Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks (2019)
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks 2019 From Hong Kong to Hollywood, the Shaw Brothers to The Matrix, martial arts in cinema has been busting box offices and breaking barriers since the 1960s This is the wild untold story of how the way of the dragon became a global phenomenon
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014)
Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (2014) Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation. In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probing the edges of cons
Festival Express (2003)
Festival Express (2003) In the summer of 1970, a chartered train crossed Canada carrying some of the world's greatest rock bands. The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Buddy Guy, and others lived (and partied) together for five days, stopping in major cities along the way to play live concerts.
The Pagan King (2018)
The Pagan King (2018) On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings
Against the Wall (1994)
Against the Wall (1994) Based on the true story of the uprising at Attica Prison in 1971. Michael Smith, a new recruit to the prison service, along with several of his colleagues get caught up in a prison riot fueled by bad prison management and a lack of understanding by the guards
Mute Fire (2019)
Mute Fire 2019 While a director makes a film about this the origins of Cinema in Colombia, suddenly, his mother, apparently suffers a strange mental disease without explanation she stops talking This situation forces him to stop his film and starts recording his mothers everyday activity, trying to
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960) Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.
Wil (2023)
Wil 2023 Wilfried Wils must survive as an auxiliary policeman during the Nazi occupation of Antwerp
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
The Age of Stupid (2009)
The Age of Stupid (2009) This ambitious documentary/drama/animation hybrid stars Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, asking the question: "Why didn't we stop climate change when we still had the chance?" He looks back on footage of real people around the world i
The Better Angels (2014)
The Better Angels (2014) Indiana, 1817. The entire nation, only 40 years old and a few years removed from a second war of independence, is raw. Men, women, and children alike must battle nature and disease to survive in remote log cabins. This is young Abraham Lincoln's world. Spanning three years o
The Burning of Atlanta (2020)
1864 After a huge battle and the brutal shelling of the population of Atlanta, Federal troops ("Yanks") take control of the city. Their plan is to use all of the goods remaining in the warehouse district of Atlanta to outfit their army for the upcoming March to the Sea, which they hope will end the
The Sixties (2014)
The Sixties 2014 Interviews and archival footage focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs and the free love movement of the 1960s
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007) On a calm summer day in 1991, in the bustling Lokhandwala Complex, five criminals including Maya and Dilip were counting 70 lakhs in flat no. 32 B, when 286 policemen, headed by ACP Khan, took strategic positions around their building. A gunfire ensued and the entire n
Origin (2023)
Origin 2023 The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions
Battle Factory (2015-)
Battle Factory 2015 Battle Factory takes us into the hidden world of military and frontline gear factories all over the world, where raw materials become finished products Battle Factory has unprecedented access and reveals how these things are made right before the viewers eyes
Fighting for the Motherland (2020)
Fighting for the Motherland 2020 In 1161, Wanyan Liang, emperor of the Jurchen Jin Dynasty, planned to invade the Southern Song Dynasty Owing to the harsh recruitment policy and the Jins cruelty, people in the Central Plain found it hard to live on Xin Qiji, aged 21, rose up in arms with villagers t
Montford The Chickasaw Rancher (2021)
Montford The Chickasaw Rancher 2021 A remarkable story inspired by the life of renowned Chickasaw cattleman Montford T Johnson, a man who overcame great hardships to establish a ranching empire along the famous cattle highway of the American West, the Chisolm Trail
Lily White (2016)
Lily White (2016) When the blacksmith's daughter gets infected by the black plague, he must do everything he can to prevent her from the king's execution orders.
Francesco (1989)
Francesco (1989) The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, an
Frost/Nixon (2008)
Frost/Nixon (2008) Writer Peter Morgan's legendary battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the story of the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after being
Red Sorghum (1988)
Red Sorghum (1988) In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds herself inheriting the isolated business.
National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead (2015)
Featuring rare and never before seen footage, this is the mind boggling story of The National Lampoon from its subversive and electrifying beginnings, to rebirth as an unlikely Hollywood heavyweight, and beyond. A humour empire like no other, the impact of the magazines irreverent, often shocking, s
The Unknown Known (2013)
The Unknown Known (2013) Former United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, discusses his career in Washington D.C. from his days as a congressman in the early 1960s to planning the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
Taistelu Näsilinnasta 1918 (2012)
Taistelu Näsilinnasta 1918 (2012) "The Battle of Nasilinna 1918" - depicting the Finnish Civil War from the White army's point of view. Lieutenant Melin's soldiers mission is to penetrate the heart of the city and overtake the Nasilinna Palace from the Reds.
The Stuarts (2014)
The Stuarts 2014 This three part series argues that the Stuarts, more than any other, were Britains defining royal family We tend to take todays modern United Kingdom for granted, but there was nothing inevitable about its creation During the 17th century, the Stuarts grappled with the chaos of thre
Catch a Fire (2006)
Catch a Fire (2006) A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick i
9th Company (2005)
9th Company (2005) The film is based on a true story of the 9th company during the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan in the 1980's. Young Soviet Army recruits are sent from a boot camp into the middle of the war in Afghanistan. The action is not like a boot camp at all. It is very bloody and dirty. The
The Warriors (1955)
The Warriors (1955) During the 14th century, the Hundred-Year War between France and England ends in a truce. The English army occupies French Aquitaine, but rebel French knights vow to continue the war and oust Prince Edward of Wales, English ruler of French Aquitaine. Prince Edward of Wales is the
Taking Sides Britain and the Civil War (2023)
Taking Sides Britain and the Civil War 2023 Michael Portillo returns with an authored documentary, that uses British state papers to shed fresh light on key events and personalities during the Civil War period in Ireland
10 Things You Dont Know About (2012-2014)
10 Things You Dont Know About 2012 2014 Henry Rollins discusses different subjects throughout history
Moonshot (2009)
Man's landing on the moon was our greatest technological achievement. The Apollo 11 mission was truly the stuff of dreams. For the first time, our species walked on another celestial body. Even more remarkable was their ability to make it back. This is the story of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon
The Dish (2000)
The Dish (2000) In the days before the July 19, 1969 space mission that marked humankind's first steps on the moon, NASA was working with a group of Australian technicians who had agreed to rig up a satellite interface. That the Aussies placed the satellite dish smack dab in the middle of an Austral
Unrest (2017)
Unrest (2017) When Harvard PhD student Jennifer Brea is struck down at 28 by a fever that leaves her bedridden, doctors tell her it's "all in her head." Determined to live, she turns her camera on herself and her community, a hidden world of millions confined to their homes and bedrooms by
Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo (2014)
Queens & Cowboys: A Straight Year on the Gay Rodeo (2014) QUEENS & COWBOYS: A STRAIGHT YEAR ON THE GAY RODEO chronicles a complete season of the International Gay Rodeo Association. Roping and riding across north America for the past 30 years, the IGRA's courageous cowboys and cowgirls brave
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works (2019)
Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works (2019) In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter. They were rule benders, chance takers, ...
Hostages (2022)
November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days.
The Front Runner (2018)
The Front Runner (2018) American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
Richard III (1955)
Richard III (1955) Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. But jealousy and resentment cause Richard to seek the crown for himself, and he conceives a lengthy and carefully calculated plan using deception, manipulation, and outright murder to a
The Beatles: Eight Days a Week The Touring Years (2016)
We all know the moment. February 9th, 1964, 8:12pm EST - after a brief commercial break, four young men from Liverpool step onto the Ed Sullivan stage, changing culture forever. Seventy-three million people watched The Beatles perform that night, the largest audience in television history. It was an
La Belle Vie: The Good Life (2015)
La Belle Vie: The Good Life (2015) La Belle Vie: The Good Life is a story of self-discovery as Haitian-American filmmaker; Rachelle Salnave ventures to confront the grace, and simultaneously the unseemliness, of her native ideologies. Born in New York City, but raised by an upper class patriotic Hai
Viddana (2020)
Viddana 2020 Two young women caught in a toxic relationship are trying to ultimately grow up against the backdrop of the provincial Eastern Austro Hungary 1900 The plot revolves around the controversial relationship between maid Stefania Chornenko and blueblood Adelia Anger Both Stefanias parents an
The Portuguese Falcon (2015)
The Portuguese Falcon (2015) A satire on anti-communist paranoia in the days of fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The series follows the adventures of the "Lusitanian superhero", the ultra-patriotic Captain Falcão, a man who follows the direct orders of António de Oliveira Salazar in the
The Heroes of Telemark (1965)
The Heroes of Telemark (1965) Set in German-occupied Norway, this is an embellished account of the remarkable efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destro
Ike: Countdown to DDay (2004)
Ike: Countdown to DDay (2004) This is the story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy. The film recounts many of the tria
The Black Rose (1950)
The Black Rose 1950 In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England With his friend, the master archer Tris, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigue