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Publisher
Stage Russia
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Based on a short story by Anton Chekhov, Kama Ginkas’ astounding re-imagining highlights and builds off of the Chekhovian tension between the beauty of life and the tragedy of how it is lived. The story tells the the tragic tale of philosophy student Andrey Vasil'ich Kovrin (stage and screen star Sergey Makovetskiy).. On the verge of a nervous breakdown, Kovrin decides to visit his childhood friend Tanya Pesotsky at the estate of her father. As...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Many of us know the Black Death as a catastrophic event of the medieval world. But the Black Death was arguably the most significant event in Western history, profoundly affecting every aspect of human life, from the economic and social to the political, religious, and cultural. In its wake, the plague left a world that was utterly changed, forever altering the traditional structure of European societies and forcing a rethinking of every single system...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Irish playwrights faced a conundrum in the 19th century: they could write in Irish and remain relatively obscure, or they could find success by adopting English, the language of the conqueror. Examine how George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde navigated their Irish identity on the London stage. Professor Conner provides political and artistic context to their major works.
4) Alalá
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Alalá La Escuela de Arte, an arts center for children that uses flamenco as an educational language, comes to life thanks to the efforts of well-known guitarist Emilio Caracafé, who together with other artists, offers us his personal vision of this Gypsy neighborhood, where flamenco is a productive element for providing opportunities and has the power to transform society.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The Irish Renaissance had largely succeeded in bringing folk life to the center of cultural consciousness by the 1930s. At that time, the poet Patrick Kavanagh—hailing from the rural farmland—emerged with a critique of the sentimentality and nostalgia of Yeats’s generation. Explore how the next wave of poets carved out their own views of Ireland.
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1927.
Language
English
Description
Esfir Shub culls her landmark documentary from pre-Soviet Russian newsreels gathered from Europe and America. In May 1913 the Romanov Dynasty celebrates its 300th anniversary at the Russian throne. The last emperor in the long line is czar Nicholas II. He rules over a country with huge social and economic differences. Russia is for the most part still an agrarian society, but capitalism and its industries are growing. In 1914 Russia gets involved...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
After the guns fell silent in Western Europe, border wars and the fight for self-determination continued in the East. Take a look at the major events after World War I, including the little-known Soviet-Polish war, forcible population exchanges throughout the region, and the rise of dictators..
Publisher
Java Films
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"A real gem, fusing interviews, analysis and some terrific animation into an intriguing whole that plays like an intelligent thriller. " - Variety..Nominated for the Best Documentary Award at the 2012 Goyas, this is the unbelievable story of Manuel Cortes, the ‘mole of Mijas’. When the Spanish civil war ended and the borders closed, hundreds of people were forced to go into hiding to escape Franco’s repression. They lived for decades, hidden...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After the controversial free-state treaty at the end of 1921, the country split into civil war, with republicans viewing the treaty as selling out their ideals. Trace the events of the yearlong civil war, including the tragic death of Michael Collins, and see how it finally resolved.
Publisher
Eileen Jerrett
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Iceland crowd-sourced its constitution online in a rare eruption of optimism among the 2008 financial crisis. Blueberry Soup is a feature length documentary at the epicenter of one of our time’s exciting movements: the Icelandic "People's Movement".. Jaws dropped around the world in October, 2008 as a small collective of bankers brought the global economy to its knees and a small nation’s everyday citizens rose in response by rewriting its constitution....
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Bardelys the Magnificent is based upon the novel by Rafael Sabatini. In France "in an age of light loves and lively scandals,"the Marquis de Bardelys, casual womanizer and accomplished swashbuckler, is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan; and against a background of knavery and intrigue, he sets out to woo and win her. Lavishly mounted and superbly directed with spectacular action scenes, Bardelys is a hugely entertaining action romance given an A-plus...
13) By the Law
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"By the Law" is a melodrama that takes place in a remote area in the Yukon during the gold rush at the turn of the century. A group of five gold prospectors -- Michael an Irishman; Hans Nelson, the Swede leader of the expedition; his English wife Edith; a Dutchman named Dutchy; and Harky. They have been unsuccessful, and, deciding to move to another location, they order Michael, who does most of the manual work in the camp, to dismantle their prospect...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In this final lecture, you’ll revisit the four key themes running through this course and consider whether they still remain true of Eastern Europe today. Look at the region’s economy, politics, ethnicities, and relationships to Western Europe to consider the current state of Eastern Europe and what the future may hold..
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1930.
Language
English
Description
A 1930 Georgian silent documentary film directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. As one of the earliest ethnographic films, it documents the life of the Svan people in the isolated mountain village of Ushguli in Svanetia, in the northwestern part of the Georgian Soviet Republic. Containing some propaganda, the climax of the film shows how a Soviet built road connects the previously isolated mountain village to Soviet civilisation. Many of the scenes of the...
Publisher
Dschoint Ventschr
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In 1980, the fairies of the revolution bend over the cradle of the filmmaker."I was born in the middle of a dream." But the film takes a different turn: "What do I do with this heritage?" In this family drama is about the search for identity and policy. A cinematic journey that takes us from the Turkey in the 70s to Switzerland in the 21st century, passing exile, prison, counterfeit money, the fall of a hero, stray hippies and a revolutionary disco.A...
17) Jet Storm
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Passengers on a trans-Atlantic flight from London to New York discover that one of them (Attenborough) is mentally unbalanced. Believing a fellow passenger is the hit-and-run driver who killed his child, Attenborough has smuggled a bomb on board and intends to use it..
18) Revolt
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This episode speaks about the frustrations in 1916 & 1917 of a bogged down war and its repercussions with the fighting forces and leadership of both sides involved in the conflict..
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
1928.
Language
English
Description
THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA was Boris Barnet's fourth production and a great hit with audiences. With its vibrant humor and a clever commentary on the historical moment, this film was unusual for the 1920s Soviet cinema. Barnet's heart lay in stories about regular people coming to terms with historical changes. In this niche, he excelled as a storyteller, producing moving visual narratives that invite the spectators to enjoy the picturesque, touching strangeness...
20) Changing Tide
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
This episode presents how the change of attitude on the political front in the United States and incidents involving Americans with combatants in the on-going fight makes for the joining of the United States into this global conflict..
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