Babylon (2022)
Comedy | Drama | History
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.
Starring: Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
Director: Damien Chazelle
Till (2022)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
Starring: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson
Director: Chinonye Chukwu
She Said (2022)
Drama | History
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation – a story that helped ignite a movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual assault in Hollywood.
Starring: Carey Mulligan, Zoe Kazan, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Braugher, Jennifer Ehle, Angela Yeoh
Director: Maria Schrader
Kingdom 2: Far and Away / Kingdom II: Harukanaru Daichi e (2022)
Action | Adventure | History | War
It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Nana Seino, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Amane Okayama, Takahiro Miura
Director: Shinsuke Sato
De Gaulle (2020)
Biography | Drama | History
Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.
Starring: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Tim Hudson, Gilles Cohen
Director: Gabriel Le Bomin
Call Jane (2022)
Drama | History
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to find help.
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina, Kate Mara, Wunmi Mosaku, Cory Michael Smith
Director: Phyllis Nagy
The Woman King (2022)
Action | Drama | History
A historical epic inspired by true events that took place in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Starring: Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega, Jordan Bolger
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Amsterdam (2022)
Comedy | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
In the 1930s, three friends witness a murder, are framed for it, and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in American history.
Starring: Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Chris Rock, Anya Taylor-Joy, Zoe Saldana
Director: David O. Russell
Hibiscus Town / Fu rong zhen (1986)
Drama | History | Romance
Love, humiliation and politics play out in a distant village of China during the cultural revolution.
Starring: Xiaoqing Liu, Wen Jiang
Director: Jin Xie
Operation Seawolf (2022)
Action | Adventure | History | Mystery | Thriller | War
In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats, for one last mission, to attack the United States Homeland.
Starring: Frank Grillo, Dolph Lundgren, Hiram A. Murray
Director: Steven Luke
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Adventure | Drama | Family | History
Moses, raised as a prince of Egypt in the Pharaoh's household, learns of his true heritage as a Hebrew and his divine mission as the deliverer of his people from slavery.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, Yvonne De Carlo, Debra Paget
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Septet: The Story of Hong Kong / Cat yan ngok deoi (2020)
Drama | History
Seven of Hong Kong's leading filmmakers have come together to each direct a short film set in Hong Kong during one decade from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Starring: Timmy Hung, Sammo Hung, Francis Ng, Sire Ma, Jennifer Yu, Ian Iskandar Gouw, Wah Yuen
Director: Ann Hui, Sammo Hung, Ringo Lam, Patrick Tam, Johnnie To, Hark Tsui, Woo-Ping Yuen
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai / Tōge saigo no samurai (2020)
Drama | History
The last samurai who lead an army of 690 against an enemy of 50 thousand – In 1867, political power returned to the Emperor and 260 years of the Tokugawa Shogunate came to an end, resulting in the domains being divided either into the Eastern Army or the Western Army. In 1868, the battle of Toba-Fushimi started the Boshin War. Tsuginosuke Kawai, the chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka, decided not to belong to either army and practice "armed neutrality." Battle was the norm in the samurai era, but he strongly felt that war was not the answer and that it could not protect the citizens. Kawai tries to peacefully negotiate but it goes south, and being a hereditary feudal lord of the Tokugawa Shogunate, he eventually decides to stick to his duties and decides to exchange gunfire with the Western Army. Kawai was a man who loved his wife deeply and wished for nothing but the best for his country. The last battle of a man who hoped for a world without war begins now.
Starring: Kôji Yakusho, Takako Matsu, Min Tanaka, Kyôko Kagawa, Kuranosuke Sasaki, Tatsuya Nakadai
Director: Takashi Koizumi
Medieval (2022)
Action | Drama | History | War
The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire.
Starring: Ben Foster, Sophie Lowe, Michael Caine, Til Schweiger, Matthew Goode, William Moseley
Director: Petr Jákl
Hansan: Rising Dragon / Hansan: Yongui chulhyeon (2022)
Action | Drama | History | War
Follow-up to 2014's The Admiral: Roaring Currents, which explores the historic Battle of Hansan Island.
Starring: Park Hae-il, Yo-Han Byun, Sung-Ki Ahn, Son Hyeon-ju, Sung-kyu Kim, Kim Seong-gyoon
Director: Han-min Kim
Argentina, 1985 (2022)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
A team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
Starring: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski
Director: Santiago Mitre
The Message / The Message: The Story of Islam / Mohammed, Messenger of God (1976)
Biography | Drama | History | War
This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Michael Forest, Garrick Hagon, Damien Thomas
Director: Moustapha Akkad
The Emperor's Shadow / Qin song (1996)
Drama | History
Epic drama about China's first emperor who struggles to make his childhood best friend, now China's greatest composer, succumb to his will and compose a grand anthem to his exploits.
Starring: Wen Jiang, You Ge, Qing Xu
Director: Xiaowen Zhou
Public Enemies (2009)
Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | History
The Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Jason Clarke, Rory Cochrane, Billy Crudup
Director: Michael Mann
Battle in Seattle (2007)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings.
Starring: André 3000, Jennifer Carpenter, Woody Harrelson, Martin Henderson, Ray Liotta, Michelle Rodriguez, Channing Tatum, Charlize Theron
Director: Stuart Townsend
