Harriet (2019)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
Starring: Cynthia Erivo, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Janelle Monáe, Deborah Ayorinde, Leslie Odom Jr., Clarke Peters
Director: Kasi Lemmons
The Astronot (2018)
Drama | History
Daniel was a recluse who shut out the world yet longed to touch the moon. Sandy was a light whose warmth melted his heart and propelled him to the stars.
Starring: Pennan Brae, Yuvia Storm, Sandy Silver, Kiran Cash, Brittany Dixon, Tim Cash, Jared Rasic, Todd Hanson
Director: Tim Cash
Mrs Lowry & Son / Mrs. Lowry and Son (2019)
Biography | Drama | History
A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall
Director: Adrian Noble
Stockholm (2018)
Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History
Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the 'Stockholm Syndrome'.
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Ethan Hawke, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl, Thorbjørn Harr, Bea Santos
Director: Robert Budreau
Meeting Gorbachev (2018)
Biography | Documentary | History
The life of Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and final President of the Soviet Union in chronological order.
Starring: Mikhail Gorbachev, Werner Herzog, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Lech Walesa
Director: Werner Herzog, André Singer
The Current War (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Tuppence Middleton, Katherine Waterston
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
The Report (2019)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.
Starring: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Ted Levine, Michael C. Hall, Tim Blake Nelson, Corey Stoll, Maura Tierney, Jon Hamm
Director: Scott Z. Burns
Shelby American (2019)
Biography | Documentary | Family | History | Sport
Documentary of Carroll Shelby's life and career, which varied from racer to chicken farmer to entrepreneur.
Starring: Carroll Shelby
Director: Nate Adams, Adam Carolla
Ophelia (2018)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller | War
A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, George MacKay, Daisy Head
Director: Claire McCarthy
Kingdom / Kingudamu (2019)
Action | History | War
In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Masami Nagasawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Kanata Hongô, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Masahiro Takashima, Jun Kaname, Takao Ohsawa
Director: Shinsuke Sato
One Child Nation / Born in China (2019)
Documentary | History
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
Starring: Jiaoming Pang, Brian Stuy, Longlan Stuy, Peng Wang
Director: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2015)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music
Art, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith's massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith's home and studio from 1957 through the '60s.
Starring: David Amram, Carla Bley, Ron Free, Thelonious Monk Jr.
Director: Sara Fishko
The November War (2013)
Documentary | History | War
Former Marine Corps infantry platoon members recall November 22, 2004, during the Second Battle of Fallujah, with diverse opinions on different aspects of their war experience.
Director: Garrett Anderson, Antonio de la Torre
The Battleship Island / Gunhamdo (2017)
Action | Drama | History
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
Starring: Jung-min Hwang, Ji-seob So, Joong-Ki Song, Jung-hyun Lee, Su-an Kim, In-woo Kim, Joong-hee Kim
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
The King (2019)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn
Director: David Michôd
Romulus & Remus: The First King / The First King: Birth of an Empire / Il primo re (2019)
Drama | History
Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
Starring: Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice, Fabrizio Rongione, Massimiliano Rossi, Tania Garribba
Director: Matteo Rovere
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series 2019)
Drama | History | Thriller
Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident — one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Emily Watson, Robert Emms, Sam Troughton
Creator: Craig Mazin
The Waldheim Waltz / Waldheims Walzer (2018)
Documentary | History
A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .
Starring: Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann
Director: Ruth Beckermann
All Is True (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Kathryn Wilder, Jack Colgrave Hirst
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Jeremiah / The Bible: Jeremiah (1998)
Biography | Drama | History
Jeremiah tells the story of the prophet who abandons his family and the woman he loves in order to relay God's message in Jerusalem, starring Patrick Dempsey and Oliver Reed.
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Oliver Reed, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Vincent Regan, Leonor Varela, Andrea Occhipinti
Director: Harry Winer
