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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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Goodbye Bafana

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Bille August

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...

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Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Italy

Director: Tanio Boccia

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms

In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...

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Garbo: The Spy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Spain

Director: Edmon Roch

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith

A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...

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Gandhi, My Father

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: India

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan

Duration: 136 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shetty

Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England became a Barrister returned home and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal...

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My Boy Jack

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Kirk

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2007

Actors: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall

English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....

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Mrs Brown

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: John Madden

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...

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Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan

Director: Sergey Bodrov

Duration: 126 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun

The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach

This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...

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Marie Antoinette

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, France, Japan

Director: Sofia Coppola

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn

All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...

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Malcolm X

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Japan

Director: Spike Lee

Duration: 202 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo

Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...

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