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Young Lord Stanley
New York The 1910sThe son of wealthy Lord Stanley has been disinherited and thrown out of the house. He travels to Africa for fortune and adventure. He finds a job as a horse groomer for a wealthy family. He falls for the family's daughter, but they are against the relationship because they think he's just a common stablehand.
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Trying to Get Arrested
New York The 1900sA tramp tries to get himself arrested so he can sleep in the nice, warm jail, but the police keep ignoring him or arresting the wrong person.
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Terrible Anguish
The 1900sIn all likeliness an inspiration for Griffith's The Lonely Villa (1909), Terrible Anguish tells the brief and tragic tale of a family being torn apart while the husband is away at work.
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Cake Walk, Performed by Nouveau Cirque
The 1900sNouveau Cirque performs the cake-walk.
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Life of an American Fireman
The 1900sPorter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...
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Electrocuting an Elephant
New York The 1900sThis is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.
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A Desperate Poaching Affray
The 1900sThree hunters surprise two poachers in the act. The hunters take umbrage and give chase over fences and through fields. The hunters fire away, but the poachers have guns as well, and a fight ensues with casualties for the hunters. Two cops appear and so do dogs as the chase continues. Will the poachers escape, or will they, like the game they were after, be trapped?
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Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
New York The 1900sThe first scene shows a country couple entering Steeplechase Park. They proceed to amuse themselves on the steeplechase...
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What Is Seen Through a Keyhole
The 1900sAs a janitor is cleaning a hotel, he decides to peek through the keyholes to observe some of the guests in their rooms. In room 8, a woman is busy making herself look more attractive, and the janitor enjoys watching her. There are also some interesting things going on in the other rooms on the floor.
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Dream and Reality
The 1900sA well-dressed middle-aged man is enjoying a drink at a table with a pretty young woman. He flirts with her, and she seems not to mind his attentions. But is it all too good to be true?
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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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Royal Visit of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York to New Zealand
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1900sThe Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York travelled to New Zealand in 1901 to thank New Zealanders for their contribution to the Boer War. Only a short fragment remains of a much longer film.
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Inauguration of the Commonwealth
New South Wales The 1900sThis clip shows part of the official parade for the Inauguration of the Commonwealth on 1 January 1901 as it passes through the temporary gate built especially for the occasion in Hyde Park, Sydney.
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The Departure of the Second Contingent for the Boer War
🇳🇿 New Zealand The 1900sNew Zealand's oldest surviving film shows a troop of horsemen from the Boer War Second Contingent in camp at one of the open days held before their departure at Newtown Park, Wellington, likely 13 January 1900. (https://ngataonga.org.nz/)
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Roots of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The 1960sDocumentation of the Cuban missile crisis (from 13 days supplementary material)
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The Long Home
Tennessee Kentucky The 1940sRural Tennessee in the 1940's: a young man unwittingly goes to work building a honky-tonk for the charismatically diabolical bootlegger who murdered his father ten years earlier and runs into conflict when he falls for the young woman the bootlegger is grooming to be a prostitute. NOTE: 2020-08-31 According to Wikipedia, The Long Home was tentatively expected to be released in 2017, and in November of that year, the sales rights to the movie were acquired by Great Point Media. However, it has yet to be released in any format as of 2020.
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Kung Fury 2
Florida The 1980s1985. Miami is kept safe under the watchful eye of Kung Fury and his Thundercops, the ultimate police force assembled from across history to defeat the villainous Kung Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler. After the tragic death of a Thundercop sees the group disband, a mysterious villain emerges from the shadows to aid in the Fuhrer's quest to attain the ultimate weapon. Kung Fury must travel through space and time to save his friends, defend the prestigious Miami Kung Fu Academy and defeat evil once and for all.
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Fire Under the Snow
Tibet The 1930s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sPalden Gyatso, a Buddhist monk since childhood, was arrested by the Chinese Communist Army in 1959. He spent the next 33 years in prison for the "crimes" of peaceful demonstration and refusal to denounce his apolitical teacher as an Indian spy. He was tortured, starved and sentenced to hard labor. He watched his nation and culture destroyed, his teachers, friends and family displaced, jailed or killed under Chinese occupation. Fire Under the Snow reaches back to Palden's birth in 1933 and follows him through the Orwellian nightmare that began with the Chinese invasion. We cut back and forth between the past and Palden's present as an activist, living in exile. Our P.O.V. becomes a "third eye" hovering over Palden’s current life, haunted by his memories of the past. We explore the escalating cycle of interrogation and physical violation during his years in prison that ended decades later with Palden's escape from Tibet and a cathartic meeting with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Oklahoma The 1920sDepicts the serial murder of members of the oil-wealthy Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma, a string of brutal crimes that came to be known as the Reign of Terror.
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King of the Sands
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia The 1920s The 1930s The 1940sA daring, compelling and controversial take on the life of prince Abdulaziz Al Saud (Ibn Saud), founder of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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English
Xinjiang The 1970sA child's-eye story of Shanghainese settlers in Xinjiang during the late Mao era.
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Being the Ricardos
The 1950sA biopic following the lives and marriage of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
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The Brutalist
The 1940s The 1950sThe film chronicles 30 years in the life of one artist's enduring monolithic vision. The story opens in 1947, as a Hungarian-born Jewish architect emigrates to the United States. Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract that will change the course of his life.
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Pinocchio
🇮🇹 Italy The 1930sSet during the rise of fascism in Mussolini's Italy, Pinocchio is a story of love and disobedience as Pinocchio struggles to live up to his father's expectations.
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Roudram Ranam Rudhiram
🇮🇳 India The 1920sA fictional tale about two legendary Indian revolutionaries and their journey away from home before they started fighting for their country in 1920s.
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Silent Life
California The 1920s1926: While on tour promoting his latest movie "Son Of The Sheik", Rudolph Valentino, the Hollywood silent screen icon, suffers a sudden collapse and is hospitalized at the New York Polyclinic Hospital. After an emergency surgery, Valentino loses his grip on reality and, while hallucinating, reexperiences his life in Hollywood from - as a silent film shown at a movie palace, the magical portal between life and eternity, between reality and illusion. Dubbed "The Great Lover" around the world, Valentino plays dashing and virile Sheiks on the screen and drives his female audience into hysteria. However, his private life is a complete failure - the Sheik cannot satisfy even his own domineering wife. Snapping back to reality, Valentino finds himself abandoned, alone and stricken with illness. Pam, a young deaf-mute Valentino's fan, who works as a nurses' aid at the hospital, will show the God of Love for the first time in his life what love can truly mean.
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Hands Up!
🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sHands Up! is a 2003 Chinese historical comedy film directed and written by Feng Xiaoning, and produced by Han Sanping. The film stars Pan Changjiang, Guo Da, and Liu Wei. It based on the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
New Jersey The 1970s The 1990sBased by the life of ISRO Scientist Nambi Narayanan who was falsely accused of being a spy and arrested in 1994. Though free, he is still fighting for justice, with those police officials alleged to have falsely implicated him, still free.
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Virata Parvam
🇮🇳 India The 1990sRevolution is an act of LOVE — Set in a vintage backdrop, this period drama takes place in the year 1992 and reflects the socio-political conditions of the society at that time.
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KOMMANDO 1944
California 🇩🇪 Germany The 1940sJuly 1944, An Asian American soldier Corporal Soo is thrown into a Nazi work camp on a farm in Germany as his family back home in America are forced into an American Japanese concentration camp in Manzanar California. The allied soldiers think Soo is a Japanese soldier and segregate him. Soo must fight to let go of the past in order to be set free.
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Merrily We Roll Along
California New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sMerrily We Roll Along follows Franklin Shepard, a talented Broadway composer who abandons his theater career in New York and all his friends in order to produce movies in Los Angeles. The musical begins at the height of his Hollywood fame and moves backwards in time, showing snapshots of the most important moments in Frank’s life that shaped the man he is today.
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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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Please Baby Please
New York The 1950sNewlyweds Suze and Arthur become the dangerous obsession of a greaser gang that awakens a sleeping quandary about the couple’s sexual identity after witnessing a murder in the gritty streets of a surreal 1950s Manhattan.
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Napoli d'altri tempi
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Où sont nos amoureuses
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Monster Butler
Maine England The 1970sThe film is based on the true story of the serial-killing con man Roy Fontaine who worked as a butler and robbed and murdered numerous employers throughout England and Scotland.
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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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The Ballad of Hard Times
Quebec The 1930sUsing archival films, popular songs of the time and testimonials, evocation of the economic crisis of the 1930s as experienced by the people of Quebec
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Maigret
The 1950sIn Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
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Living
England The 1950sAn English-language adaptation of the script of "Ikiru" (1952), set in London in the 1950s
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See How They Run
England The 1950sIn 1950s London, a desperate Hollywood film producer sets out to turn a popular West End play into a film. When members of the production are murdered, world-weary Inspector Stoppard and overzealous rookie Constable Stalker find themselves in the midst of a puzzling whodunit within London’s glamorous Theatreland and sordid underground.
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Kurup
The 1980sDrawing inspiration from a real-life incident, Kurup is an adventure drama which is based on Kerala`s most eluding criminal who has been on the run since the mid-1980s. The film will bring on screen the life of the most celebrated criminal of Kerala- Sukumara Kurup.
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My Backyard Was A Mountain
🇵🇷 Puerto Rico The 1960sTold as the memory of an aging gentleman, this is the story of Adan, a Puerto Rican boy who has one day to find a home for his pet goat, Chivo, before his family relocates to New York City in the late 1950s. While searching for a new owner for Chivo, Adan discovers the promise of first love with his childhood friend, Denise, whom he will also have to leave behind.
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Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sWhen a stock market crash causes the sudden collapse of a multi-billion-dollar company, an ICAC investigator (Andy Lau) uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving the company’s founder, Ching Yat-yin (Tony Leung) and becomes entangled in a long-running investigation.
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Under a Jarvis Moon
Pacific Ocean The 1940s The 1930sUnder a Jarvis Moon is a 2010 documentary film about the young men, mostly of Hawaiian origin, sent in the 1930s and 1940s to colonize the Line Island of Jarvis and the Phoenix Islands of Howland and Baker.
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