Last Hero in China (1993) Jet Li
Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese
Child 44 (2015)
A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union.
Helter Skelter (2004)
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.
Men Behind the Sun 1988
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.
Red Tails (2012)
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II
The Robe (1953)
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by ...
The Duchess (2008)
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Woman in Gold (2015)
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
A historical telling of the failed attempt to capture several bridges on a road to Germany in World War II, in a campaign called Operation Market-Garden.
The Great Escape (1963)
Allied P.O.W.s plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
The Hindenburg (1975)
A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
One Night with the King (2006)
The young Jewish girl, Hadassah, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its archenemy
One Night with the King (2006)
The young Jewish girl, Hadassah, goes on to become the Biblical Esther, the Queen of Persia, who saves the Jewish nation from annihilation at the hands of its archenemy.
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Mad Love (2001) Juana la Loca (2001)
The love story who transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana
Bless Me, Ultima (2013)
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village.
Battle in Seattle (2007)
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
Missing (1982)
When an idealistic writer disappears during the Right Wing military coup in 1973 Chile, his wife and American businessman father try to find him.
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
A chronicle of how American Indians were displaced as the U.S. expanded west. Based on the book by Dee Brown.
Gettysburg 2011
In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War.
Testament of Youth (2014)
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I - a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Red Army (2014)
The story of the Soviet Union's famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players.
Killing Jesus 2015
A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth.
Cleopatra (1963)
Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.
Truth (2015)
The story of The Killian Documents controversy (a.k.a.
Bridge of Spies (2015)
Bridge of Spies (2015)- 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 (Tom Hanks), recruited by a CIA operative to negotiate his release. Donovan
The Eichmann Show (2015)
Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer.
Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)
Time Is Illmatic is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas' 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation. Twenty ...
Suffragette (2015)
Academy Award nominees Carey Mulligan and Helena Bonham Carter, and three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, lead the cast of a powerful drama about the women who were willing to lose everything in their fight for equality in early-20th-century Britain. The stirring story centers on Maud (playe
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Jamie Graham (Christian Bale), a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie (John Malkovich), who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is sep
Samson and Delilah (1949)
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
Manhunt (2013)
An espionage tale from inside the CIA's long conflict against Al Qaeda, as revealed by the remarkable women and men whose secret war against Osama bin Laden started nearly a decade before most of us even knew his name.
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me It is towards this climactic crossroads that the story of Jesus of Nazareth leads, and to which, at the final moment, it again looks back in triumphant retrospect It is the anguishing crossroads where the eternal questions of faith and doubt become resolved
21 (2008)
Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), a brilliant student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, needs some quick cash to pay his tuition bills. He joins a group of students who, under the leadership of unorthodox professor Mickey Rosa (Kevin Spacey), use their math skills to win big in Las Vegas. Seduced
Gallipoli (1981)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
The Salt of the Earth (2014)
For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major ...
Spare Parts (2015) 2014
Four Hispanic high school students form a robotics club. With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the country's reigning robotics champion, MIT.
Sergeant York (1941)
A hillbilly sharpshooter drafted in WW1 despite his claim to be a pacifist, who ends up becoming a war hero.
The Storm (2009)
Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.
Unconquered (1947)
Intrepid frontiersman Chris Holden foils the political and personal ambitions of renegade Martin Garth in the Ohio Valley following the French and Indian War.
The Admiral (2014)
At the strait 'Roaring Currents', master strategist Admiral Yi and his 12 battleships oppose enemy's fleet of 330, and win the most incredible victory of history.
The King of Kings (1927)
Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.
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.
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 (2012)
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.