No.1 Chung Ying Street (2018)
Drama | History
Four young lives were changed forever when they become involved in the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riot; half a century later, another four face similar challenges amidst the Mainland-Hong Kong conflict.
Starring: Neo Yau, Fish Liew, Lo Chun Yip, Kin Long Chan
Director: Derek Chiu
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
LA 92 (2017)
Documentary | History
Twenty-five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage.
Director: Daniel Lindsay, T.J. Martin
Flora (2017)
Adventure | Drama | History | Horror | Sci-Fi
In 1929, an expedition of university botanists enter an uncharted forest where they discover, and must escape an ancient organism.
Starring: Teresa Marie Doran, Dan Lin, Sari Mercer, Miles G. Jackson, Caleb Noel
Director: Sasha Louis Vukovic
Summer of '67 (2018)
Drama | History | Romance
Based on real life events, Summer of '67 brings to life the turbulent times of the sixties and the struggles faced by the men and women impacted by the Vietnam War. Young wife and mother Milly is forced to live with her mother-in-law while her husband Gerald is away on the USS Forrestal. Kate must choose between Peter her high school sweetheart and Van her new hippie boyfriend. Ruby Mae finally finds true love with Reggie only to have him whisked away by the draft. Each woman faces the question of whether or not their man will return, and even if he does, will life as they know it ever be the same?
Starring: Rachel Schrey, Cameron Gilliam, Bethany Davenport, Christopher Dalton, Sam Brooks, Sharonne Lanier, Jerrold Edwards
Director: Sharon Wilharm
Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero / Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero (2018)
Adventure | Animation | Family | History | War
The true story of a stray dog who joins his new master on the battlefields of the First World War. For his valorous actions, Sgt. Stubby is still recognized as the most decorated dog in American history.
Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Logan Lerman, Gérard Depardieu
Director: Richard Lanni
The Surrounding Game (2018)
Documentary | Drama | History | Sport
Go is the oldest game still played in its original form. In east Asia, it is hailed as one of mankind's greatest cultural achievements and considered both ancient art and national sport. At the very top, an elite cadre of professional Go players battles for dominance, broadcast to millions of fans – and remaining virtually unknown to the West. Now, for the first time, a small but determined band of American players enters the fray, launching their own professional system and struggling desperately to bring Go into the mainstream. Everything depends on the genius of the young competitors as they explore the endless complexities of the game. In the end, 'The Surrounding Game' is a story of obsession: a search for meaning beneath the patterns.
Starring: Allan Abramson, Keith Arnold, Terence Benson, Michael Chen, James Davies, Zhou Gang
Director: Will Lockhart, Cole D. Pruitt
Power of Grayskull: The Definitive History of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2017)
Documentary | History
The history of Mattel's definitive action figure toy line.
Starring: Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, Anthony De Longis, Richard Edlund, William Stout
Director: Randall Lobb, Robert McCallum
Woman Walks Ahead (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Western
Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.
Starring: Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Michael Greyeyes, Ciarán Hinds, David Midthunder, Bill Camp
Director: Susanna White
Riot (2018)
Drama | History | Romance
In 1978, when the push to decriminalise homosexuality has stalled, a group of activists decide they must make one final attempt to celebrate who they are. Led by former union boss, Lance Gowland, they get a police permit and spread the word. On a freezing winter's night, they cloak themselves in fancy dress, join hands, and parade down oxford street. But they have no idea that angry police lie in wait, and the courage they find that night will finally mobilise the nation.
Starring: Damon Herriman, Kate Box, Xavier Samuel, Jessica De Gouw, Josh Quong Tart
Director: Jeffrey Walker
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
Biography | Drama | History | War
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia, John Cusack, Laura Dern, John C. McGinley
Director: Roland Joffé
Red Sorghum / Hong gao liang (1988)
Drama | History | Romance | War
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
Starring: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten, Ji Liu, Ming Qian, Chunhua Ji
Director: Yimou Zhang
Shock and Awe (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the president's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction".
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Rob Reiner, James Marsden, Tommy Lee Jones, Jessica Biel, Milla Jovovich
Director: Rob Reiner
The Princess and the Matchmaker / Gung-hab (2018)
Comedy | History | Romance
Princess Songhwa refuses her fate of marrying someone who matches her marital harmony. There are 4 men on her future husband list with different fate signs. Refusing her fate, she decides to leave the palace and find her husband by herself. Seo Do Yoon is a person who interprets marital harmony signs. He is very skilled at his craft and, consequently, selected as the one to read the marital harmony signs between Princess Songhwa and the 4 men on her husband list.
Starring: Eun-kyung Shim, Seung-gi Lee, Sang-kyung Kim, Woo-jin Yeon, Min Hyuk Kang, Woo-sik Choi, Bok-rae Jo, Minho Choi
Director: Hong Chang-Pyo
Bajirao Mastani (2015)
Action | Drama | History | Romance | War
An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.
Starring: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra, Tanvi Azmi, Mahesh Manjrekar
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Parmanu: The Story of Pokhran (2018)
Action | Drama | History
A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran led by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, during the time of PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's tenure.
Starring: John Abraham, Diana Penty, Boman Irani, Mark Bennington, Yogendra Tikku, Vikas Kumar, Ajay Shankar, Prahlad, Zachary Coffin, Rohan Khatri, Arush Nand
Director: Abhishek Sharma
Cleopatra / Kureopatora (1970)
Adult | Animation | Comedy | Drama | History | Romance | Sci-Fi
In order to foil the enemy aliens' "Cleopatra Plan", three people from the future are spiritually sent back to Cleopatra's time to understand the enemy intentions.
Starring: Cinatsu Nakayama, Kotoe Hatsui, Tsubame Yanagiya, Nobuo Tsukamoto, Kazuko Imai, Susumu Abe, Yoshiro Kato, Nachi Nozawa
Director: Osamu Tezuka, Eiichi Yamamoto
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
Drama | History | Western
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west.
Starring: Anna Paquin, Chevez Ezaneh, August Schellenberg, Aidan Quinn, Colm Feore, Fred Dalton Thompson
Director: Yves Simoneau
The Gathering Storm (2002)
Biography | Drama | History
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Starring: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache, Lena Headey, Derek Jacobi
Director: Richard Loncraine
Sweet Country (2017)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller | Western
Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down.
Starring: Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Hamilton Morris, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day, Ewen Leslie
Director: Warwick Thornton
