Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, War
Two feisty free-spirited women are connected by the brilliant charismatic poet who loves them both. The passion and pathos of legendary poet Dylan Thomas is told through the lives of two extraordinary women. Vera Phillips and Dylan were teenage loves; fast forward ten years and the two reconnect in London. Shes working as a singer whilst hes churning out scripts for government propaganda...
Country: Palestine, Israel, France, Netherlands
Genre: Documentary
When his fourth son Gibreel is born Emad a Palestinian villager gets his first camera. In his village Bilin a separation barrier is being built and the villagers start to resist this decision. For more than five years Emad films the struggle which is led by two of his best friends alongside filming how Gibreel grows. Very soon it affects his family and his own life. Daily arrests and...
Country: Canada
Genre: Documentary
I dont know anything about mountaineering! laughs first-time climber Bagyashree as her expedition leader shows her how to use an oxygen mask. Like a beehive with no queen Everest Base Camp has become a sprawling haphazard community of individuals all competing for space to make their own push to the summit. Boy has it changed. There used to be only one expedition per season now theres...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, History
The morning of September 11 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers...
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