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#AnneFrank: Parallel Stories

#AnneFrank: Parallel Stories

Helen Mirren retraces the life of Anne Frank through the pages of her diary, and that of 5 other women who survived the Shoah.

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37

37

Based on the remarkable true events that shocked a nation, and marked a fall from innocence in American culture, the murder of Kitty Genovese and the 37 who “did nothing” is re-imagined through th...

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A Radiant Girl

A Radiant Girl

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is a nineteen-year-old aspiring actress who has little understanding that time is running out as the Nazis occupy France.

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A Screaming Man

A Screaming Man

A former swimming champion selfishly puts his welfare above his son during the Chadian revolution, and out of guilt, regrets his decision.

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Aalto

Aalto

A cinematic journey into the life and work of one of the greatest modern architects: Alvar Aalto, and his partnership with his wife Aino.

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Afterimage

Afterimage

A story of a well-known Polish avant-garde painter who opposed the Stalinist social realistic styleand maintained his own artistic freedom in spite of political obstacles.

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Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

Ahead of Time: The Extraordinary Journey of Ruth Gruber

With her love of adventure and powerful intellect, Ruth Gruber defied tradition and in the process, emerged as the eyes and conscience of the world.

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Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

Sergei Eisenstein's landmark tale of Russia thwarting the German invasion of the 13th century.

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An Unfinished Film

An Unfinished Film

January 2020. A film crew reunited to resume the shooting of a film halted 10 years earlier, faces unexpected challenges as cities are locked down.

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As If I Am Not There

As If I Am Not There

After just moving to Sarajevo, a young woman is imprisoned in a Bosnian war camp.

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August the First

August the First

Tunde's family throws him a graduation party, but they have no idea that he has arranged for his estranged father to attend.

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Before, Now & Then

Before, Now & Then

Kamila Andini delivers a superb portrait of a woman battling the trauma of war, fighting to free herself from the patriarchal dictates of her era.

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Behind a Portrait:  The Italian Treasures from Accademia Carrara

Behind a Portrait: The Italian Treasures from Accademia Carrara

Boasting an impressive private collection with a specific focus on the art of portrait, the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo is an Italian treasure.

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Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls pays stark witness to the horrors and brutality of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of an innocent 17-year-old farm-boy turned soldier.

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Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

Bosch: The Garden of Dreams

BOSCH: THE GARDEN OF DREAMS is a study of Hieronymus Bosch’s renowned painting The Garden of Earthly Delights.

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Calm at Sea

Calm at Sea

A teenager joins the resistance in Nazi-occupied France during World War II.

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Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood

Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood

Caravaggio: The Soul and the Blood is a visually stunning journey through the struggles and successes of the revolutionary and controversial artist,

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Chess Story

Chess Story

To withstand the Gestapo's psychological torture, a notary to the Austrian aristocracy seeks refuge from solitary confinement in the world of chess.

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Classical Music Collection

Classical Music Collection

This collection explores both the formal rigor and history of Western musical tradition, and how its practice lives on in the 21st century.

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Dunkirk

Dunkirk

DUNKIRK follows the dramatic events leading up to Operation Dynamo during WWII while honoring the bravery of its soldiers and exposing the war.

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Eva Doesn't Sleep

Eva Doesn't Sleep

The embalmed corpse of Eva Peron is taken to various cities throughout Europe before returning to her home in Argentina, where it is ultimately abducted.

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Far Western

Far Western

The phenomenal story of the transplant of American country music to post-World War II Japan.

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Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, and Gong LI star in Chen Kaige's adaptation of Lilian Lee's epic novel set against the backdrop of the Peking Opera.

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Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

Florence and the Uffizi Gallery

A journey into the Italian Renaissance through the most beautiful, representative works of art of the period.

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Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask

FRANTZ FANON: BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASK tells the story of the life and work of the highly influential anti-colonialist writer Frantz Fanon.

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Hinterland

Hinterland

Peter Perg returns from the Great War to find a serial killer terrorizing Vienna. His investigation leads him into the darkest corners of the city.

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Hitler's Children

Hitler's Children

A documentary looking into the lives of the descendants of the top Nazi officials who worked under Hitler's command.

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Hollywood On Trial

Hollywood On Trial

Home From Home: Chronicle of a Vision

Home From Home: Chronicle of a Vision

Set in the mid-19th century, a young man flees the famine, poverty and despotism of his German village for the freedom of the wild South American jungle.

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I Am the Blues

I Am the Blues

From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I AM THE BLUES travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends.

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Ice Cold in Alex

Ice Cold in Alex

During World War II in North Africa, a medical field unit must cross the desert in their ambulance in order to reach the British lines in Alexandria.

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Iceman

Iceman

An action-packed prehistoric thriller, ICEMAN is the story of the five-thousand-year-old “Otzi the Ice Man's"" final days.

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In Country

In Country

With striking historical accuracy, rare archival footage and a deeply personal inspection on the effects of PTSD, In Country artfully activates the similarities between past wars and the military conf...

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Iron Curtain Collection

Iron Curtain Collection

The Iron Curtain Collection explores the profundity of the Cold War and its far-reaching effects on Eastern Europe.

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Italian Renaissance Collection

Italian Renaissance Collection

Covering the mid-1300s through the late 1500s, the Renaissance is a period marked by immense cultural advancements, particularly in music, literature, Humanist philosophy, science, technology, and mos...

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Karl Marx City

Karl Marx City

Petra Epperlein returns to what was the East Germany of her childhood to uncover the truth about her father’s suicide and his rumored Stasi past.

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Line 41

Line 41

LINE 41 documents a Holocaust and Lodz Ghetto survivor's return back to today's Lodz (Poland)

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Lines of Wellington

Lines of Wellington

This lavish, star-studded epic set during the great Napoleonic Wars chronicles the lives of both the nobility and the poor against a tapestry of love affairs, deceit, intrigue and violence.

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Louis van Beethoven

Louis van Beethoven

This lavish historical drama illuminates the story of the world-famous composer from different perspectives.

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Mapantsula

Mapantsula

After being arrested by the police, a “mapantsula” (petty gangster) is forced to choose between freedom and taking a stand against apartheid.

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Marquise

Marquise

Véra Belmont directs this decadent tale of the rise and fall of the ravishing actress, Marquise played by (Sophie Marceau, BRAVEHEART).

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Men Go to Battle

Men Go to Battle

A historical epic of intimate proportions, Men Go to Battle is a tale of fraternal dysfunction amid the backdrop of the Civil War.

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Nazi Junkies

Nazi Junkies

Inspired by Norman Ohler’s revelatory book, Blitzed: Drugs In The Third Reich, NAZI JUNKIES reveals how both Hitler and Nazi Germany were heavily addicted to drugs

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Obsessed with Light

Obsessed with Light

A documentary that tells the story of American performer Loie Fuller, a pioneer of dance, stage lighting and design.

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October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Eisenstein's classic film about the Russian revolution.

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Red Island

Red Island

Living on one of the last military bases in Madagascar, ten-year-old Thomas observes the hidden lives of both the colonizers and the colonized.

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Remembrance

Remembrance

Inspired by actual events, REMEMBRANCE depicts a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst the terror of a German concentration camp in Poland 1944.

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Revolution: New Art for a New World

Revolution: New Art for a New World

Artists like Chagall, Kandinsky and Malevich--pioneers flourished in response to the challenge of building a new art for a new world, only to be broken by implacable authority after 15 short years and...

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Secrets of War

Secrets of War

With the war escalating around them, three friends in a Nazi-occupied village find their bond put to the test as secrets are revealed and loyalty is challenged.

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Segantini: Back to Nature

Segantini: Back to Nature

Discover the incredible life of the most important Italian representative of pointillism, “Le Gauguin des Alps”.

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Shtetlers

Shtetlers

For several centuries in the former Soviet Union, the small towns known as shtetls were home to the largest Jewish population in the world.

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Sisi & I

Sisi & I

Countess Irma (Sandra Hüller) leaves home to become the lady-in-waiting for Elisabeth of Austria (Susanne Wolff), known to those close to her as Sisi.

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St. Peter's and the Papal Basilicas of Rome

St. Peter's and the Papal Basilicas of Rome

A journey through the four Papal Basilicas in Rome and their treasures.

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Stella: A Life

Stella: A Life

Tortured and threatened with deportation, young German Jew Stella is forced into a fateful tragedy: she begins to track down fellow Jews in hiding.

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Sword of God

Sword of God

In the early Middle Ages, two Christian knights set off to christen a small pagan village hidden deep in the mountains.

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The Chambermaid

The Chambermaid

Just before the World War I., the poor 15-year-old Anka arrives from a small Slovak town to Prague to be a maid in a wealthy family.

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The Chronicles of Melanie

The Chronicles of Melanie

The Colditz Story

The Colditz Story

British prisoners pool their resources to plan an escape from an impregnable German P.O.W. camp housed in a medieval castle.

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The Dam Busters

The Dam Busters

The story of how the British attacked German dams in WWII by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective.

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The Interrogation

The Interrogation

An FBI interrogator and an IT specialist have to play a criminal mastermind's mind games as they race to uncover his true agenda.

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The Marquise of O...

The Marquise of O...

Legendary filmmaker Eric Rohmer adapts Heinrich von Kleist’s epic tale of virtue and mistaken identity in this 1976 Cannes Film Festival Special Jury Prize winner

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The New Deal For Artists

The New Deal For Artists

The Arts Project of the WPA (1935-1942) was a government agency established to support writers, actors, painters, sculptors, and photographers.

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The Princess Warrior

The Princess Warrior

Princess Khutulun, one of the fiercest warriors in the Mongol Empire, seeks vengeance after an assassin attacks her father and takes the Golden Sutra.

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The Real American: Joe McCarthy

The Real American: Joe McCarthy

An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in US history.

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The Sower

The Sower

When the men of their village are taken, the women swear an oath that if a man should come, he will become their shared husband.

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Theeb

Theeb

In a remote corner of the Ottoman Empire, Theeb sets off on a treacherous desert journey after a British Army officer arrives looking for a guide.

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Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics

Their Finest Hour: 5 British WWII Classics

THEIR FINEST HOUR brings together five digitally restored British WWII classics for the first time on Blu-ray including DUNKIRK and THE DAM BUSTERS.

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Tokyo Bordello

Tokyo Bordello

Sold into prostitution to pay her father's debts, a Japanese courtesan goes on to run a Tokyo bordello.

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Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies

A stunning new exploration of the life and work of Van Gogh.

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Water Lilies of Monet - The Magic of Water and Light

Water Lilies of Monet - The Magic of Water and Light

A journey through the masterpieces and obsessions of the genius of Impressionism.

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Went the Day Well

Went the Day Well

An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion in this 1942 British wartime classic.

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Why Is We Americans?

Why Is We Americans?

By turns kinetic and intimate, this in-depth documentary examines Newark’s legendary Baraka family from its patriarch Amiri to mayor Ras Baraka.

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Within the Whirlwind

Within the Whirlwind

During Stalin's reign of terror, Evgenia Ginzburg, a literature professor, was sent to 10 years hard labor in a gulag in Siberia. Having lost everything, and no longer wishing to live, she meets the c...

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Wondrous Boccaccio

Wondrous Boccaccio

In the 13th century, 10 children escape an outbreak of the black death and seek shelter in the countryside. To pass the time, each child tells a story that helps them cope with the uncertainties of li...

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