meets his young cousin who also wants to join in order to become a pilot However, the younger mans mother is antagonistic knowing the folly of war When the younger

Lee Chung is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage to the Qing Dynasty

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peters sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him

Father Rupert Mayer, a WWI veteran, dedicated his life to preaching against the Third Reich In WWII, Father Mayer is forced into Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where his faith and beliefs are only strengthened

1375 Nine Koryo warriors, envoys exiled by Imperial China, battle to protect a Chinese Ming Princess from Mongolian troops

The movie starts with a silent section of slapsticks in BLUE and white and with piano music, giving an outline of Karins rise and fall The rest is normal BampW movie Karin does not belong to the nobility but nevertheless marries the

There is nothing we can do against the call of love Amiens, 1713 Des Grieux is a noble young student, wise for his years, whos preparing to become a knight of the Order of Malta With a

Set during the fading glory of the Austro Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl Brandauer, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensn

A documentary fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims o

When you marry for status be prepared for unsuspected consequences

The story is set in Rome in 1900 In a seedy area of the city, Nino Patroni seeks to marry a fellow rogue with his sister

One Man and His Shoes tells the story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers showing their social, cultural and racial significance and how ground breaking marketing strategies created a multi billion dollar business

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire Selima Enakshi is a princess foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz Rai She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan Roy,

Based on the best selling religious studies book by Joseph Atwill, this documentary shows that Jesus is not a historical figure, the events of Jesus life were based on a Roman military campaign, his supposed second coming refers to