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Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering a white woman. Three white men are on a ...

A made-for-TV dramatization of George Washington’s perilous gamble of crossing the Delaware River and attacking the British forces at Trenton.

A sophisticated and beautifully constructed account of landscape change in and around Paris in the early 1960s. The film raises complex issues ...

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, ...

Set in 1896, “Tjoet Nja’ Dhien” celebrates one of Indonesia’s great heroes who fought for independence from the Dutch. ...

Continuing the story of ‘Victoria the Great’.

A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe’s only hope for obtaining the epic images of man’s ...

A ruined businessman was forced to sell his daughter, Hisano, to a brothel in Yoshiwara, the largest red-light district in Tokyo. The owner of ...

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love ...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his ...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince ...

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events made international celebrities of skater Peggy ...

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring ...

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex ...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds ...

Biography of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of modern Pakistan is told through flashbacks as his soul tries to find eternal rest. The ...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: “Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the ...

When the king is murdered, his baby son and heir is hidden in the forest where he is abducted and raised by a pride of lions. As an adult he uses ...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents while living on the streets of the Bronx. He ...

The history of black newspapers in America.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a close bond.

Adaptation of Shakespeare’s play.

Five Jewish Hungarians, now US citizens, tell their stories: before March 1944, when Nazis began to exterminate Hungarian Jews, months in ...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to a high-stakes cricket match.

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down ...

The Trench tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in ...

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman ...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world’s greatest army ...

After their production “Princess Ida” meets with less-than-stunning reviews, the relationship between Gilbert and Sullivan is ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases ...

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

The Female Closet uses archival photographs, home movies, interviews, and other visual materials to explore the closeted lesbian stories of ...

Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, “Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter,” before it’s even ...

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to ...

Based on actual accounts, this film portrays the days and hours before and during the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which ...

Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great ...

Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who–after a successful trading run–ends up accumulating ...

A group of students arrives in a small town during a hiking expedition. Once there, the local priest accuses them of being communist agitators on ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, ...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the ...

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper’s beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she ...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare’s goriest and earliest tragedy.

The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about ...

As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger ...

In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood ...