Nearly 200 years ago, the train revolutionized our lives. It redrew the maps of states and nations, and changed concepts of distance and time like no other invention before. What visionaries imagined the development of the railroad? How did we get from the first chugging locomotives to the smooth giants of speed we see today? How does France's extensive rail network keep running smoothly, 24/7?

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The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

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After seven years in prison, a female student in Tehran is hanged for murder. She had acted in self-...

Composed of numerous archives and film clips, this documentary is the story of a transgressive actor...

In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend ...

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Actress Glenn Close can transform herself into different roles like a chameleon. Behind this versati...