În primii ani ai secolului 20-lea, Mohandas K. Gandhi, avocat pregătit de britanici, a părăsit toate posesiunile lumii pentru a prelua cauza independenței indiene. Confruntat cu rezistența armată din partea guvernului britanic, Gandhi adoptă o politică de „rezistență pasivă”, încercând să câștige libertatea pentru poporul său fără a recurge la vărsare de sânge.
Incomoda poveste a mai multor persoane implicate in lupta americanilor impotriva terorismului: un senator care incearca sa vanda ultima strategie globala unei experimentate jurnaliste de televiziune, un profesor universitar idealist care vrea sa-si convinga cel mai promitator student sa-si schimbe viata, doi tineri care lupta in muntii inzapeziti din Afganistan, a caror singura dorinta este sa se alature armatei americane ce lupta impotriva terorismului.
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
In 1904 Marocul este principala sursa de conflict intre Germania, Franta si Imperiul Britanic, toate acestea incercand sa stabileasca o sfera de influenta in aceasta tara. Mulai Ahmes er Raisuli este comandantul unei trupe de criminali barbari, spre deosebire de Sultanul Abdelaziz si unchiul sau, Bashaw din Tangier, pe care Raisuli ii considera ca fiind corupti. El ii rapeste pe Eden Perdicaris si copiii ei, Wiliam si Jennifer si cere o suma scandalos de mare drept rascumparare, in acest mod incercand sa provoace un incident international pentru a-l stanjeni pe sultan si a porni un razboi civil.
Cel De-al Doilea Război Mondial. Vreme de 4 ani, Winston Churchill a jucat cel mai important rol în contracararea naziștilor. Maniera în care a condus i-a motivat pe britanici și americani să lupte până la capăt împotriva lui Hitler.
The time is the late '80s, a crucial period in the history of South Africa. President P.W. Botha is hanging on to power by a thread as the African National Congress (ANC) takes up arms against apartheid and the country tumbles toward insurrection. A British mining concern is convinced that their interests would be better served in a stable South Africa and they quietly dispatch Michael Young, their head of public affairs, to open an unofficial dialogue between the bitter rivals. Assembling a reluctant yet brilliant team to pave the way to reconciliation by confronting obstacles that initially seem insurmountable, Young places his trust in ANC leader Thabo Mbeki and Afrikaner philosophy professor Willie Esterhuyse. It is their empathy that will ultimately serve as the catalyst for change by proving more powerful than the terrorist bombs that threaten to disrupt the peaceful dialogue.
Manu Aranguren is a Basque politician who acts as a mediator for the Spanish government in its negotiations with ETA. Far from being a solemn, calculated occasion, unexpected occurrences, slip-ups or misunderstandings soon kick in to influence the dialogue. And the personal relationship between negotiators will be key in solving the conflict.
În Londra postbelică, un cartier foarte unit se separă de Anglia, după descoperirea unui document care afirmă că, de fapt, parohia aparține Franței.
Directed by Edvin Laine and Viktor Tregubovich, Trust (1976) is a Finnish-Soviet historical drama film that follows the relations between Finland and the Soviet Union. In December 1917, the Finnish delegation, composed of Chairman of the Senate Finance Department P.E. Svinhufvud (Vilho Siivola), Senator Carl Enckell (Yrjö Tähtelä) and State Secretary Gustaf Idman (Yrjö Paulo) arrive in St. Petersburg to meet V.I. Lenin (Kirill Lavrov) to gain recognition for the country's independence.
Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government.
The 580 days that president-elect Lula, from Workers Party, spent in prison are the subject of the documentary "Visita, Presidente". The feature brings together unpublished stories of figures who were beside him in prison.
The chronicle of the process, ten long years, that led to the end of ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), a Basque terrorist gang that perpetrated robberies, kidnappings and murders in Spain and the French Basque Country for more than fifty years. Almost 1,000 people died, but others are still alive to tell the story of how the nightmare finally ended.
About Aborigines and Australian politics. On 13 March 1978 the Queensland Government announced its intention to take over management of the Aurukun Aboriginal Reserve from the Uniting Church. The people of Aurukun complained bitterly, believing that the Church was more sympathetic to their aims and fearing that the State was merely seeking easier access to the rich bauxite deposits on their Reserve. When the Federal Government took the side of the Aborigines the stage was set for national confrontation. Shows the situation at Aurukun during those crucial three weeks.
'History is always made in the middle of the night. And when it happens, you are so damned tired, that you couldn't care less,' says Robert Cooper, an EU peace negotiator whose job it is to get Serbia and Kosovo to reach an agreement about peaceful coexistence. National pride and compromise are on everyone's lips, and much is at stake: Kosovo wants to come closer to independence, the Serbs have been promised EU membership if they can reach an agreement, and the EU tries to strengthen its credibility. But how far is each party willing to go? It is the unique characters that make this fascinating film about a delicate political game so vivid and loveable. The stoic, Serbian negotiator has a great passion for rock music, his colleague from Kosovo does not want to miss out on his daily visit to the hairdresser, and Cooper himself has a closet full of ties - one for every conceivable occasion.