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Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight

Director: Yves Simoneau

A telling of the story of the famous U.S. aviatrix Amelia Earhart who attempted to fly solo around the world in 1937. She disappeared during the process.

ANASTASIA - THE MYSTERY OF ANNA

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky

Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only surviving daughter of the Czar and Czarina of Russia.

AND THE BEAT GOES ON - THE SONNY AND CHER STORY

Director: David Burton Morris

Based on the autobiography of Sonny Bono, this film focuses on the volatile relationship between Sonny (Jay Underwood) and Cher (Renee Faia) during the early 60's to their divorce in the late 70's

ANDRIEJ RUBLOW

Director: Andriej Tarkowski

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.

ANGELINA JOLIE & BRAD PITT

Dokument przedstawiający sylwetki najpiękniejszej pary Hollywood -Angeliny Jolie i Brada Pitta. Para spotkała się na planie filmu Mr. and Mrs. Smith i od tamtej pory stała się nierozłączna. Ich głośny romans doprowadził do upadku małżeństwa Pitta z Jennifer Aniston, a ich wspólne zdjęcia nie schodzą do dziś z pierwszych stron gazet.
Dwa trzydziestominutowe dokumenty przedstawiające ich karierę, pasje, wspólną miłość do dzieci, a także opinie ludzi i przyjaciół, którzy z nim na co dzień współpracują.

AUDREY HEPBURN STORY

Director: Steven Robman

Biographic made-for-TV movie of the life of one of Hollywood's most famous actreses: Audrey Hepburn, spaning from her early childhood to the 1960's which details her life as Dutch overachieving ballerina, coming to grips with her parents divorce and enduring five hard years of living in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II. Audrey then settles in the USA where she tries to make it big as a movie actress and the emotional trials that follow her with it.

BEYOND THE SEA

Director: Kevin Spacey

Consummate entertainer Bobby Darin (1936-1973) is making a movie about his life. He's volatile, driven by the love of performing, ambition, perfectionism, and belief that he's living on borrowed time. He begins in the Bronx: a fatherless lad learning music and dance from his mom. His career starts slowly, then "Splish Splash" puts him at the top of the charts and on "Bandstand." He wants to be an entertainer, not a pop star, so he aims for the Copacabana; then it's on to the movies, where he meets and marries Sandra Dee. After, it's balancing career, health, marriage and family life, balances he doesn't always keep. Throughout, conversations with his boyhood self give him perspective.

BLONDE

Director: Joyce Chopra

A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life: childhood years, first marriage to James Dougherty, meeting with the photographer Otto Ose, career with XX Century Fox, relationship with her mother, foster parents, life wasters Charles Chaplin Jr. (Cass) and Edward G. Robinson Jr. (Eddie G), baseball player Joe DiMaggio, playwright Arthur Miller, and many other characters.

CALIGULA

Director: Tinto Brass

The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.

DIANA: A SPIRITUAL LEGACY

Jedna z najukochańszych postaci współczesnej historii zmarła tragicznie 31 sierpnia 1997 r, ale wiele osób nie ustało w próbach skontaktowania się z Dianą. Jej przyjaciele i współpracownicy wspominają tę niesamowitą i tragiczną postać, opisując jej życie, uczucia, które nią targały i przede wszystkim miłość.
Program zabroniony w Wielkiej Brytanii, uznany za kontrowersyjny, ze względu na próby połączenia się z duchem Diany przez światowej sławy medium.

DIANA: A TRIBUTE TO THE PEOPLE`S PRINCESS

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Indeed a tribute, this movie tells the story of Princess Diana's last year, from May 1996 to her fatal accident in August 1997. It focuses on her love affairs with a Pakistani heart surgeon and with Dodi Al Fayed, on her battle with the press, her charity work, and her relationship with her sons. Many scenes re-enact well-known images and moments from this year, and the movie ends on the note that Diana was about to accept Dodi's proposal of marriage when the accident occurred.

EINSTEIN

Director: Liliana Cavani

A look at the relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Maric

EMINEM

Director: Mike Corbera

Film dokumentalny Mike'a Corbery to niezwykle intymna opowieść
o najbardziej kontrowersyjnym hip-hopowym artyście wszech czasów. Podczas gdy żaden z dotychczasowych filmów nawet nie próbował zgłębić niebywałego sukcesu muzyka, film "Różne twarze Eminema" odpowiada na niemal wszystkie pytania. To interesująca biografia artysty, którego trudne dzieciństwo i burzliwe życie prywatne znalazły odzwierciedlenie w bulwersujących tekstach piosenek.

EVEL KNIEVEL

Director: John Badham

Robert Knievel was a young man with a wild streak and a love for motorcycles who found a way to make the most of both when he got a motorcycle and learned to do tricks with it. As Knievel's stunts became more elaborate, he gained the nickname "Evel," and he put together a team of fellow stunt riders known as Evel Knievel's Motorcycle Daredevils. By the end of the '60s, Evel was the most famous stunt rider in the world. Despite suffering more than his share of injuries (including a close brush with death after missing his exit ramp while jumping over the fountain at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas), in 1974 he attempted the greatest feat of his life -- jumping over Idaho's Snake River Canyon in a specially designed rocket car. This take on Knievel's story is a made-for-cable biopic that looks at the public and private lives of America's supreme daredevil. George Eads stars as Knievel, while Jaime Pressly plays his wife Linda and Beau Bridges co-stars as her father. This was the second feature film about Knievel's life; George Hamilton played the stunt rider in a 1971 film also called Evel Knievel, while Evel Knievel played himself in the movie Viva Knievel!.

FIDEL

Director: David Attwood

Fact-based (?) drama about the rise of Fidel Castro from a respected lawyer in Cuba to rabble-rousing dissident to power-hungry ruler of his nation. One wonders about the facts in this very homogenized presentation though. The story goes something like this: Fidel meets future wife, gets married, has a child, political aspirations get in way of family, Fidel has a politically-motivated affair, gets thrown in jail, gets expelled from the country, comes back and fights out of the jungle for a few years, casts then leader Baptistsa out of power and seizes leadership. Once seizing power, he kills everyone who opposes him or disagrees with him - although once again this aspect is very watered down. The promised idea of a free election is also quickly dismissed as not in the people's best interests. Fidel's immense popularity with the people at the time of his coming into power is depicted, but the anti-Castro thought is only briefly touched upon in a discussion with a former restaurant worker with whom Castro comes in contact and in follow-up notes at the film's end. The film may have been more successful if it ended at his rise to power as there are way too many unanswered questions about the years that follow. The Cuban missile crisis is only briefly touched upon and Castro's belief that he will be able to work with President Kennedy appears totally naive.

FRANCESCO

Director: Liliana Cavani

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty. He seeks the Pope's blessing, and he endures persecution at the hands of the family of Chiara Offreduccio (1194-1253), who becomes St. Clare. Many join the order he has established and then rebel at his expectations. In near despair - and ill - he writes a Rule to take to the Pope; then, the Lord sends him a message. He dies smiling.

GANDHI

Director: Richard Attenborough

This film describes the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi, Indian political leader who managed to free his country from the British rule using peaceful means and thus giving hope and inspiration for generations to come

Ivan the Terrible

Director: Sergiej M. Eisenstein

Distant Russian history serves as an allegory for the Stalin dictatorship in this epic two-part film biography by renowned Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) reigned as... Distant Russian history serves as an allegory for the Stalin dictatorship in this epic two-part film biography by renowned Russian director Sergei Eisenstein. Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) reigned as czar of all Russia in the mid-16th century. The film begins with Ivan's lavish coronation ceremony and follows him through a maze of court intrigue as he attempts to control jealous family members eager to topple his regime and willingly sacrifices his own son in order to maintain power.

JESUS OF NAZARETH

Director: Franco Zeffirelli

A reverent depiction of the life of Christ using the Gospel accounts.

JUMP

Director: Joshua Sinclair

JUMP is a psychological drama revealing for the first time the extraordinary circumstances behind the unjust murder trial of the young Jew, Philippe Halsman, who would later become the most sought after celebrity portrait photographer of his generation. Set in 1928 Austria during the rise of fascism, the story documents the corrupt relationship between Philippe and his father, the events leading to his father's death, and focuses a sharp but delicate eye upon the anti-Semitic atmosphere that quickly led to Philippe's conviction. On a September afternoon in the heart of the picturesque Alps, two Latvian tourists, 22-yr old Philippe Halsman, a soft-spoken, compassionate engineering student and his overbearing father Morduch undertook a hiking tour. Though he loved his father deeply, the seething dynamic between them never allowed this affection to surface. By the end of the day, Morduch Halsman, a stubborn, aggressive, well-to-do dentist, determined to "make a man" of his son by the brute force of physical labor, was dead. Philippe maintained that his father had fallen and was still alive when he ran for help, but when he returned, his father's body lay face down, his head split open with an ax, his blood and belongings strewn about the area. With vague circumstantial evidence pointing to Philippe, he was immediately arrested and charged with patricide. No one wanted to defend an outsider, let alone a Jew, and the local community hoped for a speedy trial that would wash their hands of the monstrous act. Deliberately uninformed of his rights, Philippe was left in the dark of his cold cell until his mother and sister, alerted to the crisis, managed to procure a lawyer from the Jewish quarter in Vienna. With no time to prepare his case, Philippe and his passionate lawyer were left scrambling as the trial began. While witnesses steered their testimony towards a guilty verdict, and while the courtroom saw such gruesome evidence as Morduch's head, severed from his body by local autopsists, Philippe found himself so alienated he could not even bring himself to help his own cause. Enraged that the trial was conducted with such hostility towards him, he sat brooding with anger, given to frequent outbursts of frustration. In a mere four days, the highly-charged, emotional trial came to a close. Though no evidence or any clear motive had been established, the deliberation was over as soon as it began. Philippe Halsman was convicted of patricide and sentenced to ten years in prison thus becoming the first Jewish victim of the incipient anti-Semitism of National Socialism. Not until well-known international figures such as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud and Thomas Mann rallied to his cause, demanding a fair trial, was Philippe freed. Under the condition that he never return to Austria, he made his way out of the country harboring the darkest of wounds. Not only was he never allowed to properly grieve his father's death, but he would forever be haunted by visions of his falling father, of the severed head, and the black hole of his own memory, filled with doubt, guilt and grief. Though he never spoke publicly about that fateful summer, its influence was sharply felt in the photography that would soon make Philippe famous. Commissioned by the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Brando, Picasso, Nixon and the Kennedys, Halsman turned formal fashion shots into serious investigations of character. Engaging his subjects in disarming chatter, he would often ask them to jump, which he believed would free them of their postures and defenses. "When you ask a person to jump, his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping and the mask falls so that the real person appears." From surrealist flourishes such as headless bodies or bodiless heads, to "jumpology", which would become his trademark, Philippe pursued his quest to uncover the hidden truths behind the masks of his subjects. But only in private would he turn this investigation upon himself. It seems that Philippe was able to witness his father's true character in that horrible moment so many years ago, and perhaps, in doing so, was able to love him in absolute. But as to the question of murder, obscured by the trauma of the moment and the whirlwind of prejudice in its aftermath, Philippe himself was rendered impotent to answer.

KENNEDY WOMEN

Director: Larry Shaw

Based on the book by J. Randy Taraborelli, the NBC mini-series JACKIE, ETHEL, JOAN: THE KENNEDY WOMEN delves into the personal lives of the women who married into the famous American family. Focusing on the twenty-year period between John F. Kennedy's election to the presidency in 1960 and Ted Kennedy's failed bid for the presidential nomination in 1980, WOMEN OF CAMELOT tells the story of how these three very different women dealt with the pressures of public life, the marital infidelities of their husbands, and the tragedies that plagued the Kennedy family. Despite their differences and occasional internal bickering, these three sister-in-laws support each other through births, miscarriages, deaths, affairs, assassinations, alcoholism, and accidents, and offer virtually unconditional support to both their husbands and the Kennedy family. Poignant, recognizable moments in Kennedy and American history are recreated with the addition of the rarely seen perspective of the three Kennedy wives. Directed by Larry Shaw, the film features Jill Hennessy as regal Jackie, Lauren Holly as earnest Ethel, and Leslie Stefanson as long-suffering Joan.

MAN IN THE MIRROR: THE MICHAEL JACKSON STORY

Director: Allan Moyle

Chronicles the rise and fall of pop king Michael Jackson.

MUHAMMAD ALI - KING OF THE WORLD

Director: John Sacret Young

4-krotny zawodowy mistrz świata wszechwag. Pierwsze zwycięstwo odniósł w 1964 roku, pokonując S. Listona. W roku następnym został pozbawiony tytułu, który odzyskał w 1967 roku po zwycięstwie nad
J. Terrellem. Po tej walce odmówił służby wojskowej w Wietnamie,
za co stracił nie tylko tytuł, ale również prawa obywatelskie.

MY LEFT FOOT

Director: Jim Sheridan

In this true story told through flashbacks, Christy Brown is born with crippling cerebral palsy into a poor, working-class Irish family. Able only to control movement in his left foot and to speak in guttural sounds, he is mistakenly believed to be retarded for the first ten years of his life. Later, through the help of his strong-willed mother, a dedicated teacher, and his own courage and determination, Christy not only learns to grapple with life's simple physical tasks and complex psychological pains, but he also develops into a brilliant painter, poet and author.

NOSTRADAMUS

Director: Roger Christian

Story of the life of the great prognosticator and of his early unwillingness to accept his ability to foresee the future. It is a time of the Black Plague and the Inquisitions, and as a doctor the film depicts his involvement, even to the monarchy of France, with these circumstances.

Popieluszko- Wolnosc jest w nas

Director: Rafał Wieczyński

Story of life of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the priest called "The Solidarity Chaplain", murdered by communist secret police.

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Director: Oliver Stone

Oliver Stone's biographical take on the life of George W. Bush, one of the most controversial, secretive, cynical, and ruthless president in USA history, chronicling from 1967 to his wild and carefree days in college, to his military service, to his governorship of Texas and oil businesses, leading to his 2000 candidacy for president, his first turbulent four years to his 2004 re-election campaign.

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