Movies: History

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National Center for Lesbian Rights, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2009 Community Leadership Awards (the John R. May Award), for its pioneering spirit and unwavering commitment to advancing the civil and human rights of LGBT people. Its prece...

A German physician worked tirelessly to bring back hope and pleasure to a country that was uncertain of its future....

Uses historic English locales, maps, paintings and animated scenes to reconstruct the life and career of Sir Francis Drake. Stresses his achievements as the first Englishman to sail around the world and as the leader of the fleet which defeated the S...

A sound is heard from the depth of the soil as the archeological exploration of the Shahre Sukhte goes on. While following the archeologists to document the explorations, the film in parallel seeks out the sound coming from the depths of the soil and...

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The video is made up of, on the sound side, a composition consisting of 58 words, in Japanese, accompanied by piano, and, on the image side, a series of images captioned, in Japanese and English, in correspondence with the recitation on the sound sid...

There are towns that build their lives from the will where the inert reigns, where the landscape is arid and dead and there are only infinite extensions of sand and stones. Forgotten, disregarded, doomed to the most extreme survival, the Sahrawis sti...

Voices in Wartime is a 2004 documentary that explores the human experience of war through poetry. Combining interviews with soldiers, journalists, and historians, it reveals how war affects individuals and societies across time and place. The film fe...

A Guatemalan woman, Ana Lucía Cuevas, returns home from exile to face the brutal history of Guatemala's armed conflict. In 1984, her brother Carlos was kidnapped by the state as one of thousands who were abducted and disappeared. Recounting the stori...

Equipe Media presents a short film about the history and situation of Sahrawi women....

A documentary that shows the current state of territorial limbo in which the Sahrawi people live through the gaze of those who arrive and leave, those who resist, of the occupiers and the occupieds; a multifaceted view of what is behind the facts....

This is the story of my father, my mother, my grandfather and my grandmother ... it is the story of all the saharaui people ... but I do not want it to be the story of my life....

The testimony of several generations of Saharawi refugees, shows us the harshness of life in the inhospitable Algerian desert, after more than 40 years of exile....

The film takes place in the Sahrawi refugee camps installed since 1975 near Tindouf, southwest Algeria. It takes us on a filmed investigation led by two anthropologists and their Sahrawi guide with families of martyrs and seriously wounded from the S...

Salka was born as a refugee in the Sahara desert, and grew up in Italy by chance: she was one of the so-called "Little Peace Ambassadors". Sahrawis have been sending to Europe their children for decades, to show the world the injustice they suffer. A...

Historical documentary about the Sahrawi conflict: the exile, the wall, the mines… the last colony in Africa....

Trapped between the violence of the Moroccan regime and the indifference of the international community, the Saharaui People fight peacefully in order to recover their land and sovereignty. The DNGO Mundubat looks into the dramatic consequences this ...

Presentation of Western Sahara’s history and the Polisario Front’s struggle for the independence of this territory, which has been occupied by Morocco since 1976. It shows the social organization of the Polisario Front, gender equality, which is high...