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Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan star in 'Anthropoid,' directed by Sean Ellis.

‘Anthropoid’ – Killing Heydrich on Max and free on Kanopy

!Featured, Action, based on a true story, Blu-ray, DVD, Free, historical, inspired by a true story, Kanopy, Max, spies and espionage, Streaming Movies, SVOD, thriller, war 10/12/2023 Sean Axmaker

Cillian Murphy and Jamie Dornan star in this 2016 drama based on the real-life World War II operation to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, the architect of the Final Solution.

Agnieszka Holland's political thriller 'Burning Bush' tackles one of the most harrowing events of Czech social history

‘Burning Bush’ on The Criterion Channel and Kanopy

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Burning Bush (2013), Agnieszka Holland’s almost four-hour political thriller, tackles one of the most harrowing events of Czech social history: On January 6, 1969, college student Jan Palach doused himself in gasoline and lit himself afire in downtown Prague to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Originally created as a three-part cable film for HBO […]

František Vláčil directs this epic from Czechoslovakia

‘Marketa Lazarova’ – Czech epic on The Criterion Channel and Kanopy

!Featured, Blu-ray, Classic Movie, Criterion, Criterion Channel, DVD, Free, Have You Seen...?, historical, International Cinema, Kanopy, literary adaptation, SVOD 01/07/2019 Sean Axmaker

Marketa Lazarova (Czechoslovakia, 1967), an epic based on one of the revered masterpieces of Czech literature (considered unfilmmable by many), was voted the greatest Czech film ever made in a 1998 poll of Czechoslovakian film critics and professionals. Yet it is all but unknown in the U.S., rarely revived and never on home video before […]