Unsung Heroines: Danielle De Niese On The Lost World Of Female Composers
Country: United Kingdom, Chile, Spain, France
Genre: Biography, Drama
Santiago capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious collegio Catholic prep school St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infantes...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
An inspiring look at JK Rowlings rise to become one of the most influential writers-from her humble beginnings as an imaginative young girl and awkward teenager to the loss of her mother and the genesis of the Harry Potter...
Country: United States, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Man on the Moon is a biographical movie on the late comedian Andy Kaufman. Kaufman along with his role on Taxi 1978 was famous for being the self-declared Intergender Wrestling Champion of the world. After beating women time and time again Jerry Lawler who plays himself in the movie a professional wrestler got tired of seeing all of this and decided to challenge Kaufman to a match. In...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography
On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...
Country: United States, France, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...
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