United 93 (2006)
Drama | History | Thriller
A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11, that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.
Starring: Patrick St. Esprit, Polly Adams, Christian Clemenson, Denny Dillon, Kate Jennings Grant, Peter Hermann
Director: Paul Greengrass
125 Years Memory / Kainan 1890 (2015)
Drama | History
Ertugrul, launched in 1863, was a sailing frigate of the Ottoman Navy. While returning from a goodwill voyage from Japan in 1890, she encountered a typhoon off the coast of Wakayama Prefecture, subsequently drifted into a reef and sank. The maritime accident resulted in the loss of 533 sailors, including Admiral Ali Osman Pasha. Only sixty-nine sailors and officers survived and returned home later aboard two Japanese corvettes. The event is still commemorated as a foundation stone of Japanese-Turkish friendship.
Starring: Seiyô Uchino, Kenan Ece, Shiori Kutsuna, Alican Yücesoy, Mehmet Özgür, Ugur Polat
Director: Mitsutoshi Tanaka
Alice: The Darker Side of the Mirror / The Other Side of the Mirror (2016)
Drama | Fantasy | History
In 1905, amidst the largest drug epidemic in American history, a teenage Alice has just moved to the Pacific Northwest. She follows a mysterious man down a rabbit hole, leading her into Wonderland; a dark and curious world inhabited by characters from turn-of-the-century America and the Pacific Northwest.
Starring: Nathan Hamer, Trey Hatch, Selena Tibert
Director: Zach Hamer
Persona Non Grata / Sugihara Chiune (2015)
Adventure | Biography | History | War
The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to and after his decision to issue over 2,000 visas to Jewish refugees in Kaunas, Lithuania resulting in saving the lives of over 6,000 people. This is the story of a man who believed in doing all he could do for the benefit of his beloved Japan, including trying to keep her from becoming embroiled in a worldwide conflict he saw as inevitable. Along the way, he came face to face with the plight of the European Jews as they tried to escape the onslaught of the Nazi's and the rapidly advancing German army. Caught between the unbending policies of his country now bound by treaty with Nazi Germany and his awakening moral responsibilities, we follow his life from his early days in Manchuria to his eventual posting in Lithuania and his appointment with destiny which would forever brand him a hero.
Starring: Toshiaki Karasawa, Koyuki, Fumiyo Kohinata, Takashi Tsukamoto
Director: Cellin Gluck
Flukt / Escape (2012)
Action | History | Thriller
It's been ten years since the Black Plague ravaged the lands. A poor family sets out on a journey to find a better place to live. On a desolate mountain pass, the family is attacked by a pack of merciless killers. The only one to be spared is 19 year old Signe, who is taken hostage and brought back to camp. There she learns she is to face a fate far worse than death, and she realizes the only thing to do is to run away. But her escape does not go unnoticed, and now the chase is on.
Starring: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Isabel Christine Andreasen
Director: Roar Uthaug
Utu (1984)
Adventure | Drama | History | War
In 1870s New Zealand, Te Wheke (Anzac Wallace), a Maori scout for the colonial troops, finds his tribe massacred by the army he is working for. Anguished and betrayed, he vows to exact retribution – Utu – on the Pakeha.
Starring: Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa, Tania Bristowe
Director: Geoff Murphy
The Finest Hours (2016)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
Starring: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz
Director: Craig Gillespie
Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, George Blagden, Alexander Ludwig
Creator: Michael Hirst
Colonia / The Colony (2015)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Lena and Daniel, a young couple become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel. Based on true events.
Starring: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey, Vicky Krieps
Director: Florian Gallenberger
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Anastasia (1956)
Biography | Drama | History
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her.
Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Felix Aylmer
Director: Anatole Litvak
War & Peace (TV Mini-Series 2016)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Set during the reign of Alexander I, the story revolves around five aristocratic families and the love triangle between Natasha Rostova, Pierre Bezukhov, and Andrei Bolkonsky.
Starring: Lily James, James Norton, Paul Dano, Tuppence Middleton, Callum Turner, Greta Scacchi
Creator: Andrew Davies, Leo Tolstoy
I am a Monk / Boku wa bousan (2015)
Comedy | Drama | History
After the death of his grandfather, Koen Shirakawa (Atsushi Ito) quits his job at a bookstore and goes to a temple to become a monk.
Starring: Atsushi Itô, Mizuki Yamamoto, Junpei Mizobata, Gaku Hamada, Miyuki Matsuda, Issei Ogata
Director: Yukinori Makabe
Răpirea fecioarelor / Rapirea fecioarelor / The Abduction of the Maidens / The Kidnapping of the Maidens (1968)
Action | Adventure | History
During the 19th century war-bands of Ottoman Turks operating from Vidin across the Danube river come into Wallachia to pillage,enslave,murder and destroy with impunity.Wallachia's Phanariote rulers don't oppose the raids and some even collude with the Turks for their own personal benefit.A local band of patriotic Wallachian highwaymen decide to take action.They seek, attack and destroy the Turkish raiders at every opportunity.Lady Haricleea Hangerli,wife of current Wallachian ruler Hangerli Voda,colludes with Turkish Pasha Pazvanoglu to raid Wallachia in order to bring about her husband's downfall and replace him with her son.Pazvanoglu agrees with her plan,in exchange for the spoils from his raids in Wallachia.However,the brave band of local highwaymen led by Captain Amza does not intend to sit idle while the Turks are raiding their lands.
Starring: Toma Caragiu, Emanoil Petrut, Ernest Maftei, Marin Moraru
Director: Dinu Cocea
The Old Garden / Orae-doen jeongwon (2007)
Drama | History | Romance
Blending politics with romance, noted director of "The Housewife" weaves a story of two activists in hiding in a remote shack. The intimate setting proves to be fertile ground for hidden desires.
Starring: Jung-ah Yum, Jin-hee Ji, Eun-seong Lee, Hee-seok Yun, Hyo-jeong Ban
Director: Sang-soo Im
Ip Man 3 / Yip Man 3 (2015)
Action | Biography | Drama | History
When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over the city, Master Ip is forced to take a stand.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Mike Tyson, Jin Zhang, Lynn Hung, Patrick Tam, Karena Ng
Director: Wilson Yip
Coming Home / Gui lai (2014)
Drama | History | Romance
Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) and Feng Wanyu (Gong Li) are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner, just as his wife is injured in an accident. Released during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, he finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife has amnesia and remembers little of her past. Unable to recognize Lu, she patiently waits for her husband's return. A stranger alone in the heart of his broken family, Lu Yanshi determines to resurrect their past together and reawaken his wife's memory.
Starring: Li Gong, Daoming Chen
Director: Yimou Zhang
Monk Comes Down the Mountain / Dao shi xia shan (2015)
Action | History
When a food shortage threatens the mountaintop temple where he lives, a young, wushu-capable Taoist monk named He An Xia is asked by his master to take leave. After he descends the mountain, An Xia is confronted with a strange, fantastical world. He witnesses firsthand the complicated relationship between a doctor, his wife and his brother, makes the acquaintance of a strange master-pupil duo and gets embroiled in a quest for vengeance.
Starring: Baoqiang Wang, Chen Chang, Aaron Kwok, Chiling Lin, Wei Fan, Wah Yuen
Director: Kaige Chen
The Girl King (2015)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Starring: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant, Laura Birn, Hippolyte Girardot
Director: Mika Kaurismäki
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Thriller
Based on the 1820 event, a whaling ship is preyed upon by a sperm whale, stranding its crew at sea for 90 days, thousands of miles from home.
Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Charlotte Riley, Brendan Gleeson, Michelle Fairley
Director: Ron Howard
Tower of London (1962)
Drama | History | Horror | Thriller
On the death of his brother King Edward IV, Richard of Gloucester conspires to get the thrown for himself. The late King had two young sons, his heir, Edward V and the younger Prince Richard, but they are not of age and so names his other brother, Clarence as Lord Protector of the Realm. Gloucester soon kills his younger brother but is haunted by his ghost and what he has done. As he continues to kill those around him, Gloucester is haunted by those he has betrayed hearing voices and slowly descending into madness. He spreads rumors that the late King's two sons are illegitimate and therefore not eligible to ascend to the throne. He assassinates the young princes and is crowned King Richard III. The ghosts from his past have the final say however…
Starring: Vincent Price, Michael Pate, Joan Freeman, Bruce Gordon, Robert Brown, Joan Camden
Director: Roger Corman
