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Jānis Greste collected various objects throughout his life and hoped that they would be useful for education in the future. His energy was harder than a rock. A hundred years ago, he created the the beginning of the modern Latvian National Museum of Literature. That is why even today we can see a piece of soap that Emīls Dārziņš used to wash himself with, or a board on which Rainis wrote.
After the victory of the people's revolution, Mongolia, which has entered a new path of development, is trying to bring down the economy of Mongolia.
After the brutal massacre of a peaceful demonstration of the working people on their way to the Tsar, Lenin and other Party members in exile call for an armed uprising of the workers. At Presnya build barricades. The people are arming themselves. But the heroic armed uprising of the workers of Presnya is brutally suppressed by the tsarist troops. However, the struggle of the workers under the leadership of Lenin continued.
In 1940s Amazonia, a Mexican man in search of himself and a Bolivian woman with dreams of a brighter future struggle to build a family, confronting the challenges of their diverse pasts and the turbulent history of the 20th century.
George Washington struggles to hold his army together at a critical point during the Revolutionary War.
The plot is based on the creation of an illegal Marxist printing house in Chisinau in 1901, which reprinted the newspaper Iskra and other underground literature.
In the 13th century, desolation and misery lead the inhabitants of a village in the Pyrenees to emigrate to Burriana, in Valencia, a region considered to be the Promised Land. During the journey, love, hatred and suffering will jeopardize their arrival at their longed-for destination. At the same time, they will be involved in the war waged by King James I to reconquer these lands held by the Muslims. Reaching the end of the journey will be an odyssey.
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Warsaw, September 19, 1940: a Polish officer is captured during a raid by the German army. In reality, the SS have just fallen into a trap. This man has organized everything to be arrested. His name: Witold Pilecki. His mission: to be interned in Auschwitz, to infiltrate the death camp. This film traces the story of one of the greatest resistance fighters of WWII, through the compilation of reports that the infiltrator smuggled to London from the concentration camp where he was detained.
In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns out to be a German lieutenant Braun. Braun and his six comrades have managed to escape the prisoner of war at the Muurmann railway station, but the lieutenant has had to get rid of the lost group. While Braun is recovering, under the good care of Saima, Niva's neighbor and henchman of the gendarmes, the greedy policeman Simpura, gets a tip about the refugees camped in the desert.
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
In the Pyrénées, in the nineteenth century, Gaston is one of the seven sons born into a family of poor peasants.Wanting to escape his condition, he captures a bear cub, raises it secretly with the help of his fiancée Estala, and trains it with a view to showing it in the fairs and the villages of the region. He has become a bear leader.
The timeless story of an ill-fated romance between a young Greek village girl and a conflicted Turkish officer during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence against the Ottoman Empire in 1821.
From the evacuation of the reserves, threatened by the flooding of the Seine in June 2016, to the first transfers of works to the Louvre's conservation center in Liévin, a look back at a spectacular rescue operation.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.
Djamila, a young Algerian woman living with her brother Hadi and her uncle Mustafa in the Casbah district of Algiers under the French occupation of Algeria, sees the full extent of injustice, tyranny and cruelty on his compatriots by French soldiers. Jamila's nationalist spirit will be strengthened when French forces invade her university to arrest her classmate Amina who commits suicide by ingesting poison. Shortly after the prominent Algerian guerrilla leader Youssef takes refuge with her, she realizes that her uncle Mustafa is part of this network of anti-colonial rebel fighters. Her uncle linked her to the National Liberation Front (FLN). A series of events illustrate Jamila's participation in resistance operations against the occupier before she was finally captured and tortured. Finally, despite the efforts of her French lawyer, Jamila is sentenced to death...
Since its opening in 1882, the Paris Bourse du Travail (Labor Exchange) has remained a nerve center of the labor movement. Once a hotbed of revolutionary syndicalism, and now a meeting place for the main labor federations, history is etched into the walls of the Bourse. It is from the rooms bearing the names of illustrious figures—Eugène Varlin, Fernand Pelloutier, Jean Jaurès, Léon Jouhaux—that historians (Jean Bruhat, Bernard Georges, Jacques Julliard, Jean Maitron, Madeleine Reberioux, Denise Trintant) and the Bourse's general secretary, Jean Braire, have sought to bring to life a century of social history. The general secretaries of the five major labor federations (André Bergeron, Jean Bornard, Edmond Maire, Jacques Pommateau, Georges Seguy) discuss the origins of the Bourses du Travail, but also address the present and the future.
During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.
