Sir Francis Beaufort
With a unique blend of dramatic action and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, filmmaker John Walker shares the multi-layered story of British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men, who perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage, and John Rae, the Scottish doctor who in 1851, discovered their dismal fate. Rae's dark report, which described the crew’s madness and cannibalism, did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign to discredit Rae's version of events and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the label of murderous cannibals. A stunning face-to-face meeting between the great-great grandson of Charles Dickens and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history, vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.
Jesuit Priest
La acción se desarrolla a finales del siglo XIX, cuando China comenzaba a recibir la influencia del mundo occidental. El orden tradicional, su cultura, religión e incluso moda, se veían amenazados y las armas de fuego cuestionaban la omnipotencia de las artes marciales. Los abusos del nuevo comandante de la región que, cegado por el poder y su lucrativa relación con los comerciantes extranjeros, permite que sus súbditos paguen precios exagerados con la falsa promesa de embarcar hacia los ricos campos de oro de América, obligan a Wong Fei Hung y a su pequeño grupo de seguidores a intervenir en defensa de su pueblo y, especialmente de la mujer de sus sueños, que ha sido capturada y embarcada a la fuerza en un barco para ser vendida como prostituta...
