Somtum (2008)

A daily life in Korogocho, Kenya, one of the world’s poorest slums.

Carefree Chuck Connor is on his way west and stops off to see an old friend and his four lads. When his host is killed in a riding accident Chuck realises he must take care of the family. They hit the road and he takes a job on a ranch, but he has to keep the children hidden as his boss hates kids. There's also tension with the neighbouring ranch, and when a girl on the run from her nasty uncle joins the family unannounced Chuck wonders what he has done to deserve all this.

Главному герою - мальчику по имени Бута - повезло больше других: у него есть мудрый наставник, старик - продавец жидкого мыла. Он помогает ему во всех начинаниях. Его мечта восстановить старую мельницу. Но сам Бута мечтает о другом - он хочет выложить на вершине горы огромный узор из камней, чтоб с высоты птицы и люди с пролетающих самолётов могли бы любоваться этим узором. Множество пересекающихся сюжетных линий завершаются в один день - ковёр соткан, узор закончен, а старый мельник починив, наконец-то, мельницу ложится и засыпает вечным сном...

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

Карл Уэзерс в роли крутого Билла Смита по прозвищу «Ураган» поднимает бурю, которая увлечет вас в фильме Колина Баддса. Намереваясь во что бы то ни стало разыскать свою сестру, Билли совершает путешествие из техасского захолустья в густо населенный район Золотого Берега в Австралии. Там поиски вовлекают его в уличную войну между бандами наркодельцов, которые вскоре будут недоумевать, откуда у них неприятности.

Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.

Six-year-old Ataru steps on Elle's shadow during an impromptu game of shadow-tag; in Elle's culture, this is viewed as a marriage proposal. Eleven years later, Elle returns to Earth in order to marry Ataru — by which time not only had he forgotten the events of his childhood, but he was also going out with Lum. The rest of the plot focuses on Lum's attempts to prevent the marriage. The film was directed by Mamoru Oshii who was mad at the many requests that the producer made of him to alter the movie. Rumiko Takahashi considers this film her favorite and it is the most true to the original series.

В поисках решения проблемы своего тяжелого состояния здоровья Дэвид, известный нейрохирург, обнаруживает зловещую тайну, скрытую в прошлом.

Two federal agents do not believe an atomic-bomb threat is just another war game.

Двое молодых парней, прошедших через ужас войны и потерявших немало боевых товарищей, возвращаются домой. Ганнэр - обольстительный красавец сердцеед, Сонни - погруженный в свои мысли тихоня. Но, оказывается, у этих совершенно разных людей одинаковые убеждения, общие идеалы, схожие приоритеты. Между парнями завязывается настоящая мужская дружба. Вместе они устремляются на встречу новым приключениям, ищут ответы на неразрешимые вопросы, которые ставит перед ними жестокое послевоенное общество.

A crime ring is smuggling gold from Mexico across the border in the US. The Customs Service sends an agent to Mexico to try to infiltrate the ring and stop the smuggling.

A group of schoolchildren come upon an alien from Venus, and help him against a gang of criminals who are trying to kidnap him.

Давид Ладислас, молодой повеса и любитель «легких» денег, зарабатывает на жизнь контрабандой драгоценностей. Очередное задание должно перещеголять все прежние вместе взятые - белоснежный спортивный «Триумф» буквально напичкан золотом. Ставки высокие, но и риск сопоставим. Давид никогда не отказывается от такого шанса. Его спутницей с особыми полномочиями становится Ольга. Давид начинает ухлестывать за ней. Но операция практически срывается - в хитроумном плане нашлась червоточина. Давид, не долго раздумывая, решает умыкнуть «золотую машину» у своих хозяев...

In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe and, utilizing a variety of false identities, traces them first to a dress factory and later to a Hawaii-bound ocean liner. Escaping several attempts on his life, he is able to uncover a Nazi smuggling ring, but the location of the missing diamonds continues to elude him.

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school summoned by their superintendent for questions of discipline. The man is not severe, but clever and fair. He teaches loyalty, fellowship and righteousness to these boys. Besides these interviews, we see scenes of this school’s quotidian life.

Shot over 3 months through the Monsoon, Nick Read's film captures the unvarnished reality of life for four children living in the slums and on the streets of Mumbai: seven-year-old Deepa, who lives next to an open rubbish dump and runs barefoot through Mumbai traffic selling flowers to help support her family; 11-year-old Salaam, who, a few weeks after running away from his abusive stepmother lives rough outside the main railway station; and twins Hussan and Hussein, also 11, who risk cholera and infection fishing for scraps in a filthy canal so they can earn money to eat.

Except for the courage of Pocahontas, the English settlers at Jamestown in the early 17th century would have died from starvation and exposure. Her brave intervention saved the settlers’ lives and brought peace between two very different peoples. History comes alive as you meet an inquisitive girl who grows into a great ambassador for peace.

Over a century ago, only one man stood in the way of the disintegration of the United States of America—and he was a gangly, storytelling country lawyer from Illinois with no political experience at the national level. And yet by the sheer force of his will and his uncompromising stand on critical issues, Abraham Lincoln not only saved the nation but carved out an immortal place in world history.

Helen Keller (June 27, 1880-June 1, 1968) was an American author, activist, and lecturer. Born in Alabama to Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army and Kate Adams Keller, second cousin of Robert E. Lee, Helen came down with an illness that left her deaf and blind at the age of only nineteen months.

Thomas Edison opens up the laboratory of America’s most celebrated inventor and invites you to explore its secrets. Sprinkled with humor and packed with little-known details about the search for a working electric light bulb, this story will help you see for yourself why Edison quipped, “Genius is about one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”