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Hell And Back Again

Genres: Documentary, Action, History, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan

Director: Danfung Dennis

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Nathan Harris, Ashley Harris, The Marines of Echo Company

What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of...

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Gobeklitepe: The World's First Temple

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: Turkey, Egypt, India

Director: Ahmet Turgut Yazman

Duration: 80 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Stephen Leyland

12.000 years ago there already was a sacred place on...

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Gettysburg (2011)

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Adrian Moat

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Sam Rockwell, Josh Artis, Greg Berg

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic...

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For All Mankind

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States

Director: Al Reinert

Duration: 80 min

Year: 1989

Actors: Jim Lovell, Kenneth Mattingly, Russell Schweickart

This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6000000 feet of it and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and...

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Films Of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States

Director: Andrew Corvey, Andrew W. Robinson

Duration: 80 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Yuri Lowenthal

Tells the story of the Kung Fu sub-culture from its ancient Peking Opera origins to its superhero-powered future. From Enter the Dragon to Kung Fu Panda and everything in between Films of Fury features the genres greatest on-screen warriors and reveals the legend the lore and the loony of the Kung Fu film genre like it has never been seen...

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Double Cross: The True Story Of The D-day Spies

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Matthew Whiteman

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Year: 2012

Actors: Ben Macintyre

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Comic Book Confidential

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States, Canada

Director: Ron Mann

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1988

Actors: Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe

In the 20th century no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages readings and interviews this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great...

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Bowling For Columbine

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States, Canada, Germany

Director: Michael Moore

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2002

Actors: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson

The USA of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns violent national history violent entertainment and even...

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Blood And Oil: The Middle East In World War I

Genres: Documentary, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Marty Callaghan

Duration: 112 min

Year: 2006

Actors:

Marty Callaghans Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empires demise in 1918 and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies a close study of this conflict provides two...

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102 Minutes That Changed America

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States

Director: Nicole Rittenmeyer, Seth Skundrick

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2008

Actors: George W. Bush, Joe Napolitano, Kelly Edwards

The morning of September 11 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers...

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The Diary Of Anne Frank

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, History, ...

Country: United States

Director: George Stevens

Duration: 152 min

Year: 1959

Actors: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut

Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...

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The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Henry Hathaway

Duration: 88 min

Year: 1951

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...

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The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Laurence Olivier

Duration: 137 min

Year: 1944

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks

In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic

Director: Uli Edel

Duration: 150 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...

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The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Romania

Director: Andrei Ujica

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Leonid Brezhnev

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...

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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Andrew Dominik

Duration: 160 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...

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Spartacus

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Duration: 197 min

Year: 1960

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...

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Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: Germany

Director: Marc Rothemund

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held

The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...

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Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: Japan

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...

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Robert Mugabe... What Happened?

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, News

Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Simon Bright

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Guy de Lancey

Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...

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Wilde

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Brian Gilbert

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave

The story of Oscar Wilde genius poet playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosies father the enraged Marquise of Queensberry Wilde refused to flee the country and was...

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Viva Zapata

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War, ...

Country: United States

Director: Elia Kazan

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1952

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn

In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...

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Vincere

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Italy, France

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Duration: 128 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi

The story of Mussolinis secret lover Ida Dalser and their son...

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The Young Victoria

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort Conroy since childhood teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IVs rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but following her accession at age eighteen finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance...

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The Times Of Harvey Milk

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein (as Robert Epstein)

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1984

Actors: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg

Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...

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The Story Of Adele H

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: François Truffaut

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott

Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...

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The Spirit Of St. Louis

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Billy Wilder

Duration: 135 min

Year: 1957

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...

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The Return Of Martin Guerre

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: France

Director: Daniel Vigne

Duration: 122 min

Year: 1982

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier

During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...

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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1928

Actors: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley

The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...

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