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Raag Desh
🇮🇳 IndiaThree officers of the Indian National Army are on trial for treason. An ailing lawyer must help them face the consequence of their courage.
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The Founding of an Army
The 1920sThe Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
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Ayla: The Daughter of War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 2000sIn 1950, amidst the ravages of the Korean War, Sergeant Süleyman stumbles upon a a half-frozen little girl, with no parents and no help in sight. Frantic, scared and on the verge of death, this little girl captures the heart of Süleyman, who risks his own life to save her, smuggling her into his Army base and out of harms way. Not knowing her name and unable to communicate with her, Süleyman names her Ayla, in reminiscence of the moon on the fateful night during which they met. The two form an instantaneous and inseparable bond, and Ayla, almost effortlessly, brings an uncanny joy to the Turkish brigade in the grip of war. As the war comes to a close however, Süleyman's brigade is told that they will be returning home. Süleyman cannot bear abandoning Ayla, and does everything within his power to take her with him. After repeated failure, he is forced to give Ayla to an orphanage, but doesn't give up on the hope of one day reuniting with her. Will the two ever get back together?
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Hochelaga, Land of Souls
Quebec The 1830s The 17th Century The 16th Century The 13th CenturyMohawk archaeologist Baptiste Asigny engages in a search for his ancestors following a tragic terrain slump in the Percival Molson Stadium.
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Man of Will
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturyYoung Kim Chang-Soo is placed behind bars, charged with murdering a Japanese person who took part in Empress Myeongseong's assassination. In prison, Kim Chang-Soo sees how Koreans are persecuted and grows into a fighter for Korean independence.
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Morazán
The 1840sFrancisco Morázan has been in Costa Rica for five months where he has been appointed Provisional Chief of State. It has called for elections to install a National Constituent Assembly, which should be a legal structure to the Costa Rican state. The Assembly has decreed the validity of the constitution of 1825, the same as that of the Central American Federation; It has declared the accession of Costa Rica to the Republic of Central America. Two months later Francisco Morazán is shot one afternoon on September 15, 1842.
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The Jade Pendant
California The 1870sLove and loss in America — Fleeing an arranged marriage in China, the independent Peony signs a contract to work as a “flower girl” in America, where she meets Tom, an American Born Chinese cook whose father works on the Transcontinental Railroad. Thwarted by a Hong Kong Triad boss seeking to extend his power into America, theirs is the tale of the first great Chinese immigration to the United States – a story of romance, bigotry, passion, food and a search for everlasting love – set against the largest mass lynching in American history, in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, in 1871.
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My Nephew Emmett
Mississippi The 1950sThis visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
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When the city roared, Capone was king — The story of America's most famous mobsters and their rise to power. Examine Al Capone's ascension through the eyes of his second in command, “Machine Gun” Jack McGurn.
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The Portrait
🇵🇭 Philippines The 1940sA musical tale about two impoverished sisters' anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.
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Milada
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sShe fought for her country's freedom at the cost of her own. — The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s
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The Chinese Widow
Zhejiang Province Tokyo Prefecture The 1940s The 1930sIt’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
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Silence
🇲🇴 Macao The 17th CenturySometimes silence is the deadliest sound. — Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
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Genius
New York The 1930s The 1920sMax Perkins discovered Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. But he never met anyone like Thomas Wolfe. — New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
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First to finish. Last to die. — A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
🇱🇾 Libya The 2010sWhen everything went wrong, six men had the courage to do what was right. — An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.
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The Finest Hours
Massachusetts Atlantic Ocean The 1950s32 survivors, room for 12. — The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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Elvis & Nixon
District of Columbia Tennessee California The 1970sOn December 21st, 1970, two of America's greatest recording artists met for the first time. — In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
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Snowden
Virginia Maryland Georgia Hawaii 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇭 Switzerland 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇯🇵 Japan The 2000s The 2010sThe only safe place is on the run. — CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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The Founder
Minnesota Illinois Missouri Arizona California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sRisk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer. — The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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Miles Ahead
New York The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sIf you gonna tell a story, come with some attitude. — An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
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Free State of Jones
Mississippi The 1940s The 1870s The 1860sIn 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
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Eddie the Eagle
Alberta England 🇩🇪 Germany The 1970s The 1980sWin or lose, always aim high — The feel-good story of Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
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Race
Ohio 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1940sThe incredible true story of gold medal champion Jesse Owens — Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
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Hacksaw Ridge
Virginia South Carolina Okinawa Prefecture The 1940sOne of the greatest heroes in American history never fired a bullet. — WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
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Finding Altamira
🇪🇸 Spain The 1870sSome secrets are too powerful to hide. — The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.
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On Wings of Eagles
Hebei Province Tianjin The 1920s The 1930sEric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
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A United Kingdom
England 🇧🇼 Botswana The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a love that shook an empire — The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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All the Way
District of Columbia The 1960sPolitics is war. — Lyndon B. Johnson's amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK's assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the night LBJ is actually elected to the office – no longer the 'accidental President.'
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Confirmation
Oklahoma District of Columbia The 1990sIt Only Takes One Choice To Change History. — Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States' Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.
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The Promise
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇲 Armenia 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sEmpires fall. Love survives. — Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, a love triangle develops between Mikael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated artist Ana, and Chris, a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
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The Last King
🇳🇴 Norway The 13th CenturyA story of legendary bravery — Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king's men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a baby, the illegitimate son of King Håkon, who will be the future king and peacemaker, from those who want to kill him.
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Sully
New York The 2000sThe Untold Story Behind the Miracle on the Hudson. — On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the frigid waters of the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 aboard. However, even as Sully was being heralded by the public and the media for his unprecedented feat of aviation skill, an investigation was unfolding that threatened to destroy his reputation and career.
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The Innocents
🇵🇱 Poland The 1940sDeeply moving and emotionally layered. — Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy. Mathilde becomes their only hope.
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Viking
🇧🇾 Belarus 🇷🇺 Russia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 11th Century The 10th CenturyHistory is a symptom. The diagnosis is us. — The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
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The Death of Louis XIV
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyAugust 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.
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Airlift
🇰🇼 Kuwait The 1990s170,000 Refugees, 488 Flights, 59 Days, 1 Man — When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.
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Devil's Mistress
The 1930s The 1940s The 2000sA film about the black-and-white era actress Lída Baarová and her doomed love affair.
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Frantz
🇫🇷 FranceIn the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
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In This Corner of the World
Hiroshima Prefecture The 1940s The 1930sTorn apart by war. Brought together by love. — Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home. Inhabited by an ancestral wisdom, Suzu impregnates the simple gestures of everyday life with poetry and beauty. The many hardships, the loss of loved ones, the frequent air raids of the enemy, nothing alters her enthusiasm…
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Hidden Figures
Virginia West Virginia Florida The 1960s The 1920sMeet the women you don't know, behind the mission you do. — The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history – the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit. The visionary trio crossed all gender and race lines to inspire generations to dream big.
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Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
The 1940sThe poems that are untold, the youth that is unfinished — Based on the life and work of Korea’s renowned poet, Yun Dong Ju. Dong Ju, while studying literature in Japan, was charged and detained for having participated in the Korean Independence Movement. Known to have created hundreds of poems during his time in jail where he spent the last two years of his life, Dong Ju passed away at the young age of 27. Although it has not been proven, some believe he died due to medical experiments that were performed on his living body.
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Fanny's Journey
🇫🇷 France The 1940sFanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After their guide disappears, Fanny has to take the lead and help the other kids make it over the mountains.
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Spirits' Homecoming
🇰🇷 South Korea The 20th CenturyTrampled souls, seeking their way home, finally returning — Two Korean girls, Jung-Min (14) and Young-hee (15) are kidnapped by the Japanese Imperial Army and taken to a 'Comfort Station' in China. There, they join other kidnapped girls in serving Japanese soldiers as sexual slaves known as 'Comfort Women'. Decades later, an elderly lady attempts to reunite with the spirit of her lost friend. Inspired by the testimony of Kang Il-chul.
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Love, Lies
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1940sA tragedy of jealousy and desires — Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.
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The Chosen
🇲🇽 Mexico The 1930sOrders are not to be questioned. Orders are to be executed. — Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
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Patriots Day
Massachusetts The 2010sThe inside story of the world's greatest manhunt. — In the aftermath of an unspeakable act of terror, Police Sergeant Tommy Saunders joins courageous survivors, first responders and investigators in a race against the clock to hunt down the Boston Marathon bombers before they strike again.
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La macchinazione
The 1970sIn the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
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The Hero
🇷🇺 Russia The 1920s The 1910s The 2010sAndrey Kulikov goes to Paris to visit the grave of his great-grandfather, Andrey Dolmatov, who had been an officer in the White Army during the Russian Revolution. On the headstone of the grave next to his great-grandfather's, he notices the face of a young woman. Later, while walking through Paris, Andrey sees a woman, Vera, who looks just like the young woman he had seen on the headstone. And so begins the telling of two love stories, separated by three generations and one hundred years.
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Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe
New York 🇦🇷 Argentina 🇧🇷 Brazil The 1940s The 1930sBefore Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the "right attitude" towards the events in war torn Europe and his search for a new home.
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