Genre: History
The Color of Pomegranates
The Color of Pomegranates
One of cinema's greatest masterpieces, Sergei Parajanov's "The Color of Pomegranates," a biography of the Armenian ...
Testament of Youth
Testament of Youth
A long, long time ago, back in the spring of 1914, they were so happy together. ...
Lost Transport
Lost Transport
In the spring of 1945 a train deporting hundreds of Jewish prisoners gets stranded near a ...
Frantz
Frantz
In 1919 Quedlinburg, Germany, a young woman named Anna is still mourning the death of her ...
The Conversation
The Conversation
On May 17th, 1945, the Partisan leader Josip Broz "Tito" places Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac in "preventive ...
Miss Austen Regrets
Miss Austen Regrets
In the later years of her life, as she's approaching the age of forty, the novelist ...
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, ...
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern ...
A Woman in Berlin
A Woman in Berlin
A nameless woman keeps a diary as the Russians invade Berlin in the spring of 1945. ...
The Wooden Horse
The Wooden Horse
In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that ...
Witches’ Hammer
Witches’ Hammer
The time is the seventeenth century. The beggar Maryna Schuchová hides the Host in her scarf ...
The Auschwitz Report
The Auschwitz Report
This is the true story of Freddy and Walter--two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to ...
W.E.
W.E.
In 1998, an auction of the estate of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor causes great ...
The Way Back
The Way Back
In 1939, three men attempt to flee communist Russia, escaping a Siberian gulag. This movie tells ...
Toman
Toman
This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial ...
The Bunker
The Bunker
In 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the ...
Henry V
Henry V
In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting ...
The Last Duel
The Last Duel
Based on the true story of France's last trial by combat in the Middle Ages. Knight ...
True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in the Last Century, when Dr Frantz Fanon Was Head of the Fifth Ward between 1953 and 1956
The influential politician and activist Frantz Fanon works as a psychiatrist in Algeria between 1953-1956. He ...
Kapo in Jerusalem
Kapo in Jerusalem
An exploration of the moral and survival dilemmas in Auschwitz from the point of view of ...
Tulip Fever
Tulip Fever
In seventeenth century Amsterdam, an orphaned girl Sophia is forcibly married to a rich and powerful ...
The Baby of Mâcon
The Baby of Mâcon
Plagued with infertility, the inhabitants of Mâcon are naturally involved in the spectacle that is a ...
The Conspirator
The Conspirator
In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged ...
Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons
Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons
Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution.
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
Henry VIII and His Six Wives
On his deathbed Tudor-king Henry VIII remembers his long reign and especially the crucial part his ...
Peking Opera Blues
Peking Opera Blues
The movie is set in chaotic 1920's China, when warlords fought each other for power while ...
A Night to Remember
A Night to Remember
A successful attempt at an even-handed portrayal of the White Star Line's (later part of Cunard) ...
Valiant Hearts
Valiant Hearts
In August 1942, during World War II, six Jewish children flee the Nazi regime and go ...
Phoenix
Phoenix
In the aftermath of WWII, Nelly, a Jewish survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, horribly disfigured ...
Death Defying Acts
Death Defying Acts
During Harry Houdini's (Guy Pearce's) tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a ...
Wild Nights with Emily
Wild Nights with Emily
In the mid 19th century, Emily Dickinson was writing prolifically and in a passionate romantic relationship ...
Hans Warns – Mein 20. Jahrhundert
Being Maria
Being Maria
Maria Schneider's rise to fame after "Last Tango in Paris" and its controversial production's impact on ...
And The Ship Sails On
And The Ship Sails On
In July 1914 a luxury cruise ship leaves Italy with the ashes of the famous opera ...
Labyrinth of Cinema
Labyrinth of Cinema
The story centers on a group of young people who travel back in time when they ...
Gandhi
Gandhi
In 1893, Mohandas K. Gandhi is thrown off a South African train for being an Indian ...
The Story of Adele H
The Story of Adele H
Halifax, 1863. A young woman, Miss Lewly, comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with ...
Blitz
Blitz
The stories of a group of Londoners during the German bombing campaign of the British capital ...
At Eternity’s Gate
At Eternity’s Gate
During a self-imposed exile in Arles and Auvers-Sur-Oise, France, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh develops his ...
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
A Lutheran church outside of Germany. Those close with the minister, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, advise him not ...
Gate of Hell
Gate of Hell
In 1160, in the Heian Period, Lord Kiyomori travels with his court to another feud and ...
The Round-Up
The Round-Up
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, ...
Richard III
Richard III
Richard's military skills have helped to put his older brother Edward on the throne of England. ...
The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy
The Legend of Hell’s Gate: An American Conspiracy
Surrounded by whisky-fueled outlaws and a treacherous wilderness, how is one to survive? Based on real ...
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
In 1547, Ivan IV (1530-1584), archduke of Moscow, crowns himself Tsar of Russia and sets about ...
Judgment at Nuremberg
Judgment at Nuremberg
It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This ...
Power
Power
The story of life in the 18th century Jewish ghetto of Wurtemburg. Suess tries to better ...
In This Corner of the World
In This Corner of the World
Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to ...
The Libertine
The Libertine
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, ...
Delusions of Grandeur
Delusions of Grandeur
Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, ...
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The Tree of Wooden Clogs
The life inside a farm in Italy at the end of the 19th century. Many poor ...
Once Upon a Time in London
Once Upon a Time in London
Dramatising the violent reign of two of London's most notorious gangsters, Billy Hill (Leo Gregory) and ...
Before, Now & Then
Before, Now & Then
Raden Nana Suhani, a Sundanese woman in the 1960s, lost a father and son to the ...
Wife of a Spy
Wife of a Spy
It is 1940 and much of the world, including Japan, is in the grips of World ...
A Taxi Driver
A Taxi Driver
May 1980. A Seoul taxi driver named Man-seob (SONG Kang-ho) comes across an offer too good ...
That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman
Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. ...
Olga
Olga
Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís ...
Salome
Salome
In the reign of Tiberius Caesar (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Gallilean prophet John the Baptist (Alan Badel) ...
Across the Universe
Across the Universe
Across The Universe is a fictional love story set in the 1960s amid the turbulent years ...
Monsoon
Monsoon
Kit's family fled Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam when he was 6 years old to ...
Return of the Hero
Return of the Hero
1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister ...
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev
Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th ...
Fort McCoy
Fort McCoy
Frank Stirn (Eric Stoltz) moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army ...
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Sir Percy Blakeney(in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid ...