Country: United Kingdom, France, Vietnam
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
It is French Colonial Vietnam in 1929. A young French girl from a family that is having some monetary difficulties is returning to boarding school. She is alone on public transportation when she catches the eye of a wealthy Chinese businessman. He offers her a ride into town in the back of his chauffeured sedan and sparks fly. Can the torrid affair that ensues between them overcome the class...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Based upon the true story of Jim Jones a self proclaimed prophet. Jim Jones had a loyal following of about 1000 people who had donated their entire life savings to him to join his commune. When possible illegal activities came to the attention of the authorities they started to investigate. Rather that faces the charges Jim Jones committed suicide and convinced virtually All of his followers...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
Country: Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, Norway
Genre: Drama
Jacob Pederson lives in shanty surroundings in Bombay India and assists in the running of Anand Orphanage and School. He had attempted a number of projects to assist orphans including child prostitutes - all quite in vain. He has adopted a young male orphan Pramod and takes special care of him. With growing pressure on the facilities which is on the verge bankruptcy the orphanage receives...
Country: Australia, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
Eric Lomax was one of thousands of Allied prisoners of war forced to work on the construction of the Thai/Burma railway during WW2. His experiences after the secret radio he built to bring news and hope to his colleagues was discovered left him traumatised and shut off from the world. Years later he met Patti a beautiful woman on a train and fell in love. Patti was determined to rid Eric of...
Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...
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