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Gekijôban Gintama: Shin'yaku Benizakura hen is a movie starring Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, and Rie Kugimiya. The silver-haired samurai Sakata Gintoki investigates the disappearance of a legendary sword named Benizakura...

Princess Ka'iulani is a movie starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Barry Pepper, and Shaun Evans. The true story of a Hawaiian princess' attempts to maintain the independence of the island against the threat of American colonization.

Des hommes et des dieux is a movie starring Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, and Olivier Rabourdin. Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide...

Chicogrande is a movie starring Damián Alcázar, Juan Manuel Bernal, and Bruno Bichir. Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign...

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.

On June 20, 2009, Neda Agha Soltan was shot in the heart by a sniper during the protests against the Iranian presidential elections. This documentary tells the personal story of the young Iranian woman and her tragic death.

Tang shan da di zhen is a movie starring Daoming Chen, Chen Li, and Yi Lu. The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976.

Last Day of the Dinosaurs is a TV movie starring Bill Mondy. Proposes a minute-by-minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world.

Jing wu feng yun: Chen Zhen is a movie starring Donnie Yen, Alex Ahlstrom, and Qi Shu. Chen Zhen, believed dead, returns to 1930s Shanghai under a false name. He joins a mob boss for info on the Japanese incl. a long kill list and...

También la lluvia is a movie starring Gael García Bernal, Luis Tosar, and Karra Elejalde. As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to...

Hai shang chuan qi is a movie starring Michelangelo Antonioni, Yindi Cao, and Hsin-i Chang. Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid-1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the...

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990's onward. Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strike in August 1994. The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball at

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother.

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Bruc. La llegenda is a movie starring Juan José Ballesta, Vincent Perez, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey. 1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to...

Based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number.

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasi

From PBS and American Experience - In the summer of 1868, paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh boarded a Union Pacific train for a sightseeing excursion through the heart of the newly opened American West. While most passengers simpl

The Flaw is a movie starring Andrew Luan, Robert Shiller, and Louis Hyman. An examination of the causes of the economic crisis of 2008.

Bill Cunningham New York is a movie starring Bill Cunningham, Anna Wintour, and Michael Kors. A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer.

Something Ventured is a movie starring Bill Bowes, Herbert Boyer, and Po Bronson. The story of how a few individuals built an industry that would go on to finance nearly all of the major advancements in technology in the past 50...

A racially-charged criminal trial and a heart-rending love story converge in this documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, set during the turbulent Civil Rights era. Long Way Home: The Loving Story is a story of love and the str

Memorial Day, 1993. When 13-year-old Kyle Vogel discovers the World War II footlocker belonging to his grandfather, Bud, everyone tells Kyle to put it back. Luckily, he ignores them. Although Bud has never talked about the war, he fi

If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front is a movie starring Daniel McGowan, Lisa McGowan, and Tim Lewis. A rare behind-the-curtain look at the Earth Liberation Front, the radical environmental group that the FBI calls...

Xin hai ge ming is a movie starring Jackie Chan, Winston Chao, and Bingbing Li. A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty.

Go-ji-jeon is a movie starring Shin Ha-kyun, Go Soo, and Seung-su Ryu. A drama centered on the Korean War's final battle that will determine the border between north and south.

When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent.

Sai de ke · ba lai: Cai hong qiao is a movie starring Nolay Piho, Chih-Hsiang Ma, and Masanobu Andô. After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his...

The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 is a movie starring Angela Davis, Stokely Carmichael, and Bobby Seale. Footage shot by a group of Swedish journalists documenting the Black Power Movement in the United States is edited together by...

A documentary on the band Pearl Jam that marks their 20th anniversary in the year 2011.

The untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their journeys from the late 1930's to the present day.

Dissidents in a French overseas territory attack a police station and take hostages.

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.

A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.

On the West Coast on Finland in nineteenth-century Ostrobothnia. Esko is the leader of a local gang of troublemakers and an uneven battle ensues over the estate, honor a father's last wishes.

Apostle Peter and the Last Supper is a movie starring Robert Loggia, Bruce Marchiano, and Laurence Fuller. Three days before his execution, the elderly Apostle Peter tells his jailer about his time with Jesus.

Captain Frank Worsley signs on as Captain of the Endurance to navigate Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew to Antarctica. When the expedition ship is crushed; Worsley's seamanship and navigational skills saves them all.

Bel Ami is a movie starring Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, and Kristin Scott Thomas. A chronicle of a young man's rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the city's wealthiest and most influential women.

In the late 80's, the filmmaker shot with a group of punks who were struggling with the communist regime. 20 years later, she comes back and asks them how do they see life in Hungary before and after the fall of the Berlin wall? Thei

En kongelig affære is a movie starring Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, and Mikkel Boe Følsgaard. A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that...

The Broken Tower is a movie starring James Franco, Michael Shannon, and Stacey Miller. A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

The story of two warring generals (Liu Bang and Xiang Yu) fighting for control of China at the end of the Qin Dynasty.

In Search of the Perfect Human Diet is a movie starring C.J. Hunt, Leslie Aiello, and Susan Loraine Anderson. Journalist C.J.Hunt's global quest for a solution to the obesity epidemic and diet-related disease. It explores modern...

For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada is a movie starring Andy Garcia, Oscar Isaac, and Catalina Sandino Moreno. A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); a war by the people of Mexico against the atheistic Mexican...

This Ain't California is a movie starring David Nathan, Anneke Schwabe, and Bill Clinton. This Ain't California is a celebration of the lust for life, a contemporary documentary trip into the world of roller boarding in the German...

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain. Based on actual events.

Gwang-hae, wang-i doin nam-ja is a movie starring Lee Byung-hun, Seung-ryong Ryu, and Han Hyo-joo. A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender is an episode of Imagine starring Freddie Mercury, Peter Freestone, and Roger Taylor. Documentary looking at the relationships and solo career of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.