Showing posts with label History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label History. Show all posts

The Kennedy Films (1960-1964)

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2h 50min - Documentary | History

IMDB: Primary | Adventures on the New Frontier | Crisis | Faces of November

Seeking to invigorate the American documentary format, which he felt was rote and uninspired, Robert Drew brought the style and vibrancy he had fostered as a Life magazine correspondent to filmmaking in the late fifties...

Director: Robert Drew
Writer: Robert Drew
Starring: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Hubert H. Humphrey

Country: USA
Language: English



How to Survive a Plague (2012)

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1h 50min - Documentary | History

IMDB: 7.6/10 (2,885 users) 19 reviews | Critics: 75 reviews
Metascore: 86/100 (based on 23 reviews from Metacritic.com)

The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition.

Director: David France
Writers: David France, Todd Woody Richman
Stars: Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, Iris Long

Country: USA
Language: English



Tim's Vermeer (2013)

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1h 20min - Documentary | History

IMDB: 7.9/10 (5,862 users) 39 reviews | Critics: 83 reviews
Metascore: 76/100 (based on 32 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

Director: Teller
Writers: Penn Jillette, Teller
Stars: Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, Martin Mull

Country: USA
Language: English



The Return to Homs (2013)

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94 min - Documentary | Biography | History

IMDB: 7.8/10 (582 users) | Critics: 12 reviws
Metascore: 86/100 (based on 4 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A look behind the barricades of the besieged city of Homs, where for nineteen-year-old Basset and his ragtag group of comrades, the audacious hope of revolution is crumbling like the buildings around them.

Director: Talal Derki
Writer: Talal Derki
Stars: Abdul Basset Saroot

Country: Syria
Lanugage: Arabic with English hardcoded subtitles


Teenage (2013)

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78 min - Documentary | History

IMDB: 6.4/10 (172 users) 1 review | Critics: 39 reviews
Metascore: 64/100 (based on 16 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material, filmed portraits, and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries, a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of youth.

Director: Matt Wolf
Writers: Jon Savage, Matt Wolf
Stars: Jena Malone, Ben Whishaw, Alden Ehrenreich

Country: USA
Language: English


The Weather Underground (2002)

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92 min - Documentary | History | War

IMDB: 7.5/10 (2,607 users) 39 reviews | Critics: 61 reviews
Metascore: 77/100 (based on 23 reviews from Metacritic.com)

The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous.

Directors: Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Stars: Lili Taylor, Pamela Z, Jim Lange

Country: USA
Language: English




No (2012)

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118 min - Drama | History

IMDB: 7.4/10 (9,278 users) 34 reviews | Critics: 196 reviews
Metascore: 81/100 (based on 36 reviews from Metacritic.com)

An ad executive comes up with a campaign to defeat Augusto Pinochet in Chile's 1988 referendum.

Director: Pablo Larraín
Writers: Pedro Peirano (screenplay), Antonio Skármeta (play)
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Alfredo Castro, Antonia Zegers

Country: Chile
Language: Spanish with English subtitles



Koch (2012)

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100 min - Documentary | Biography | History

IMDB: 4.5/10 (136 users) 2 reviews | Critics: 19 reviews
Metascore: 71/100 (based on 17 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A documentary on Ed Koch, the mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989.

Director: Neil Barsky
Stars: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III

Country: USA
Language: English





Farewell, My Queen (2012)

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100 min - Drama | History

IMDB: 6.2/10 (2,698 users) 20 reviews | Critics: 112 reviews
Metascore: 67/100 (based on 20 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the first days of the French Revolution.

Director: Benoît Jacquot
Writers: Benoît Jacquot (scenario), Gilles Taurand (scenario)
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Diane Kruger, Virginie Ledoyen

Country: France
Language: French with English subtitles



Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present (2012)

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106 min - Documentary | Biography | History

IMDB: 7.6/10 (1,311 users) 5 reviews | Critics: 52 reviews
Metascore: 75/100 (based on 17 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Directors: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre
Stars: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach

Country: USA
Language: English




Festival Express (2003)

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R - 90 min - Documentary | History | Music

IMDB: 7.3/10 (1,363 votes) 45 reviews | Critics: 57 reviews
Metascore: 85/100 (based on 26 reviews from Metacritic.com)

The filmed account of a large Canadian rock festival train tour.

Directors: Bob Smeaton, Frank Cvitanovich
Stars: Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead and The Band

Country: UK
Language: English with Spanish subtitles





Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) DVDRip x264
94 min - Adventure | Drama | History

IMDB: 7.5/10 (14,293 votes) 221 reviews | Critics: 138 reviews 
Metascore: 80/100 (based on 31 reviews from Metacritic.com)

In 1931, three aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff and set off on a trek across the Outback.

Director: Phillip Noyce
Writers: Doris Pilkington (book), Christine Olsen (screenplay)
Stars: Everlyn Sampi, Tianna Sansbury and Kenneth Branagh

Country: Australia
Language: English



Platform (2000)

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154 min - Drama | History

IMDB: 7.4/10 (956 votes) 17 reviews | Critics: 33 reviews
Metascore: 76/100 (based on 7 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose...

Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Writer: Zhang Ke Jia
Stars: Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao and Jing Dong Liang

Country: China
Language: Mandarin with English subtitles



A Talking Picture (2003)

A Talking Picture (2003) DVDRip XviD
96 min - Comedy | Drama | History

IMDB: 6.8/10 (1,247 votes) 52 reviews | Critics: 44 reviews
Metascore: 75/100 (based on 14 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A meditation on civilization. July, 2001: friends wave as a cruise ship departs Lisbon for Mediterranean ports and the Indian Ocean...

Director: Manoel de Oliveira
Writer: Manoel de Oliveira (scenario and dialogue)
Stars: Leonor Silveira, Filipa de Almeida and John Malkovich

Country: Portugal
Language: Portuguese with English subtitles



Polytechnique (2009)

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77 min - Crime | Drama | History

IMDB: 7.1/10 (2,083 users) 19 reviews | Critics: 33 reviews
Metascore: 61/100 (based on 6 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A dramatization of the Montreal Massacre of 1989 where several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist.

Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Jacques Davidts, Eric Leca
Stars: Maxim Gaudette, Sébastien Huberdeau, Karine Vanasse

Country: Canada
Language: French with English subtitles



Hunger (2008)

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96 min - Biography | Drama | History

IMDB: 7.6/10 (22,585 users) 104 reviews | Critics: 201 reviews
Metascore: 82/100 (based on 25 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

Director: Steve McQueen
Writers: Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Stars: Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw and Brian Milligan

Country; UK, Ireland
Language: English




The Corporation (2003)

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145 min - Documentary | History

IMDB: 8.1/10 (12,921 users) 129 reviews | Critics: 114 reviews
Metascore: 73/100 (based on 28 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

Directors: Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Writers: Joel Bakan, Joel Bakan (book)
Stars: Mikela Jay, Rob Beckwermert and Christopher Gora

Country: USA
Language: English



Russian Ark (2002)

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99 min - Drama | Fantasy | History

IMDB: 7.2/10 (8,594 users) 157 reviews | Critics: 108 reviews
Metascore: 86/100 (based on 31 reviews from Metacritic.com)

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Writers: Svetlana Proskurina (dialogue), Aleksandr Sokurov (dialogue)
Stars: Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova and Leonid Mozgovoy

Country: Russia
Language: Russian with English subtitles


Shattered Glass (2003)

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94 min - Drama | History

IMDB: 7.4/10 (16,900 votes) 167 reviews | Critics: 116 reviews
Metascore: 73/100 (based on 38 reviews from Metacritic.com)

The true story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was found he had fabricated over half of his articles.

Director: Billy Ray
Writers: Buzz Bissinger (article), Billy Ray
Stars: Hayden Christensen, Chloë Sevigny and Steve Zahn

Country: USA
Language: English



Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land (2008)

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84 min - Documentary | Crime | History - 2008 (Denmark)

IMDB: 8.0/10 (1,203 votes) 11 reviews | Critics: 49 reviews
Metascore: 82/100 (based on 13 reviews from Metacritic.com)

Using smuggled footage, this documentary tells the story of the 2007 protests in Burma by thousands of monks.

Director: Anders Østergaard
Stars: George W. Bush, Ko Muang and Aung San Suu Kyi

Country: Denamrk
Language: Burmese with English subtitles