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Zulu Dawn
Burt Lancaster, Peter O’Toole, Simon Ward, Bob Hoskins and Sir John Mills lead an all-star cast in the shocking true story of The Battle of Isandlwana: In January 1879, arrogant officials of the British colony of Natal, Africa issued a list of unauthorized ultimatums to the Zulu Nation. When the...Watch Movie
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Hannah Arendt
In the award-winning HANNAH ARENDT, the sublime Barbara Sukowa reteams with director Margarethe von Trotta for a brilliant new biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker...Watch Movie
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Born in Flames
The movie that rocked the foundations of the early Indie film world, this provocative, thrilling and still-relevant classic is a fantasy of female rebellion set in America ten years after the Second American Revolution. When Adelaide Norris, the black radical founder of the Woman’s Army, is...Watch Movie
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Accomplice
An artist-criminal far from home asks his assistant to pirate a rare videotape before the German Post Office Authorities come to confiscate it. Featuring Jordana Maurer and an ersatz appearance by Jean-Luc Godard along with the voices of DJ Mendel, Professor David Poeppel and David Bordwell.Watch Movie
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Shirley: Visions of Reality
Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, '40s, '50s and early '60s. A woman who would like to influence the course of history with her professional and socio-political involvement. A woman who does not accept the reality of the Depression years, WWII, the McCarthy era, race...Watch Movie
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In the Fog
It is 1942 and the western edge of the USSR is under German occupation where local partisans are waging a brutal war against their foreign enemies. Sushenya, an innocent rail worker, is arrested with a band of saboteurs when a train is derailed not far from his village. The German officer decides...Watch Movie
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Machuca
Set in Chile, 1973, this is an astonishingly intimate and painful coming-of-age story about a pair of 12-year-old boys from opposite extremes of society who form an unlikely friendship during the last days of President Allende and the first days of Pinochet. The potent events are accompanied by a...Watch Movie
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We Were One Man
Guy is trying to live a simple life during World War II. He resides in a small farmhouse outside a sleepy village in France. He has almost no friends. One day he stumbles across Rolf, an injured German soldier. Guy brings Rolf home and nurses him back to health. While convalescing, a relationship...Watch Movie
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Black Sun
An uncompromising portrayal of the war crimes perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Army upon the Chinese military and civilian population of Nanking during the occupation of the city. Hailed by critics as one of the most disturbing films ever released, BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE is...Watch Movie
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Xingu
This gripping historical drama tells the inspiring true story of the three Villas Boas brothers, Orlando, Claudio, and Leonardo, and their mission to protect the indigenous Amazon natives. Seeking adventure, the brothers join the "March to the West" expedition to explore the Amazon rainforest....Watch Movie
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Archangel
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White...Watch Movie
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Appointment in Honduras
An adventurer (Glenn Ford) carrying a vast sum of money, a husband and wife (Ann Sheridan and Zachary Scott) whose marriage is on the rocks and a murderous band of cutthroats trek through the jungles of Central America on a mission to save an ousted political leader. On their...Watch Movie
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Lumumba
Made in the tradition of such true-life political thrillers as MALCOLM X and JFK, Raoul Peck’s award-winning epic dramatizes the rise and fall of legendary African leader Patrice Lumumba. When the Congo declared its independence from Belgium in 1960, the 36-year-old Lumumba became the first Prime...Watch Movie
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The Great Man
An intimate drama starring newcomer Surho Sugaipov and Dardenne brothers' regular Jérémie Rénier, THE GREAT MAN is a powerful story of war, immigration, friendship and solidarity. Hamilton and Markov are about to finish five years of service in the Foreign Legion. During their six-month posting...Watch Movie
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Canopy
In Singapore, February 9, 1942, the Japanese invasion is underway. Jim, an Australian fighter pilot, wakes up dangling from a tree by his parachute strings somewhere in the middle of a vast jungle overrun by hostile forces. As night devours day, he forges into the danger he must navigate in...Watch Movie
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Sami Blood
Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology examinations at her boarding school she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.Watch Movie
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Peep Show
Steve Seid from Pacific Film Archive writes, "J. X. Williams was a legendary bottom-of-the-barrel director in the fifties and sixties, pushed even lower by his Commie leanings. On the skids, he drifted around the Continent making cheapo features and the occasional nudie reeler (like the infamous...Watch Movie
