Country: Italy
Genre: Biography, Drama
Enrico Mattei helped change Italys future first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis then as an investor in methane gas through a public company A.G.I.P. and ultimately as the head of ENI a state body formed for the development of oil resources. October 27 1962 he died when his private airplane crashed one minute before it should land at Milan airport. Officially he died of a flight...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Young Helen Keller blind deaf and mute since infancy is in danger of being sent to an institution. Her inability to communicate has left her frustrated and violent. In desperation her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee schoolgirl named Annie Sullivan to tutor their daughter. Through persistence and love and sheer stubbornness Annie breaks...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
Portrait of an American innocent. In 1955 Bettie Page 1923-2008 waits to testify before a Senate subcommittee investigating the effects of pornographic material on American adolescents and juveniles. In flashbacks we see her childhood in Tennessee a brief marriage a gang rape and her going to New York City in 1949. There she takes acting lessons models for photos and acts in short films...
Country: United States
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
John H. Groberg a middle class kid from Idaho Falls crosses the Pacific to become a Mormon missionary in the remote and exotic Tongan island kingdom during the 1950s. He leaves behind a loving family and the true love of his life Jean. Through letters and musings across the miles John shares his humbling and sometimes hilarious adventures with the girl back home and her letters buoy up...
Country: Spain, Brazil
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...
Country: France
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...
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