Country: United States, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
An FBI agent hunts down a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot doctor and assistant attorney general cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26...
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography
National Geographic photographer James Balog was once a skeptic about climate change. But through his Extreme Ice Survey he discovers undeniable evidence of our changing planet. In Chasing Ice we follow Balog across the Arctic as he deploys revolutionary time-lapse cameras designed for one purpose: to capture a multi-year record of the worlds changing glaciers. Balogs hauntingly beautiful...
Country: West Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 1970s following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14-year-old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-story apartment building in Berlin. Shes fascinated by The Sound a new disco with the most modern equipment. Although legally shes too young she asks a friend to take her. There she meets Detlef whos in a...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
In 48 BC Cleopatra facing palace revolt in her kingdom of Egypt welcomes the arrival of Julius Caesar as a way of solidifying her power under Rome. When Caesar whom she has led astray is killed she transfers her affections to Marc Antony and dazzles him on a barge full of DeMillean splendor. But the trick may not work a third...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...
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