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Doaa el-Adl, the first woman to be awarded the esteemed Journalistic Distinction in Caricature, serves as a catalyst for transformation within the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Doaa el-Adl

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel which originally aired on Arte in 2002 with the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Philippe Faure

An extraordinary journey through the material that makes up our habitat: concrete and its ancestor, stone. Victor Kossakovsky raises a fundamental...

Genre: Documentary

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The story of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, known as the Tokyo Trial, which, just after the Second World War, was established...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Moscow, January 1996. Boris Yeltsin gets ready to run for a second mandate of the presidency of the young Russian Federation. Polls are in the single...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Boris Yeltsin

In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christine Gagnieux

Using their bare hands, married couple Htwe Tin and Thein Shwe draw oil from a pit they drilled themselves on the land next to their house. There are...

Genre: Documentary

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Documentary about the Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, where we see him attend film festivals, personal influences and of course the study of his...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Takashi Miike

Written and directed by Hitchcock historian Noël Simsolo, this 2004 French television documentary explores the earliest years of Alfred...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Chabrol

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Marina Vlady

Amany Al-Ali stands out as one of Syria's few female cartoonists, residing in her father's home in Idlib, the last city unconquered by Assad's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Amany Al-Ali

Today, we see a new style of feminism springing up everywhere - young, provocative and radical. To get their message across, these women have decided...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Johanna Fateman

Christopher Doyle is one of the best known and most acclaimed directors of photography in world cinema. Born in Australia, he sees himself as an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christopher Doyle

Luc Lagier puts Alain Resnais' film back in its historical context and in the filmmaker's biography. He tells the story, then the development of what...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Luc Lagier

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christophe Malavoy

In this archival documentary, Sydney Pollack discusses his career and relationship with various actors, directors and producers. A large portion of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sydney Pollack

Freed from the shackles of communism in the 1990s, Russia seemed to be entering an era of rebirth. But as is often the case in that country, history...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Hudson

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Grimault

We follow the efforts of Ester Gatti to find her missing granddaughter Mariana Zaffaroni. As a child, Mariana and her parents were kidnapped by a...

Genre: Documentary

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“Marilyn vs. Marilyn” tells the story of a little-known period of Marilyn’s life – the years she spent in New York, trying to...

Genre: History

Cast: Milton H. Greene