This is the story of an incredible rise to power, the most comprehensive documentary on Hermann Goering ever made. He was a man of many faces: vain, ambitious, more brutal than any other of Hitler’s minions, yet the most popular Nazi official of all, at times even more popular than Hitler himself. He embodied the jovial side of the Third Reich. Yet the same man who organised dissolute bacchanals also founded the Gestapo, set up the first concentration camps, and had his own comrades murdered in the purge of 1934. These unique personal records form the largest and most important single film find from the Nazi era in past years.
Category: History
History
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On Company Business
A controversial three part critical documentary on the history of the CIA.
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Cape Rebel
Movie version cut from the TV series (Arende) Epic drama of honor, passion and freedom set during the Anglo-Boer War and follows the bound fates of rebellious Boer farmer Sloet Steenkamp and Captain of the British Army James Kerwin. A period drama of a time when Britain colonised by might in Southern Africa. Sloet was a Cape Colonist who refused to surrender to the new rule, and was one of the Cape rebels. After being captured he and many others were taken captive and sent to British concentration camps in Saint Helena where Sloet was doomed to stay forever
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A Dream of Red Mansions
A Chinese serial feature film, released in 6 parts (8 episodes) between 1988 and 1989. The film adapts the major events and incidents of the novel of the same name, depicting the fate of Jia family.
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Kiheitai
A period drama at the end of the Edo period, featuring Shinsaku Takasugi, who organized the Kiheitai and led the Meiji Restoration to success, and depicts the turbulent life of the young samurai of the Choshu clan at the end of the Edo period.
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A City of Sadness
The story of a family embroiled in the “White Terror,” the Kuomintang government’s anti-communist political repression that was wrought on the Taiwanese people from 1947-1987.
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Thousand Cranes
April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts winning, she starts getting tired more easily. She is sent back to the American Base Victory Hospital, where the diagnosis is lymphatic leukemia. And she has no more than a year left to live. Her parents agree with the doctor that Sadako should not be told, but will she find out anyway ?
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Mandoukhai the Wise: Episode 1 – Mandoukhai is called
Set in the 15th century after the collapse of Genghis Khan’s empire, and follows Mandoukhai from her youth when she’s forced to marry the new ruler to her violent death after unifying the vast Mongolian empire.
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Death of a Tea Master
Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master’s death.
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The Last Aristocrats
In 1948, four young girls, daughters of Shanghai’s elite, attending college in America find themselves unable to return after the Communists take Shanghai.