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During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.

Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition from the local parish.

When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan ...

In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, and left ...

Casanova meets a new servant who will witness his last moments in life, from a castle with its libertine 18th century atmosphere to the poor, ...

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing ...

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy ...

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat ...

This biographical drama about Indonesia’s first president recounts his nationalist crusade to seize independence from Dutch colonial rule.

The film takes place one year after the events of Captain America: The First Avenger, in which Agent Carter, a member of the Strategic Scientific ...

Schooled: The Price of College Sports is a comprehensive look at the business, history and culture of big-time college football and basketball in ...

While in medieval Korea, a young girl sets out to revenge the betrayal and the death of her mother. But therefore she must face one of the most ...

The movie depicts the political crisis that led to the suicide of president Getúlio Vargas, in the 19 days that preceded August 24, 1954. The ...

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a ...

Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York’s Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against ...

The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous ...

An exceptionally talented face reader becomes entangled in a bloody power struggle between a child king and his uncle who plans to usurp the throne.

Sarawak, in the northeast of the island of Borneo, 1839. Almost by chance, the British adventurer James Brooke is appointed rajah by the Sultan ...

The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years ...

Snowbound and desperate, some of the Donner Party died of starvation. Some of them did not. They all sang.

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola’s civil ...

We follow fictional character Detective Lacey on her travels to investigate aspects of female sexuality including women buying sex and ...

In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing ...

Set against a backdrop of a turbulent, war-torn Ireland in the early 1920s, this is a story of three people and the unfolding events from a ...

During a brief rule towards the end of the 19th century, the Italian duke Amadeo of Savoy occupied the Spanish throne. However, confined to the ...

Uncover one of the greatest and darkest deceptions of our time – the conspiracy to cover up the Church’s true identity.

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.

The film is dedicated to the first steps of mankind on the path of space exploration and direct the fate of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The ...

The history books say that the first European to make contact with Native Americans was Christopher Columbus. New evidence tells a different ...

A documentary about the development and spread of the virtual currency called Bitcoin.

A love triangle forms between post-Enlightenment writer Friedrich Schiller and two sisters — one who became his wife, and the other, his ...

Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work behind barbed-wire fences monitored by armed ...

Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, ...

As World War II rages on, Villi and Colette are captured and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. Imprisoned within separate compounds, the ...

A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.

Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when ...

The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.

A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.

On the outskirts of the Civil War, a boy is sent north by a bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as “issues of the past” emerge as racial tensions and ...

The story of a boy who, driven by the search for his lost brother in the turmoil of WWII, joins a group of children in order to survive the chaos ...

A historian and professor Amanda Vickery explores why Jane Austen’s books have been popular for nearly 200 years.

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael ...

During the height of the social revolution, a young dancer searches for salvation when she chooses to leave paradise.

Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally “son of the father” or “Jesus, son of the father” respectively) is a figure in the ...

June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student ...

Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education ...

Geneva, Switzerland 1935. The first European Basketball Championship is about to take place. Basketball is still an unknown sport in Europe, and ...

From T.C. Christensen, director of the sensational pioneer film, 17 Miracles, comes the heroic true story of a simple man who was called to do ...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eventually becomes one of the primary influences ...