The Life of Wu Xun
The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.
The life-story of Wu Xun, a beggar in the Qing dynasty who set up free schools for poor children.
This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee With contributions from actors Katy Manning Judy Cornwell David Jacobs Geoffrey Bayldon and Kenneth Earle Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks and longtime friend Stuart...
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children Dave works in and part owns a construction company They are also members of the Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvaniawhose church forbids all technology though Dave...
German actor Conrad Veidt is best remembered for playing Nazi Major Strasser in Casablanca In reality he was an ardent antifascist who left Nazi Germany for Britain falsely claiming to be Jewish in solidarity with his Jewish wife Using clips from Veidts...
We follow the build-up and training of two opposite Belgian political parties. We see their leaders during meetings, during voting and after when the results of the elections are published.
A documentary that follows the daily violence inside the ghettos of Panama, portraying a stark vision of the reality of life on the streets of Panama, focusing on the city of Colon.
Velicanu considers himself a fulfilled person. He's got money, a new villa, married a younger woman and has a son from a previous marriage. Before the holidays he has to leave everything in order, but things start to get complicated. The crisis at the...
When retired merchant J T Manly is murdered his son James with whom he had quarreled is arrested and finally convicted through the testimony of Manlys valet Aguinaldo Shortly before Jamess execution Sidney Holmes reveals to retired criminologist Martin...
Loie Fuller in her 1920 featurelength film Le Lys de la vie explored the new technique for poetic ends creating fleeting dreamlike images that freed the medium from illusionism and imbued it with fantasy A 17 minutes fragment is held at the Cinémathèque...
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van,...
Muhammad Ali A Life takes a look back at the life and career of the world champion boxer and activist No athlete has ever contributed more to his country or to the world than Muhammad Ali
We were so close we loved each other we made a whole together I feel cut in half Meg struggles with the sudden death of her husband
The story of Oscar Wildes life told by his grandson and others
A series of miscellaneous film footage are put together to represented life as if watching it in front of a television screen with a remote control
Paul is a smart, university educated Frenchman of North African ancestry. He's a smooth talker, but he can't seem to get a job worthy of his skills. He ends up living in a single room, struggling to get by while going on many fruitless job interviews,...
Most mid19thcentury Mississippi River boys dreamed of occupying that pinnacle of power and glamour the pilot house of a riverboat In a riot of local color this film tells how unlike many Sams dream comes true A callow teenager he talks the tough but consummate...
Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialised in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism In the 40s 50s and 60s it caught the spirit of America as it blossomed into a world superpower and its influence on American people was unparalleled Fashion photographer...
The journey shows us what sound a spoiled young rock star makes when she is out of tune with life and how far her understudy will go to replace her Star is the center of her universe when she discovers how small it really is Paths cross between those...
A 20something slacker girl meets a handsome rebel at her best friends funeral She partners up with him and through a series of cons finds her path to independence and love
Four stories set between the 60s and the 70s in Italy. Four personal female adventures crossing the path of Italian history, the struggle for women rights, the liberation of the body, in a country without memory.
Such a Life is quite a sad film It is set in the sixties in a village on the west coast of Taiwan where many are succumbing to black foot a disease caused by drinking contaminated well water The only cure is to amputate the afflicted limb and to avoid...
Castro has outlived generations of US Presidents Soviet General Secretaries CIA Directors and wouldbe assassins This film offers a psychological profile of the Cuban revolutionary and a deeply intimate account of his life based on private letters correspondence...
Yang Guang (Yang Yi) and his buddy You Tiao (Han Zhao) were in real trouble, and Tiao was found to be terminally ill. Yang Guang decided to let the note go joyfully through life and realize his unfulfilled wish. However, the various wishes of the note...
Bardhi, a young doctor, is assigned to work in a remote mountainous village under difficult conditions.
A day in the life of a Quebec magazine writer - his fortieth birthday - from his dream before waking to his last act before sleeping. He looks back over his life, his thoughts, and his loves.
Viktor whos an exmilitaryperson founds a bag of drugs in a forest and soon is in bad relations with Russian Mafia Viktor escapes to Finland where he meets Toni whose plan soon will be train Vikton as a streefighter to make fortures for both of them
Pia Sjögren was the subject of three documentaries by director Tom Alandh, beginning in 2001. He first saw her on the street selling newspapers, homeless, addicted to drugs, trying to make enough money for the day. Since then, she has become clean, and...
Mo Gilligan breaks down his days as a broke teenager working in retail relationship dynamics annoying talk show producers and more in this special
Horrified to learn that her precocious brother Soma is dating school bully Akari, Sara's peaceful matriculation soon becomes chaotic as new enemies arrive.
The romance of young Italian-American boy Angelo and a rich, eccentric, lonely girl Myrna.
Two soul mates meet they are in love with life the world and each other but do not fit into Hitlers racial state Why was the young refugee Ruth Maier killed and why is she still remembered
A Nova Scotian woman falls into a violently abusive relationship with a disgusting man, finally taking drastic measures to get rid of him forever.
A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.
80 years have passed since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. On June 22, the world again froze in a mournful minute of silence. But 2021 marks the 80th anniversary of another historical tragedy - the beginning of the Holocaust in Russia. Everyone...
At a boys' boarding school, young Stoddard and his pal "The Wop" develop a scheme to get rich after "The Wop" finds a pearl in an oyster in a restaurant.
Shot over 10 years in intimate raw home footage by an Oscarwinning filmmaking couple LIFE UNEXPECTED tells the story of the unforgiving roller coaster of bringing life into this world
The story of Life in Dark is about the crime taking place in the remand home where the small survivors after committing the crime try to complete their sentence but their past does not leave them after the completion of the sentence And takes him again...
How can school education be designed differently? Four passionate teachers show how it can be done.
A newly formed all female singing group, ‘Tamure Party’ fronted by a controversial, sexually ambiguous MC, ‘je suis neutral’. The group explore through song and dramatic reenactments, the life of Sonia and her partner Max. The film switches from...
The lure of family mysteries lies at the heart of 'Still Life in Lodz,' an emotionally riveting documentary that journeys to the historically tumultuous city of Lodz, Poland. Here, a surprise reunion with a painting that hung in the same apartment for...
In late 2009, the staff of This American Life went on stage to talk for the first time as a group about how the show is put together. Get answers to burning questions like: how close to disaster was the 2008 live show? What is the connection between This...
A painter entering his fortyyear crisis directs an amazing plot to increase the value of his work which turns out to be a laughable farce
Recent college graduate Nikolas returns home to find that the life he had is gone, but in trying to regain the life he once knew, he finds, through betrayal by his friends, the help of his quirky family, and a tangled web of love interests, that if you...
Christine Lahti leads a cast composed of women to tell the story of Gloria Steinems quest for womens equality and equality rights for others
A French singer from a small Indie rock band narrates this intimate and personal journey through her artistic life her changes and deep emotions lived with her band
This landmark documentary examines the ten years between 1979 and 1989 when Edinburgh faced a frightening new epidemic and was dubbed the ‘Aids capital of Europe’. Meeting the doctors, heroin addicts, police and locals caught up in events they could...
Nû Jîn New Life with the slogan Woman is life Life is resistance and resistance is Kobanê depicts the daily life of women guerillas Elif Kobanê 18 Vîyan Peyman and Arjîn joining in the Womens Protection Units YPJ in their battle against ISIS The...
A writer with a writer's block is tormented by his lack of inspiration. His girlfriend shows up and talks to him about his writing and her father. After she leaves, her father, an ex officer of the military and ex communist party member, rings the doorbell....
A documentary about the singersongwriter Vic Chesnutt
The filial poor hawker Ah Hui a rich woman Jing and a young singer Jojo have suffered a wave in their career life and love One day Ah Hui dreamed that he had made a fortune and later met a mysterious man who could solve his problems The mysterious man...