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Gray Lady Down
1978Feature FilmA Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.
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Salvatore Giuliano
1962Feature FilmThe unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
1961Feature FilmWhile on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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The Lady and the Duke
2001Feature FilmDuring the French Revolution, a Scottish aristocrat and her former lover, the Duke of Orleans, find themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Marie Antoinette
1938Feature FilmThe tragic life of Marie Antoinette, who became queen of France in her late teens.
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Die Vermessung der Welt
2012Feature FilmGermany in the early 19th century. "Die Vermessung der Welt" follows the two brilliant and eccentric scientists Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss on their life paths.
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Die Sonne
2005Feature FilmThird part in Aleksandr Sokurov's quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan's defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival.
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Start the Revolution Without Me
1970Feature FilmTwo mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
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Painted Fire
2002Feature FilmIn a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
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Woman Walks Ahead
2017Feature FilmCatherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
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Sharpe's Challenge
2006TV MovieTwo years after the Duke of Wellington crushes Napoleon at Waterloo, dispatches from India tell of a local Maharaja, Khande Rao, who is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends... See full summary »
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Die letzte Schlacht am Tigerberg
2014Feature FilmA story focusing on a conflict between a People's Liberation Army squad and a bandit gang in north-east China during the Chinese revolution.
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Die Söhne des Generals Yang
2013Feature FilmNortheast China, early Northern Song dynasty, AD 986. The Khitan army takes its revenge for a past massacre, abducting General Yang Ye (Adam Cheng) and leaving his wife and seven sons to ... See full summary »
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Secret Honor
1984Feature FilmA fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
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River Queen
2005Feature FilmAn intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between British and Maori during the British colonization of New Zealand.
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Colonel Redl
1985Feature FilmSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become ... See full summary »
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Der Hauptmann
2017Feature FilmIn the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from.
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Mütter & Söhne
1996Feature FilmBased on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ... See full summary »
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