Eight Men Out (1988)
Drama | History | Sport
A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
Starring: John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, Christopher Lloyd, John Mahoney, Charlie Sheen
Director: John Sayles
Satyricon / Fellini – Satyricon / The Degenerates (1969)
Drama | Fantasy | History
A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first century Rome.
Starring: Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone, Mario Romagnoli, Magali Noël
Director: Federico Fellini
Assassination / Am-sal (2015)
Drama | History | Thriller
Set in the 1930s during Japan's colonial rule of Korea, many Korean resistance activists are based in China while hiding from Japanese authorities. In 1933, orders are given to assassinate a Japanese army commander. For this covert mission, interim government agent Yeom Seok-jin breaks out topnotch sniper Ahn Ok-yun from a Shanghai prison, where she's been sentenced to death. Among her comrades are mysterious and ruthless gun-for-hire Hawaii Pistol and his right-hand man Pomade, and firearms specialist Soksapo (meaning "rapid-fire gun"). The squad arrives in Gyeongseong not knowing that Hawaii Pistol is secretly working for the Japanese and was given his own orders to kill Ahn Ok-yun.
Starring: Ji-hyun Jun, Jung-jae Lee, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo, Duek-mun Choi, Dal-su Oh
Director: Dong-hoon Choi
Geuddae geusaramdeul / The President's Last Bang (2005)
Comedy | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
On October 26, 1979, President Park Chung Hee, who had ruled South Korea since a 1961 coup, was assassinated by Kim Jae Kyu, his director of intelligence. The film depicts the events of that night, with a coda about the fate of each conspirator. While Park dines in the Blue House with two associates and two young women, Kim carries out his plot. He talks briefly of bringing democracy; mostly he seems irritated. The other assassins seem without motive beyond following orders. The killings are bloody, the aftermath equally disorderly and haphazard. Can major events of history be so mundane, so nearly comic?
Starring: Jae-ho Song, Suk-kyu Han, Yun-shik Baek, Won-joong Jung
Director: Sang-soo Im
Lady of the Dynasty / Wang chao de nv ren: Yang Gui Fei (2015)
History
Yang Yuhuan is a wife of Prince Li Mao and the Emperor Tang Ming Huang's daughter-in-law. When Prince Li's mother, Wu commits suicide after her conspiracy against the Emperor fails, Yang is abandoned and is given to the Emperor in exchange for the crown prince. Their affection grew through the political struggle and living together in the palace. But their happiness and good days do not last long when the Lushan Rebellion breaks out.
Starring: Bingbing Fan, Leon Lai, Chun Wu, Gang Wu, Jing Ning, Joan Chen
Director: Shiqing
Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series 2013-2015)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Starring: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Gregg Chillin, Eros Vlahos, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Hera Hilmar, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, David Schofield, Ian Pirie, Alexander Siddig
Creator: David S. Goyer
Bahubali: The Beginning (2015)
Action | Adventure | History | War
A dispute between brothers spans across two generations.
Starring: Prabhas, Tamannaah Bhatia, Sathyaraj, Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati, Nassar
Director: S.S. Rajamouli
Last Hero in China / Iron Rooster vs. the Centipede / Wong Fei Hung V: Tit gai dau ng gung (1993)
Action | Comedy | History
Master Wong tries to protect his randy students from the corrupting influence of the brothel next-door, while investigating a gang of perverted Shaolin monks who have been abducting young women.
Starring: Jet Li, Sharla Cheung, Dicky Cheung, Pak-cheung Chan, Ka-Yan Leung
Director: Jing Wong, Woo-Ping Yuen
Back in Time (2015)
Documentary | Family | History
Cast, crew, and fans explore the Back to the Future time-travel trilogy's resonance throughout our culture 30 years after Marty went Back in Time.
Starring: Steven Spielberg, Michael J. Fox, Robert Zemeckis, Lea Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Director: Jason Aron
Spartacus (1960)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | War
Filmed in Technirama, this epic story chronicles one of histories greatest underdogs — Spartacus! He and other slaves are sold to an owner of a school for gladiators. Spartacus excels and is rewarded with a slave women, Varinia, for his pleasure in which he demurs. However they eventually fall for each other before a death match for a corrupt Roman senator, Marcus Crassus. After the brutal spectacle, Spartacus is enraged by the death of his friends and the loss of his love. He leads a revolt and bolts. Marching across the countryside to escape over the sea to their homelands, he is elated to find Varinia. Their quest becomes entwined with the political aspirations of Crassus and sets the fate of all three. Spartacus' saga survives the test of time and has been immortalized by this landmark film.
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Boiling Pot (2015)
Crime | Drama | History
BOILING POT is based on a true story about a modern collegiate student body rocked when a noose is found hanging from a tree on campus. Racial tensions grow between various student groups and culminate in violence, leaving everyone to wonder if there is anyone left who is truly innocent.
Starring: Danielle Fishel, Louis Gossett Jr., M. Emmet Walsh, Keith David, Davetta Sherwood, Ibrahim Ashmawey, Matthew Koenig
Director: Omar Ashmawey
Lee Rock II / Ng yi tam jeung – Lui Lok juen ji yi (1991)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History
The new Police Commissioner reports his duty and finds Lee Rock is actually the most powerful person in the entire Police force. He promotes Lee to the rank of inspector. Lee realizes this promotion is actually the manoeuvre of his surrender of power. Subsequently, ICAC is formed, Lee decides it is the right time to resign. Lee's son, Yin, has graduated and joins the ICAC. He has strong hatred towards his father and determine to put his dad behind bars for the enormous evil sum Lee gathered…
Starring: Andy Lau, Sharla Cheung, Aaron Kwok, Man Tat Ng, Chingmy Yau
Director: Lawrence Ah Mon
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
During one man's unforgettable visit to liberal and socially permissive France, he meets and falls in love with a worldly and mysterious woman! But when the alluring charms of another prove irresistible, he finds himself courting scandal in a heated triangle of passion and desire!
Starring: Nick Nolte, Gwyneth Paltrow, Greta Scacchi, Estelle Eonnet, Thandie Newton, Seth Gilliam
Director: James Ivory
The White Countess (2005)
Drama | History | Romance | War
Todd is an American expatriate living in Shanghai in the late 1930s. Once an idealistic diplomat, politic conflict and military violence has left him disillusioned. He has also lost most of his sight and retreated into Shanghai's decadent underworld of bars and brothels. His heart softens, however, as he becomes acquainted with Sofia, a Russian countess who fled her home during the revolution and now lives in Shanghai, supporting her family as a dance-hall girl and prostitute.
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights / Wuthering Heights (1992)
Drama | History | Romance
Heathcliff is Cathy Earnshaw's foster brother; more than that, he is her other half. When forces within and without tear them apart, Heathcliff wreaks vengeance on those he holds responsible, even into a second generation.
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer, Sophie Ward, Jeremy Northam, Simon Shepherd
Director: Peter Kosminsky
The Lady (2011)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband, Michael Aris. Despite distance, long separations, and a dangerously hostile regime, their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of political turmoil which continues today. THE LADY also is the story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma's democracy movement.
Starring: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett, Susan Wooldridge, Benedict Wong
Director: Luc Besson
Titus (1999)
Drama | History | Thriller
Director Julie Taymor brings her unique vision to Shakespeare's early, famously violent revenge tragedy. Titus Andronicus, the great Roman general, returns home victorious from a long war with the northern Goths during which all but his four remaining sons have died. Lucius, the eldest son, reminds Titus that part of the victory ritual is the human sacrifice of an enemy prisoner. Titus chooses the eldest son of Tamora, the Queen of the Goths, who has been brought back to Rome as a captive with her three sons and the Moor, Aaron. Though Tamora pleads for her son's life, Titus carries out the ritual, not out of cruelty but out of what he conceives to be religious devotion. Tamora and her two remaining sons, Chiron and Demetrius, vow revenge. With that, the tale of double revenge begins–first Tamora's and then Titus's.
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, Colm Feore, James Frain, Laura Fraser
Director: Julie Taymor
Snow on the Blades / Zakurozaka no adauchi (2014)
Action | Drama | History
Shimura Kingo fails his duty to protect the life of the Shogun's chief minister, and spends his life tracking down the assassins. However, all but one of the assassins die before Kingo can reach them. Still, Kingo presses on.
Starring: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroshi Abe, Ryôko Hirosue, Masahiro Takashima, Sei Matobu, Eisaku Yoshida, Yoshikuni Dôchin, Yôichirô Ohmi, Yuria Kizaki, Tatsuya Fuji, Kichiemon Nakamura
Director: Setsurô Wakamatsu
Storming Juno (2010)
History | War
In June 1944, the Western Allies invaded the Third Reich in Operation Overlord, and Canada was a participant with its area of operations in Normandy, France designated Juno Beach. This film depicts the true stories of several Canadian soldiers in the invasion in its various aspects like the paratroopers, tank crews and regular infantry. Braving misfortune and ferocious German resistance, these Canadians fought to bring the fight to the Nazis in Western Europe at last.
Starring: Benjamin Muir, Kevin Jake Walker, Craig Cyr
Director: Tim Wolochatiuk
To Kill a Priest / Popieluszko (1988)
Drama | History | Thriller
Based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Solidarity was challenging Soviet authority in Poland, an outspoken priest, Father Alek, defies martial law and continues to rally followers around the cause of Solidarity. The Soviet-controlled Polish government enlists a police official, Stefan, to stop the priest. Stefan, a devoted party follower, finds that the only way he can silence Father Alek is to have him killed. Along the way, however, the priest has a profound influence on Stefan.
Starring: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joss Ackland, Tim Roth, Timothy Spall, Pete Postlethwaite
Director: Agnieszka Holland
