Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Documentary, Biography
On August 7 1974 Philippe Petit a French wire walker juggler and street performer days shy of his 25th birthday spent 45 minutes walking dancing kneeling and lying on a wire he and friends strung between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Uses contemporary interviews archival footage and recreations to tell the story of his previous walks between towers of Notre Dame and of the Sydney...
Country: United States, France, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Rusty Dennis is the mother of Rocky a seriously deformed but extremely intelligent and emotionally warm teenager. Rusty is a no-nonsense mother whose wild lifestyle is often at odds with her tenderness and protectiveness towards Rocky. She is determined that Rocky be given the same chances and happiness that everyone else takes for...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
The story ultimately revolves around two men of honor; their relationship their individual and joint failures and triumphs. Carl Brashear is determined to be the first African American Navy Diver in a time where racism is rife. Leslie Sunday is his embittered trainer determined to see him fail. Fate challenges and circumstances eventually draw these two men together in a tale of turbulence...
Country: France, Canada
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of Jacques Mesrine Frances public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in...
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller, War
Neil Jordans depiction of the controversial life and death of Michael Collins the Lion of Ireland who led the IRA against British rule and founded the Irish Free State Eire in...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama
In 1979 Clive Sinclair British inventor of the pocket calculator frustrated by the lack of home investment in his projectthe electric car also opposes former assistant Chris Currys belief that he can successfully market a micro-chip for a home computer. A parting of the ways sees Curry in partnership with the Austrian Hermann Hauser and using whizz kid Cambridge students set up his own...
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