A new doctor from Moscow arrives at a provincial mental institution. His interest is the peculiarities of the psyche of a patient who believes that he is Yakov Yurovsky, the man who assassinated the last Russian tsar. In the course of their conversations it transpires that the patient is a kind of philosopher, not without a gift for suggestion. In a while the doctor himself falls under his patient’s influence: he tends to relive that fatal night of June 16-17, 1918 when, without any investigation or trial, Tsar Nicholas II, who had recently abdicated, was murdered, together with his wife, daughters and incurably ill heir. Soon the doctor realizes that the tragedy of the last Russian tsar is in part his own tragedy, too...
Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...
Docu-drama about political and military conflict during the Russian Civil War in 1918, from an ortho...
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, ...
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Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his rema...
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The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient f...
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The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a poli...
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychia...
The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life t...
Reminiscing the 1917 Russian October Revolution, a time when the films' director was 14 years old.
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Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...
Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a mo...
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