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Lee & Grant
Produced with the cooperation of leading Civil War historian Winston Groom, author of Forrest Gump, Lee & Grant is a personal look at two iconic leaders of the Civil War. Surprising details reveal the bold choices and almost godlike power Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee summoned on decisive battlefields like Vicksburg and Gettysburg that, within..
Operación Alfa
The story of an assassination attempt made to destabilize the Argentine government and prevent the 1970 presidential inauguration of Marxist Salvador Allende. Curiously, for this purpose, the Argentine military plotters decided to create an international incident rather than a domestic one. The key to their scheme was the assassination of the Chile..
Yi Jian Qi Xia
In a fierce battle against the British invasion, the commander of the Chinese army sacrifices his life on the line of duty. The British celebrate their victory by hanging his head out on a conquered fortress. To end such humiliation, the commander's daughter seeks help from the leader of the local rebels, Benjamin. Their attempts to steal the head ..
Poikani pääkonsuli
Perky student Inkeri 'Iiri' Paappanen and businessman Taavi Takkulainen fall in love during a boat trip, but a misunderstanding at a hotel in Stockholm causes their break-up. Returning to Finland, Inkeri applies to become a governess and gets a job at Taavi's parents' family. Consul General Albert, Taavi's brother intends to take advantage of Iiri ..
The Manners Club
A homemade instructional video teaching manners to kids, featuring General Manners. The children perform an educational rap to share what they've learned.
The Governor of Chakerbakerben Island
L'Gharbi works in a newspaper's telex booth to classify dispatches. One day while reading a dispatch relating to an island whose governor had disappeared, Al Gharbi identified with the character of the governor of the island of “Chakerbakerben”
Fritz Bauer, un procureur contre le nazisme
Francfort-sur-le-Main, 20 décembre 1963. Pour la première fois depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, une cour fédérale allemande s'apprête à juger d'anciens criminels nazis. Au terme d'une instruction dirigée pendant cinq ans par Fritz Bauer, 22 prévenus sont sur le banc des accusés. En poste au camp d'extermination d'Auschwitz, ils..
Koxinga : l'héritage d'un héros
Koxinga, de son vrai nom Zheng Chenggong, est né en 1624 à Hirato, au Japon. Son père, Zheng Zhilong, pirate et marchand, a rencontré sa mère, une Japonaise, au cours d'échanges commerciaux. A 7 ans, Zheng Chenggong est envoyé en Chine, où il reçoit l'enseignement des érudits confucéens. Mais en 1644, les Mandchous renversent les Ming et..
Kanji Ishiwara: The Man Who Triggered the War
Most people think that World War II started on September 1st, 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, and then spread to Asia on September 7th 1941, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. However, World War II actually started ten years earlier, when Manchuria was invaded by a now-forgotten Japanese general: Kanji Ishiwara. This is the little kno..
The Story of Heroine Fan Lei-fa
Centring on the legend of the four ancient Chinese heroines, the film was a novelty for audiences at the time, as the singing performance was in Cantonese and used huangmei operatic rhythms—a popular trend in the 1960s, yet it retained traditional flavours by using operatic luogu percussion in the battle scenes. ‘Movie-fan princess' Connie Chan..
Soldier of Victory
Two-part biopic about General Karol Świerczewski, living embodiment of the party line, and the group of party members from his hometown fighting the fascist forces towards the socialist state of affairs.
