“The Forgotten Faces (1961), a film reconstruction of the Hungarian revolution of 1956, won Watkins another amateur Oscar, and to this day, the film is praised in England as "one of the most memorable amateur films ever made".

What the #$*! Do We

2004

English

5.2

♡ 2

William Arntz Director

Barry Newman as Frank

Elaine Hendrix as Jennifer

Casper Van Dien as Romantic Moritz

Eric Newsome as Various Character Voices

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda begins to see the world in new and different ways when she begins to question her role in life, her relationships with her career and men and what it all means. As the layers to her everyday experiences fall away insertions in the story with scientists, and philosophers and religious leaders impart information directly to an off-screen interviewer about academic issues, and Amanda begins to understand the basis to the quantum world beneath. During her epiphany as she considers the Great Questions raised by the host of inserted thinkers, she slowly comprehends the various inspirations and begins to see the world in a new way.

Culloden

1964

English

7.7

♡ 11

100%

92%

18th century

Action

bonnie prince charlie

Peter Watkins Director

Peter Watkins as Field Interviewer

Tony Cosgrove as Lt. Ward / Field Interviewer

Olivier Espitalier-Noel as Prince Charles Edward Stuart

Robert Oates as Pvt. Alexander Laing

Culloden, Scottish Highlands, April 16th, 1746. It was one of the most mishandled and brutal battles ever fought in Great Britain. Its aftermath was tragic. The men responsible for such a disaster must be exposed. The men, women and children who suffered because of it must be remembered.

MS Slavic 7

2019

English

5.4

♡ 4

90%

Deragh Campbell Director

Mariusz Sibiga as

Deragh Campbell as

Aaron Danby as

Elizabeth Rucker as

After being appointed literary executor, Audrey Benac (Deragh Campbell) uncovers a series of letters that her great-grandmother had written to a fellow poet. Both displaced from Poland, Zofia Bohdanowiczowa and Nobel Prize nominee Jozef Wittlin corresponded from 1957-1964 between Toronto, Wales and New York City. Over the course of three days, Audrey embarks on a journey to Houghton Library at Harvard University to translate and make sense of Zofia’s words.

Endurance

1998

English

6.3

♡ 4

50%

Bud Greenspan Director

Berhane Tesfaye as

Berhane Taye as

Bekele Negash as

Endale Workineh as

The gold medal for the men's 10,000-meter race in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics is won by Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie.

And Life Goes On

1992

Persian

7.9

♡ 41

Abbas Kiarostami Director

Hocine Rifahi as

Ferhendeh Feydi as

Farhad Kheradmand as Film Director

Buba Bayour as Puya

After the earthquake of Guilan, a film director and his son travel to the devastated area to search for the actors from the movie the director made there a few years previously. In their search, they see how people who have lost everything in the earthquake still have hope and try to live life to the fullest.

Veerappan

2016

Hindi

5.3

♡ 7

smuggling (contraband)

veerappan

Ram Gopal Varma Director

Sunit Razdan as Bhupi

Zareen Khan as Dancer

Shaneel Sinha as Gandhi

Lisa Ray as Shreya

The journey of the world's most notorious sandalwood and ivory smuggler, Veerappan who was finally captured on October 18, 2004.

Nuremberg

2000

English

7.3

♡ 16

73%

Yves Simoneau Director

Alec Baldwin as Justice Robert H. Jackson 2 episodes, 2000

Mark Ryan as Maj. Airey Neave 1 episode, 2000

Brian Cox as Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring 2 episodes, 2000

Dwight D. Eisenhower as Self

The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The Land of the Enlightened

2016

English

7.1

♡ 1

43%

Pieter-Jan De Pue Director

Marina Golbahari as

Koko Mullalih as

Sergei Kovinchenko as Self

Devin A. Cleeves as US Soldier

A group of Kuchi children are living in a minefield around Bagram airfield, Afghanistan. They dig out anti-personal mines in order to sell the explosives to child workers mining in a Lappis Lazulli mine. The trajectory of the blue precious stones goes towards Tajikistan and China, through an area controlled by child soldiers. When they are not waging their own mini-wars in the daily madness of life in Afghanistan, the children are fleeing away in their personal fantasies and dreams, while the American soldiers are planning their retreat...

The Rack Pack

2016

English

7.0

♡ 2

Brian Welsh Director

Luke Treadaway as Alex Higgins

Kevin Bishop as Barry Hearn

Daniel Fearn as Robbo

John Sessions as Ted Lowe

The 1980s snooker rivalry between Alex “Hurricane” Higgins and Steve “The Nugget” Davis, two very different personalities who helped popularise the sport on TV.

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

2018

English

8.0

♡ 1

100%

Emma Frank Director

Mairi Philips as Christabel Pankhurst

Ayse Jamieson as Flora Drummond

Joanna Higson as Head Wardress

Joanne Thomson as Mary Leigh

The story of the struggle for the women's vote is much more than just the account of the exploits of Emmeline Pankhurst or the tragic fate of Emily Davidson. Lucy Worsley puts herself at the heart of the drama, alongside a group of astonishing young working class suffragettes who decided to go against every rule and expectation that British Edwardian society (1901-1910) had about them…

The Darkside

2013

English

5.8

♡ 1

57%

Warwick Thornton Director

Aaron Pedersen as

Jack Charles as

Bryan Brown as

Marcia Langton as

Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from around Australia. He will bring them to life with the help of some of Australia's most iconic actors as the storytellers.

Back to Chernobyl

2020

Hebrew

7.1

♡ 1

Action

chernobyl

chernobyl disaster (1986)

Roman Shumunov Director

Oksana Braginsky as Self

Gennady Fraierman as Self

Boris Gerstein as Self

Vladimir Kagan as Self

The film tells the story of the Chernobyl accident through a mosaic of unique personal testimonies of its participants. The experiences of the difficult past and the sad results of the present recreate the full picture of the accident 30 years later.

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

1983

English

7.4

♡ 1

Harrison Engle Director

Michael Roosevelt as Archie

Sean Lavin as Kermit

George C. Scott as Narrator

Theodore Roosevelt V as Quentin

Theodore Roosevelt was America's 26th president and a larger-than-life legend whose incredible story must be seen to be believed. Narrated by George C. Scott, this documentary weaves extremely rare archival footage with meticulous recreations alongside the music of John Philip Sousa in a dynamic panorama of the great events of Teddy Roosevelt in the early years of the 20th century.

Runway 34

2022

Hindi

7.0

♡ 20

50%

88%

Action

bollywood

commercial air travel

Ajay Devgn Director

Ajay Devgn as Captain Vikrant Khanna

Boman Irani as Nishant Suri

Angira Dhar as Radhika Roy

Rakul Preet Singh as Tanya Albuquerque

A flying prodigy, Captain Vikrant Khanna's flight takes a stirring and mysterious trajectory after take-off from an international destination. Concurrently, it follows the tenacious Narayan Vedant in his pursuit to uncover the truth.

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

2021

Arabic

7.7

♡ 13

100%

struggle for survival

war documentary

Abdallah Al-Khatib Director

Abdallah Al-Khatib as Self

During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.

Cave Rescue

2019

English

5.8

♡ 12

62%

Tom Waller Director

Ross W. Clarkson as Australian Doctor

Alex Winslow as Connor

Yasaka Chaisorn as Park Ranger

Ron Smoorenburg as USAF Specialist

When a youth football team of 12 boys, aged 11-16, and their 25-year-old coach is trapped deep inside a cave in Northern Thailand, thousands of volunteers and soldiers from around the world unite in a race against time to find them.

Brothers of the Night

2016

German

5.4

♡ 1

50%

Patric Chiha Director Janis

Janis as Self Luben

Luben as Self Vasko

Vasko as Self Marin

Marin as Self

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienna looking for freedom and a quick buck. They sell their bodies as if that's all they had. What comforts them, so far from home, is the feeling of being together. But the nights are long and unpredictable.

Coup

2019

German

6.7

♡ 1

Sven O. Hill Director

Paula Kalenberg as

Tomasz Robak as

Daniel Michel as

Fabienne Elaine Hollwege as

Hamburg, Germany, summer 1988. A young bank employee embezzles a large amount of money using an ingenious technique and flees to Australia, from where he phones his girlfriend to tell her what he has done so easily; but her reaction is not what he naively expected.

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Endurance

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Nuremberg

The Land of the Enlightened

The Rack Pack

Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley

The Darkside

Back to Chernobyl

The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt

Runway 34

Little Palestine: Diary of a Siege

Cave Rescue

Brothers of the Night

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