Dunkirk (2017)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Starring: Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy
Director: Christopher Nolan
American Made / Mena (2017)
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
The story of Barry Seal, an American pilot who became a drug-runner for the CIA in the 1980s in a clandestine operation that would be exposed as the Iran-Contra Affair.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Jayma Mays, Sarah Wright, Connor Trinneer, E. Roger Mitchell
Director: Doug Liman
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
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The Incomparable Rose Hartman (2016)
Documentary | History
With a career spanning decades Photographer Rose Hartman is known for her Iconic Photos from Studio 54 and the fashion world, her boisterous personality and ever presence capturing the New York social scene. Her work will draw you in, the film will make you understand this force of nature.
Starring: Rose Hartman, Carolina Herrera, Marsin Mogielski
Director: Otis Mass
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
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Gintama / Gin Tama / Silver Soul (2017)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | History | Sci-Fi
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
Starring: Shun Oguri, Masaki Suda, Kanna Hashimoto, Masaki Okada, Masami Nagasawa, Tsuyoshi Muro
Director: Yûichi Fukuda
10,000 BC (2008)
Action | Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Starring: Steven Strait, Camilla Belle, Cliff Curtis, Joel Virgel, Affif Ben Badra, Mo Zinal, Nathanael Baring
Director: Roland Emmerich
Captain from Castile (1947)
Adventure | Drama | History
The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition.
Starring: Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Director: Henry King
The Promise (2016)
Drama | History
Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris – a renowned American journalist based in Paris.
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, Christian Bale, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Angela Sarafyan
Director: Terry George
Citizen X (1995)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
Starring: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn, Joss Ackland, John Wood
Director: Chris Gerolmo
For All Mankind (1989)
Documentary | History
An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.
Starring: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, Alan Bean, Jack Swigert, Stuart Roosa, James Irwin, Kenneth Mattingly, Charles Duke, Harrison Schmitt
Director: Al Reinert
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Starring: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger, Steven Berkoff, Gay Hamilton
Director: Stanley Kubrick
6 Days (2017)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place, all the while a group of highly trained soldiers from the SAS prepared for a raid the world had never seen.
Starring: Mark Strong, Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish, Tim Pigott-Smith, Martin Shaw, Emun Elliott
Director: Toa Fraser
City 40 (2016)
Documentary | Drama | History | News | War
Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth.
Starring: Lavrenti Beria, Viktor Fetisov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergei Kirillov, Igor Kurchatov, Nadezhda Kutepova
Director: Samira Goetschel
Sluga Gosudarev / The Sovereign's Servant (2007)
Action | Adventure | History | War
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King Charles XII of Sweden. Although separated by war and allegiance, fate has not finished with them.
Starring: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov
Director: Oleg Ryaskov
The Passion of Joan of Arc / La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928)
Biography | Drama | History
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz, Antonin Artaud, Michel Simon
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Dan Futterman, Irrfan Khan, Denis O'Hare, Archie Panjabi, Will Patton
Director: Michael Winterbottom
The Founding of an Army / Jian jun da ye (2017)
Drama | History | War
The Founding of an Army begins in the spring of 1927 when conservative Nationalist forces began carrying out violent suppressions of Communist party members in Shanghai and other cities. The purges effectively ended the tenuous United Front alliance between the Nationalists and Communists, and created open divisions in the KMT between Chiang Kai-shek and other party factions. In response to the purges, Communists and like-minded revolutionaries, under the planning and leadership of Zhou Enlai, launched a military insurrection on August 1, 1927, known as the Nanchang Uprising. This date marks the founding of the People's Liberation Army and the beginning of all-out civil war.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yawen Zhu, Hao Ou, Zhi-zhong Huang, Jingchun Wang
Director: Wai-Keung Lau
Legend of the Red Dragon / The New Legend of Shaolin / Hung Hei Kwun: Siu Lam ng zou (1994)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Drama | History | Romance
A young father and his infant son are beset by forces of evil and corruption. They wander China, upholding their sense of honor and protecting the weak. When they are forced into combat, spectacular and hilarious fast-motion kung fu sequences follow. In the end, they must call on all of their abilities in a battle royale, to attempt to vanquish a supernatural man-monster or die trying.
Starring: Jet Li, Chingmy Yau, Deannie Yip, Mo Tse, Sung Young Chen, Chun Hua Ji, Damian Lau, Lung Wei Wang
Director: Jing Wong, Corey Yuen
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (2017)
Biography | Drama | History
Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Starring: Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara, Khoun Sothea, Sarun Nika, Run Malyna, Oun Srey Neang
Director: Angelina Jolie
