Movies: History

This essay-film is a historical crash-course which spans the millennia from the stone age to the conquest of space in the 1960s....

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Welcome to the La Paloma Theater. Please enjoy this presentation, in which the theater's owner takes you through its luscious history-and nothing else....

Explore the 'Krivoklat Castle, Czechia', one of the oldest and most important castles of the Czech kings and princes, with origins dating back to the 12th century. This royal residence was built as a seat of the ruling Premyslid dynasty...

Explore the history, mission and daily operations of Arlington National Cemetery, the final resting place for more than 400,000 Americans. This revered place honors the dead and brings great meaning to the living,...

After meeting with misadventure, a space probe from the Voyager mission crashes back to Earth, centuries after it left. But Earth is a very different place now, and there’s only one person around to witness the Golden Record’s message....

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A boy wakes up with a toy in his hand. Which leads himself to the forgotten historical incidents and other people's shared memories....

Ludwig van Beethoven, absorbed in his world, composes in the forest under the snowstorm. In the solitude of this place, his temple, he feels happy, full, fertile. Johanna, his sister-in-law, widow of his brother Caspar, approaches him by surprise and...

A Moment in Her Story is an honest, complex exploration of some of the major challenges faced by those active in the Second Wave women's movement of the late 60s and early 70s....

The absolute art of a Sales Pitch in a perfect example (made for a History project)....

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Told through a single window-frame in Lebanon, the history of two generations unfold. Family dynamics take place, in a means all too familiar to make one wonder: will they repeat their own history?...

Produced by Krishnaswamy associates (p) Ltd in 1982 Drawn from his home by the power of Arunachala, one of India's traditional holy sites, at the age of sixteen, he challenged death by a penetrating enquiry into the source of his being. He perfectly...

The video is made up of, on the sound side, a composition consisting of 58 words, in Japanese, accompanied by piano, and, on the image side, a series of images captioned, in Japanese and English, in correspondence with the recitation on the sound sid...

Brair Kani explores an ancestral house located in Srinagar, Kashmir. Using the attic as a site of reflection, the film navigates the relationship between space, belonging and personal history. Inhabiting the confines of the attic, the house spirits e...

The reign of the Armenian king Artavazd Il coincided with the period of fierce Roman-Parthian wars, in which Greater Armenia always took a direct part. Greek and Roman historians called Armenia the third power in the world, and its king Artavazd Il ...

The film is dedicated to the upcoming 150th anniversary of the birth of Kazakh writer and public figure Akhmet Baitursynov next year. Filming began in Almaty in November....

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