Category: History
Posted on July 13, 2019 |
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One Sings, the Other Doesn't / L'une chante l'autre pas (1977)
Drama | History
The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker – despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.
Starring: Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse
Director: Agnès Varda
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Posted on July 8, 2019 |
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Back Issues: The Hustler Magazine Story (2014)
Biography | Documentary | Drama | History
The history of Larry Flynt and the iconoclastic adult magazine he created.
Starring: Larry Flynt, William Nirenberg, Ron Jeremy, Jimmy Flynt, Nina Hartley, Taylor Wayne, Taylor Wayne, Amber Lynn
Director: Michael Lee Nirenberg
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Tags: Amber Lynn, Jimmy Flynt, Larry Flynt, Michael Lee Nirenberg, Nina Hartley, Ron Jeremy, Taylor Wayne, William Nirenberg
Posted on July 7, 2019 |
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The Best of Enemies (2019)
Biography | Drama | History
Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.
Starring: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Anne Heche, Wes Bentley, John Gallagher Jr., Bruce McGill
Director: Robin Bissell
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Tags: Anne Heche, Bruce McGill, John Gallagher Jr., Robin Bissell, Sam Rockwell, Taraji P. Henson, Wes Bentley
Posted on July 7, 2019 |
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SGaawaay K'uuna / Edge of the Knife (2018)
Drama | History
In a 19th-century summer, two large families gather for their annual fishing retreat on the far-removed island of Haida Gwaii. Adiits'ii, a charming nobleman, accidentally causes the death of his best friend Kwa's son and hastens into the wilderness. Adiits'ii is tormented by what he has done and spirals into insanity, becoming Gaagiixid, a supernatural being crazed by hunger. He unexpectedly survives the winter, and at next year's gathering, the families try to convert Gaagiixid back to Adiitst'ii.
Starring: Tyler York, Willy Russ, Adeana Young
Director: Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown
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Tags: Adeana Young, Gwaai Edenshaw, Helen Haig-Brown, Tyler York, Willy Russ
Posted on July 5, 2019 |
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Mississippi Burning (1988)
Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Two F.B.I. Agents, with wildly different styles, arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, Gailard Sartain
Director: Alan Parker
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Tags: Alan Parker, Brad Dourif, Frances McDormand, Gailard Sartain, Gene Hackman, R. Lee Ermey, Willem Dafoe
Posted on July 5, 2019 |
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I Can Make You Love Me / Stalking Laura (1993)
Crime | Drama | History | Horror | Thriller
A beautiful young computer technician starting off her career in Silicon Valley during the Eighties, is stalked and harassed by a nerdy, dangerous and mentally-unstable colleague with a twisted obsession.
Starring: Richard Thomas, Brooke Shields, Viveka Davis, William Allen Young, Richard Yniguez, Scott Bryce
Director: Michael Switzer
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Tags: Brooke Shields, Michael Switzer, Richard Thomas, Richard Yniguez, Scott Bryce, Viveka Davis, William Allen Young
Posted on June 29, 2019 |
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The Rise and Fall of Nokia (2018)
Documentary | History
How small, idealistic, Finnish company, Nokia, became the global leader in cell phone technology only to become drunk with success, lose its visionary style of leadership and completely fail to predict the rise of its death knell, iPhone.
Starring: Craig Livingstone, Jorma Nieminen
Director: Arto Koskinen
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Tags: Arto Koskinen, Craig Livingstone, Jorma Nieminen
Posted on June 24, 2019 |
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Fuck You All: The Uwe Boll Story (2018)
Biography | Documentary | History | News
Behind the lens with the most hated man in Hollywood.
Starring: Natalie Boll, Uwe Boll, Dan Clarke, Keith David, Brendan Fletcher
Director: Sean Patrick Shaul
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Tags: Brendan Fletcher, Dan Clarke, Keith David, Natalie Boll, Sean Patrick Shaul, Uwe Boll
Posted on June 22, 2019 |
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In Cold Blood (1967)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
Starring: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey
Director: Richard Brooks
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Tags: Gerald S. O'Loughlin, Jeff Corey, John Forsythe, Paul Stewart, Richard Brooks, Robert Blake, Scott Wilson
Posted on June 22, 2019 |
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Medal of Honor (2008)
Documentary | History | War
The story of the Medal of Honor – the highest U.S. award for valor in combat – is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring.
Starring: Stephen Lang, Alfre Woodard
Director: Roger Sherman
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Tags: Alfre Woodard, Roger Sherman, Stephen Lang
Posted on June 10, 2019 |
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Kursk (2018)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Matthias Schoenaerts, Max von Sydow, Michael Nyqvist, August Diehl
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
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Tags: August Diehl, Colin Firth, Léa Seydoux, Matthias Schoenaerts, Max von Sydow, Michael Nyqvist, Thomas Vinterberg
Posted on June 10, 2019 |
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Robin Williams Remembered (2014)
Documentary | History
Celebrating the life of Robin Williams with interviews, tributes and clips from his career.
Starring: Robin Williams
Director: Steve Boettcher
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Posted on June 3, 2019 |
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Johnny Tremain / Johnny Tremain and the Sons of Liberty (1957)
Adventure | Family | History | War
Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War, and becomes a patriot fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
Starring: Hal Stalmaster, Luana Patten, Jeff York, Sebastian Cabot, Richard Beymer, Rusty Lane
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Tags: Hal Stalmaster, Jeff York, Luana Patten, Richard Beymer, Robert Stevenson, Rusty Lane, Sebastian Cabot
Posted on May 28, 2019 |
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The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018)
Documentary | History
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Starring: Bill Glied, Hedy Bohm, Eva Mozes Kor, Max Eisen, Thomas Walther, Efraim Zuroff, Alan M. Dershowitz, Benjamin Ferencz, Peter Singer, Eli Rosenbaum, Kirsten Goetze, Lawrence Douglas, Rebecca Wittmann
Director: Matthew Shoychet
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Tags: Alan M. Dershowitz, Benjamin Ferencz, Bill Glied, Efraim Zuroff, Eli Rosenbaum, Eva Mozes Kor, Hedy Bohm, Kirsten Goetze, Lawrence Douglas, Matthew Shoychet, Max Eisen, Peter Singer, Rebecca Wittmann, Thomas Walther
Posted on May 18, 2019 |
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Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Maria Dragus, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Martin Compston
Director: Josie Rourke
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Tags: Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Josie Rourke, Margot Robbie, Maria Dragus, Martin Compston, Saoirse Ronan
Posted on May 17, 2019 |
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Mary Shelley (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
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Tags: Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Douglas Booth, Elle Fanning, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Maisie Williams, Tom Sturridge
Posted on May 7, 2019 |
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The Favourite (2018)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Starring: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
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Tags: Emma Stone, Joe Alwyn, Mark Gatiss, Nicholas Hoult, Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Yorgos Lanthimos
Posted on May 5, 2019 |
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Apollo 11 (2019)
Documentary | History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Starring: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
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Posted on May 5, 2019 |
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Satan Never Sleeps / Flight from Terror (1962)
Drama | History | War
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson, Burt Kwouk
Director: Leo McCarey, David W. Orton
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Tags: Athene Seyler, Burt Kwouk, Clifton Webb, David W. Orton, France Nuyen, Leo McCarey, Martin Benson, William Holden
Posted on May 4, 2019 |
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Missing (1982)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Hardin, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Director: Costa-Gavras
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Tags: Charles Cioffi, Costa-Gavras, Jack Lemmon, Jerry Hardin, John Shea, Melanie Mayron, Sissy Spacek
