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Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves ...

When Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were put to death in 1953 for selling atomic secrets to the USSR, their two children were orphaned after every ...

Based on a true story. In the 70s, during the last stages of Franco’s dictatorship, Txema, a basque construction worker, is arrested ...

For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts ...

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring ...

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish ...

A movie based on real wartime diaries tells the story of the Swedish speaking Finns’ infantry regiment 61. The story follows the regiment ...

An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on ...

The story follows a family of refugees from the early twentieth century through to the Civil War. Through movements, separations, and reunions, ...

The rise to power of the famed Lady Kasuga no Tsubone, who established the ‘Ooku’ (the women’s quarters at Edo castle) and ...

Based on the controversial novel by Philippa Gregory, “The Other Boleyn Girl” is a fictionalised account of the life of Lady Mary ...

This film dramatizes events that occurred as the hostility between India and Pakistan over Kashmir came to a head in 1999, when more than 1,000 ...

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country’s government is declaring a mobilization ...

William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views ...

A dashing warrior’s fighting prowess makes the Khan realize that it is better that such a person be an ally instead of the enemy.

Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark lead a U.S. expedition to the Pacific Ocean and back.

Hsi Shih: The Beauty of Beauties was one of the most ambitious films made in the Taiwan film industry in the 1960s. After leaving The Shaw ...

Produced and directed by Walt Missingham who, in 1983, became the first non-Chinese to practice Kung Fu at the Shaolin Temple, this authoritative ...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters ...

During the partition, Tara marries Sakina and they live a happy life. However their happiness is short-lived when Sakina’s father forces ...

Ancient Rome, during the time of Emperor Nero. Vinicius, a young patrician, falls in love with the beautiful Lygia, the daughter of a Barbarian ...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, ...

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, ...

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional ...

A film about the early life of the rock musician and his burgeoning career as a member of the Beatles.

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the ...

A young street rapper is transported back in time to the pre-Civil War South, where he finds himself in the middle of a slave revolt.

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic’s Trujillo regime when members of their ...

A young Prince Asoka works to perfect his skills in battle and also deals with family conflict. During a struggle with one of his step-brothers, ...

The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice ...