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Year One in the North
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Year One in the North

Jan. 14, 2005

Year One in the North

In 1868, after the fall of the Shogun-dominated Japan, the new government orders people from Awaji, near Kobe, to re-locate to the northern part ...
Coach Carter
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Coach Carter

Jan. 14, 2005

Coach Carter

Based on a true story, in which Richmond High School head basketball coach Ken Carter made headlines in 1999 for benching his undefeated team due ...
Hotel Rwanda
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Hotel Rwanda

Dec. 22, 2004

Hotel Rwanda

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly ...
Alexander
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Alexander

Nov. 21, 2004

Alexander

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the ...
Battle of the Brave
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Battle of the Brave

Nov. 19, 2004

Battle of the Brave

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
Wolf
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Wolf

Nov. 05, 2004

Wolf

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco’s dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested ...
Alone in the Wilderness
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Alone in the Wilderness

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is ...
Saint Rita
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Saint Rita

Sep. 26, 2004

Saint Rita

Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent ...
Downfall
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Downfall

Sep. 16, 2004

Downfall

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force ...
Olga
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Olga

Aug. 20, 2004

Olga

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of ...
R-Point
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R-Point

Aug. 13, 2004

R-Point

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
King Arthur
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King Arthur

Jul. 07, 2004

King Arthur

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ‘Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the ...
Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop
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Cazuza: Time Doesn’t Stop

Inspired by the moving book ÔÇ£S├│ as M├úes S├úo FelizesÔÇØ, by Lucinha Ara├║jo, Cazuza’s mother, the film covers a little more than 10 ...
Ike: Countdown to D-Day
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Ike: Countdown to D-Day

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s appointment as ...
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the ...
Troy
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Troy

May. 13, 2004

Troy

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to ...
The President’s Barber
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The President’s Barber

A well-meaning but politically naive barber gets pulled into the inner circle of the South Korean dictator Park Chung-Hee, with rather baleful ...
Roma
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Roma

Apr. 15, 2004

Roma

Joaquín Góñez, a novelist in his sixties recalls his emotions, his wild years in Buenos Aires, the memories of old friends, the meaning of ...
The Alamo
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The Alamo

Apr. 07, 2004

The Alamo

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s ...
Patrick
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Patrick

Mar. 14, 2004

Patrick

A fascinating story of the truth behind the legend and history of St Patrick. This special will feature the world reknown voices of two of ...
Operation Valkyrie
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Operation Valkyrie

Feb. 24, 2004

Operation Valkyrie

In 1944, a group of high command officers plot an attempt against Hitler, and one of the leaders of the conspiracy, Stauffenberg, goes to a ...
The Weeping Meadow
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The Weeping Meadow

Feb. 20, 2004

The Weeping Meadow

The first part of an incomplete trilogy telling the story of the greek people. The film begins in 1919, with Greek immigrants from Odessa ...
Miracle
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Miracle

Feb. 06, 2004

Miracle

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team, he brings a unique and brash style to the ice. ...