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The Man Who Mends Women The Wrath of Hippocrates (2015)
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The Karen Carpenter Story (1989)
The Karen Carpenter Story 1989 Story of the meteoric rise and sudden fall of Karen Carpenter, who became a famous singer before battling anorexia and bulimia
Faruk (2024)
Faruk 2024 A filmmaker daughter documents the imminent demolition of her father Faruks apartment building in Istanbul Faruk, who is over 90, increasingly becomes the protagonist
Monsieur Mayonnaise (2016)
Monsieur Mayonnaise 2016 Monsieur Mayonnaise is an artists epic adventure into his familys secret past Australian artist and film maker, Philippe Mora, investigates his fathers clandestine role in the French Resistance in WW2 and his mothers miraculous escape enroute to Auschwitz Philippe, a Hollywo
FantastiCozzi (2016)
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Hannas War (1988)
Hannas War 1988 At the beginning of World War Two a Hungarian Jew living in British Palestine volunteers to parachute behind enemy lines in German occupied Yugoslavia to save fellow Jews from deportation to Nazi Death Camps After she enlisted in the British Army she trained in Egypt as a paratrooper
The Arbor (2010)
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Words and Music (1948)
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Lon Chaney A Thousand Faces (2000)
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The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James (1986)
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
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Pencils vs Pixels (2023)
Pencils vs Pixels 2023 It is a celebration of the unique magic of 2D hand drawn animation and an exploration of how the Disney of the late 1980s and early 1990s led to an animation boom that was quickly upended by the computer animation revolution that
Dr Petiot (1990)
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The Last Goldfish (2017)
The Last Goldfish 2017 Manfred Goldfish tried to put a lid on the trauma that made him a refugee in 1939 When his daughter unearths Manfreds extraordinary story, she finds where she belongs, and we touch on the truth for millions of others
The Great Famine (2011)
The Great Famine 2011 The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoovers American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921
Abraham Lincoln (1930)
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Hideo Kojima Connecting Worlds (2023)
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Confucius (2010)
Confucius 2010 The life story of the highly influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius
Mr Mrs Mahi (2024)
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Night and Day (1946)
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I Am Secretly an Important Man (2010)
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Still Bill (2009)
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Portrait of Jason (1967)
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Tail Gunner Joe (1977)
Tail Gunner Joe 1977 A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President
The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (2010)
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Eero Saarinen The Architect Who Saw the Future (2016)
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Behind the White Glasses (2015)
Behind the White Glasses 2015 A spotlight on Italian maestro Lina Wertmuller, the visionary and groundbreaking Italian writer director who worked side by side with Federico Fellini and went on to make more than 30 films becoming the first woman ever to receive Academy Award nominations for Best Dire
A Tiger in Paradise (2023)
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Preston Sturges The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (19
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How Did We Get Here (2022)
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Song Of Granite (2017)
Song Of Granite 2017 Acclaimed filmmaker Pat Collins brings the dramatic life story of legendary seannos singer Joe Heaney to the screen in Song of Granite, an audacious exploration of the man and his music With an approach that marries traditional narrative episodes with documentary footage, the fi
Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
Dick Johnson Is Dead 2020 A daughter helps her father prepare for the end of his life
Madu (2024)
Madu 2024 Follows Anthony Madu, the Nigerian boy who became a viral sensation after a video showed him dancing ballet barefoot on a rainy street outside Lagos
Ganes (2007)
Ganes 2007 In early days Remu Aaltonen was young musician and his band named Hurriganes were unknown This story is all about the Finnish rock band and how they became famous
Harley (2020)
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Terrors Advocate (2007)
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Sweetwater (1999)
Sweetwater 1999 In 1969, the rock band Sweetwater led by lead singer Nansi Nevins opened Woodstock and subsequently received considerable media attention, appearing on a number of television shows However, just as they appeared to be receiving a
Friedkin Uncut (2018)
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Prairie to Page (2020)
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The Real Anthony Fauci Part 2 (2022)
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I, Leonardo (2019)
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Evenings (1989)
Evenings 1989 Frits van Egters life in the last ten days of the year 1946
Gorky 3 My Universities (1940)
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The Boy in Blue (1986)
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Dangerous Company (1982)
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Juarez (1939)
Juarez 1939 The newly named Emperor Maximillian, the only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, arrives in Mexico in the early 1860s with his wife Carlotta to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juarez and popular demand for democracy With an elite group of Mexican monarchists, Maximillian tries
The Age of the Medici (1972-)
The Age of the Medici 1972 This is a lengthy exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatised conversations between the main participants, particularly Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi Among its themes are commerce and banking, artistic and s