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The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades as seen by an outsider perspective, that of his family and political allies.Read More »

Nagisa Oshima’s documentary details the rise of Chairman Mao during the revolution and shows the Communist Party’s struggle and cultural upheaval. Made in 1969 for NTV station, this TV documentary also questions Mao’s dictator tendency during the cultural revolution.Read More »

The life, laughters, and luck of one of the most famous and beloved child stars, Shirley Temple.Read More »

That’s all I’ll ‘spoil’ if you haven’t seen this before :

…how and why the CIA and the NASA hired Stanley Kubrick in 1969 just before Apollo hits the moon…

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This hard-hitting mockumentary exposes how Stanley Kubrick faked the 1969 moon landing, with seeming-endorsements from many key players in NASA and the US government.Read More »

Written by Sean Walsh
After 18 years as a friar, Peter is no longer sure of his vocation. It is a happy life, maybe too much so, and now he has met Clare. Will his doubts run away with him? Runaway friars are officially “fugitives” who must be persuaded back to their order.Read More »

“Terror on the Beach” is a tense and relatively gripping ABC Movie of the week, starring yet again Dennis Weaver in the role of anxious father and husband of a continuously bickering household. All he ever wanted was to take his family on a camping trip to a secluded beach, but the trip inevitably turns into a nightmarish ordeal. Apart from the typical complications that probably all American model families have to struggle through (like the kid rebelling against their parents and such) there’s the slightly more disturbing situation of a gang of youthful hoodlums with beach buggies terrorizing the living daylights out of them. Inventively cashing in on the contemporary Charles Manson hype, the thugs are hippies that petrify the Glynn family for no reason than to get kicks. Read More »

Here’s a wonderful example of the high standards quality of the Canadian production of the Film Office, whatever the destination of the film is : in this case, a TV movie.

If you have seen Frederick Wiseman’s Hospital, here’s a complementary view on the restless activity, and consequently accidents, generated by big cities that end into the Emergency rooms of public hospitals.Read More »

Inventive children save the Snow Maiden from Kashchey.

They are so different – elementary school students Vitya, who believes only in technology, and Masha, who believes in miracles. Together with other guys, they decorate the Christmas tree, but Santa Claus told them that the Snow Maiden was kidnapped by Kashchei in order to arrange the New Year for his evil spirits. Masha and Vitya, with the help of Santa Claus, go to a fairy tale to help the Snow Maiden.Read More »

Jason Robards and Olivia DeHavilland star in this 1966 TV adaptation of a short novel by American author Katherine Anne Porter, written and directed by Sam Peckinpah.Read More »