Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making.
"In 1938, Swedish researcher and Nobel Laureate Gunnar Myrdal plunges into America's Jim Crow South. His resulting study, An American dilemma (1944), poses a profoundly unsettling question: How can a people devoted to the American creed of equality, justice and opportunity for all continue to erect obstacles to those ends based on race? Through Myrdal's story and contemporary racial dynamics, the film explores how denial, cognitive dissonance, and implicit bias persist and shape all of our lives"
Presents a journey through Islam from its beginnings 1300 years ago to its place in the world today. Introduces the culture, philosophy, and staples of the Islamic life-style.
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TO COMMEMORATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF BBC NEWS ON TELEVISION, THIS FASCINATING SERIES OF PROGRAMMES LOOKS BACK ON THE PAST FIVE DECADES. EACH PROGRAMME IS A 30-MINUTE SEGMENT, COVERING A DECADE, FROM THE 1950'S TO 2004. EVENTS SUCH AS THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS, THE MOON LANDINGS, IRA TERRORISM AND THE 9/11 ATTACKS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCTION. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Produced and directed by Kevin Rafferty, Jayne Loader, Pierce Rafferty 2002
Directed and edited by Andrew Quigley 2002
Written and produced by Simon Berthon
The complete series 2009
Created by Neil Jordan 2011
Roman Empire; The Medici; The Greeks; Japan;
Egypt's Golden Empire
BBC and BBC Worldwide 2006
BBC 2004
A Francis Ford Coppola presentation 2002
Produced and directed by Godffrey Reggio
Warner Independent Pictures 2005
Produced by Augustus Film
Produced by Bero Beyer
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
BBC 2004
John Pilger 2006
Produced by Anatole Dauman, Samy Halfon and Philippe Lifchitz 1955 [2003]
Directed by Alain Resnais
Educational Film 2012
Documentary Photography 2013
Directed and produced by Jacqui and David Morris
Produced by Steps International 2012
Written and directed by Göran Hugo Olsson ; produced by Annika Rogell/Story AB ; co-produced by Joslyn Barnes, Danny Glover/Louverture Films, Axel Arnö/Sveriges Television 2011
In this award winning adventure Michael Wood embarks on a 2000-mile journey in the footsteps of Alexander's triumphal march from Greece to India
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The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate. Based on the play by R.C. Sherriff |
Dramatizes the life of Congolese revolutionary, Patrice Lumumba, who lead his country to independence from Belgium in 1960. He served for less than a year as the first elected prime minister, until he was brutally assassinated.
This documentary is a 13-part series that goes inside Churchill's secret army to a dangerous world of agents, double agents, and triple agents who helped liberate Europe and change the course of the war.
Cinema Libre Studio 2006
Narrated and produced by Jonathan Lewis 2010
Produced by Elmo Williams 1970
Directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasku
Thames Television 1973
Produced by Harry Salzman & S Benjamin Fisz 1969
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Written, directed and produced by Greg Barker 2005
First Hand Films 2005
Directed by Sergei Eisenstein 2000
Executive producer, Malcolm Brinkworth 2008
Written and directed by Clive Maltby
Produced by Mel Lawrence, Godfrey Reggio, Lawrence Taub 2002
Directed by Godfrey Reggio
A & E Television Networks 2008
A film by Marcel Ophuls 2004
Produced by Mike Robinson 1998
Series editor, Peter Horrocks
Produced by Frank Capra 2000
Film Education 2012
Written, produced and directed by Charles Chaplin 1940
Produced by Jingo Minoura; scenario by Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto ; directed by Akira Kurosawa
1950
Documents the rise and growth of Islam throughout the world, from the birth of Prophet Muhammad in the 6th century through the peak of the Ottoman Empire 1000 years later. Discusses the impact of Islamic civilization on world history and culture
Documentary montage using interviews with other footage showing some aspects of Israel.
The story of the pictures we have taken and where they have taken us. The series traces the profound effect photographs have had on American life-- influencing what we buy, how we dress, how we get the news, and in the matters of life and death, medicine, science, and war.
1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader - Reich-protector Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the Final Solution.
Klaus Barbie, sa vie et son temps : Klaus Barbie, his life and his time
A Robert Redford-Alan J. Pakula film 1976
Produced by Walter Coblenz
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Directed by Peter Watkins 2010
Icarus Films
BBC Video : London 2010
Produced by Janet Lee
Directed by Martin Davidson, Liz Hartford, Clare Beavan, Ian Bremner, Paul Tilsey, Tim Kirby, Martina Hall, Mike Beji, Jamie Muir.
A film by Marjane Saprapi and Vincent Paronnaud 2008
Directed by Leni Riefenstahl 1935
Produced by Marty Callaghan 2002
Produced by Sam Spiegel 1962
Directed by David Lean
BBC Worldwide 1976
London : BBC Kenneth Clarke 1969
Directed and filmed by Laura Poitras 2006
Produced by Danny Krausz and Kurt Stocker 2003
Directed by Andre Heller and Othmar Schmiderer
A co-production of the BBC and Time Life 2005
Written and directed by Godfrey Reggio 2002
Written by Justin M. Friedland and Jeff Gralnick 2002
Directed by Kevin Behrman and Gary Russo
Produced by Clark Adams and Rhoda Lipton
Produced by Bill Couturie and Thomas Bird 2005
Directed by Bill Couturie
A Wadlow Grosvenor Production 2000
Produced by Jean Wadlow
Directed by John Haggarty
Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting 2005
Written, directed and produced by David Davis and Stephen Talbot
An episode from the BBC series which covers the events that shaped our world. No one could have dreamed of the shocks America would suffer in the 20th century -- the assassination of the youngest ever president and the disgrace and expulsion of Richard Nixon
Use interviews with witnesses and perpetrators, along with archival film and records, to examine how a political party as fundamentally evil as the Nazis could come to power in a modern European nation
"When the government of Indonesia was overthrown by the military in 1965, more than one million people were killed in less than a year. Anwar and his friends were promoted from ticket scalpers to death squad leaders, and Anwar killed hundreds of people with his own hands. In The Act of Killing, Anwar and his friends agree to tell us the story of the killings. But their idea of being in a movie is not to provide testimony for a documentary: they want to be stars in their favourite film genres - gangster, western, musical. They write the scripts. They play themselves. And they play their victims. The Act of Killing is a nighmarish vision - a journey into the memories and imaginations of the unrepentant perpetrators and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit."
