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1. Helen Keller: Angel of Love and Light

Based on the story of Helen Keller who at a very young age was left deaf and blinded by an illness. But she fought through the obstacles, trying to live a normal life as possible. She became on of the first disabled rights-pioneers.

It has an average vote of 5.3 on TMDB.

2. Story of Iron (鉄ものがたり)

One day, Kandume's can boy, who lived happily with his friends in the kitchen, becomes an empty can and is thrown away. Eventually, the can boy has a dream about the history of iron and humanity. Iron that melted and flowed out in a forest fire was discovered by humans when it had cooled and solidified. Iron transforms into knives and machines, and civilization develops... When the can boy wakes up, he is taken to a steelworks and reborn as a new steel material.

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

3. For Cultural Purposes Only

The Palestinian Film Archive contained over 100 films showing the daily life and struggle of the Palestinian people. It was lost in the Israeli siege of Beirut in 1982. Here interviewees describe from memory key moments from the history of Palestinian cinema. These scenes are drawn and animated. Where film survives, the artist’s impressions are corroborated. This is a film about reconstruction and the idea that cinema is an expression of cultural identity – that cinema fuels memory.

4. Cabaret Crusades: The Secrets of Karbala

The crusades come to life in Egyptian artist Wael Shawky’s beautiful Cabaret Crusades. Inspired by the writings of Lebanese writer Amin Maalouf, Shawky’s film trilogy explores the horrors of the medieval holy wars in the Middle-East – from an Arab perspective. With a cast made up entirely of puppets, the third part, The Secrets of Karbala , centres on the period between the 7th and 12th centuries, covering the crusades as well as a dispute between two Islamic sects. Beautifully made of handblown Murano glass, the puppets have amazing expressive power, making the scenes full of violence, repression and torture all the more awe-inspiring.

5. Abe's Honest Words: The Life of Abraham Lincoln

From the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsettled Midwest, Abraham Lincoln knew in his heart that slavery was deeply wrong. The passion for humanity that defined Lincoln's life shines through in this portrait of a truly great American president.

6. The Outlaws (Os salteadores)

In the 40's, after the Spanish Civil War, many republicans defeated by the nationalist forces of Franco found refuge on the bordering mountains in the north of Portugal. Some saw them as brigands, others gave them shelter and helped them on the sly to police forces of Salazar. They were... the Outlaws.

It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.

7. Buddha 2: The Endless Journey (BUDDHA 2 手塚治虫のブッダ -終わりなき旅-)

2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his position as a prince to see the world. He meets a strange boy named Assaji, who can predict the future, a monk with only one eye and Depa. Siddhartha continues traveling. Siddhartha is overwhelmed by the sufferings he witnesses around him. Meanwhile, Prince Ruri of Kosara begins his attack on the Shakya clan. Second Buddha movie from Tezuka Productions.

It has an average vote of 7.6 on TMDB.

8. Opera

The history, structures and rhythms of human history are seen through a glorious, massive pyramid.

It has an average vote of 7.306 on TMDB.

9. The Hussites (Husiti)

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our history textbooks try to tell us? What if Master Jan Hus didn't even get warm in Constance, let alone burn up? What if Jan Zizka had more than one healthy eye? This animated comedy from director Pavel Koutský playfully breaks the myths about the Hussite era as the pedestal of history is occupied not by preachers and military leaders but by two unbelievable scatterbrains, who become the heroes of their time against their will.

It has an average vote of 5 on TMDB.

10. Golden Surge (Golden Surge)

Hong Kong is facing tyranny, and a pair of brothers are marching on their own ways in the revolution. However, the horror is approaching, and it’s like this city knows everything, it reborns after it collapses. There seems to be a huge energy behind this, asking inwardly: What is the fight for?

11. The Beast Is Still Alive (The Beast Is Still Alive)

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past and find answers and explanations for the catastrophic fall of communism.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

12. McDull: Me & My Mum (麥兜．我和我媽媽)

As a child, Bobby Mak was known as Mcdull. Although Mcdull wasn‘t the sharpest tool in the shed, his mother was a different story. Her astounding intelligence and resourcefulness enabled her to, for example, simultaneously run more than six businesses from a space of less than 100 square feet. Mcdull and his mother lived together happily during Mcdull‘s childhood, but things began to change as Mcdull got older. A distance that never existed before began to grow between him and his mother…

It has an average vote of 7.1 on TMDB.

13. The Unconquered (Niezwyciężeni)

The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated film that shows the fight of Poles for freedom, from the first day of World War II to the fall of communism in 1989.

It has an average vote of 9.3 on TMDB.

14. Le petit vélo dans la tête (Le petit vélo dans la tête)

(Le petit vélo dans la tête)

It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.

15. Padre (Padre)

Argentina 1983, the dictatorship comes to an end in the country, but not in this woman's life.

It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.

16. The History of Typography

A short, educational animation about the history of fonts and typography. In a paper cutout stop-motion style, it begins with Gutenberg's creation of the first typeface, travels through the innovations of Jenson, Caslon, and Bodoni, to the modern creation of Futura and the democratization of fonts in the digital age. A charming, engaging film about a technology that is all around us, but few people know much about.

It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.

17. The Tale of the Wonderful Potato (Eventyret om den vidunderlige kartoffel)

The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

18. Sree Hari Hara Sudhan Swami Ayyappan (Sree Hari Hara Sudhan Swami Ayyappan)

Sree Hari Hara Sudhan Swami Ayyappan Movie is Fully 3D Animated Devotional Story of Lord Ayyappan.

It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.

19. Moleman 4: Longplay (Vakondok 4: Végigjátszás)

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the untold stories of the past. His journey leads him into a secret virtual reality where one corporation has recreated the 1980s, an era that witnessed the birth of video game development, an event in which a politically and economically restricted small European country, Hungary, had a significant role. He discovers a strange but exciting world, where computers were smuggled through the Iron Curtain and serious engineers started developing games. This small country was still under Soviet pressure when a group of people managed to set up one of the first game development studios in the world, and western computer stores started clearing room on their shelves for Hungarian products.

It has an average vote of 9.2 on TMDB.

20. Genji Fantasy: The Cat Fell in Love With Hikaru Genji (GENJI FANTASY　ネコが光源氏に恋をした)

The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy, the story follows a modern high school girl named Hana who is transformed into a cat and transported back in time. She travels 1,000 years ago to the Heian Era as portrayed in The Tale Of Genji, arguably the most famous novel in Japanese literature. Guided by the novel's titular character Hikaru Genji, Hana experiences firsthand the emotions that the author Murasaki Shikibu depicted in her novel. The short features scenes based on The Diary of Lady Murasaki and other historical materials, such as the real-life noble Fujiwara no Michinaga swiping early drafts of The Tale Of Genji because he could not wait to read chapters as Murasaki wrote them.