La Commare Secca (1962)

Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform works by Berlioz, Deubssy, and Ravel. A WGBH live broadcast from the Sanders Theater, Harvard University on 17 April 1962.

A man lost in the desert with his donkey comes across an oasis with six naked women.

In 1718, on a small island off the Carolina coast, a recently freed family of indentured servants plans to settle and homestead there but they run into conflict with a group of fishermen also claiming ownership of the island.

De 1962, année de son indépendance, et jusqu'en 1974, l’Algérie aide activement les mouvements anticoloniaux et les révolutionnaires du monde entier. Avec son sens de la formule, Amilcar Cabral, le fondateur du Parti africain pour l’indépendance de la Guinée et du Cap-Vert (PAIGC) qualifiera le pays de "Mecque des révolutionnaires". Dirigée par le tandem Ahmed Ben Bella (à la présidence) et Houari Boumediene (au stratégique ministère de la Défense), l’Algérie jouit alors du prestige d’une indépendance acquise par les armes…

Le chef des services secrets de Sa Majesté britannique, "M", envoie en mission à la Jamaïque l'agent spécial 007, James Bond, enquêter sur la disparition d'un de ses collègues. L'espion va affronter la puissance maléfique de Spectre, organisation criminelle qui vise à la domination du monde, personnifiée par le redoutable Dr No. Au gré de ses aventures il rencontrera la sublime Honey, qui surgit de l'eau vêtue d'un bikini blanc.

Over the course of a nearly forty-year career, Louis Malle forged a reputation as one of the world’s most versatile cinematic storytellers, with such widely acclaimed, and wide-ranging, masterpieces as Elevator to the Gallows, My Dinner with Andre, and Au revoir les enfants. At the same time, however, with less fanfare, Malle was creating a parallel, even more personal body of work as a documentary filmmaker. With the discerning eye of a true artist and the investigatory skills of a great journalist, Malle takes us from a street corner in Paris to America’s heartland to the expanses of India in his astonishing epic Phantom India. These are some of the most engaging and fascinating nonfiction films ever made.

The Algerian War was a momentous struggle for independence from France by Algerian nationalists between 1954 and 1962. Unique historic footage has been gathered from both sides, much of it never before seen. The cameras were free to roam in both countries and many of the interviewees speak frankly for the first time of their role in the struggle.
This eight-year conflict caused the fall of six French Prime Ministers and eventually the collapse of the Fourth Republic. It returned Charles de Gaulle to power but also almost saw his demise and twice brought civil strife to mainland France, and the fear of a military coup.

After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who was raised alone in the country, to live with her, and Ettore becomes her pride and joy. However, the boy that does not want to study or work, joins to idle friends, has a crush on a bitch, and Mamma Roma uses her best but limited efforts to straight Ettore and make him an honest man. However, her past haunts her with tragic consequences.

The complete story of the D-Day landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, as seen through the eyes of American, French, British, and German participants. Exhaustively accurate details and extremely talented cast make this one of the all-time great Hollywood epic productions. The first of the big budget, all-star war productions; based on the book by Cornelius Ryan. Three directors share credit…

Quello di Giulia è un mondo antico e sospeso, fatto di rigore e testi sacri, che esclude con ferocia chi non vi appartiene. Quello di Libero è il mondo di tutti gli altri, di chi sbaglia, di chi si arrangia cercando un'altra possibilità e di chi ama senza condizioni. Quando Giulia incontra Libero scopre di poter avere un altro destino, tutto da scegliere. La loro è una storia d'amore purissima e inevitabile e per i due ragazzi inizia un intenso periodo di vita insieme, scelta che comporterà a Giulia una totale esclusione dal mondo dei Testimoni di Geova al quale appartiene.