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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.
Tag: History
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.
The Road to Mother 2019 • Movie
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The story of several generations of a Kazakh family from the 1930s to the present time, the film traces the most momentous events in the history of Kazakhstan through war, separation and the determination of the clan to remain united.
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance 2021 • Movie
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How the movement came into being in the late 1960s, when it fought back against police brutality and racism.
The Dumb Girl of Portici 1916 • Movie
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Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Camille Claudel 1989 • Movie
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Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road 2022 • Movie
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Documentary that looks at the career of musician Brian Wilson.
Captain Lightfoot 1955 • Movie
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A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815.
The Waldheim Waltz 2018 • Movie
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A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .
Thiruvarutselvar 1967 • Movie
The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords 1999 • Movie
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The history of black newspapers in America.
Army of Crime 2010 • Movie
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The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.
Dave Allen at Peace 2018 • TvMovie
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Filmed in homage to his original TV series, this factual drama follows Dave Allen from childhood to becoming one of the Ireland’s comedy greats, with just a whiskey, a cigarette and nine-and-a-half fingers. Dave Allen is played by Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones).
Shattered Glass 2003 • Movie
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The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.
Chicogrande 2010 • Movie
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Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa’s head and he’s gonna get it. The “Punitive Expedition” proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.
Eight Men Out 1989 • Movie
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A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Zwinglis Erbe 2018 • Movie
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When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God’s Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.
Kampf um Rom II – Der Verrat 1969 • Movie
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Cethegus starts the war between the Ostrogoths and their queen, Amalasuntha, and the Byzantine Empire, but when the Byzantine army invades Italy to reconquer Rome, romance prevails and threatens to ruin the plans for Cethegus.
The Mayo Clinic, Faith, Hope and Science 2018 • TvMovie
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The Mayo Clinic: Faith – Hope – Science tells the story of a unique medical institution that has been called a “Medical Mecca,” the “Supreme Court of Medicine,” and the “place for hope where there is no hope.” The Mayo Clinic began in 1883 as an unlikely partnership between the Sisters of Saint Francis and a country doctor named William Worrall Mayo after a devastating tornado in rural Minnesota. Since then, it has grown into an organization that treats more than a million patients a year from all 50 states and 150 countries. Dr. Mayo had a simple philosophy he imparted to his sons Will and Charlie: “the needs of the patient come first.” They wouldn’t treat diseases…they would treat people. In a world where healthcare delivery is typically fragmented among individual specialties, the Mayo Clinic practices a multi-specialty, team-based approach that has, from its beginnings, created a culture that thrives on collaboration.
The Rape of Recy Taylor 2017 • Movie
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Mrs. Recy Taylor was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Unbroken, she spoke up and fought for justice with help from Rosa Parks and legions of women.
Bunker77 2017 • Movie
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A chronicle of the wild and brief life of the 1970s’ most controversial surf star and international playboy from Los Angeles, Bunker Spreckels.