They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
Documentary | History | War
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
Director: Peter Jackson
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer / The Silent Revolution (2018)
Drama | History
A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.
Starring: Jonas Dassler, Judith Engel, Tom Gramenz, Michael Gwisdek, Max Hopp, Rolf Kanies
Director: Lars Kraume
Get the Picture (2013)
Biography | Documentary | History | News | War
Meet John G Morris, 95, a legend of photojournalism, whose unerring eye for the best shot has moved and changed the world. Morris, former Picture Editor of Life Magazine & New York Times was instrumental in the early years of Magnum with his friends and peers Robert Capa & Henri Cartier Bresson. This film covers serious subjects; the coverage of conflict through photojournalism, a sensitive view of humanity and a search for peace in the world.
Starring: John G. Morris
Director: Cathy Pearson
Colette (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Eleanor Tomlinson, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart, Denise Gough
Director: Wash Westmoreland
Andrei Rublev / Andrey Rublev (1966)
Biography | Drama | History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.
Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Irina Tarkovskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev, Yuriy Nikulin, Rolan Bykov
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis (2018)
Documentary | History
This documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to save the United States from an economic collapse.
Starring: Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Timothy Geithner, Hank Paulson
Director: John Maggio
The Chinese Widow / In Harm's Way / Feng huo fang fei (2017)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In the 1940s, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor destroyed Americans' morale. The president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, decided to risk it all to bomb Tokyo, raising the public's hopes. Bombardment air crafts led by U.S lieutenant colonel Jimmy Doolittle took off from a massive aircraft carrier. However, after completing their missions, the bombardment air craft pilots had to bail out at the coastal areas near Zhejiang due to a shortage of fuel. A young pilot, Jack Turner, was saved by a young local widow named Ying, who risked her life as she hid the injured American pilot in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they fell for each other and a tear-jerking love story went on between the two.
Starring: Emile Hirsch, Yifei Liu
Director: Bille August
Tanki (2018)
Action | Comedy | History
1940. A prototype of a new cutting edge tank is being taken on a secret mission to Moscow, to Comrade Stalin. Soon the cross-country run turns into a ruthless race.
Starring: Andrey Merzlikin, Aglaya Tarasova, Sergey Stukalov, Anton Filipenko, Aleksey Ovsyannikov
Director: Kim Druzhinin
Operation Finale / Eichmann (2018)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A team of secret agents set out to track down the Nazi officer who masterminded the Holocaust.
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Haley Lu Richardson, Mélanie Laurent, Nick Kroll, Ben Kingsley, Joe Alwyn, Greta Scacchi, Peter Strauss, Michael Aronov, Pępę Rapazote
Director: Chris Weitz
Hing daai baan (2018)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
The musical biography of the 1970s Hong Kong rock band The Wynners. Starting with their humble beginnings as band causing noise in the neighborhood, through to their career of massive stars throughout Asia.
Starring: Carlos Chan, Yu Tian, Jonathan Wong, Wu Heqian, Simon Yam
Director: Anthony Chan
A War Over Reality (2018)
History
For millennia mankind lived upon this planet without the need for electronic devices. No smart phones, tablets or gadgets running our homes. We knew about the cycles of nature and the balance of life. Now, we live in an artificially created dream state that controls every aspect of our lives. The majority of people in the world have no idea how to hunt and gather, how to heal themselves, build a shelter and even communicate without texting. Huge leaps in technological evolution have destroyed in one generation what thousands of generations developed. The threats we are facing in the very near future are immense. Criminals, terrorists and governments are only just the beginning. We will soon be facing the greatest threat ever known as we are feeding and nurturing the monster of our own destruction.
Starring: Paul Hughes, Simon Oliver
Director: Philip Gardner
American Umpire (2016)
Documentary | History
Since the end of WWII, the United States has acted as the world's policeman. Does it have to be, forever?
Starring: Elizabeth Cobbs
Director: James Shelley
Death of a Nation (2018)
Documentary | History
This docudrama draws parallels between the dramatic fracturing of the nation over Abraham Lincoln's presidency and the presidency of Donald Trump.
Starring: Dinesh D'Souza
Director: Dinesh D'Souza, Bruce Schooley
Outlaw King (2018)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
A true David v Goliath story of how the great 14th Century Scottish 'Outlaw King' Robert The Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat and repel the much larger and better equipped occupying English army.
Starring: Chris Pine, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Stephen Dillane, Tony Curran, James Cosmo, Sam Spruell
Director: David Mackenzie
A Passage to India (1984)
Adventure | Drama | History
Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.
Starring: Judy Davis, Victor Banerjee, Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Alec Guinness, Nigel Havers
Director: David Lean
Robin Hood: The Rebellion / The Rebellion (2018)
Action | Adventure | History
With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her.
Starring: Ben Freeman, Brian Blessed, Kristian Nairn, Martyn Ford, Gareth David-Lloyd, Charlie Hiett, Phill Martin
Director: Nicholas Winter
Der Hauptmann / The Captain (2017)
Drama | History | War
In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain's uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from.
Starring: Max Hubacher, Milan Peschel, Frederick Lau, Bernd Hölscher, Waldemar Kobus, Alexander Fehling, Samuel Finzi, Wolfram Koch
Director: Robert Schwentke
The Fortress / Namhansanseong (2017)
Action | Drama | History | War
In 1636, King Injo hides in the mountains to avoid being part of the Qing dynasty.
Starring: Byung-Hun Lee, Yoon-Seok Kim, Hae-il Park, Soo Go, Hee-soon Park, Woo-jin Jo
Director: Dong-hyuk Hwang
The Last Witness (2018)
History | Thriller
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during the Second World War. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years.
Starring: Alex Pettyfer, Robert Wieckiewicz, Talulah Riley, Michael Gambon
Director: Piotr Szkopiak
Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo (2017)
Documentary | History
At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future.
Starring: James Burke, Gerry Griffin, Jim Lovell, John Aaron, Stephen Bales, Jerry Bostick
Director: David Fairhead
