Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram befriends him and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzrams past is much more violent than he thought but also that hes capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, War
This is a movie about the life of Israels king...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
The story of the life of Jesus Christ from his birth in Bethlehem to his crucifixion and subsequent resurrection. Filmed on a relatively grand scale the film includes all of the major events referred to in the New Testament; his baptism by John the Baptist; the miracles - cripples walking blind men seeing; the fishes and the loaves; and so on. The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by...
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama
Called Prok as an adult short for Professor Kinsey Alfred Kinsey has been interested in biology since he was a child growing up in the early twentieth century despite the criticisms of such being nonsense from his overbearing and devoutly Christian father professor Alfred Seguine Kinsey. Prok goes on to become a biology professor at Indiana University initially focusing on the study of gall...
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost...
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