Movies: Historical
- 1999
Lighthouses of Maine: A Journey Through Time (1999)
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- 2022
O Presidente Improvável (2022)
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- 2014
PARDONS OF INNOCENCE: THE WILMINGTON TEN (2014)
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This documentary recounts the turbulent history surrounding the troubled desegregation of New Hanover County Public School System in North Carolina during the late 1960s through 1971, and the violence that led up to the false prosecution and convicti...
- 2021
And So Farewell (2021)
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An immigrant, working-class family lives through the horrors of the 20th century and raises a son who honors them. This memoir film is told entirely with image, music, and sound by filmmaker and sound designer Hamilton Sterling, guitarist and compose...
- 2007
Good Soil (2007)
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Ships from Europe brought Christianity to the shores of Japan in 1549. For decades the seeds of faith grew under the watchful gaze of the Shogun, but the fear of foreign influence eventually gave rise to persecution. By 1624, Japanese Christians enjo...
- 1973
Septembre Chilien (1973)
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Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine group, along with Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others, captured one of the most powerful portraits of the early days of Dictatorship. Profou...
- 2011
The Word in the Woods (La Palabra en el Bosque) (2011)
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During the early 1970s, hundreds of peasants in a remote region of El Salvador began to emulate the early Christians, working the land together and building communities based on solidarity. By the late 1970s, thousands of peasants in northern Morazan...
- 2007
Invisible City (2007)
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Chronicling the ways people attempt to leave a mark before they and their histories disappear. Invisible City director Tan Pin Pin interviews people – photographers, journalists and archaeologists – who are propelled by curiosity to find a City for t...
- 2019
Factory (Super)Women (2019)
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Factory (Super)Women explores the narratives of factory women who paved the way towards Singapore's economic success. Inspired by his mother and grandmother's experiences as factory workers, producer and researcher Pang Wei Han seeks to record the or...
- 1974
With the Blood of Others (1974)
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A famous documentary about the Peugeot factory in Sochaux in the 1970s. In this region, everything is owned by Peugeot: homes, stores, schools and leisure - there is no escaping it. The production line dictates the rhythm of everyday life: a horrible...
- 2014
The House That Eye Live In (2014)
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Migrating by sea from Holland as an eight-year-old, Dirk de Bruyn went on to be a doyen of Australian experimental cinema. But as this intimate film reveals, his work is suffused with the trauma of migration, and the struggle to recognise himself as ...
- 1997
Beyond (1997)
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Beyond is a mysterious virtual world. In a playful spirit of philosophical inquiry, it explores the paradoxes of technology, desire and the paranormal posed since the birth of mechanical reproduction. One might call it an investigation of the "dream ...
- 1969
The Passage (1969)
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In September 1794, an English galleon sent to find the Northwest Passage sank into the Pacific. Only its boatswain made it to shore....
- 2022
Att bäras av snö (2022)
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- 1928
Snow in Curitiba (1928)
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In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowstorm to ever take place in the city. Everything was recorded by Alberto Botelho in this short documentary....
- 1882
The 1882 Transit of Venus (1882)
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Telescopic chronophotography of the 1882 transit of Venus as observed from Lick Observatory....
- 2025
Attic Archaeology (2025)
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After accidentally blowing a hole in his ceiling, an early 20th-century scientist discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization in his loft....
- 2024
Maverick from the Edge (2024)
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Joža Čop, an illiterate man of the people, earned great respect from his fellow compatriots. He once famously said: "I’ve never climbed for fame and newspapers, so that people could wipe their asses with me." The film is also a story of the cradle of...
- 2022
A Ming Dynasty-Style Wedding (2022)
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A celebration of love and marriage between two women....
- 1994
Saffron Threads (1994)
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Two Catalonian women are travelling through Cornwall in 1611, in the company of an Englishman and find themselves forced by bad weather to take shelter in a small farmhouse. The evening promises to be a difficult one due to the lack of any common la...