A Time There Was: Stories from the Last Days of Kenya Colony

An atypical portrait of singer, songwriter, poet Georges Brassens.

Runtime

1h 15m

Cast

Georges Brassens, Juliette Gréco, François Morel

Between 1944 and 1953, 170,000 Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians put up fierce resistance to the Soviet invasion, hiding deep in the vast Baltic forests. Driven by a dream of freedom, they defied a ruthless empire with few resources but unwavering determination. Through previously unseen archives and the poignant accounts of the las...

Cast

Loïc Corbery, Jonas Kadzionis, Ruuben Lambur

Archival film maestro Göran Hugo Olsson has assembled—from a vast catalogue of footage in the vaults of Sweden’s national television service SVT—accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as witnessed and represented by Swedish journalists. Stories of the beginning of the Israeli state interwoven with the Palestinian struggle for ind...

Runtime

3h 26m

Cast

Yasser Arafat, David Ben-Gurion, Abba Eban

Born Norma Jean Baker, actress Marilyn Monroe would become one of the most iconic and desirable women in the world. From her humble beginnings, to her USO performances, to her now-famous pin-up photographs and award-winning acting roles, Marilyn made her mark as the most beautiful blonde bombshell of her day— but behind her beauty, Mar...

Runtime

31m

Cast

Mike Wallace, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. O...

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Dominique Cazenave, Doug Headline

Cast

Forrest J. Ackerman, John Landis, David F. Friedman