Le trésor de guerre de Napoléon (2021)

This Film opens a window on the Napoleon Bonaparte Campaign towards Egypt and Syria in the year 1798, and impact affected the relationship between East & West. The film while discovers some of the personal configuration of such an outstanding figure, it emerges in some traditions and life properties. Yet the film establishes Multi-Directional Cultural Dialog.

In the 1930s, middle-aged museum curator Tauno Saarinen yearns for a young beautiful maid and writes a lengthy confession about his feelings which he gives his wife Elisabet to read. Elisabet shows the writings to her husband's sister Naimi, an art critic who tries to reconcile with her ex-husband despite a spiteful mother-in-law. Meanwhile, things gets worse between Tauno and Elisabet when the young maid, seduced by Tauno, becomes pregnant. Based on a novel by Helvi Hämäläinen, first published in 1941 but partly censored until 1995 because allegedly based on true incidents involving well-known people.

The Mad Empress is a 1939 American historical drama film depicting the 3-year reign of Maximilian I of Mexico and his struggles against Benito Juarez.

A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.

A look at whether Napoleon Bonaparte indeed died on the island of St. Helena in 1821.

Berlin’s Museum Island, the cultural center of the German capital on the Spree river, houses a large number of art pieces from all over the globe, from the Stone Age to the present day. A walk through their great institutions to marvel at their masterpieces.

La historia de cómo se creó el Museo de Arte Abstracto Español de Cuenca. A mediados de los años 50, el coleccionista y pintor español Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84) queda fascinado por la joven generación de artistas abstractos españoles, por lo que comienza a coleccionar sus obras para mostrarlas al público en Toledo. Hasta que Gustavo Torner, un joven ingeniero forestal interesado en el arte, le propone visitar su ciudad, Cuenca.

Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian colonies. How to frame these Modernist works today when the idea of the “primitive” in art is problematic?

When Paul and Monet host a weekend get together at the old Broussard mansion, what begins as a fun time quickly turns deadly when an ancient family curse is awakened.

Philippe de Montebello, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1977 to 2008, guides viewers through The Cloisters, pointing out Romanesque and Gothic architecture and artwork, beautiful tapestries, and the diverse species in the gardens. He outlines the history of the building and it's many influences and highlights significant works of art in the collection. It was produced in 1989 by The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Office of Film and Television.

Documentary about Constant Kusters, leader of the The Dutch Peoples-Union, a Dutch Neo-Nazi political party.

Napoleon's troops are gathering close to Waterloo. Time is running out for Bébé, a soldier who is seeking a battalion to join the Great Army. Tomorrow, the troops will launch their attack on the English. Along with his wife Ludo, in the parking lot where they have pitched their tent, they live through the last remaining hours before the fall of the Empire.

The Kabul National Museum, once known as the "face of Afghanistan," was destroyed in 1993. We filmed the most important cultural treasures of the still-intact museum in 1988: ancient Greco-Roman art and antiquitied of Hellenistic civilization, as well as Buddhist sculpture that was said to have mythology--the art of Gandhara, Bamiyan, and Shotorak among them. After the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in 1992, some seventy percent of the contents of the museum was destroyed, stolen, or smuggled overseas to Japan and other countries. The movement to return these items is also touched upon. The footage in this video represents that only film documentation of the Kabul Museum ever made.

They want to overthrow democracy and kick out people who they believe do not belong to the Nordic race. The Nazi organization The Nordic Resistance Movement (NMR) has in recent years become known for its extreme attitudes. Focus has been on the inside of the organization and followed key players for two years.

El actor Jeremy Irons emprende un viaje épico a través de las salas del Museo del Prado en Madrid, España, doscientos años después de su inauguración, a lo largo de corredores donde miles de obras maestras de todos los tiempos cuentan las vidas de gobernantes y gente común, y relatos sobre tiempos de guerra y locura y tiempos de paz y felicidad; porque, como dijo Goya, la imaginación, la madre de todas las artes, crea monstruos imposibles, pero también indecibles maravillas.

Un recorrido por cuatrocientas pinturas, todas obras maestras, de las más de nueve mil que atesora el Museo del Prado de Madrid, España.

Es una historia estrechamente ligada al amor por los jardines y el deseo de preservar la naturaleza en una nación que se volvió cada vez más urbana y cosmopolita. Viajando a estudios, jardines y localizaciones icónicas a través de los Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Francia, esta fascinante película es un deleite para la mirada. El jardín del artista: impresionismo americano presenta la agotada exposición El jardín del artista: Impresionismo americano y el movimiento de jardines, 1887-1920 que comenzó en la Academia de Bellas Artes de Pennsylvania y terminó en el Museo Florence Griswold, en Old Lyme, Connecticut. Gillian Anderson presta su voz para narrar esta historia repleta de color, belleza y amor al arte.

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.

CREMASTER 3 (2002) is set in New York City and narrates the construction of the Chrysler Building, which is in itself a character - host to inner, antagonistic forces at play for access to the process of (spiritual) transcendence. These factions find form in the struggle between Hiram Abiff or the Architect ...