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An experimental musical poem exploring Black ancestry, culture and cyclical growing pains.
Starving on a federal reservation, Dakota Indians attack settlers and soldiers in 1862 in Minnesota.
An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known artistic mother of Heidi, her brave alpine heroine, who was first introduced to the world between 1880 and 1881, in a novel published in two parts, and became definitely immortal thanks to an anime series, released in 1974, directed by the Japanese genius Isao Takahata.
The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.
A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.
For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding the lost legacy of the royal family's forgotten star.
For 30 years, communist Romania was obsessed with obtaining foreign currency. It even went so far as to organize large-scale human trafficking, trading permission for thousands of persecuted Jews to leave the country in exchange for high-quality livestock fattened in Romania and then sold abroad.
Although traumatized by witnessing the murder of his parents by one of the Choushuu, Ichimura Tetsunosuke's thirst for revenge leads him to desire strength. At the age of 15, Tetsunosuke approached the Shinsengumi, wanting to become one of its members. However, Tetsunosuke lacked the skill, mind, and will to emotionlessly cut down whoever threatened peace and the Shinsengumi. Even with the support of his brother Tatsunosuke and his newfound friends of the Shinsengumi, little did Tetsunosuke know the blood and pain he would have to face being part of this historical group.
The first film in a duology based on the biography of Latvian revolutionary Jānis Fabricius. Mārtiņš Venta, the son of a forest ranger, enrolls in a Riga gymnasium and becomes an underground activist, while his classmate, Dace, a teacher's daughter, is expelled from the Riga school for singing the revolutionary song Kā gulbji balti padebeši iet. Dace becomes an actress, but Mārtiņš is drafted into the tsar's army. He refuses to participate in the shooting of a workers' demonstration and is sentenced to exile, but before his deportation, Mārtiņš is allowed to marry Dace in prison.
On March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a crucial and animated parliamentary debate, which was to last nearly ten months and occupy 48 sessions in the Chamber of Deputies. They have to study the bill of separation of the Churches and the State. This law, which founded laicity in France, was adopted on December 9, 1905.
On the eve of the fall of the Ottoman Empire: in the harem of Sultan Abdulhamit II, the odalisque of Italian origin Safiyè dreams of becoming the sultan's first mistress. To achieve her goal, the girl, aided by the eunuch Nadir, is even willing to kill. But when her dream is finally about to come true, her entire world suddenly collapses: the sultan is exiled, the harem is closed, and the odalisques and eunuchs are abandoned to their fate.
”Cornelis” is the unique chronicle about one of Sweden’s greatest music legends - Cornelis Vreeswijk. An honest and gripping account of an exceptionally talented, but self-destructive artist’s intense life both on and behind the stage. A man who during his whole life was searching for love and confirmation.
The film will show the formation of the ancient Ishquz world, the way the tribes united and became a state, and the struggle they fought in this process. The plot line is based on the rise of a new leader named Bartatua and his efforts to unite the tribes against the backdrop of the division that arose after the death of the Ishpakay warlord.
Algren and no De Beauvoir makes Nelson a sad boy in these letters from America. An affair to remember, with distance – initially – no object (plane mailing in fact) in these continental correspondences, monochrome messages that style the times and texts of greats.
A portrait of African-American inventor, engineer, poet, artist, and American Civil War veteran, Lewis H. Latimer told through the experiences of his wife, Mary.
Women soldiers of the Volunteer Army battle the Japanese in Northeast China in 1936.