Portrait Du General Idi Amin Dada

Le régime du général Batista avait fait de Cuba un paradis où fleurirent activités et trafics illicites, tous aux mains de la mafia. Une situation qui finira par faire triompher Castro et ses camarades…

Jill Godmilow won her initial acclaim for co-directing (with folksinger Judy Collins) Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, a documentary look at the life of pioneer orchestra conductor Antonia Brico. The film is a compelling portrayal of Brico, Who was 73 when the film was released, and how her desire to conduct a major symphony orchestra was continually thwarted because of sexism and discrimination. Brico poignantly describes how a musician who is not part of an orchestra at least may practice on her own to hone her skills, but a conductor—whose instrument is her orchestra—is not allowed the same luxury. At the time of its release, just as the women’s movement was beginning to make headway among the masses of American baby boomers, Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman served as a valuable feminist testament of how sexism thwarts personal ambition.

An intimate family portrait of the film director John Boorman by one who should know him best - his daughter Katrine. Now over 80 years old, the director of Hell in the Pacific, Excalibur, Deliverance and The Emerald Forest is one of the last great mavericks. His daughter, who previously had never held a camera, spent four years filming her father who, during the process, found it impossible to resist taking control and offering her a crash course in filmmaking.

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

The poet Missak Manouchian leads a mixed bag of youngsters and immigrants in a clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation. Twenty-two men and one woman fighting for an ideal and for freedom. News of their daring attacks, including the assassination of an SS general, eventually reaches Berlin.

Sur des commentaires de Jeanne Balibar et Stanislas Nordey. Les informations dont disposaient les Alliés sur l'holocauste pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale auraient-elles pu sauver une partie des juifs européens des nazis ? Sur la base des révélations issues de documents déclassifiés, Virginie Linhart dévoile les choix et les motivations qui guidèrent Roosevelt, Churchill, Staline et De Gaulle pour sauver le monde du désastre tout en négligeant la question juive. Pendant des décennies, le monde a retenu une image : celle du général Eisenhower découvrant l'horreur des camps de concentration le 12 avril 1945 à Ohrdruf. Avec l'ouverture d'une partie des archives de la Seconde Guerre mondiale au cours des années 1990, il est impossible de dire qu'on ne savait pas.