Category: History
Posted on May 22, 2013 |
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Kingdom of Heaven is an epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades long war. A stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic queen and rises to knighthood. Ultimately he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces – while striving to keep a fragile peace.
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Sheen
Director: Ridley Scott
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Posted on May 21, 2013 |
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Killing Lincoln (2013)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Based on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. While some aspects of the plot to slay Lincoln and cripple the newly forming union are widely known, much more of the history unfolds in this insightful drama. As actor John Wilkes Booth becomes increasingly obsessed with removing Lincoln from office, a secret cabal forms, and ultimately empowers Booth to carry out an event that will change America forever. Narrated by Oscar® Winner Tom Hanks (Actor: Forrest Gump, 1994; Philadelphia, 1993) and produced by Tony Scott and Ridley Scott, this historical masterpiece stars Billy Campbell in a spectacular turn as President Lincoln.
Starring: Tom Hanks, Regen Wilson, Billy Campbell, Jesse Johnson, Geraldine Hughes, Graham Beckel, Benjamin Perkinson
Director: Adrian Moat
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Tags: Adrian Moat, Benjamin Perkinson, Billy Campbell, Geraldine Hughes, Graham Beckel, Jesse Johnson, Regen Wilson, Tom Hanks
Posted on May 14, 2013 |
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Spartacus: War of the Damned (TV Series 2010-2013)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Betrayed by the Romans. Forced into slavery. Reborn as a Gladiator. The classic tale of the Republic’s most infamous rebel comes alive in the graphic and visceral new series, Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands. Treachery, corruption, and the allure of sensual pleasures will constantly test Spartacus. To survive, he must become more than a man. More than a gladiator. He must become a legend.
Starring: Manu Bennett, Daniel Feuerriegel, Peter Mensah, Lucy Lawless, Nick Tarabay, Viva Bianca, Liam McIntyre, Pana Hema Taylor, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Dustin Clare, Heath Jones, Katrina Law, Ellen Hollman, Barry Duffield
Creator: Steven S. DeKnight
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Tags: Barry Duffield, Cynthia Addai-Robinson, Daniel Feuerriegel, Dustin Clare, Ellen Hollman, Heath Jones, Katrina Law, Liam McIntyre, Lucy Lawless, Manu Bennett, Nick Tarabay, Pana Hema Taylor, Peter Mensah, Steven S. DeKnight, Viva Bianca
Posted on May 13, 2013 |
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The Great Escape (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller | War
In 1943, the Germans opened Stalag Luft North, a maximum-security prisoner-of-war camp, designed to hold even the craftiest escape artists. In doing so, however, the Nazis unwittingly assembled the finest escape team in military history who worked on what became the largest prison breakout ever attempted. Based on a true story.
Starring: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald, Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Sturges
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Tags: Charles Bronson, Donald Pleasence, James Donald, James Garner, John Sturges, Richard Attenborough, Steve McQueen
Posted on May 10, 2013 |
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Masquerade / Gwanghae, Wangyidoen namja (2012)
Drama | History
King Gwanghae (Lee Byung-Hun) has been the King for the past 8 years. He now suspects that someone within the royal court is attempting to poison him. In response, King Gwanghae orders his councilor Heo Gyun (Ryoo Seung-Ryong) to find someone that looks like him to sit in his throne.
Heo Gyun then comes across a clown named Ha-Sun (Lee Byung-Hun), who performs lewd shows in front of drunken noblemen. Ha-Sun indeed strongly resembles King Gwanghae and is even able to imitate the way King Gwanghae speaks. Heo Gyun takes Ha-Sun to the royal palace without giving any explanations. At night, Ha-Sun takes the King's seat, while the King slips away to his mistress's home.
A short time later, King Gwanghae collapses and is taken to a safe house. Meanwhile, Ha-Sun continues his ruse as the King until the King can recover. Slowly, Ha-Sun's own personality comes out and the people in the King's inner court notice the changes. The King appears more humane to those around him and far less volatile. While Ha-Sun's true voice comes out, enemies within the King's inner circle plan their next move.
Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Seung-yong Ryoo, Hyo-ju Han, In-kwon Kim, Gwang Jang, Eun-kyung Shim, Myung-gon Kim
Director: Chang-min Choo
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Tags: Byung-hun Lee, Chang-min Choo, Eun-kyung Shim, Gwang Jang, Hyo-ju Han, In-kwon Kim, Myung-gon Kim, Seung-yong Ryoo
Posted on May 5, 2013 |
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Drama | History | War
In 1920, rural Ireland is the permanent battlefield of republican rebels against the British troops and their well-paid, local collaborator militia, a recipe for mutual cruelty. Medical graduate Damien O'Donovan always gave priority to his socialist ideals and simply helping people in need. Just when he's leaving Ireland to work in a highly reputed London hospital, witnessing gross abuse of commoners changes his mind. he returns and joins the local IRA brigade, commanded by his brother Teddy, and adopts the merciless logic of civil war, while Teddy mellows by experiencing first-hand endless suffering. When IRA leaders negotiate an autonomous Free State under the British crown, Teddy defends the pragmatic best possible deal at this stage. Damien however joins the large seceding faction which holds nothing less then a socialist republic will do. The result is another civil war, bloodily opposing former Irish comrades in arms, even the brothers.
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald, Mary O'Riordan, Mary Murphy
Director: Ken Loach
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Tags: Cillian Murphy, Ken Loach, Liam Cunningham, Mary Murphy, Mary O'Riordan, Orla Fitzgerald, Padraic Delaney
Posted on May 4, 2013 |
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Sergeant York (1941)
Biography | Drama | History | War
A hillbilly sharpshooter becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI when he single-handedly attacks and captures a German position using the same strategy as in turkey shoot.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Stanley Ridges
Director: Howard Hawks
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Posted on May 3, 2013 |
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Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973)
Drama | History | Western
It's 1881 in New Mexico, and the times they are a'changing. Pat Garrett, erstwhile travelling companion of the outlaw Billy the Kid has become a sheriff, tasked by cattle interests with ridding the territory of Billy. After Billy escapes, Pat assembles a posse and chases him through the territory, culminating in a final confrontation at Fort Sumner, but is unaware of the full scope of the cattle interests' plans for the New West.
Starring: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado, Chill Wills, Barry Sullivan, Jason Robards, Bob Dylan
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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Tags: Barry Sullivan, Bob Dylan, Chill Wills, James Coburn, Jason Robards, Katy Jurado, Kris Kristofferson, Richard Jaeckel, Sam Peckinpah
Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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Ripples of Desire / Hua Yang (2012)
Action | Drama | History | Romance
The height of gaiety on Piao Dao. Merchants and pirates may have their treasures but the biggest prizes are the sensational twin singing courtesans…
Starring: Michelle Chen, Yi-han Chen, Joe Cheng, Xiaoran Li, Zhiru Lin, Zijun Mao, Sandra Ng, Yongzhi Pang, Simon Yam, Jerry Yan
Director: Meiling Zhou
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Tags: Jerry Yan, Joe Cheng, Meiling Zhou, Michelle Chen, Sandra Ng, Simon Yam, Xiaoran Li, Yi-han Chen, Yongzhi Pang, Zhiru Lin, Zijun Mao
Posted on April 25, 2013 |
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Seven Years in Tibet (1997)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Brad Pitt stars as the arrogant Heinrich, a famed Austrian mountain climber who leaves behind his wife and infant son to head a Himalayan expedition in 1939, only to fall into the hands of the Allied forces as a prisoner of war. He and a fellow escapee, Peter Aufschnaiter (David Thewlis), make their way to the Forbidden City of Tibet, where Peter finds a wife and Heinrich befriends the Western culture-obsessed teenage Dalai Lama (Jaamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk), the spiritual leader of his Buddhist nation. As Heinrich waits out the war, his friendship with the Dalai Lama begins to transform him from naughty to humble.
Starring: Brad Pitt, David Thewlis, B.D. Wong, Mako, Danny Denzongpa, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
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Posted on April 23, 2013 |
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Last Hero in China / Wong Fei Hung: Chi tit gai dau neung gung (1993)
Action | Comedy | History
A Chinese "Robin Hood" stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel!
Starring: Jet Li, Sharla Cheung, Dicky Cheung, Pak-cheung Chan, Anita Yuen, Ka-Yan Leung, Chia Hui Liu, King-Tan Yuen
Director: Jing Wong, Woo-ping Yuen
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Tags: Anita Yuen, Chia Hui Liu, Dicky Cheung, Jet Li, Jing Wong, Ka-Yan Leung, King-Tan Yuen, Pak-cheung Chan, Sharla Cheung, Woo-ping Yuen
Posted on April 21, 2013 |
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Rurouni Kenshin / Rurôni Kenshin: Meiji kenkaku roman tan (2012)
Action | Drama | History
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those who need without killing and wanders through Japan with a sword with inverted blade during the transition of the samurai age to the New Age. When Kenshin helps the idealistic Kaoru Kamiya from the gangsters of the powerful opium drug lord Kanryuu Takeda that wants her school for his production of opium, Kaoru invites Kenshin to stay in the school. But the drug chemist Megumi Takani escapes from Kanryuu and seeks shelter in the school. Meanwhile the killer Battosai is murdering police officers and leaving messages attached to their bodies. When the cruel Kanryuu poisons the population to get the school, and Kenshin and the street fighter Sanosuke Sagara join forces to attack their common enemy.
Starring: Takeru Sato, Emi Takei, Yû Aoi, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôsuke Eguchi, Munetaka Aoki, Kôji Kikkawa, Taketo Tanaka
Director: Keishi Ohtomo
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Tags: Emi Takei, Keishi Ohtomo, Kôji Kikkawa, Munetaka Aoki, Takeru Sato, Taketo Tanaka, Teruyuki Kagawa, Yôsuke Eguchi, Yû Aoi
Posted on April 17, 2013 |
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Inherit the Wind (1960)
Drama | History
Based on the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher who dared to teach evolution in a high school science class.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson
Director: Stanley Kramer
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Tags: Dick York, Donna Anderson, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer
Posted on April 13, 2013 |
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Asura (2012)
Animation | History | Horror
Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.
Starring: Megumi Hayashibara, Yoshihiro Ike, Kinya Kitaohgi, Masako Nozawa
Director: Kei'ichi Sato
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Posted on April 11, 2013 |
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The Mission (1986)
Adventure | Drama | History
A man of the sword and a man of the cloth unite to shield a South American tribe from brutal subjugation by 18th century colonial empires.
Starring: Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn
Director: Roland Joffe
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Posted on April 9, 2013 |
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Brotherhood of the Wolf / Le pacte des loups (2001)
Action | Adventure | History | Horror | Mystery
Set in 1765, during the reign of Louis XV, an epic adventure based in part on a well-known French legend. In a rural province of France, a mysterious creature is leaving a trail of mutilated corpses across the countryside, savagely killing scores of women and children. Unseen, possessed of enormous strength and a seemingly near-human intelligence, the beast has eluded capture for years. Desperate to end the growing unrest of the populace, the King sends in a renowned scientist and his Haudenosaunee blood brother, an unconventional team whose combined methods and capabilities may finally bring the beast down. But what these men find, when finally confronted with the true nature of the beast, is more shocking than anyone could have anticipated
Starring: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos
Director: Christophe Gans
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Tags: Christophe Gans, Émilie Dequenne, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos, Monica Bellucci, Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel
Posted on April 3, 2013 |
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The Dreamers / Innocents (2003)
Drama | History | Romance
Amid an explosive political landscape, three young film buffs are drawn together by their shared passion for movies… and each other! When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and anything is possible.
Starring: Michael Pitt, Louis Garre, Eva Green
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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Posted on April 1, 2013 |
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Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
Starring: Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Samuel West, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Director: Roger Michell
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Posted on April 1, 2013 |
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Fire Over England (1937)
Adventure | History | Romance | War
Queen Elizabeth is running this show. The men in her court should be thinking about how to add to the glory of the Elizabethan Age and how to foil those pesky Spanish who got far too much influence in England when her older sister Mary was on the throne after their father Henry VIII was succeeded by their sickly half brother. Elizabeth thinks Michael Ingolby can do great things. Michael is mostly thinking about one of Elizabeth's ladies in waiting, Cynthia. Soon his mind is on survival when Elizabeth sends him on a voyage to Spain.
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Vivien Leigh, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Morton Selten, Tamara Desni
Director: William K. Howard
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Tags: Flora Robson, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks, Morton Selten, Raymond Massey, Tamara Desni, Vivien Leigh, William K. Howard
Posted on March 31, 2013 |
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The Brussels Business / The Brussels Business: Who Runs the European Union? (2012)
Documentary | History
THE BRUSSELS BUSINESS is a docu-thriller that dives into the grey zone underneath European democracy. An expedition into the world of the 15,000 lobbyists in the EU-capital, of the PR-conglomerates, think tanks and their all embracing networks of power and their close ties to the political elites.
Starring: Catherine Ashton, Leon Brittan, Maria Green Cowles, Etienne Davignon, Olivier Hoedeman
Director: Matthieu Lietaert, Friedrich Moser
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Tags: Catherine Ashton, Etienne Davignon, Friedrich Moser, Leon Brittan, Maria Green Cowles, Matthieu Lietaert, Olivier Hoedeman
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