Movies: History and legacy

  • 2004
    National Treasure

    National Treasure (2004)

    National Treasure

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    Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secr...

    National Treasure
  • 2007
    National Treasure: Book of Secrets

    National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

    National Treasure: Book of Secrets

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    Benjamin Franklin Gates and Abigail Chase re-team with Riley Poole and, now armed with a stack of long-lost pages from John Wilkes Booth's diary, Ben must follow a clue left there to prove his ancestor's innocence in the assassination of Abraham Linc...

    National Treasure: Book of Secrets
  • 2016
    The Man Who Knew Infinity

    The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

    The Man Who Knew Infinity

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    Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy....

    The Man Who Knew Infinity
  • 2023
    BlackBerry

    BlackBerry (2023)

    BlackBerry

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    Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the meteoric rise and catastrophic ...

    BlackBerry
  • 2008
    Fool's Gold

    Fool's Gold (2008)

    Fool's Gold

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    Treasure hunter Ben "Finn" Finnegan has sunk his marriage to Tess and his trusty boat in his obsessive quest to find the legendary Queen's Dowry. When he finds a vital clue that may finally pinpoint the treasure's whereabouts, he drags Tess and her b...

    Fool's Gold
  • 2020
    Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

    Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies (2020)

    Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

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    The definitive documentary on the history of nudity in feature films from the early silent days to the present, studying the changes in morality that led to the use of nudity in films while emphasizing the political, sociological and artistic changes...

    Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
  • 2024
    Einstein and the Bomb

    Einstein and the Bomb (2024)

    Einstein and the Bomb

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    What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius....

    Einstein and the Bomb
  • 2017
    How the Beatles Changed the World

    How the Beatles Changed the World (2017)

    How the Beatles Changed the World

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    The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the impact that these four band members had, first in their native Britain and soon after worldwide, it reappraises the ban...

    How the Beatles Changed the World
  • 1985
    Shoah

    Shoah (1985)

    Shoah

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    Director Claude Lanzmann spent 11 years on this sprawling documentary about the Holocaust, conducting his own interviews and refusing to use a single frame of archival footage. Dividing Holocaust witnesses into three categories – survivors, bystander...

    Shoah
  • 2021
    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass (2021)

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass

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    Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place in Dallas on November 22, 1963....

    JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
  • 2023
    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2023)

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

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    In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one...

    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
  • 2022
    Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere

    Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere (2022)

    Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere

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    Deep Throat, a pornographic film directed by Gerard Damiano, a film-loving hairdresser, and starring Linda Lovelace, a shy girl manipulated by a controlling husband, was released in 1972 and divided audiences, who began to talk openly about sex, desi...

    Deep Throat: When Porn Makes Its Premiere
  • 2020
    The Real Right Stuff

    The Real Right Stuff (2020)

    The Real Right Stuff

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    The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard NASA mission audio recordings, and more rare & unseen material....

    The Real Right Stuff
  • 2022
    The True Story of Pirates

    The True Story of Pirates (2022)

    The True Story of Pirates

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    Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean....

    The True Story of Pirates
  • 2024
    Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

    Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings (2024)

    Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings

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    J.R.R Tolkien’s fantasy novels hold a unique place in twentieth century English literature and are much loved by readers the world over. This documentary explores the real places in England and elsewhere that provided inspiration for Tolkien to creat...

    Tolkien: The True Story of the Rings
  • 1985
    Terrorists in Retirement

    Terrorists in Retirement (1985)

    Terrorists in Retirement

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    Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. T...

    Terrorists in Retirement
  • 2022
    Beyond Paper

    Beyond Paper (2022)

    Beyond Paper

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    At a critical moment in the history of the written word, as humanity’s archives migrate to the cloud, one filmmaker goes on a journey around the globe to better understand how she can preserve her own Romanian and Armenian heritage, as well as our co...

    Beyond Paper
  • 2005
    Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

    Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II (2005)

    Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II

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    A film made of archives mostly unknown, on the last day of the Second World War in Europe and on the events which preceded it. This film also shows the growing tension between the Allies and the Soviets at the time: May 8, 1945 is also the first day ...

    Capitulation, the Final Hours that Ended World War II
  • 2024
    Hispanoamérica: Song of Life and Hope

    Hispanoamérica: Song of Life and Hope (2024)

    Hispanoamérica: Song of Life and Hope

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    A renewed and truthful vision of how Spanish America was born and prospered, an epic story developed over more than three hundred years, that of those who bequeathed to humanity an immense architectural, sculptural, pictorial, literary and musical he...

    Hispanoamérica: Song of Life and Hope
  • 2024
    La belle histoire de Noël

    La belle histoire de Noël (2024)

    La belle histoire de Noël

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    La belle histoire de Noël