History
Rosvo Roope
DramaAdventure
In the 18th century, Robert's beloved Helena is forced to marry the cruel Henrik Brest. Robert becomes Roope the Pirate, the most famous pirate in the Baltic Sea, whose legendary life includes scheming and partying, sword fights and women's adventures.
American Torso
DramaHistory
In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the 1848 War of Independence in Hungary fought on the northern side. Experienced Fiala, Boldogh who struggles with homesickness and the reckless Vereczky all experience their enforced emigration in different ways and news of impending peace elicits different reactions from them all.
1789: The Lovers of the Bastille
HistoryMusic
Paris, 1789. A young revolutionary peasant and a maid of Queen Marie-Antoinette fall in love at the brink of the French Revolution.
Tales of Canterbury
HistoryComedy
Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.
Battal Gazi Geliyor
HistoryAdventure
A 1955 Adventure/epic film following the legend of Battal Gazi, a man from Malatia who really lived and fought the Byzantines.
Paper Butterfly
DramaHistory
Set in 1965, a young couple fights to stay together as escalating violence and their opposing political backgrounds threaten to tear them apart.
Khrushchev Does America
DocumentaryHistory
The story of the unconditional, no-holds-barred tour of America by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, leader of World Communism and America's arch nemesis, during 13 sun-filled days in the fall of 1959.
The Descendant of the Snow Leopard
HistoryDrama
The Russian Descendant of the Snow Leopard is based on a famous Kirghizian folktale. Apparently the Kirghizian folks had plenty of time to tell this story: to print a full synopsis would result in a novelette. Essentially, the story involves a proud group of highland hunters called the Snow Leopards, who in order to survive a brutal winter must request help from the Lowland people. The price for this assistance is the hand of the Snow Leopard's daughter, who is promised in marriage to a wealthy Lowland trader. During the Springtime wedding celebration, the trader becomes fascinated by a stranger who wins all the athletic contests. This "male" contestant turns out to be a woman, who has arrived to seek freedom for her imprisoned husband. The subsequent romance between the trader and the beautiful stranger results in disaster and bloodshed for both the Snow Leopards and the Lowlanders.
Lola Mora
DramaHistory
The life story of Argentine sculptress Lola Mora.
The Death Train
DocumentaryHistory
In Iasi, Romania, from June 28 to July 6, 1941, nearly 15 000 Jews were murdered in the course of a horrifying pogrom. At the time, the programmed extermination of European Jews had not yet began. After the war, the successive communist governments did all they could to ensure the Iasi pogrom would be forgotten. It was not until November of 2004 that Romania recognized for the first time its direct responsibility in the pogrom. All that remains of this massacre are about a hundred photographs taken as souvenirs by german and romanian soldiers, and a few remaining survivors.
Johannes Kepler - Storming the Heavens
DocumentaryHistory
Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian proportions - full of intrigue, passion, depravity and corruption.
Dreams of Love
DramaHistory
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.
Le souffle de la liberté
DramaHistory
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.