To Keep the Light (2016)
Drama | History
Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine.
Starring: Jarlath Conroy, Erica Fae, Meagen Fay, Gabe Fazio, David Patrick Kelly
Director: Erica Fae
Ikitie / The Eternal Road (2017)
Drama | History
Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck America only to face growing political unrest. One summer night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, where cruelty seems to know no end, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may. Hope dies last.
Starring: Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman, Irina Björklund, Ville Virtanen, Sampo Sarkola
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
Sekigahara (2017)
History | War
A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.
Starring: Jun'ichi Okada, Kasumi Arimura, Kôji Yakusho
Director: Masato Harada
Maze (2017)
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II.
Starring: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh, Aaron Monaghan, Niamh McGrady, Ross McKinney
Director: Stephen Burke
A Taxi Driver / Taeksi Woonjunsa (2017)
Action | Drama | History
A widowed father and taxi driver takes a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising.
Starring: Kang-ho Song, Thomas Kretschmann, Hae-jin Yoo, Jun-yeol Ryu, Hyuk-kwon Park, Gwi-hwa Choi
Director: Hun Jang
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight (2018)
Action | Adventure | Animation | Crime | Fantasy | History | Mystery
In an alternative Victorian Age Gotham City, Batman begins his war on crime while he investigates a new series of murders by Jack the Ripper.
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Carpenter, Anthony Head, Chris Cox, John DiMaggio, Grey DeLisle
Director: Sam Liu
Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)
Biography | Family | History
A behind-the-scenes look at the life of author A.A. Milne and the creation of the Winnie the Pooh stories inspired by his son C.R. Milne.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Kelly Macdonald, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Alex Lawther, Stephen Campbell Moore
Director: Simon Curtis
Chasing the Dragon / Chui lung (2017)
Action | Biography | Crime | History
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Philip Ng, Kent Cheng, Kang Yu, Philip Keung
Director: Jason Kwan, Jing Wong
James Clavell's Shogun / Shogun (1980)
Adventure | Drama | History | Romance | War
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, John Rhys-Davies, Michael Hordern, Miiko Taka, Nobuo Kaneko
Director: Jerry London
Winter in Wartime / Oorlogswinter (2008)
Drama | History | War
In the Nazi-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch Resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.
Starring: Martijn Lakemeier, Yorick van Wageningen, Jamie Campbell Bower, Raymond Thiry, Melody Klaver, Anneke Blok
Director: Martin Koolhoven
Liken: Esther and the King (2006)
Family | History | Musical | Romance
When a modern-day girl named Amelia faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible. Esther, an orphan raised by a relative named Mordecai, is chosen from all the maidens in the land to become queen. While becoming a queen is where most fairy tales end, this is just the beginning of the true story of this courageous woman who must risk her life to save her people from a treacherous plan of the charmingly wicked prince Haman. Through reliving the story of Esther, Amelia gains an understanding of the power of fasting and how it can help her learn courage.
Starring: Dallyn Vail Bayles, Lori Broadhead, Erik Denton, Frank Gerrish, Brian Hadfield
Director: Dennis Agle Jr., Aaron Edson
Brotherhood of Blades II: The Infernal Battlefield / Xiu chun dao II: xiu luo zhan chang (2017)
Action | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
In the Ming dynasty of China, Shen Lian, a secret police of corrupt government, is trapped by the conspiracy on a mission. To prove the innocence, he seeks the truth with a girl called Bei Zhai.
Starring: Chen Chang, Mi Yang, Yi Zhang, Shih-Chieh King, Jiayin Lei, Zhilei Xin
Director: Yang Lu
Salyut-7 / Salyut 7 (2017)
Action | Drama | History
USSR, June 1985. Based on actual events. After contact with the Salyut 7 space station is lost, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh dock with the empty, frozen craft, and bring her back to life.
Starring: Vladimir Vdovichenkov, Pavel Derevyanko, Oksana Fandera, Lyubov Aksyonova, Vitaliy Khaev, Mariya Mironova
Director: Klim Shipenko
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas, Ike Barinholtz, Tony Goldwyn, Bruce Greenwood
Director: Peter Landesman
Viceroy's House (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
The final Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as different sides clash in the face of monumental change.
Starring: Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Manish Dayal, Simon Callow
Director: Gurinder Chadha
The Farthest (2017)
Documentary | History
It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep space – the first human-made object ever to do so.
Starring: Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, John Casani, Lawrence Krauss, Timothy Ferris, Edward Stone
Director: Emer Reynolds
The Battleship Island / Goonhamdo (2017)
Action | Drama | History | War
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima 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
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Starring: Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Tim Pigott-Smith, Ali Fazal, Jonathan Harden
Director: Stephen Frears
Against the Wall (1994)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971.
Starring: Kyle MacLachlan, Samuel L. Jackson, Clarence Williams III, Frederic Forrest, Harry Dean Stanton, Anne Heche
Director: John Frankenheimer
Detroit (2017)
Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.
Starring: John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, John Krasinski, Anthony Mackie
Director: Kathryn Bigelow
