Price for Peace
7.3
2002
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Steven Spielberg, historian Stephen E. Ambrose, and director James Moll bring us a film with firsthand accounts chronicling the unforgettable events in the Pacific Theater of World War II. From the bombing of Pearl Harbor through the American occupation of Japan in 1945, this powerful documentary depicts the strength and courage of Americas youth, while examining how these brave men and women dealt with being thrust into this tremendously brutal chapter of world history.
Titanic's Final Mystery
7.2
2012
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The documentary looks at the reasons behind the sinking and lack of rescue of the RMS Titanic, and sees Tim Matlin, author of several books about the Titanic travel to locations across Europe, North American and the Atlantic Ocean to meet experts and perform experiments to test theories.
Joe Hill
7.4
1971
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About the life and death of the legendary Swedish/American agitator Joe Hill.
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story
7.3
1985
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The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.
We're Still Here: Johnny Cash's Bitter Tears Revisited
6.2
2015
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The story behind Johnny Cashs lost Native American-themed concept album and his unique collaboration with folk artist Peter Lafarge. The film also chronicles the reimagining of Cashs highly controversial 1964 record on its 50th anniversary, as recorded at Nashvilles historic Sound Emporium Studios. Based on Antonino DAmbrosios book \A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears.\
Sword of Sherwood Forest
5.9
1960
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While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but Robin Hood and Maid Marian foil their plan.
The Pearls of the Crown
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1937
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Three narrators (French writer Jean Martin, an English royal equerry, and a papal chamberlain) tell the story of seven matched pearls, four of them now in the British Crown. Episodes whirl us from Pope Clement VII to Mary Queen of Scots, from whom the pearls are stolen while shes occupied with the headsman. Historic events are seasoned with sly, satiric humor, and famous beauties are portrayed by stunning actresses. Then the narrators meet, and decide to try tracing the three unrecovered pearls from 1587 to the present...
Anatahan
7.1
1953
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In June 1944, twelve Japanese seaman are stranded on an abandoned-and-forgotten island called Ana-ta-han for seven years.
Princess Yang Kwei Fei
7.2
1955
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In 8th-century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. General An Lushan finds a close relative working in their kitchen whom they groom to present to the Emperor. The Emperor falls in love with her and she becomes the Princess Yang Kwei-fei. The Yangs are then appointed important ministers, though An Lushan is not given the court position he covets. The ministers misuse their power so much that there is a popular revolt against all the Yangs, fueled by An Lushan.
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
7.9
1958
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As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar.
Delusions of Grandeur
7.2
1971
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In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.
Coup d'Etat
6.9
1973
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A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.
Before the Revolution
7.1
2013
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A documentary thriller describing the last days of the Israeli community in Tehran, on the eve of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. The director, whose family was in Tehran at the time, uses rare archive materials to illustrate how thousands of Israelis, who enjoyed unusual affinity with the Shahs regime, wake up one morning to find their paradise vanished.
Tamango
6.5
1958
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A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captains mistress, forcing a showdown.
The Adventures of Gerard
5.1
1970
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Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks hes the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
6.6
2021
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In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities
6.8
2017
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Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black Colleges and Universities examines the impact black colleges and universities have had on American history, culture, and national identity.
Revolution
7.1
1968
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The San Francisco scene in 1967-68. Documentary about hippies shot during the height of the movement . Viewpoints from many kinds of people. Music by Steve Miller Band, Mother Earth, Quicksilver Messenger Service and others.
Broken on All Sides
4.4
2012
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The project began as a way to explore, educate about, and advocate change around the overcrowding in the Philadelphia jail system. It has come to focus on mass incarceration across the nation and the intersection of race, poverty, and the criminal justice and penal systems. The documentary centers around Michelle Alexanders theory in her book, The New Jim Crow: since the rise of the drug war and explosion of prison populations, because discretion within the system allows for prosecution of people of color at disproportionately high rates, mass incarceration is a new version of Jim Crow. The movie also dissects the War on Drugs and tough on crime movement, and offers possible reforms and solutions to ending mass incarceration and this new racial caste system.
Drums in the Deep South
5.8
1951
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Two old friends find themselves on opposite sides during the Civil War in a desperate battle atop an impregnable mountain.
Whittle: The Jet Pioneer
8.3
2010
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Whittle - The Jet Pioneer reveals the titanic struggle of a young aviator and engineer as the Nazis took Europe into total war. It was a race for air superiority between Germany and the Allies. Ultimately the young inventor became one of the most influential Britons of the 20th century with an invention that changed the face of our planet.
Man of Iron
7.4
1981
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A few years after the events of Man of Marble (1977), a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkuts son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike.
Stealing the Superfortress
8
2001
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How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the resulting Tupolev TU-4 on the Cold War.
Knight Without Armour
6.8
1937
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After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors.