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Battle of Britain (1969) Historical reenactment of the air war in the early days of World War Two for control of the skies over Britain as the new Luftwaffe and the Royal Air Force determine whether or not an invasion can take place.

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 ...

Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Cyber Attacks (2016) The shocking story of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal.

Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018) Ashwat Raina and his teammates arrive in Pokhran to re-conduct a confidential nuclear test, where they face challenges from the American Lacrosse satellite and local spies.

Marquis de Sade (1996) Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In 18th century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the infamous Marquis de Sade. Imprisoned for his sordid crimes, the Marquis likewise has the beauty m

Napoleon (1927) A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his

The Making of the Mob (20152016) Making of the Mob, is an eight-part docudrama that begins in 1905 and spans more than 50 years, tracing the original five families that led to the modern American Mafia, including the rise of Charles Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.

Get on the Bus (1996) Get on the Bus is a 1996 drama film about a group of African-American men who are taking a cross-country bus trip in order to participate in the Million Man March.

The Hollow Crown (2012 ) New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of

The Great Battle (2018) A historical film about the siege of Ansi Fortress and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.

Gunpowder (2017–) British activist Guy Fawkes and a group of provincial English Catholics plan to blow up the House of Lords and kill King James I in the early 17th century.

The Bounty (1984) The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor

Marie Antoinette 2022 Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution

Wolf Hall (2015) England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas

Maximilian (2016 ) In 1477 Charles the Bolds dies, his only child is a girl which cannot rule w/o a husband. Meanwhile in Austria, Emperor Frederick III and his antagonist Louis XI France battle over said marriage prospects, battles ensue, tragedy falls.

McMillions (2020) A detailed account of the McDonald's Monopoly game scam during the 1990s as told by the participants in the case, including the prizewinners and the FBI agents involved.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

S.O.S. Titanic (1979) On April 14, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Over 1500 people were lost. This docudrama follows the personal stories of some of the passengers and crew aboard on that fateful night. John Jacob Astor and his new bride Madeline, Laurence Beesley, M

Shakespeare in Love (1998) Will Shakespeare is a known but struggling poet, playwright and actor who not only has sold his next play to both Philip Henslow and Richard Burbidge but now faces a far more difficult problem: he is bereft of ideas and has yet to begin writing. He is in search of his muse

Mrs. America (2020 ) Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.

The widow of murdered civil rights leader Medger Evers and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice.

Hatfields & McCoys (2012) The story of the feud that nearly launched a war between Kentucky and West Virginia. Devil Anse Hatfield and Randall McCoy were close friends until near the end of the Civil War, when they return to their homes -- Hatfield in West Virginia and McCoy in Kentucky -- to in

Shakedown 2018 SHAKEDOWN chronicles explicit performances in an underground lesbian club in Los Angeles The story functions as a legend where money is both myth and material Cumulatively, questions arise about how to diagram the before and after of a utopic moment Directed by Leilah Weinraub

Warsaw 44 (2014) A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people

The American West (2016 ) This series will provide unprecedented access to the wilderness, frontier lawlessness, and bloodshed of the 40 years between the end of the American Civil War and after the turn of the 20th Century, when the west was won. From Jesse James and Crazy Horse, to Wyatt Earp and

The Battle of the Sexes (2013) It was a match made in heaven: she was the darling of American tennis, an outspoken activist against sexism in sport and society; he was the charismatic, fast talking, hustling chauvinist showman. Yet their unlikely 'courtship', in the midst of a social revolution, cap

Nixon (1995) Director Oliver Stone's exploration of former president Richard Nixon's strict Quaker upbringing, his nascent political strivings in law school, and his strangely self-effacing courtship of his wife, Pat. The contradictions in his character are revealed early, in the vicious campaign ag

Empire 2005 The story is set in Rome around 44 B C , just after the assassination of Julius Caesar Octavius, aged 17, who was named heir by Caesar, is challenged by Marc Anthony A civil war ensues, ending in a showdown between Octavius and Marc Anthony

World War 1 in Colour (2003 ) Documentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.

Its a Sin (2021 ) A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.

Örök tél (2018) Christmas 1944. Soviet soldiers invade Hungary and drag every young woman with German origins away from a small village and transport them to a Soviet labor camp where they are forced to work in the coal mines under inhuman conditions. This is where Irén, one of the Hungarian wom

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.

The Assault (2010) Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a high-jacked Air France plane to save its passengers.

Deep Water (2006) A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round-the-world yacht race.

Twentyfour male students out of seventyfive were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.

Pompeii: Secrets of the Dead (2019) Forensic experts scan Pompeii's victims to investigate why they didn't escape the eruption.

Thirteen Days (2000) In October, 1962, U-2 surveillance photos reveal that the Soviet Union is in the process of placing nuclear weapons in Cuba. These weapons have the capability of wiping out most of the Eastern and Southern United States in minutes if they become operational. President John F. Ke

Sunshine (1999) The film follows a Jewish family living in Hungary through three generations, rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecu

Rampant (2018) Lee Chung is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage to the Qing Dynasty.

Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot.

Steeltown Murders 2023 It centers on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women set in both 1973 and the early 2000s, contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) A documentary about Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus - two movie-obsessed cousins whose passion for cinema changed the way movies were made and marketed - and the tale of how this passion ultimately led to the demise of the company they

Barry Lyndon (1975) In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the r

Kingdom (2019) In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

Evita (1996) High-flying, adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva "Evita" Duarte de Peron, the wife of President Juan Peron, who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and cons

Robert the Bruce (2019) The story of nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.

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