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- Liesel Landauer and her friend Hana are linked by a lifelong relationship and an exceptional house built by the architect Von Abt for Liesel and her husband Viktor in Czechoslovakia in the early 1930s.
- The story of the extraordinary final chapter of Freddie Mercury's life and how, after his death, Queen staged one of the biggest concerts in history, to celebrate his life and challenge the prejudices around HIV/AIDS.
- A unique insight into the creative genius of Czech photographer Josef Koudelka. Director Baram follows Koudelka on his journey through Israel and Palestine as he searches for the elusive moment in which a photograph emerges.
- Follow some of the alien encounters and UFO sightings.
- "The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) - became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970-80s. Havel bridged the disparate clusters of individuals and fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989. The film speaks to our contemporary political malaise by underscoring the resolve and courage of dissidents who strove to re-build a battered civil society with artistry, tolerance, and truth. "The Art of Dissent" team presented the film to festivals with the excitement of first-time filmmakers and won five international film festival awards despite the pandemic. A unique co-production of NUtech Ventures at the University of Nebraska and Czech TV in Prague, "The Art of Dissent" combines rare archival footage with interviews with key dissidents filmed over three years in the Czech Republic, England, and the United States. Location interviewing began in Prague in 2017 with associate producer, Mariana Capková (a young politician) and Susan Pahlke (second camera). Thirty interviews were filmed over three years. Parallel with this, Le Sueur worked closely with Martin Bouda (Czech TV film archivist) and Alena Jirásek (Australian-based researcher and translator) to review, select, and edit the archival footage. Finding archival film and music of banned dissidents presented real challenges. How does one make a movie about "enemies of the state" not allowed to be filmed or photographed? Our quest brought us to the BBC and dozens of other clandestinely made films found in archives throughout Europe and America, as well as to several important private holdings in the Czech Republic. It took over two years to find and negotiate the rights for the music and films used in the movie. In this process, our team discovered forgotten film in a German archive of Shirley Bassey singing James Bond's "Goldfinger," of all songs, and "What Now My Love" in Prague just days before the invasion. From Josef Dlouhý we learned how the police confiscated his underground documentary about the Plastic People of the Universe and threatened the young filmmaker with prison if he did not permit state TV to turn his film into a documentary broadcast on TV to demonize the musicians. In assembling the archival footage, we were also given unprecedented usage of the Czech TV archives, and Martin Bouda uncovered other rare gems, such as the never-before-used color film of the 1968 invasion discovered in the forgotten suitcase of a Catalonian businessman. The archival materials our team uncovered are extraordinary. The film is distributed by Gravitas Ventures with a release date of October 2021.
- Marika, a Hungarian widow dressmaker shelters a Jewish boy in her home on the Slovak-Hungarian border during the turbulent years of WW2 and the Wartime Slovak State.
- A couple, a single woman from Czech Republic, and a computer scientist from Pakistan, fall in-love playing online game FarmVille. They will go through countless hurdles to make it work.
- Nowadays we associate Johannes Kepler with his famous laws of planetary motion. But the history of his discoveries is a drama of Shakespearian proportions - full of intrigue, passion, depravity and corruption.
- A family on a small farm tries to live as usual even though there is a violent coup in the country. The threat is constantly present.
- Priest and presenter Zbigniew Czendlik, known as Zibi, gets behind the wheel of a caravan and sets off on a journey across a vast country, in whose voivodeships you can find unique monuments, natural attractions, centuries-old traditions and excellent gastronomy. He is interested in the history hidden in the cities, as well as the natural beauty that gives an idea of the diversity of the Polish landscape, which stretches from our borders to the Baltic Sea. These riches, together with the friendliness of the local people, are the reason why Zibi embarks on a journey through his native land with enthusiasm and anticipation.
- Alzbeta and Tina are sisters bound by jealousy and love, an unspoken history hovering over them like a dark cloud. It is this history that compels Alzbeta to refuse Tina's help in finding a better life, until the day arrives that forces them to confront their common past.
- Travel documentaries about the new subculture of "trailwalkers", personal freedom, landscape, history, people, meeting, Mirek Vladyka will present the northern route of the unique Czech Trail.
- Director Pankaj Johar sets out to understand how, in the biggest democracy in the world, it is possible for millions of children to be bought and sold.
- Three Roma living in the UK, but with close ties to Central Europe, film themselves over a critical period as their lives are transformed by the unprecedented combination of Brexit and Covid.
- We've all covered things up, but what happens when the consequences begin to snowball, and every minute it becomes harder and harder to take back the lie. Little Secret is inspired by a true story.
- The Story of Shirin and Lewiza, two Yazidi women captured by the IS, who escape to Germany thanks to the intervention of Dr Jan Kizilhan, an expert on trauma.
- Composer Zbynek Mateju's ballet interpretation of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale about a young mermaid who sacrifices her life out of love. Recorded live at the Czech National Theatre, in Prague, on September 28, 2017.
- What were ancient battles really like? The answer is known to people who have been enchanted by the clank of old weapons, the smell of gunpowder and the weight of medieval armor. We take a look at old battles through the eyes of people who have made it a lifelong hobby.
- The documentary charts a voyage of almost 2,000 nautical miles across the Arctic Ocean. The expedition to the places where frost and ice reign, however, was not just an adventure.
- In the eighties of the last century, 56 Namibian children were raised in socialist Czechoslovakia. The special educational program of the Namibian liberation movement SWAPO and the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia aimed to raise children into a new generation of politically aware elite. This political experiment failed in the early nineties due to fundamental political changes in both countries. The children were forcibly resettled in Namibia without completing basic education and without any linguistic and psychological training, where they were unable to culturally adapt. The documentary filmmakers searched for traces of now-adult Namibian children and followed their fates both in Namibia and in the Czech Republic for three years. To this day, black Czechs remain imprisoned in the memories of their idyllic childhood in Czechoslovakia, which they consider their true home.
- There are many unique technical monuments in our country, the significance of which transcends borders and time. Industrial heritage is conducted by Miroslav Táborský. We will see expeditions to attractions from mining, military and other interesting fields.
- The Klementinum baroque area, whose name is derived from the church of St. Kliment from the 13th century, the Jesuits started building it after their arrival in Bohemia in 1556 and continued to build it until 1773, when their order was abolished. Since then, there has been a rumor that the Jesuits hid a treasure of unfathomable value in Clementina. Although it was never found and probably didn't even exist, there are still treasures in Klementinum. They are made up of the holdings of the National Library, which contain, among others, a number of exceptionally valuable manuscripts.
- The authors of this documentary film follow the stories of five people in the Indonesian province of Aceh after the 2004 tsunami.
- What can be done by bike? The answer will be given by two top bikers who will take us on several expeditions in Africa, South America or Asia. In all these places, they will take us to interesting places, and they will also go down some new route.
- The testimony of two years that gave us the opportunity to see things differently.
- The seven members of the gypsy band Lomnické Cháve come from a Roma settlement and dream of making it big. Sensitively observed and with uplifting music the film tells the story of their journey, struggles, enthusiasm, failures and perseverance.
- Cartoon animated series offers a smiling view on Czech history, combining both informative and entertainment elements.
- TV Series
- Jealous conspirators convince Caesar's friend Brutus to join their assassination plot against Caesar. To stop Caesar from gaining too much power, Brutus and the conspirators kill him on the Ides of March.
- What do folklore, black metal and zombies have in common? Ivana Slabáková, the 1st lady of Moravian folklore music, announces a historical discovery - The Script of Mikulcice, an ancient document revealing the importance of Great Moravia, the once mighty kingdom and early adopter of Christianity in Central Europe. Slabáková puts together Moravian patriots, a troupe of pensioned theatre amateurs and the regional head of Satanist Church, to perform a splashy musical performance based on the finding. However, the climax of the show reanimates the dead from ancient Pagan burial grounds and zombie apocalypse ensues. During an epic clash of cultures, Moravia's Christian invaders are wiped out. After that, life goes back to normal - folklore music plays again, zombies work the vineyard and hope for even better harvest ever after. Make Moravia Great Again.
- Almost all stories of great civilizations ended with their collapse. It seems that we too are at a crossroads. Could it happen that we will follow the fate of all ancient advanced civilizations that disappeared or were transformed?
- Diaries, correspondence and family film recordings provide a unique insight into life in the so-called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.