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The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
🇫🇷 France The 16th CenturyThe film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
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Humanity Through the Ages
🇮🇹 Italy The 1st CenturyAn episodic narrative displaying examples of humankind's brutality, from the story of Cain and Abel through the Hague Convention of 1907.
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Ben Hur
🇮🇱 Israel 🇮🇹 Italy Ancient HistoryThe first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
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The Story of the Kelly Gang
🇦🇺 Australia The 19th CenturyThe Most Sensational, The Most Thrilling and Interesting LIVING PICTURES EVER TAKEN. — Just as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) is testimony to German silent film art, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolises both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian identity. Even more significantly it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. The Story of the Kelly Gang, directed by Charles Tait in 1906, is the first full-length narrative feature film produced anywhere in the world. Only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist and are preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra. (unesco.org)
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Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
New York The 1900sThis early docudrama shows Auburn Prison and recreates the electrocution of Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President McKinley of the United States.
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Attack on a China Mission
🇨🇳 ChinaThe titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and paddles. He's over-matched. What will become of the mission, its defenders, and its occupants?
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The Surrender of Tournavos
🇬🇷 Greece The 1890sThree military men, seen inside a fortification, are firing on an unseen enemy force. The call for reinforcements but ladders appear signalling the enemy is about to overrun this position.
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Naval Combat in Greece
🇬🇷 Greece The 1890sAn officer calls his sailors to the deck. They assemble around the canon while the officer scans the horizon. They all turn in the direction of the camera to look in the distance. At the same time the ship is hit! This scene is a filmed reconstruction of the 1897 Greek-Turkish war.
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Medieval
🇨🇿 Czechia The 15th Century The 14th CenturyThe story of 14th century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
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Major
🇮🇳 India The 2000sAttacks are always dangerous not safe — Based on the life of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was martyred in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award, on 26 January 2009.
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Reagan
District of Columbia California Illinois The 1980s The 1950s The 1940sA drama based on the life of Ronald Reagan, from his childhood to his time in the oval office.
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La revolución es un sueño eterno
🇦🇷 Argentina The 1810sJuan José Castelli's fall into disgrace after a hard campaign in the argentine war of independence
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Redeeming Love
California The 1850sA retelling of the biblical book of Hosea set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush of 1850.
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Tetris
The 1980sThe true story of the high-stakes legal battle to secure the intellectual property rights to Tetris.
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Ivan the Terrible
🇵🇱 Poland 🇷🇺 Russia The 16th CenturySergei Eisenstein’s final film, was a projected three-part historical epic/biopic on Czar Ivan Grozny commissioned by Joseph Stalin, documenting the tyrannical tsar’s rise to power and descent into paranoia and madness. Eisenstein managed to complete the first two parts of the trilogy, but the second film was banned by the USSR until 1958, halting production of the Part III. After Eisenstein’s death in 1948, most of what was filmed for Part III was seized and destroyed.
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