Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
When a gunman killed five Amish children and injured five others in a Nickel Mines Pennsylvania schoolhouse shooting in October of 2006 the world media attention rapidly turned from the tragic events to the extraordinary forgiveness demonstrated by the Amish community. Through the eyes of a grieving mother Ida Graber and other devastated families this movie explores the Amishs astonishing...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography
A biography on the life of Amy...
Country: Soviet Union
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar...
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Artemisia Gentileschi 1593-1653 was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth when she was guided and protected by her father the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity about the male anatomy forbidden for her eyes led her to the knowledge of sexual pleasure. But she was also well known because in 1612 she had to appear in a...
Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
War feasts upon death. Its greedy appetite carries away many a life on the battlefield and soldiers must be ready to die at any time. Yet all these sacrifices can be given meaning and reason with honor. A weathered witness of wars insatiable appetite Guzidi Captain of the Ninth Company will struggle his entire life to return honor to his forty six men and their self-sacrifice. The year 1948...
Country: United States, Germany, Ethiopia
Genre: Biography, Drama
Running the streets of Rome in 1960 an unknown barefooted Ethiopian man stunned the world by winning Olympic gold in the marathon. Overnight Abebe Bikila became a sports legend. A hero in his own country and to the continent Bikila was the first African to win a gold medal and four years later in Tokyo would become the first person in history to win consecutive Olympic gold medals in the...
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
In 1944 upper class boy Julien Quentin and his brother François travel to Catholic boarding school in the countryside after vacations. Julien is a leader and good student and when the new student Jean Bonnet arrives in the school they have friction in their relationship. However Julien learns to respect Jean and discovers that he is Jewish and the priests are hiding him from the Nazis. They...
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