"Love is Passing Moment, Art is Eternal." This is the title of one of the earliest cinema melodramas from Russia. As early as the year of the Revolution, 1917, melodramas lured the majority of the public into the cinemas, a world that turned its back on every form of revolutionary utopias.
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic in 1919 from the perspective of various well-known poets and writers who experienced the events as contemporary witnesses.
In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide with an oversized shark bite, a plastic shark fin and an unmistakable two-note main theme composed by John Williams.
October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ousts the dictator in power since 1987 and later staves off an attempted coup.
These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of distribution, between the pirate and the institution of copyright, seem to many of us already lost and won.
The Vatican media documentary about the roots of Robert Francis Prevost in his native United States. It follows an itinerary that begins with his childhood in Dolton, through the memories of his brothers Louis and John, and continues among schools and universities, communities and parishes, featuring the voices of confreres, teachers, classmates, and longtime friends.
Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Romanovs that eventually led to the Russian revolution.
Claude Lelouch was a Jewish child in occupied France. In this documentary, he talks about the trauma he still feels from that experience, but also how it inspired him to become a filmmaker.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1881-1938) was a Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, author, and the founding father of the Republic of Turkey, serving as its first president from 1923 until his death in 1938.
In order to murder Tokugawa Ieyasu to overthrow his reign, Sarutobi Sasuke put a group of young men under a cruel and deadly form of trainment to become ninjas.
Two young film authors, Angelo and Lillo, the former a screenwriter, the latter a director, try in every way to present their works to Mr Piras, a successful producer now converted to television production.
The year is 1968. To a small town in the south of Israel, mostly inhabited by Moroccan immigrants, a few families from India arrive, searching for a better life in the west.
A Zero Hour special, dramatically recounting the final sixty minutes of American Airlines Flight 11 - an hour, and a flight, that changes the world forever.
The Dinosaur Chronicles combines two mini-tales about giant reptiles -- "The Prehistoric Island" and "Dawn of the Dinosaur" -- resulting in one supersized movie.
Based on one of the most famous mysterious disappearances in the world, Richard John Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan, was accused of the murder of 29-year-old nanny Sandra Rivett on 7 November 1974, at his family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, in London.
