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In Macao, a wealthy merchant named Charles Clay hires two people to recreate a story of a sailor who is paid to impregnate a mans wife

Documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppolas Apocalypse Now 1979 was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director

King Saul of the Israelites is visited in Jerusalem by the Prophet Samuel who foretells him that a war with The Philistines is inevitable and the shepherd David will become king

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensig

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, Harry Lime

Join us on this unique and captivating documentary concerning the most unusual phenomena on our strange planet With headlines that are reminiscent of your favorite science fiction films, these spectacles appear alm

Facing the decline of everything he has worked to obtain, conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte and his army confront the British at the Battle of Waterloo

At a media swamped party to celebrate his 70th birthday and screen his avant garde film in progress, a legendary but jaded Hollywood director is faced both with voracious fans and unsettling questions about what be

A documentary about fraud and fakery

An elusive billionaire hires an American smuggler to investigate his past, leading to a dizzying descent into a cold war European landscape

In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order

An investigator from the War Crimes Commission travels to Connecticut to find an infamous Nazi

Mr Cato is the head of a witches coven in the town of Lilith, where he needs the powers of Lori Brandon to raise his son from the dead

A young playboy inherits 13 antique chairs and decides to sell them for money then finds out where the real money is

Essay film shot for TV including Orson Welles reflections on Othello close to the Moviola, a chat with Hilton Edwards and Micheal MacLiammoir and fragments of a conversation with the audience in Boston after a scre

In the spirit of Its a Wonderful Life 1946, a young woman must give up her dream and remain in her small hometown as head of her familys Building and Loan business

In 1937 Nevada, silver mine caretaker Jess Tyler is reunited with his teenage daughter Kady who will do anything to persuade Jess to let her have claim to the mine

When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun loving habitual liar Through Falstaffs eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and

A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist

A portrait of the great film maker Orson Welles, with interviews with himself, his daughter and other film personalities From the TCM series This is

Martin Scorsese narrates this tribute to Val Lewton, the producer of a series of memorable low budget horror films for RKO Studios Raised by his mother and his aunt, his films often included strong female character

A Mexican revolutionary contends with a tenacious police chief, a corrupt President he helped put in power, and an English doctor who wants him dead for personal reasons

Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance Rosebud

Virgil Renchler owns most of the town, providing a thriving economy When his men go too far and kill one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him, even if it means his job and everyone elses

Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of legendary director and actor Orson Welles to reveal a portrait of the artist as hes never been seen before

A strange young woman lives in a fantasy world where she can never grow up

The spoiled young heir to the decaying Amberson fortune comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved

A woman has two lovers When one man finds out about the other, he acts as a villain and chases after the protagonist

A trilogy of fantastic stories involving murder and the supernatural

Three performers for six roles this is the game of the film A melodrama about two love triangles In the first, Hagalin is killed by his mistress and her lover In the second, attorney Lamorciere discovers her woman

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house, to care for his young daughter

In 1912 West Africa, diamond tycoon Kramer hires penniless American fortune hunter Dan Rockland, whos posing as a geologist, but when a huge diamond is found, everyone wants to steal it

A young business executive hates the direction his life is taking, and decides to make some changes He becomes a struggling but happy tap dancing magician His old boss is financially ruined, but finds a way to boun

An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges

Events that are prophesied in the Bible are illustrated to show that civilization is headed for doomsday

A disinherited 13th Century Saxon nobleman leaves Norman England with an archer friend to seek his fortune in the Far East