Isabel Allende

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The Gifts of Grief
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The Gifts of Grief

Mar 01, 2005
A documentary that explores how seven remarkable people embrace their pain, learn to live with their loss, and now engage in life with more compassion, courage, and awareness. The personal and moving stories include those of author Isabel Allende, Reverend Cecil Williams, writer Alana Laraine, Zen Monk/Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, youth motivator Vinny Ferrero, and filmmaker Lee Mun Wah. With courage, these people invite the viewer to open up to the pain of grief and discover for themselves the extraordinary opportunities their own losses may reveal.
A Fierce Green Fire
5.9

A Fierce Green Fire

Mar 01, 2013
Documentaire retraçant l'évolution du mouvement environnemental des années 1960 jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Documentary
L'Infinie puissance du cœur
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Le réalisateur du film "LE SECRET" nous offre ce film unique qui transforme notre vision de la vie grâce à l'extraordinaire puissance du cœur. Avec les plus grands maîtres des traditions spirituelles du monde tels que Paulo Coelho, Maya Angelou, Deepak Chopra, Isabel Allende et Eckhart Tolle, véritables sources d'inspiration, ce film magnifique comme le livre du même nom apporte la preuve fascinante que notre cœur est bien plus qu un simple organe... et qu'il peut réellement transformer notre regard sur l'argent, la santé, les relations ou le succès. L'infinie puissance du cœur est une expérience qui va vous faire découvrir ... et redécouvrir ... ce trésor qui est en vous.
Documentary
Chile: The Other 9/11
5.7

Chile: The Other 9/11

Jan 01, 2003
On the morning of Tuesday, September 11th 1973, two jets launched a deadly attack on the Presidential Palace of La Moneda in the heart of Santiago, Chile. The result was fire, the suicide of President Salvador Allende and ultimately the death or disappearance of over three thousand people. "Chile: The Other 9/11" pieces together the dramatic hour-by-hour events of the coup that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power and marked a turning point in the Cold War.
Documentary
Santiago Files
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Santiago Files

Sep 23, 2011
President Salvador Allende's topple from Chile's unstable government and the CIA's involvement in the September Coup that would turn the South American socialist country into a dictatorship.
Documentary
Journal inachevé
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Journal inachevé

Jan 02, 1982
In this heartwarming docudrama, Chilean immigrant Marilú Mallet strives to make a film about her experience of deep isolation. Her English-speaking husband, a prominent film director, criticizes her subjective approach to filmmaking; her young son, raised in Quebec, speaks only French. Interviews with Isabel Allende and other Chilean exiles reveal a deep bond in this powerful and resonant film about language and genre, exile and immigration.
Documentary
Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
8.2
Amy Tan has established herself as one of America’s most respected literary voices. Born to Chinese immigrant parents, it would be decades before the author of The Joy Luck Club would fully understand the inherited trauma rooted in the legacies of women who survived the Chinese tradition of concubinage.
Documentary
The Naturalized
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The Naturalized

Jan 01, 1970
Weaving together the lives of different people from different countries who all share a quest for citizenship by choice, not birthright, this documentary travels from a citizenship class in San Jose to a naturalization ceremony in Iraq. Along the way, there's unprecedented access to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service, revealing the complex process up close, including a marriage interview and the one-on-one Citizenship Exam. How many amendments are in the Constitution? To become an American, not knowing is not an option. Contemporary stories of struggle and success are combined with insightful interviews from notable naturalized citizens like Fareed Zakaria, Alan Cumming, David Rakoff, and Isabel Allende.
Documentary
Alba
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Alba

Jan 02, 1989
A family dinner is experienced through the eyes of a little girl called Alba, who inherits the magical qualities of her dead grandmother and thus inhabits another world, that of the good spirits. Inspired by Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits".
D'amour et d'ombres
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D'amour et d'ombres

May 10, 1994
A family dinner is experienced through the eyes of a little girl called Alba, who inherits the magical qualities of her dead grandmother and thus inhabits another world, that of the good spirits. Inspired by Isabel Allende's "The House of the Spirits".
Drama
Q&A
3.8

Q&A

Jul 22, 2021

Q&A

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.
News
Jane the Virgin
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Jane the Virgin

Jul 31, 2019
Jane, une jeune femme très pieuse, encore vierge, sur le point de se fiancer, se retrouve accidentellement inséminée artificiellement après une suite d'événements improbables. Elle porte l'enfant d'un couple dont le mari, suite à un cancer des testicules, n'avait plus qu'un seul espoir d'être le père naturel de ses enfants. Jane se trouve alors face à un dilemme : devenir leur mère porteuse, garder l'enfant puis l'élever comme le sien, ou avorter ?
Comedy
Apostrophes
8.5

Apostrophes

Jun 22, 1990
Magazine culturel consacré à la littérature. L'émission proposait des discussions ouvertes entre quatre ou cinq auteurs autour d’un sujet commun, mais également des entrevues individuelles avec un seul auteur. En 15 ans d’existence, Apostrophes est devenu l'émission littéraire emblématique à la télévision française de cette période, notamment grâce à la personnalité de son présentateur Bernard Pivot, la diversité et la qualité de ses intervenants, voire des polémiques qui surgirent épisodiquement lors de l'émission.
Talk
aspekte
6.3

aspekte

Jul 31, 2020
Inés Suárez, a young, humble woman from Extremadura who sets out for the New World to look for her husband, lost on the other side of the Atlantic along with his dreams of glory. Once there, Inés does not find her husband, but she does find the passionate love of Pedro de Valdivia, Francisco Pizarro's Field Master.
Drama
aspekte
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aspekte

Jan 01, 1970
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
Drama
aspekte
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aspekte

Jan 01, 1970
The epic tale of a proud and passionate family, secret loves, and bloody revolution. The Trueba family's passions, struggles, and secrets span a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that hurls the proud, tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter towards opposite sides of the fence.
Drama