In the early 1970s, Swedes flock to Mallorca, as Lars Molin debuts on TV, Badjävlar emerges, a hunger strike for jobs begins, and Sweden reacts to the murder of the Yugoslav ambassador. Tjejsnack premieres, "We must raise our voices to be heard" becomes a hit, women's camps are held, a courthouse tragedy occurs in Söderhamn, protests erupt in Stockholm's Kungsträdgården, and Björn Gillberg protests food additives by washing his shirt in milk substitute powder.
Aging composer Franz Liszt lives in an abbey. On his birthday, a priest brings him a box that was just delivered; there is no return address. In the box he finds a single flower. The flower brings back memories of his lost love of long ago, who inspired him to compose his unforgettable melodies.
Architect I.M. Pei speaks about his famous works, such as the addition to the Louvre in Paris, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. Footage of these projects shows both interiors and exteriors. Various other experts comment on the impact and importance of Pei's work.
A biography on the life of Amy Winehouse.
The true story of King George VI's struggle to overcome his stammer, and the parts played in his battle with his disability by his speech therapist, brother, father and wife.
From home videos to interviews with his closest confidantes, this documentary reveals the unseen side of the late Pope John Paul II.
TAITA BOVES chronicles a thirst for revenge that devastated a country. It tells the true story of Jose Tomás Boves, a cruel man who became a legend during the Venezuelan War of Independence, the most violent in the Americas. He went from seafarer to pirate, horse smuggler to prosperous merchant, prisoner to military chief. Spanish by birth, he spearheaded a grass roots troop of slaves, mulattoes, Indians and mestizos that crushed Simón Bolívar and his patriot army. Respectfully referred to as "Taita" by them, he fought for the underprivileged and the poorest of the poor, and curtailed three centuries of order in this colonial region. This film is about his passions and power, his loves and misadventures, and a bloody saga that rocked Venezuela.
1917, the eve of the February Revolution. Kirill Astakhov, a Bolshevik, one of the organizers of the suppressed riot, is transferred from the Siberian Archinsk prison to the Kutuisky stockade. He is accompanied by the warden Stepan Filimonov, who has his own scores to settle with politicians.
Follows Iwao Ichikawa, a second-generation Japanese Mexican, navigating racial segregation in Mexicali, Baja California during WWII, offering a poignant exploration of identity and belonging amidst adversity.
A band of 14th-century warriors with some very unique combat skills protect a princess during an attempted coup.
The History Channel looks at the background of the Louisiana Purchase and how Thomas Jefferson's emissaries managed to double the size of the United States with the stroke of a pen.
The city governor feels that his death is approaching, so he summons his friend Sheikh Hesham (Emad Hamdi) to succeed him after his death, and brings with him the knight (Karim Khan) to take over the security affairs of the state.
Historical reconstruction of the events of the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia in 1943 and 1944.
In the film Battle for Ukraine Andrei Konchalovsky, the famous Russian director, analyzes how Ukraine, a former part of the Soviet Empire and present big European country, struggles to escape from the close embrace of the former big brother, Russia, and not to become one of the American satellites. This extensive study lasted for almost three years. Many Ukrainian, Russian and American historians, politicians and journalists took part in this study, as well as the ex-President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski, the ex-President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster, the ex-President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze, the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan, the ex-Prime Minister of Russia Viktor Chernomyrdin, and the businessman Boris Berezovsky.
Russian front, January, 1943. It's hell: the flurries of sleet take the breath away and Sergeant Bisi can make out nothing in the landscape in front of him.
In the 1960s, the US government came up with an experimental plan supported by the oil companies to try using nuclear explosions to extract natural gas in the American West. The tests set for Wyoming were known as the Wagon Wheel Project.
In year 1247 an elite soldier – leitis, arrives at the village elder's house. As assigned by The Grand Duke, village elder is responsible for border intelligence. To help an elite soldier at the border, elder sends his young, inexperienced son. An ordinary task becomes a real challenge as both men are threatened not only by enemy soldiers but by strange and mystical creatures as well. The price of the experience and title is life itself. It’s a legendary tale about the medieval Lithuania.
Unknown to most, John von Neumann, a Hungarian mathematician, impacted and shaped much of the 20th and 21st centuries. Meet the inspiration for two legendary characters, Dr. Strangelove and HAL.
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