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Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.7

As told through clips from 183 female directors, this epic history of the cinema focuses on women’s integral role in the development of film art. Using almost a thousand film extracts from thirteen de...

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Africa Fusion

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Alex Honnold and Hazel Findlay head to Southern Africa for an experience of a lifetime. Africa Fusion takes us from the breathtaking orange granite and vast landscapes of Namibia, through the desert a...

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Shashamane

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Africa's history is stained with suffering; but after generations of slavery, oppression, and diaspora, many ancestral Africans are now returning to reclaim their heritage. In the heart of Ethiopia, S...

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The Day We Walked on the Moon

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.7

On July 16, 1969, hundreds of thousands of spectators and an army of reporters gathered at Cape Kennedy to witness one of the great spectacles of the century: the launch of Apollo 11. Over the next fe...

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Beyond: An African Surf Documentary

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Africa, Europe - Europe and Africa: Surfers live differently on each continent and Africa marks a special place - as surfing is in many places at its very beginnings. 'Beyond - An African Surf Documen...

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The First Silent Night

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2014 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Join renowned actor Simon Callow as he uncovers the moving origins of the song Silent Night that has been two hundred years in the making. A story that begins in humble circumstances, ends with the wo...

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Bound: Africans Versus African Americans

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 8.5

BOUND: African versus African Americans (AVAA) is a hard hitting documentary that addresses the little known tension that exists between Africans and African Americans. AVAA uses personal testimonials...

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The Story of India

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2007 IMDB Rating: 8.5

For over two millennia, India has been at the centre of world history. But how did India come to be? What is India? These are the big questions behind this intrepid journey around the contemporary sub...

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The 101 Events That Made The 20th Century

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.8

The history of mankind is a never-ending story of change, revolution, and evolution, but surely no span of a hundred years can claim to have changed the world so dramatically as the Twentieth Century....

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