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Toscanini in His Own Words
(2009)
DVD
Release Date: 03/31/2009
Private audio recordings of the famed Italian composer are the basis for this dramatized portrait of Arturo Toscanini, played by Barry...
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La Prise De Pouvoir Par Louis XIV
(1966)
DVD
(Criterion Collection)
Release Date: 01/13/2009
Color by Eastmancolor. Produced by L'Office de la Radio-Television-Francaise.
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Europa Europa
(1991)
DVD
Release Date: 03/04/2003
Theatrical release: August 1991. The German export union refused to nominate the film as its candidate for the Academy Awards,...
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Andrei Rublev
(1969)
DVD
(Criterion Collection)
Release Date: 02/02/1999
Director Andrei Tarkovsky's second film, ANDREI RUBLEV, is a massive and sweeping retelling of the life of the 15th-century Russian icon...
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Little Dieter Needs To Fly
(1997)
DVD
Release Date: 03/27/2007
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog's LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler,...
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Little Dieter Needs To Fly
(1997)
DVD
Release Date: 01/08/2002
An extraordinary documentary about an extraordinary man, Werner Herzog's LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY details the life of Dieter Dengler,...
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Koko - A Talking Gorilla
(1977)
DVD
(The Criterion Collection)
Release Date: 07/11/2006
French director Barbet Schroeder's documentary focuses on Koko, a gorilla trained by scientists at Stanford University to communicate...
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Danton
(1983)
DVD
Release Date: 03/31/2009
A dramatic metaphor for the revolutionary events unfolding in his native Poland, Andrzej Wajda's adaptation of Stanislawa...
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Au Revoir Les Enfants
(1987)
DVD
Release Date: 03/28/2006
This autobiographical recounting of Malle's most tragic memory begins in 1944 at an all-boy Catholic school. A young boy befriends a new...
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Children of the Century
(2002)
DVD
(Uncut French Theatrical Release Version)
Release Date: 01/20/2004
A sweepingly romantic and historic tale about two 19th-century writers and their trials in work, travel, and love, CHILDREN OF THE...
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Monsieur Vincent
(1948)
DVD
Release Date: 07/15/2008
An inspiring chronicle of the life of St. Vincent de Paul, who established a lifeline between the fortunes of the rich and the...
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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl
(1993)
DVD
Release Date: 04/27/1999
An amazing documentary about an incredible woman, this film traces Leni Riefenstahl's life from her beginnings as a German action movie...
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Francesco, Giullare Di Dio
(1950)
DVD
(Optional English Subtitles)
Release Date: 08/23/2005
An aesthetically spare, earnest dramatization of the life of St. Frances of Assisi, focusing on the founding of the Franciscan order of...
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Farinelli: Il Castrato
(1994)
DVD
(Original in French and Italian)
Release Date: 08/22/2000
The life story of Carlo Broschi, who at age seven had surgery to become a castrato to preserve his sweet voice. He went on to become one...
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Grandes Comediantes
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 08/28/2007
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Tchaikovsky
(1969)
DVD
Release Date: 02/24/2004
The film centers on the 19th century composer's life. It demonstrates the inseparability of the composer's music from his life, his...
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Mujeres Revolucionarias
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 06/26/2007
Two documentaries are featured on MUJERES REVOLUCIONARIAS. The first is about journalist Elena Poniatowska, who is of Polish-Mexican...
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Grandes Luchadores
(2004)
DVD
Release Date: 08/28/2007
If masked Mexican wrestling, or "lucha libre," could be summed up in one word, that word would be Santo. More than just a brawler, he's...
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The Anna Akhmatova File
(1989)
DVD
Release Date: 07/24/2007
Formerly prohibited by Soviet officials and secretly lauded by citizens, Anna Akhmatova's renowned paean "Requiem" testifies to the...
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Anthony: Warrior of God
(2008)
DVD
Release Date: 06/10/2008
Prepare to be overwhelmed by the compassion of sainthood in this story of St. Anthony, the mystic medieval figure who forwent the...
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