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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1928

Actors: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley

The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...

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The Outlaw

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Spain, Brazil

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala

A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...

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The New World

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Terrence Malick

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Carl Colby

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2011

Actors:

A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...

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The Madness Of King George

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...

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The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Betty Sun

This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...

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The Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett

THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...

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The Ken & Barbie Killers

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Canada

Director:

Duration: 60 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Michelle Banks, Fred Berlin, Vince Bevan

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The Josephine Baker Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Brian Gibson

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes

Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...

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Queen Margot

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, Italy, Germany

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Duration: 174 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade

The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...

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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Adrian Shergold

Duration: 90 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan

Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...

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Peter And Paul

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Robert Day

Duration: 198 min

Year: 1981

Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Foxworth, Eddie Albert

Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal...

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Once Upon A Rooftop

Genres: Documentary, Short, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States, Hong Kong

Director: Sybil Wendler

Duration: 31 min

Year: 2010

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On a rooftop high above the bustling streets of Hong Kong a woman practices the ancient art of tai chi as her daughter watches from the shadows. Invisible from below they share their hidden promontory with 30 other families. All live in shanties perched precariously on top of a nine-story building. This film is a porthole to an intimate view of life in these illegal rooftop tenements that exist...

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Nicky's Family

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Israel, Cambodia

Director: Matej Minac

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Ben Abeles, Jirina Bohdalová, The Dalai Lama

Nicholas Winton an Englishman today 102 years old organized the rescue of 669 Czech and Slovak children just before the outbreak of World War II. Winton now 102 years old did not speak about these events with anyone for more than half a century. His exploits would have probably been forgotten if his wife fifty years later hadnt found a suitcase in the attic full of documents and...

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Into The Storm

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough

Winston Churchill is named Prime Minister on the very day the Nazis launch their invasion of the low countries and France. The immediate concern is the fate of the British Expeditionary Force now trapped with their back to the sea. The evacuation at Dunquerque saved most of them. Churchill formed a unified government with the Labour party and was steadfast in refusing to negotiate with the...

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If A Tree Falls: A Story Of The Earth Liberation Front

Genres: Documentary, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman

Duration: 85 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, Tim Lewis

IF A TREE FALLS is a rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front the radical environmental group that the FBI calls Americas number one domestic terrorist threat. With unprecedented access and a nuanced point of view the documentary tells the story of Daniel McGowan an ELF member who faced life in prison for two multi-million dollar arsons against Oregon timber companies. The...

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Hunger

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: Steve McQueen

Duration: 96 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan

Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...

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King Of Kings

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Nicholas Ray

Duration: 168 min

Year: 1961

Actors: Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, Hurd Hatfield

The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...

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John Wayne Gacy: A Monster In Disguise

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director:

Duration: 50 min

Year: 1999

Actors: Barry Boschelli, James Cavanaugh, Ray Cornell

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Joffrey: Mavericks Of American Dance

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Bob Hercules

Duration: 82 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Sasha Anawalt, Gerald Arpino, Charthel Arthur

The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...

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Jfk

Genres: Drama, History, Thriller

Country: United States, France

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 189 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Jack Lemmon

On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...

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Jefferson In Paris

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, United States

Director: James Ivory

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1995

Actors: Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Gwyneth Paltrow

One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...

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Empire Of The Sun

Genres: Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Steven Spielberg

Duration: 152 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson

Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...

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Holy Rollers

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Kevin Asch

Duration: 89 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser

Inspired by a true story of a young Hasidic man who was lured into the world of international drug trafficking in the late...

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Fellinis Casanova

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, Italy

Director: Federico Fellini

Duration: 155 min

Year: 1976

Actors: Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, Cicely Browne

Casanova is a libertine collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive...

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Hitler: The Rise Of Evil

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: Canada, United States

Director: Christian Duguay

Duration: 130 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone

The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria it describes the first world war from his point of view and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how Hitler turned from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes...

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Fighter In The Wind

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: South Korea

Director: Yun-ho Yang

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2004

Actors: Dong-kun Yang, Aya Hirayama, Masaya Katô

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Henry V

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Duration: 137 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd

King Henry V of England is insulted by the King of France. As a result he leads his army into battle against France. Along the way the young king must struggle with the sinking morale of his troops and his own inner doubts. The war culminates at the bloody Battle of...

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Heaven & Earth

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: France, United States

Director: Oliver Stone

Duration: 140 min

Year: 1993

Actors: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor

The final movie in Oliver Stones Vietnam trilogy follows the true story of a Vietnamese village girl who survives a life of suffering and hardship during and after the Vietnam war. As a freedom fighter a hustler young mother a sometime prostitute and the wife of a US. marine the girls relationships with men suggests an analogy of Vietnam as Woman and the U.S. as...

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