Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...
Country: United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Genre: Adventure, History
The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947 together with five men to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers while the world was waiting for the result...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Musical
Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander...
Country: United Kingdom, Spain
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1922 Madrid is wavering on the edge of change as traditional values are challenged by the dangerous new influences of Jazz Freud and the avant-garde. Salvador Dali arrives at the university; 18 years old and determined to become a great artist. His bizarre blend of shyness and rampant exhibitionism attracts the attention of two of the universitys social elite - Federico Garcia Lorca and...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
On the set of Cleopatra Hollywoods most beautiful star Elizabeth Taylor fell into the arms of one of the worlds greatest actors Richard Burton - and she didnt leave. Their subsequent white-hot scandalous love affair gave rise to the paparazzi and they became the most hunted and photographed couple on earth. Their rocky passionate relationship born in front of the cameras was...
Country: United Kingdom, France, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama
In the 1960s British painter Francis Bacon 1909-1992 surprises a burglar and invites him to share his bed. The burglar a working class man named George Dyer 30 years Bacons junior accepts. Bacon finds Dyers amorality and innocence attractive introducing him to his Soho pals. In their sex life Dyer dominates Bacon is the masochist. Dyers bouts with depression his drinking and pill...
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