Keyword: 1910s

The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain

6.6

1995

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When an English cartographer must tell a Welsh village that their mountain is only a hill, the offended community sets out to change that.

Photographing Fairies

6.9

1997

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A 1997 fantasy film based on Steve Szilagyis 1992 novel, Photographing Fairie.

Russia 1917: Countdown to Revolution

6.3

2017

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In February 1917, Nicolas Ii abdicated as Tsar of All the Russias. By October, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin have seized control. Was the Russian Revolution really a popular uprising? Or merely a stunning coup detat?

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

7.7

2018

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Pamela B. Greens energetic film about pioneer filmmaker Alice Guy-Blaché is both a tribute and a detective story, tracing the circumstances by which this extraordinary artist faded from memory and the path toward her reclamation.

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

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2016

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Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century. His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end. Two women will have a lasting impact on him - his sister and first muse Gerti, and 17 year old Wally, arguably his one true love, immortalized in his famous painting Death and the Maiden. His radical paintings scandalize Viennese society while daring artists like Gustav Klimt and art agents alike are sensing the exceptional. But he is also prepared to go beyond his own pain and to sacrifice Love and Life for his art that inspires us up to this day.

Shout at the Devil

6.3

1976

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During World War I, a British aristocrat, an American entrepreneur, and the latters attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battlecruiser, which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar.

The Great Martian War 1913–1917

6.9

2013

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Documentary-drama recounting the Martian War of 1913 - 1917. Europe was on tenterhooks in the 2nd decade of the 20th century, everyone was expecting a Great War between the major European powers. But then, in 1913, something crashed into the forests of SW Germany. Troops were sent to investigate but were wiped out. Martian fighting machines began making their way across Western Europe and the countries of Europe combined forces to resist them. With aspects taken from The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells and from WWI itself, this dramatisation presents a documentary style look at events as they unfolded and the effect they had of our world today. Lots of references to real events including the mass attacks and defeats as men were thrown against machines on the Western front, the Christmas truce and the Angel of Mons, Americas isolationism and late entry into the conflict, the worldwide Spanish flu epidemic that killed more people than the war, and many other things.

The House of Sand

7.4

2005

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A woman is taken along with her mother in 1910 to a far-away desert by her husband, and after his passing, is forced to spend the next 59 years of her life hopelessly trying to escape it.

For Me and My Gal

7.1

1942

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Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

The Iceman Cometh

7.5

1973

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A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

The Lighthorsemen

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1987

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In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Avalon

7.3

1990

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A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.