After listening to the waltz "Carmelita", dedicated to his wife, President Diaz instructs Don Susanito seeking the composer Chucho Flores to give her a piano. Don Susanito located Chucho, a bohemian who lives drunk and surrounded by poets and artists. Don Susanito was named patron protector of artists and aspiring young stars of the stage, which leads to a series of adventures in the middle of songs, dances and loves.
It is the 250th day of the defense of Sevastopol. On the outskirts of the bombed-out city, without radios and with only a handful of ammunition, 12 Soviet soldiers are holding out with their last ounce of strength. With them in the shelter are the wounded, women, and children. A report from Sovinformburo that Sevastopol has been abandoned by Soviet troops reveals the harsh truth to them—now they are alone with the enemy. Their only hope is to make their way to the sea, but at what cost will the valiant soldiers make their way out of this fiery hell over four heroic days?
One of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history, the Mexican-American War erupted as President James K. Polk sought to extend the borders of the nation to the Pacific, taking by force whatever territory stood in the way. This special, produced by The History Channel and hosted by Oscar de la Hoya, looks at the war from the perspective of both countries, and chronicles the fighting from its inception to its conclusion with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
The love story of the son of Imam Shamil Jamalutdin and Lisa Olenina against the backdrop of the dramatic events of the military history of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. Jamalutdin went down in history as a "great hostage", and the film is an attempt to answer the question: a hostage of big politics or big love. The historical context of the decline of the Nikolaev era, against which the story of love and betrayal, honor and duty, service to the motherland and loyalty to this word unfolds, will become the key to the film.
Filmed over 14 months with unprecedented access into the inner circle of the man and the sport, this is the first official and fully authorised film of one of the most celebrated figures in football. For the first time ever, the world gets vividly candid and un-paralleled, behind-closed-doors access to the footballer, father, family-man and friend in this moving & fascinating documentary. Through in-depth conversations, state of the art football footage and never before seen archival footage, the film gives an astonishing insight into the sporting and personal life of triple Ballon D'Or winner Cristiano Ronaldo at the peak of his career. From the makers of ‘Senna’ and ‘Amy’, Ronaldo takes audiences on an intimate and revealing journey of what it’s like to live as an iconic athlete in the eye of the storm.
What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.
The film, created to commemorate the 35th anniversary of Erdenet, tells the story of the love and life of young people who come to work at the Erdenet Ore Processing Plant in the 1980s. Although they love each other, the film shows how their relationship is affected and changed by baseless lies and the reckless actions of unscrupulous people.
In the final months of World War II, American troops discovered a top-secret facility in Germany with an advanced batwing-shaped jet fighter. If Nazi engineers had had more time, would this jet have ultimately changed the outcome of the war? In this National Geographic documentary they rebuild a jet discovered in a top-secret German facility during the final months of World War II - the Horten 229.
A robber named Zhang Kui hid in a coffin to avoid the authorities before being transported to another associate. Instead of joining his friend in a major robbery, Zhang Kui ran away together with wife and daughter. Zhang failed to escape, but his daughter would train as a marital artist until she can take revenge for her father.
Pete Hegseth hosts Washington Crossing Park's annual reenactment of the Continental Army's fateful Christmas crossing of the Delaware. This highly-anticipated event marks a pivotal moment in the Revolutionary War and our nation's history.
1918. North Caucasus, civil war. After the revolutionary upsurge, during which the First Congress of the Peoples of the Terek Region was convened, there was a temporary decline. Denikin's troops were rampaging, and the party went underground, continuing its revolutionary activities. Denikin's troops notice the appearance of the Bolshevik Aslanbek in the city and begin to follow the liaison officer. Soon, the underground committee is arrested. But by this time, the Red Army, having received powerful support from the mountain dwellers and workers, goes on the offensive.
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the last daring attempts to escape across the infamous Berlin Wall.
January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish doctors. He organizes the most violent anti-Semitic campaign ever launched in the USSR, by fabricating the "Doctors' Plot," whereby doctors are charged with conspiring to murder the highest dignitaries of the Soviet Regime. Still unknown and untold, this conspiracy underlines the climax of a political scheme successfully masterminded by Stalin to turn the Jews into the new enemies of the people. It reveals his extreme paranoia and his compulsion to manipulate those around him. The children and friends of the main victims recount for the first time their experience and their distress related to these nightmarish events.
The once most magnificent imperial city in China is located in what is now Fengyang. The first city of the Ming dynasty was a model for all those who followed - including Beijing. After around 600 years underground, the ruined city is now being excavated again. Archaeologists, researchers, historians and workers are following in the footsteps of a bygone era and gaining new insights into the fate of a mysterious city every day.
A bizarre iron age grave has been uncovered in the United Kingdom, archaeologists expect that this site will help unlock the hidden story of the violent birth of Roman Britain.
The first film adaptation of Heiberg’s classic play about a superstitious mother, Karen, the elf-maiden Agnete and King Christian IV. Two infants are swapped at birth. Noble-born Elisabeth Munk is found on Elverhøjen (Elves’ Hill) and is brought up as Agnete, a peasant girl, whom all the locals believe to be an elf-maiden. She meets a noble knight, Sir Ebbesen, and the pair fall in love. But Sir Ebbesen is expected to marry a woman of his own noble standing – none other than the girl erroneously brought up as Elisabeth Munk. Suspecting that there is something fishy about the entire affair, King Christian IV sets out for Elves’ Hill to discover the truth of the matter. (stumfilm.dk)
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