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Let Joy Reign Supreme (1975) France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Philippe, tries to take advantage of a li

Destination Tokyo (1943) Made during World War II, this chronicles a voyage of a U.S. submarine on a secret mission to the very shores of Japan. Much of the film is spent developing the cast of characters that populate the sub.

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

Based on the diary of a teenage girl in hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.

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 ?

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.

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.

Sin 2019 Florence, early XVI century Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries, Michelangelo Buonarroti Alberto Testone is reduced to poverty and depleted by his struggle to finish the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel When his commissioner and head of the Della Rovere nobility Pope Juli

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

Challenger: The Final Flight (2020) Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.

Studio 54 (2018) Studio 54 was the epicenter of 70s hedonism--a place that not only redefined the nightclub, but also came to symbolize and entire era. Its co-owners, Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell, two friends from Brooklyn, seemed to come out of nowhere to suddenly preside over a new kind of New Yo

Apollo 11 (2019) A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

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,

The Libertine (2004) In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual promiscuity flourish. Thirteen years later, in the midst of political and economical problems, Charles II asks for the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl

Raiders of the Lost Past (2012 ) A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries.

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.

Tells the true life story of Sara Guralnick, a 13 year old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942 After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friends identity and finds refuge in a small village where she is taken in by a farm

15 Minutes of War (2019) In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot, after 30 hours of tension a rescue operation is organized.

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 ...

For All Mankind (1989) This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6,000,000 feet of it, and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy, fact-filled documentary, Reinart focu

The Sea Hawk (1940) Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and when he comes aboard he finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beaut

The War Below 2021 During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no mans land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines

Modern historians, equipped with state of the art technology and newly discovered evidence, rewrite the nations most iconic stories

The Lost Legion (2014) After years of decline, the Roman Empire is desperate to recapture its past. Amidst war and political confusion, Urbina Prima schemes to make her son, Cassius, the next emperor. The only thing standing in their way is Maximus, a once great Roman commander with his own dreams o

The Dig (2020) An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

Pilgrimage (2017) In 13th century Ireland a group of monks must escort a sacred relic across an Irish landscape fraught with peril.

No Surrender (2018) An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria. The film dates back to the reign of King Farouk before the 1952 revolution in the ...

Running Wild: The Life of Dayton O. Hyde (2013) A documentary that chronicles a cowboy's triumph in his quest to protect wild horses and the American West.

Captain Blood (1935) Arrested during the Monmouth Rebellion and falsely convicted of treason, Dr. Peter Blood is banished to the West Indies and sold into slavery. In Port Royal, Jamaica the Governor's daughter Arabella Bishop buys him for £10 to spite her uncle, Col. Bishop who owns a major plan

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

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

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingha

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,

Hotel Rwanda (2004) During the 1990s, some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda--and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news, the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months, one million people we

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,

Johnny Tremain (1957) In colonial Boston, a young silversmith's apprentice injures his hand, and finds himself befriended by the Sons of Liberty and caught up in events of the American Revolution.

The Dam Busters (1955) The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany's industrial heart. At first the objective looks impossible until a British scientist invents an ingenious weapon capable of destroying the planned target.

Treasure Island (2012) Young Jim Hawkins is the only one who can sucessfully get a schooner to a legendary Island known for buried Treasure. But aboard the ship is a mysterious cook named John Silver, whose true motivation on the journey challenges Jim's trust in the entire crew.

Marie Antoinette (1938) The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers

Guernica (2016) The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika.

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 Gold 2023 Drama series inspired by true events surrounding the 1983 Brinks Mat robbery, and the remarkable story that followed

Il gattopardo 1963 In the 1860s, a dying aristocracy struggles to maintain itself against a harsh Sicilian landscape The film traces with a slow and deliberate rhythm the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio Corbero, Prince of Salina the Leopard and the corresponding rise to eminence of the enormous

The Physician (2013) When nine-year-old Rob Cole felt the life force slipping from his mother's hand he could not foresee that this terrifying awareness of impending death was a gift that would lead him from the familiar life of 11th-century London to small villages throughout England and finally to

Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions

Joyeux Noel (2005) In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each ot

Masquerade - Though it places his own life in danger, a look-alike commoner (Lee Byung-Hun) secretly takes the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos.

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil Inspired by real events