Bomarsund 1854 tells the story of two humanists, whose actions during the Crimean War prevented bloodshed. They are the British hydrographer, Bartholomew James Sulivan, and the Russian commandant, Jacov Andreyevitch Bodisco, two men who fought on opposite sides in the war. It also traces the rise and fall of the multi-cultural community of Bomarsund. The small island of Åland, located in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland, played a significant role in the war that raged during 1854, originally called the Oriental War and partially fought in Northern Europe. The Baltic campaigns became the forgotten theatre of the Crimean War. The attention awarded events elsewhere has overshadowed the significance of this theatre, which lay close to the Russian capital of St Petersburg.

A journey into four classical elements through the four main characters of the film. The main charac...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in ja...

Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one ...

Star Trek: Evolutions is an 80-minute Paramount Pictures Star Trek documentary compilation which was...

Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, pe...

In late summer 2003, climbers from Britain, Sweden, and Finland descended upon the sleepy archipelag...

If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the c...

An ode to the fighters and stunt coordinators of Tamil cinema, this documentary, with a voice-over b...
Andreas Kieling, a famous German documentary film maker, explores the coldest places in the world. H...

Soul explores the secrets of gastronomy where two cuisines apparently so opposite in their philosoph...

December 11, 1983: this date sticks in the memory of the Grêmio supporters. With a spectacular perfo...

The Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy talks about his life and work. Footage of Cairo, Gharb Assouan, ...

French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.

For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length ...

The Garbage Pail Kids are 30 years old. Celebrate their gross-out greatness with artist interviews, ...

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...