This film is a story from the Mahabharatam where Draupadi, the wife of the Pandavas, resists the advances of Keechaka, a lustful general in the court of King Virata. The confrontation leads to Keechaka's death, highlighting Draupadi's resilience during the Pandavas' exile.
A project as crazy as it was deadly was born in the early days of aviation in the 1920s: L'Aéropostale. They needed pilots - young guys who had everything to prove and nothing to lose. And all this to honor the promise of faster mail. Jean Mermoz, a young ex-Air Force officer, proves to be the best pioneer of the skies. Against nature and against mechanics, he always delivers mail to its destination. Captivated by his conquests and prodigies, he sees only the success of the airline: Faster. Further. The dawn of progress. But a few years later, with many pilots now dead and the world still reeling from the 1930s Wall Street Crash, l'Aéropostale is at the brink of bankruptcy. Mermoz is forced to question the true meaning of his idealism.
1939: France decrees general mobilization. Labeled a degenerate artist, Pablo Picasso takes refuge in Royan, where Maya, his daughter, and Marie-Thérèse Walter, his companion, are staying. He is accompanied by his secretary Jaime Sabartes and also by the captivating Dora Maar. Within this setting of peace and light, surrounded by friends and family, Picasso is soon seduced by this laid-back lifestyle. This apparent tranquility is perhaps only a false pretense... In the privacy of his studio, the artist is visited by monsters, reminding him of the threat of imminent danger. Confronted with dark forces, the artist cannot escape forever and has to face his truth and the truth of the world.
Told from the point of view of an English trader working in the North Tower of the World Trade Centre, the poem-film Out Of The Blue was commissioned by Channel 5 and broadcast five years after the 9.11 attacks on America.
For the first time, Dr. Victor Frankl through the eyes of those closest to him. A defining character of the 20th century, not only a genius, doctor and survivor of Nazi terror and tragedy but a man who lived, believed and loved.
Stories of the people who built the first atomic weapons are well known. But what about those who provided the uranium? We look at a mysterious man who derived huge profits from the business of war.
Since the early 1543's, when the book of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) has been first printed in Nuremberg under the name of "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (English translation: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres),the seminal work on the heliocentric theory, showing an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, Poland's scientists and researchers have advanced space science and technology and inspired Poles, Europeans and other nations worldwide. Moreover, one extraordinary Polish astronaut General Mirosław Hermaszewski (1941 – 2022), who was a fighter plane pilot, and Polish Air Force officer, flew aboard the Soviet Soyuz 30 spacecraft in 1978 and was the 89th human to reach outer space. Geographically, Poland is well-positioned to support space launches, but polish spacetech regulatory framework needs to be develop in a manner that will cover all aspects associated with this emerging polish space technology industry.
Hosted by B.B. King and produced in 1978; this program documents the history of the blues that sprang from the Mississippi Delta. Rare photos and performances by Big Joe Williams, Houston Stackhouse and Furry Lewis help to weave the story of this music born in the Deep South.
In 1998, the corpses of murdered Serbs were exhumed from a mass grave near the Orthodox church, transported and buried at the city cemetery in Trebinje. The documentary tells about the tragic fate of the Živak family.
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