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The Music of Silence
🇮🇹 Italy The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950sBorn with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.
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Polyxeni
🇬🇷 Greece The 1950s The 1960sIn 1955 a couple of prominent Greek Istanbulites adopt an orphan Greek girl, twelve-year-old Polyxeni, who is separated from her younger brother. She embarks on a new life and a future that looks bright, but she will have to defend what’s rightfully hers.
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My Nephew Emmett
Mississippi The 1950sThis visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
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Mission Kathmandu: The Adventures of Nelly & Simon
🇳🇵 Nepal Quebec The 1950sQuebec, 1956. The impulsive and headstrong Nelly Maloye, a novice private eye, joins the methodical and pragmatic Simon Picard, a research scientist in a dubious quest to prove the existence of the elusive Yeti. The brave-hearted heroes come face-to-face with countless dangers during their trek through the heart of the Himalayas.
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The Crown: Season 2
England The 1950s The 1960sAs a new era begins, Queen Elizabeth struggles to navigate a world that's changing around her while preserving both the monarchy and her marriage.
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Call the Midwife: Series 6
England The 1950sIt is now 1962, and the Nonnatus House team are as committed to caring for the people of Poplar as always. However, the social revolution in the outside world is mirrored by change and challenge much closer to home. As they strive to help mothers and families cope with the demands of childbearing, disability, disease and social prejudice, our beloved medics must make choices - and fight battles - of their own. Series six will see them laugh together, cry together, and pull together, supporting each other as never before.
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Mountain of Gold
🇲🇾 Malaysia The 1950sThe story of Almayer, a Dutch trader struggling to survive in Malaysia at the turn of the 19th Century. His dream of finding a mythical gold mountain is challenged by his scheming wife, the colonial authorities, the political machinations of the local chief and Arab traders, and his daughter's love for a freedom-fighting Malay prince.
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Pelé: Birth of a Legend
🇧🇷 Brazil The 1950s The 1960sA boy with nothing who changed everything. — The life story of Brazilian football legend, Pele.
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Hail, Caesar!
California The 1950sLights. Camera. Abduction. — When a Hollywood star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming, the studio sends their fixer to get him back.
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Rules Don't Apply
California The 1960s The 1950s The 1970sIt's Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey, under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes, arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes, who is engaged to be married to his seventh grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes' number one rule: No employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes' behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.
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The Finest Hours
Massachusetts Atlantic Ocean The 1950s32 survivors, room for 12. — The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.
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The Founder
Minnesota Illinois Missouri Arizona California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sRisk taker. Rule breaker. Game changer. — The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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Miles Ahead
New York The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sIf you gonna tell a story, come with some attitude. — An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.
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Endless Poetry
🇨🇱 Chile The 1950s The 1940sA portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
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The Odyssey
New York The 1970s The 1960s The 1940s The 1950sThe aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
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Loving
Virginia District of Columbia The 1950sAll love is created equal — The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
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Indignation
Ohio The 1950sBased on the novel by Philip Roth. — In 1951, Marcus Messner, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with anti-Semitism, sexual repression, and the ongoing Korean War.
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A United Kingdom
England 🇧🇼 Botswana The 1950s The 1940sThe true story of a love that shook an empire — The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
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Grease Live
California The 1960s The 1950sAn electrifying LIVE television event! — After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
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Maudie
Nova Scotia The 1950s The 1930sTriumph epitomizes adversity — Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
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From the Land of the Moon
🇫🇷 France The 1950sAn adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another man.
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Spirit of the Game
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950sIn the lead up to the 1956 Olympic games, a group of missionaries are tasked with helping the fledgling Australian basketball team compete in their first ever Olympics, and in doing so, unite a nation still coming to grips after the war.
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Rustom
🇮🇳 India The 1950sDecorated Officer. Devoted Family Man. Defending His Honor. His Name Is RUSTOM. — A naval officer is devastated to learn about his wife's extramarital affair with a rich businessman while he was away. He pays him a visit and shoots him to death, following which he surrenders himself but claims to be "not guilty" in the court, much to the surprise of the businessman's sister and the officers dealing with his case.
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Fences
Pennsylvania The 1950sSome people build fences to keep people out, and other people build fences to keep people in. — In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.
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The Queen of Spain
🇪🇸 Spain The 1950sLights. Camera. Distraction. — After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to “The Girl of Your Dreams,” 1998.)
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Operation Chromite
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea Tokyo Prefecture The 1950sThe Odds Were 5000 to 1 … One was all They Needed. — A squad of soldiers fight in the Korean War's crucial Battle of Incheon.
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Ethel & Ernest
England The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930s The 1920sA true story. — This hand drawn animated film, based on the award winning graphic novel by Raymond Briggs, is an intimate and affectionate depiction of the life and times of his parents, two ordinary Londoners living through extraordinary events.
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My War
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sHistorical drama following the Chinese volunteers sent to fight in the Korean War against the US where they experienced life and death and established profound revolutionary feelings.
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Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love
Tennessee The 1950sMiracles happen when we need them most of all. — An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly's life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.
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An American Girl Story: Maryellen 1955 - Extraordinary Christmas
Florida The 1950sIt's Christmas, 1955 in Daytona Beach, FL, and middle child Maryellen longs to stand out amidst the hustle and bustle of her big family. When Benji, a family friend afflicted with polio comes to stay with them, Maryellen is intent on making the holiday special. After her plans for a big celebration fall through, she discovers the best gifts are often simple, meaningful gestures of friendship.
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Red Gringo
🇦🇷 Argentina 🇨🇱 Chile The 1950s The 1960sDocumentary concerning North American pop/rock musician Dean Reed who achieves fame in Latin America in the 50s and 60s
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The Crown: Season 1
England The 1930s The 1950s The 1940sAs a young Elizabeth becomes Queen, she must manage major political issues and personal matters, which often clash in ways she never imagined.
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Call the Midwife: Series 5
England The 1950sIn season five, Sister Monica Joan goes missing at Christmas time leaving the nuns and nurses distraught. Shelagh rushes to put together a children’s choir in time for a BBC broadcast from the church. Elsewhere Trixie, having battled through her issues with alcohol, finds a new purpose in her keep fit classes. And could friendship blossom into something more for vicar Tom Hereward and Barbara?
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Brooklyn
New York 🇮🇪 Ireland The 1950sTwo countries, two loves, one heart — In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Child 44
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sHow do you find a killer who doesn’t exist? — Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
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Pawn Sacrifice
New York California 🇮🇸 Iceland 🇧🇬 Bulgaria The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sOn the board he fought the Cold War. In his mind he fought his madness. — American chess champion Bobby Fischer prepares for a legendary match-up against Russian Boris Spassky.
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Carol
New York New Jersey Illinois Iowa The 1950sSome people change your life forever. — In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
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Palm Trees in the Snow
🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇶 Equatorial Guinea The 1960s The 1950s The 2000sBased on thousands of real stories — Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to Equatorial Guinea, to visit the land where her father Jacobo and her uncle Kilian spent most of their youth, the island of Fernando Poo.
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Trumbo
Kentucky District of Columbia California The 1970s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sAre you now or have you ever been... — The career of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is halted by a witch hunt in the late 1940s when he defies the anti-communist HUAC committee and is blacklisted.
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Bridge of Spies
🇩🇪 Germany New York District of Columbia 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇷🇺 Russia The 1960s The 1950sIn the shadow of war, one man showed the world what we stood for. — During the Cold War, the Soviet Union captures U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane. Sentenced to 10 years in prison, Powers' only hope is New York lawyer James Donovan, recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan boards a plane to Berlin, hoping to win the young man's freedom through a prisoner exchange. If all goes well, the Russians would get Rudolf Abel, the convicted spy who Donovan defended in court.
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The Dressmaker
🇦🇺 Australia The 1950s The 1920sRevenge is back in fashion — In 1950s Australia, beautiful, talented dressmaker Tilly returns to her tiny hometown to right wrongs from her past. As she tries to reconcile with her mother, she starts to fall in love while transforming the fashion of the town.
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Life
Indiana California New York The 1950sFrom rebel to icon — In 1955, young photographer Dennis Stock develops a close bond with actor James Dean while shooting pictures of the rising Hollywood star.
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Northern Borders
Vermont The 1950sIn 1956, ten-year-old Austen Kittredge is sent to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets.
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Chronicle of a Blood Merchant
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sSet in a village right after the Korean War, poor but good-hearted Heo Sam-gwan sets out to win the most beautiful girl in the village, Heo Ok-ran, by selling his blood to earn money. Years later, the two are happily married with three children, but their family undergoes a crisis when Sam-gwan's eldest son doesn't resemble him and rumors spread about the boy's paternity.
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The Fencer
🇷🇺 Russia The 1950sFleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.
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Pirate's Passage
Nova Scotia The 1950sSet in 1952 Grey Rocks – a centuries old town that was famous 250 years ago as a favored port of pirates – Pirate’s Passage follows the story of 12-year-old Jim. Fraught by the death of his father and forced to endure schoolyard bullying each day, Jim manages to carry on, buoyed by his optimistic imagination and fueled by his sense of adventure. The sudden arrival of Captain Johnson, whose small sailboat has been thrown off course by a storm, changes Jim’s life. The Captain quickly becomes a mentor and friend to Jim, giving him extraordinary lessons in self-reliance and determination. Soon, Jim develops a liberating self-assurance that so deeply touches the Captain that he allows Jim to see evidence that the Captain may be more than meets the eye. Is Captain Johnson the same Charles Johnson who was a pirate there two hundred years ago? The lad goes with him on a literal journey into the past to find out and emerges able to navigate the course of his life.
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Astragal
🇫🇷 France The 1950sOn a night of April 1957, Albertine, a brillant and rebel 19-year-old girl, jumps from the wall of the prison where she’s serving a sentence for a holdup. In her fall, a bone from her ankle breaks: the astragal. She is rescued by Julien, a justice fugitive, and so is born a burning passion between them. He takes her to Paris and hides her. But while he leads his gangster life here and there, the young woman struggles for her freedom and against the wounds inflicted by Julien’s absence, and writes poetry.
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A Tale of Love and Darkness
🇮🇱 Israel 🇵🇸 Palestine The 1950s The 1940sThe story of young Amos Oz, growing up in Jerusalem in the years before Israeli statehood with his parents; his academic father, Arieh, and his dreamy, imaginative mother, Fania.
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Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words
California 🇮🇹 Italy The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970sA personal portrait of mythical and controversial actress Ingrid Bergman based on her many home movies and diaries.
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The Piper
🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950sShortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
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