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Disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
Tag: History
The Soviet Garden 2019 • Movie
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A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening.
Royal Flash 1975 • Movie
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Ne’er-do-well Captain Harry Flashman (Malcolm McDowell) is coerced by Otto Von Bismarck (Oliver Reed) into impersonating a Prince.
The Colors of Fire 2022 • Movie
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Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited his financial empire but she fell prey to a conspiracy leading her to ruin. Now she will have her vengeance.
The 14 Amazons 1972 • Movie
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The cast of The 14 Amazons is a veritable “who’s who” of golden age of Shaw Brothers swordplay adventures, and was not only a major box office hit.
Capri-Revolution 2018 • Movie
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With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of young Northern Europeans led by Seybu and the town’s young doctor on the unique island of Capri.
The Gold Bug 2014 • Movie
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After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th-century politician Leandro N. Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a portrait of the radical Alem and move the production there – so he can search for the treasure. A portrait of a clash between a Swedish artist and an Argentinian director.
Fire Over England 1937 • Movie
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During the reign of Elizabeth I, a young man’s fervent devotion to the crown and to his sweetheart, a lady-in-waiting, lead him to battle for England’s victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588.
The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte hosts the Tonight Show 2020 • Movie
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For one week in February 1968, Johnny Carson gave up his chair to Harry Belafonte, the first time an African-American had hosted a late night TV show for a whole week.
Supersex 2024 • TvSeries
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Siffredi’s family, his origins, his relationship and the context that led him to embark on his path in pornography and accept that the demon in his body is compatible with love.
At Sword’s Point 1952 • Movie
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In 1648 France, it’s the sons (and daughter) of the Three Musketeers to the rescue!
Charming the Hearts of Men 2021 • Movie
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A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional ally, she inspires historic legislation which allows opportunities and protections never before afforded to women.
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There 2003 • Movie
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Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post-war Broadway through the 1960s.
Dinosaurs – The Final Day with David Attenborough 2022 • TvMovie
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Sir David Attenborough presents this landmark documentary which brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the lost world of the very last days of the dinosaurs. Searching in the hills of North Dakota, palaeontologist Robert DePalma makes an incredible discovery in a prehistoric graveyard known as Tanis – fossilised creatures, astonishingly well preserved like the bodies found at Pompeii. Whilst DePalma hunts for the evidence that can shed light on the final days of the dinosaurs, state-of-the-art VFX transports Sir David back in time to the Late Cretaceous to witness the creatures who lived at Tanis at the end of the Age of Dinosaurs. Meanwhile, cutting edge scanning techniques reveal fossilised secrets that could change our understanding of the dinosaurs’ extinction once and for all.
Eastern Bandits 2012 • Movie
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The movie is set during the Japanese invasion of China. The story is told from the perspective of Gao – a soldier seeking revenge from the Japanese. He is trying to assassinate the visiting Japanese commander. In the process of plotting such scheme, he had a chance encounter with a local Mafia, lead by its charismatic leader Fang. Fang has a band of followers, including his own sister. Fang have rescued many of the members of the band and formed a life-long friendship with them. When Gao realizes that he could use the help of Fang’s band, he sets up a scheme to be captured by Fang on purpose. When Fang finds out – he is extremely angry and almost kills Gao. Gao is saved by Fang’s sister after she see how he fared during an interrogation. Gao later redeems himself by saving Fang and all of his band when a bank robbery goes wrong. From there on, Gao partners with Fang to take down the Japanese chief in command. Pi Fu in Chinese means a commoner, and this is a movie about friendship, loyalty and brotherhood.
9/11: Fifteen Years Later 2016 • TvMovie
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The seminal documentary 9/11 (2002) by the Naudet brothers is revisited 15 years later.
The World in His Arms 1952 • Movie
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In 1850 San Francisco, a Russian Countess runs away from an arranged marriage to a Russian Prince and falls into the arms of an American sea captain who occasionally poaches seals in Russian Alaska.
Coming Through the Rye 2016 • Movie
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In 1969, the Holden Caulfield-obsessed Jamie Schwartz runs away from boarding school to find the reclusive author J.D. Salinger. Inspired by actual events, Jamie’s search is a journey into the meaning of friendship, love and loss.
The Scarlet Empress 1934 • Movie
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A German noblewoman enters into a loveless marriage with the dim-witted, unstable heir to the Russian throne, then plots to oust him from power.
The Winter War 1989 • Movie
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In 1939, two Finnish brothers are conscripted in the army to fight in the war between Finland and the Soviet Union.
Stargate Origins: Catherine 2018 • Movie
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German occultist kidnaps British professor in 1939 to exploit ancient Egyptian relic, daughter races to save dad and world from Nazis unleashing dark forces, aided by two soldiers.
The Salt of the Earth 2014 • Movie
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The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
The Endless Trench 2020 • Movie
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1936. A country taken by the fascism. A husband marked for the killing. A wife determined to all for saving him. An endless incarceration in his own home.
Ike: Countdown to D-Day 2004 • TvMovie
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A dramatization of the 90 days leading up to Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, and how General Dwight Eisenhower, against all odds, brilliantly orchestrated the most important military maneuver in modern history.
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo 2017 • Movie
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At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.
Lines of Wellington 2012 • Movie
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On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of general Wellington. Despite the victory, Portuguese and British are forced to retreat from the enemy, numerically superior, in order to attract them to Torres Vedras, where Wellington had built fortified lines hardly surmountable. Simultaneously, the Anglo-Portuguese command organizes the evacuation of the entire territory between the battlefield and the lines of Torres Vedras, a gigantic burned land operation, which prevents the French from collecting supplies. This is the setting for the adventures of a multitude of characters from all social backgrounds – soldiers and civilians, men, women and children, young and old – to the daily routine torn by war and dragged through hills and valleys, between ruined villages, charred forests and devastated crops.Highly persecuted by the French, already tormented by an unmerciful weather, the mass of fugitives continues to move forward clenching the teeth, just to save their skin, loaded with tenacious will to resist the invaders and retreat them from their country. Or even hoping to take advantage of the disarray to satisfy their basic instincts. All of them, whatever nature or motivations – the idealistic young lieutenant Pedro De Alencar, Clarissa Warren, the malicious little English girl, the shady dealer Penabranca, the vindictive Sergeant Francisco Xavier or the lusty prostitute Martírio, all gather by different paths to the lines of Torres, where the final battle will decide the fate of each one of them.
The Profession of Arms 2001 • Movie
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The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De’ Medici, a young brave captain in the war of Charles V against the Pope, in the first half of 1500.