Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Jefferson in Paris (1995) One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson, in the years before he became president, had an affair with (and fathered a child with) his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France (as the U.S. ambass
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Is Paris Burning? (1966) In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. The Nazi general in charge of Paris, Dietrich von Cholitz (Fröbe), is under orders from Hitler himself to burn the city if
The Affair of the Necklace (2001)
The Affair of the Necklace (2001) Paris, 1786: a woman in court. The Crown murdered her father for his views about the poor, now Jeanne wants her home and good name back. She believes all can be set right if she can talk to the Queen, whose House Minister rebuffs her. With the help of a courtside gi
Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997) The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working condition
Che: Part One (2008)
In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
Raiders of the Lost Past (2012 )
Raiders of the Lost Past (2012 ) A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries.
An American Haunting (2005)
An American Haunting (2005) In 2006, in Red River, Tennessee, a teenager has frequent nightmares. Her mother reads an old letter from 1817 written by her ancestor, Lucy Bell. After a dispute of lands judged by the church, her husband John Bell is cursed by his opponent Kathe Batts, who has a fame of
Rosewood 1997 CD2
A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.
Fellinis Casanova (1976)
Fellinis Casanova (1976) Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?
Challenger: The Final Flight (2020)
Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.
Quezons Game (2018)
Quezons Game (2018) In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon agrees to welcome Jewish refugees from Germany in the Philippines.
China Beach (19881991)
China Beach (19881991) Dateline: November 1967, within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach. This is the 'Nam, filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen Mc Murphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, in the forms of nurses,
The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
On May 16, 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wy, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a single ...
Quest for Fire (1981)
Quest for Fire (1981) Anthony Burgess created the primitive language for the early humans in this prehistoric adventure about a trio of warriors who travel the savanna, encountering sabre-toothed tigers, mammoths and cannibalistic tribes in search of a flame that would replace the fire their tribe h
The Secret Romantic Guesthouse (2023)
The Secret Romantic Guesthouse 2023 A work about an incident that takes place when the owners of the boarding house called Guest Summer Palace, which breaks stereotypes, and boarders with secrets gather to find Lee Seol who disappeared 13 years ago
Gloria (2021)
Gloria 2021 A Small Village in Ribatejo, became an unlikely Cold War stage where American and Soviet forces fought through dangerous sabotage maneuvers to achieve control of Europe At the center of this story is Joao Vidal, a young man from a family with connections in the Portuguese Fascist Regime,
Zulu Dawn (1979)
Zulu Dawn (1979) In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. To that end, the British present King Cetshwayo with an impossible ultimatum to provoke a war they are sure they can win easily with thei
Up Pompeii (1971)
Up Pompeii (1971) Roman slave Lurkio inadvertently becomes the possessor of a scroll naming the proposed assassins of the Emperor Nero. Administering to the participants of his master's orgy guests seems small compared to the trouble the scroll brings - but all are in for a nasty shock when Mount Ve
Kholodnoe tango (2017)
Kholodnoe tango (2017) He miraculously escaped death to return to the house where lives the love of his life. But the hope of happiness turns into a terrible discovery. His beloved is the daughter of his enemy.
Battle for Haditha (2007)
Battle for Haditha (2007) In November 2005, US Marines fell into an ambush by Iraqi insurgents and one officer got killed. The reprisals by the the Americans were frightening, resulting in the massacre of 24 people, many of whom women and children. "Battle for Haditha" is the faithful account of thi
Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen (2019)
Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen (2019) Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the leader of a Celtic Tribe. However, her mother is unsure, doing whatever it takes to ...
Kung Fu Cult Master (1993)
Kung Fu Cult Master (1993) A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords -- and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder (yup!), serious clan and cult rivalries, and lots of magic and flying.
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. He comes to bring a sword, not peace, he says. He's in a hurry, moving from place to place near the Sea of Galilee,
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked off their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his uncle's farm and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life - Hopefully.
Victoria and Abdul (2017)
Victoria and Abdul (2017) Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)
Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019) By June 1942, the Japanese Navy has swept across the Pacific. In an effort to change the course of the war, a United States carrier group is positioned off the coast of Midway, tasked with ...
1944 (2015)
The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to ...
Betrayed (2020)
Betrayed 2020 We follow the Jewish Braude familys experiences when the Jews are arrested and deported from the camp Berg, on the ship Donau and down to the extermination in the concentration camp in Auschwitz
War and Peace (2007 )
War and Peace (2007 ) A Russian Prince experiences battle against Napoleon and a troubled relationship with his father and wife. Finds acceptance of her death and eventually his chance of true love. A spoiled, high-society fickle young woman loves and her years of unhappiness. A Count illegitimate,
Some Mothers Son (1996)
Some Mothers Son (1996) The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Abraham Lincoln (2022)
Abraham Lincoln 2022 Through a poverty ridden childhood on the American frontier, Lincoln is determined to leave his mark on the world
Kagemusha (1980)
Kagemusha (1980) When a powerful warlord in medieval Japan dies, a poor thief recruited to impersonate him finds difficulty living up to his role and clashes with the spirit of the warlord during turbulent times in the kingdom.
Only the Dead (2015)
Only the Dead is a war story unlike any ever seen. A story of what happens when one ordinary man, Time magazine war correspondent Michael Ware, transplanted into the Middle East by the reverberations of 9/11, butts into history. Ware handpicked and given a shattering video tape by the most feared, m
The Diary Of Anne Frank 2009
Based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Conspiracy (TV Movie 2001)
The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the
Anna and the King (1999)
Anna and the King (1999) This is the story of Anna Leonowens, the English schoolteacher who came to Siam in the 1860s to teach the children of King Mongkut. She becomes involved in his affairs, from the tragic plight of a young concubine to trying to forge an alliance with Britain to a war with Burm
Einstein and Eddington (2008)
Einstein and Eddington (2008) Sir Arthur Eddington is a renowned physicist at Cambridge University and an expert in the measurement of the physical world. He along with all of his colleagues are also avowed Newtonians. Sir Oliver Lodge suggests that he read a new thesis put forward by a German-Swiss
The Rape of Europa (2006)
The Rape of Europa 2006 THE RAPE OF EUROPA takes the audience on a journey through seven countries telling a story of greed and warfare that threatened the artistic heritage of Europe For twelve years, the Nazis looted and destroyed art Young art historians and curators from America and across Europ
Chevalier (2022)
Chevalier 2022 Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love
The Zookeepers Wife (2017)
The Zookeepers Wife (2017) The Zookeeper's Wife tells the account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion.
Black Death (2010)
Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.
The Legend of Tomiris (2019)
The Legend of Tomiris (2019) This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe - legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the Scythian/Saka tribes under her authority.
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021)
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali (2021) Tells the extraordinary story behind the friendship of two of the most iconic figures of the 20th century: Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X. Few people understand the bond these men shared. The charismatic and outspoken Olympic champion who charmed the natio
Munich The Edge of War (2021)
Munich The Edge of War 2021 Based on the international bestseller by Robert Harris It is Autumn 1938 and Europe stands on the brink of war Adolf Hitler is preparing to invade Czechoslovakia and Neville Chamberlains government desperately seeks a peaceful solution With the pressure building, Hugh Leg
The Samurai of Ayothaya (2010)
The Samurai of Ayothaya (2010) Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in southern Thailand.
Flight 93 2006
Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.
Slave Queen of Babylon (1963)
Slave Queen of Babylon (1963) General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a beautiful young woman