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The story tells of a family tragedy that is based (not always factually accurate) on a well-known tragedy involving the ruling family of Austria-Hungary in 1889. Various names have been changed.
The film tells the story of a series of events, coincidences and accidents caused by World War I, which allowed Latvians, like many other nations, to fulfill their dream of having their own country in 1918. However, the foundations of the Latvian state were laid in November 1917 in Valka, when the largest Latvian parties and social movements established the Latvian Provisional National Council. Why did Valka become the epicenter of events? What gave strength and inspiration to the men who began to build a free and united Latvia? And how heavy is the clay from which a country is made? The answers to these questions will be sought by storyteller and actor Gundars Āboliņš, together with historians and lawyers Jānis Plepu, Ēriks Jēkabsons, Ineta Lipša, and Jānis Tomaševskis.
This is a historical drama that was produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio.
After Jeanette becomes the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry, he marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entre to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard. Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.
The film, created to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Erdenet, tells the story of the love and life of young people who come to work at the Erdenet Ore Processing Plant in the 1980s. Although they love each other, the film shows how their relationship is affected and changed by baseless lies and the reckless actions of unscrupulous people.
When researchers began looking into just how much the Soviet government knew about UFOs and extraterrestrial visitation, they were not surprised to learn that the Russians took the subject very seriously. What they didn't expect was evidence of ancient alien visitation, paranormal properties associated with related artifacts, and most shocking of all, of a mass abduction in 1985!
Opera by Harry Somers portraying Metis leader Louis Riel and his Northwest Rebellion. 1969 CBC-TV production based on the original 1967 opera.
The story of the siege and eventual relief of British soldiers garrisoned at Lucknow during the 1857 Indian Rebellion. Only a fragment of the original film remains.
The Scythians, skilled horsemen and nomadic conquerors, built a feared empire in the vast Eurasian steppe between the 9th and 3rd centuries B.C. All that remains are their graves: the Kourganes. In April 1999, a 2400 year-old Scythian tomb was discovered in Kazakhstan. It contained, among other treasures, twelve horses completely harnessed in gold, suggesting high social status.
In 1960, Juliette, Antoine, Marie-Claire and Carlo are second class. They age of the first discoveries of the adult world, the first existential questions and the first stirrings of love. Beaufort teacher practice unconventional methods of education for the time and opens their eyes to what awaits. Serge's brother Anthony must return to America. Despair Antoine, Juliette, 15, falls madly in love with Serge, who is ten years older than her. But the Algeria war breaks out and Serge is called upon to defend his country. The young couple promises to write. Months pass and Juliet, pregnant, no news of the future dad ...
Story of Aate Pitkänen, a idealistic Canadian-Finn who went to Soviet Karelia.
A British secret agent takes up the job of solving a dark mystery. He is led into a web of love, deceit and betrayal. His success and failure can change the course of history.
Born in a village in Sudan, kidnapped by slavers, often beaten and abused, and later sold to Federico Marin, a Venetian merchant, Bakhita then came to Italy and became the nanny servant of Federico's daughter, Aurora, who had lost her mother at birth. She is treated as an outcast by the peasants and the other servants due to her black skin and African background, but Bakhita is kind and generous to others. Bakhita gradually comes closer to God with the help of the kind village priest, and embraces the Catholic faith. She requests to join the order of Canossian sisters, but Marin doesn't want to give her up as his servant, treating her almost as his property. This leads to a moving court case that raised an uproar which impacts Bakhita's freedom and ultimate decision to become a nun. Pope John Paul II declared her a saint in the year 2000.
carefully reconstructs the events in Bolivia between 1979 and 1982. Dark years. Speaking of Alberto Natush's coup d'etat, the massacre of Todos Santos, the murders of Luis Espinal and Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz, the worker, peasant and student mobilizations, García Meza Tejada's coup d'etat and the return to the democratic process.
The Second Republic has fallen miserably. Simon Bolivar arrives to Jamaica without money or friends, seeking help from other nations to free Venezuela.
Juán Auzmendi, sacristan of a small Spanish village, decides to emigrate to America in search of new horizons. To pay for the trip, he steals the saving of his parish priest and begins the journey to the city of Pasajes, where he hopes to get on a ship. But Spain is again on the verge of a Civil War and the trip to the coast gets complicated.
Scientist Joe Hartman introduces self-proclaimed Middle Eastern psychic Uri Geller to America.
There is a civil war in Turkestan. Many people stood up in arms to defend the young Soviet government. Among them is the young Mayna Khasanova. She devoted her life to the struggle for the ideals of revolution. Mayna, as a girl from a legend, will accomplish a feat, a story about which many generations of Soviet people will betray by word of mouth. The young heroine will be awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Battle.
The execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by the German occupiers on May 1st, 1944 in Kaisariani, as reprisal for the Greek Resistance ambush against Nazis.
