Rising Phoenix: Historia de los Juegos Paralímpicos (2020)

The gloomy dungeon of the Santo Oficio gaol in Logroño, northern Spain, is packed with prisoners accused of witchcraft. The sound of mystical chanting drifts out through the bars. It is a desperate cry for help that travels through valleys and mountains until it reaches the hamlet of Zugarramurdi. A young boy wakes up suddenly in the middle of the night...

Leon Trotsky is considered one of the most controversial revolutionary figures of his time. Was he a practical revolutionary or a naive idealist? On the practical side, he was the mastermind behind the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917, and was totally ruthless during the ensuing Civil War. As an idealist, he was committed to the pursuit of international revolution, but created many political enemies. After Lenin's death, Trotsky lost in a power struggle with Stalin, and later was expelled from the Communist Party. Trotsky was exiled from the Soviet Union, eventually finding refuge in Mexico. In 1940, Stalin ordered his assassination, and Trotsky died after being struck in the head with an ice-pick. History records that Trotsky was a master theoretician, a skillful propagandist and a brilliant orator.

This film examines Trotsky, the revolutionary; venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leo Trotsky. Stages in his life and eventual flight are carefully examined, from St. Petersburg, to Mexico City. This is the riveting political biography of the Revolution's onetime hero.

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in the Antarctic. Although quite slow paced and relatively old, the documentary film successfully incorporates reconstructed film material and original Antarctic expedition footage to fully illustrate the hardships of the heroic and extreme arctic explorations. Human endurance is tested to the maximum, as the documentary takes a look back at those who have tried, failed and conquered this most unforgiving landscape. Some of these stories entail Robert Falcon Scott, a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–1904 and the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition of 1910–1913. Scott reached the South Pole in January 1912 only to find he had been beaten to the spot by 33 days. His entire party died on the return journey; eight months later, a search party discovered some of their bodies, diaries and photographs.

Red es un veterano timador que acaba de salir de la cárcel junto a su compañero Ronnie, un joven delincuente fácilmente manipulable. Así, a Red no le costará convencerlo para que le ayude en su nuevo plan: organizar falsos lavados de dinero para matar al comprador y quedarse con su pasta. Pero Ronnie mata en el proceso a un agente de policía encubierto, y su compañero decide vengarle a toda costa.

En el siglo XVI, el joven soldado portugués, Fernando de Gama (Gary Stretch) va en busca del hombre que mató a su padre. Desafortunadamente, el barco en el que viaja naufraga cayendo preso en manos de los árabes y vendido como esclavo. Su dueño (John Rhys Davis) le devuelve la libertad para así defender a su pueblo convirtiéndose en soldado de la guardia real. Un guerrero legendario que defendió un Imperio dividido.

It had been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Avro Lancaster, VeRA, flew from Hamilton, Ontario to meet her British counterpart, Thumper - the only other surviving flight worthy Lancaster bomber in the world - the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight's (BBMF) Lancaster in England. This documentary includes first-hand accounts from the men and women who experienced the war and were connected to the Lancaster. It transports the viewer back in time as they share what it was like during the Lancaster's glory days. REUNION OF GIANTS documents this historic mission as it unfolds through the eyes of the flight crews, veterans, friends and family. It includes all parts in this new chapter of the bomber's history, as VeRA crosses the Atlantic.

A mediados del siglo XIV, el caballero Lavey (Nicolas Cage) escolta hasta un monasterio a una joven acusada de brujería. Los monjes aseguran que ella es la responsable de que la Peste Negra asole y destruya Europa. Lavey, escéptico, no acepta esta explicación y con un grupo de bravos guerreros emprende un viaje para demostrar la inocencia de la joven, pero el azar los conducirá a un lugar donde les esperan las fuerzas de las oscuridad...

Guerra de la Independencia (1808-1814). En 1810, durante la invasión de España por las tropas napoleónicas, un grupo de guerrilleros, con la colaboración de sus aliados ingleses, intenta evitar que un cañón de gran calibre caiga en manos de los franceses.

El film narra la retorcida historia de El Superbeasto (voz de Tom Papa), una especie de antiguo luchador enmascarado con fuerza sobrenatural, quien en estos momentos se dedica a la producción/dirección como estrella del Beastoworld Enterprise, pero que cuando puede pasa el tiempo luchando contra el mal junto a su Super-Sexy hermana, Suzi X (voz de Sheri Moon Zombie). Basado en el cómic de Rob Zombie, se trata de un film de animación que fue lanzado directamente a DVD con la calificación R.

From dreamy aerial opening shots, we are sent on an expedition through the storied land of our fifth most populous state, Illinois, often called a miniature version of America. Deborah Stratman’s experimental documentary explores how physical landscapes and human politics can each re-interpret historical events. Eleven parables relay histories of settlement, removal, technological breakthrough, violence, messianism, and resistance. Who gets to write history—physical monuments, official news accounts, or personal spoken-word memories?

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for food and liquor? Early versions of the heartwarming legend of Santa Claus described him as a horrible devil named Krampus who beat and kidnapped naughty children. In America during the 17th and 18th Centuries, celebrating Christmas was against the law! There's a lot to tell about the history of Christmas, and a lot you may not know. Along the way, meet Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey, The Grinch and Rudolph, and learn the true origins of our Christmas traditions. So grab some eggnog and a slice of fruitcake as HISTORY unwraps THE REAL STORY OF CHRISTMAS.

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious and controversial scientists in history.

Barnstorming is the true story of an unexpected friendship that developed between a farm family and two pilots who literally dropped out of the sky. Their friendship has created a new tradition out of an old one long gone: barnstorming.

El coronel Nick Fury, militar desterrado por el gobierno norteamericano tras la Guerra Fría, es reclamado por el departamento de defensa de Estados Unidos para hacer frente a la amenaza de Hydra, cabecilla de un peligroso grupo terrorista que ha amenazado con derramar un virus mortal sobre la isla de Manhattan.

A collection of early Australian films about bushrangers, compiled by Australia's National Film and Sound Archive. Films are: [unknown] (1906), The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906), The Story of the Kelly Gang (1910), Thunderbolt (1910), Trooper Campbell (1914), The Kelly Gang (1920), Robbery Under Arms (1920), When The Kellys Were Out (1923), and Trooper O'Brien (1928).

Ambientada hace 300 años en la Nación Comanche. Naru es una joven guerrera, feroz y altamente hábil, que se crió a la sombra de algunos de los cazadores más legendarios que deambulan por las Grandes Llanuras. Cuando el peligro amenaza su campamento, se dispone a proteger a su gente. La presa a la que acecha y, en última instancia, se enfrenta, resulta ser un depredador alienígena evolucionado con un arsenal técnicamente avanzado, lo que deriva en un enfrentamiento cruel y aterrador entre los dos adversarios.

Cuenta la historia de la misión de la NASA que llevó al primer hombre a la luna, centrada en Neil Armstrong y el periodo comprendido entre los años 1961 y 1969. Un relato en primera persona, basado en la novela de James R. Hansen, que explora el sacrificio y el precio que representó, tanto para Armstrong como para Estados Unidos, una de las misiones más peligrosas de la historia.

Paul Baumer y sus amigos Albert y Muller, incitados por sueños románticos de heroísmo, se alistan voluntariamente en el ejército alemán. Llenos de emoción y fervor patriótico, los muchachos marchan con entusiasmo hacia una guerra en la que creen. Pero una vez en el frente occidental, descubren el horror destructor del alma de la Primera Guerra Mundial.