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Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
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...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
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...
Country: Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway
Genre: Drama
Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay India and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan Pramod and takes special care of him. With growing pressure on the facilities which is on the verge bankruptcy the orphanage receives...
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Young Helen Keller blind deaf and mute since infancy is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love and sheer stubbornness Annie breaks...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
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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