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In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career,and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes

Set in the 60s during the war, Vietnamese soldiers have to overcome numerous hardships and dangers to build an oil pipeline all the way from the north to supply the fighters in the South

1828 in the German port city of Bremen A female law clerk tries to prove her worth during the investigation of a series of poisonings

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the masters death

Seven of Hong Kongs leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s

France, 1914 The destinies of four women intersect Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist n

The story is set in the 12th century in Arab ruled Spanish province Andalusia, where famed philosopher Averroes is appointed grand judge by the caliph and his liberal court judgments are not liked by everyone The caliphs politic

The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France

Young man, from now on you will only work for me These were Adolf Hitlers words to the young sculptor Arno Breker in 1936 What would he commission from his new Phidias

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relations

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books

Francos Settlers is a contemporary evaluation of the figure of the dictator Franco a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish history and to review how some Spaniards deal with the cruel heritage of their past

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored

In 1953, the film evokes the 1848 49 periods up to the revolutionary struggle of the internal and external enemies Petofi start there in the events, even in the ranks of waiver is that Bems army in order to fight Bem fights the

Meet Ousmane Sembene, the African freedom fighter who used stories as his weapon

Black baseball greats, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, vie to be the first afro American major leaguer, only to see the outspoken rookie, Jackie Robinson, be chosen

Anja Grimm returns to the remote forest area where her father disappeared without a trace when she was eight years old Her sudden appearance triggers a brutal murder Disturbances in the forest floor and pointer plants force her

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskis story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising

In the beginning of 1500s, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom

Across America, the morning of September 11, 2001 began routinely, with news and radio broadcasts sharing local human interest stories and traffic reports But by 9 a m , the days narrative had taken a tragic turn Most of us are

A kung fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperors library An army detachment is sent to recover it Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos

Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan

Four paranormal researchers and YouTubers document the paranormal claims of the Harrisville Farmhouse The inspiration for the well known movie The Conjuring Is it truly haunted

A tiny Texas town 350 million worth of medieval treasure The discovery is just the beginning

A few years after the events of Man of Marble 1977, a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkuts son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike

On January 20, 1942, leading representatives of the German Nazi regime met in a villa in Berlin Wannsee for a meeting that went down in history as the Wannsee Conference, at which the systematic murder of 11 million Jews was decided

You Got to Move is a documentary by Lucy Massie Phenix Winter Soldier and Veronica Selver Word Is Out that follows people from communities in the Southern United States in their various processes of becoming involved in social

Gregory Doran directs Shakespeares epic pair of plays with a cast including Antony Sher as Sir John Falstaff, Jasper Britton as King Henry and Alex Hassell as Prince Hal

An intimate and compassionate observational documentary from the perspective of a 10 year old Aboriginal boy in Alice Springs, Australia, struggling to balance his traditional ArrernteGarrwa upbringing with a state education

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti

Afghan filmmakers gave birth to an extraordinary national cinema and protected it from extremists Afghan Canadian director Ariel Nasr crafts a thrilling and utterly original story of modern Afghanistan

A quick look at the slums of Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila

An amazing 22 minute short film featuring interviews with four transwomen in 1967

Fifteen giant dinosaur skeletons have been found buried in the Wyoming badlands, and an international team of paleontologists has been sent to investigate them to determine why they were here and what killed them 150 million years

The October 14, 1943, mass escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor in Poland is recounted through the firsthand accounts of survivors Thomas Blatt, Philip Bialowitz, Selma Engel Wijnberg and Semjon Rozenfeld

The definitive documentary about the iconic puppetry technique developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Supermarionation was used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds