The Round Up / La rafle (2010)
Drama | History | War
A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Starring: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh
Director: Rose Bosch
Kano (2014)
Biography | Drama | History | Sport
In 1928, Taiwan was under Japanese rule. The Kagi Agriculture and Forestry Public School (a.k.a KANO) was established to help develop the local agricultural. The KANO baseball team started out as a sports club to improve students’ physique. It never thought that the arrival of Coach Kondo would completely transform them to become legend…
Starring: Masatoshi Nagase, Takao Ohsawa, Maki Sakai, Togo Igawa
Director: Chih-Hsiang Ma
September Dawn (2007)
Drama | History | Western
Based on the true story of the Mountain Meadows Massacre – the brutal murder of 120 men, women and children on September 11, 1857, as their wagon train passed through Utah on its way to California.
Starring: Jon Voight, Terence Stamp, Dean Cain, Trent Ford, Tamara Hope, Jon Gries
Director: Christopher Cain
The Retrieval / September Morning (2013)
Drama | History | Western
On the outskirts of the U.S. Civil War, a boy is sent north by his bounty hunter gang to retrieve a wanted man.
Starring: Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr., Christine Horn
Director: Chris Eska
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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013)
Biography | Crime | Documentary | History | Mystery
About a series of unsolved disappearances on the Galapagos Island of Floreana in the 1930s.
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen, Josh Radnor, Gustaf Skarsgård
Director: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Biography | Drama | Family | History | War
In 1942, a family of Dutch Jews hides in an attic from the Nazis, but just before the war ends they're found out and sent to concentration camps–an experience recorded in the famous diary of a little girl.
Starring: Millie Perkins, Joseph Schildkraut, Shelley Winters, Richard Beymer, Gusti Huber, Lou Jacobi
Director: George Stevens
Kochadaiiyaan (2014)
Action | Adventure | Animation | History
Kochadaiiyaan is a historical magnum opus portraying Rana, a passionate fierce and ruthless warrior, who returns to his homeland with a veiled agenda, to avenge the death of his father Kochadaiiyaan, who was unjustly put to death by the reigning king of Kotaipattinam.
Starring: Rajinikanth, Deepika Padukone, Sarath Kumar, Jackie Shroff, Nasser
Director: Soundarya Rajinikanth
Jimmy's Hall (2014)
Drama | History
Communist leader James "Jimmy" Gralton is deported from Ireland in the 1930s for operating a dance hall where he shares his political views, including criticism of the Catholic Church's restriction of free speech.
Starring: Jim Norton, Brian F. O'Byrne, Andrew Scott, Francis Magee, Karl Geary, Barry Ward
Director: Ken Loach
Kingdom of Heaven / The Crusades (2005)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Kingdom of Heaven is an epic adventure about a common man who finds himself thrust into a decades long war. A stranger in a strange land, he serves a doomed king, falls in love with an exotic queen and rises to knighthood. Ultimately he must protect the people of Jerusalem from overwhelming forces – while striving to keep a fragile peace.
Starring: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Sheen
Director: Ridley Scott
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Drama | History
Based on the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher who dared to teach evolution in a high school science class.
Starring: Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan
Director: Stanley Kramer
The Tragedy of Macbeth / Macbeth (1971)
Drama | History | War
In Roman Polanski's bloody and disturbing adaptation of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', Jon Finch plays the Scottish nobleman who is persuaded to usurp the kingship by three prophesying witches and his ambitious wife. As one murder follows another, his own doom beckons.
Starring: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Terence Bayler, Nicholas Selby, Richard Pearson
Director: Roman Polanski
Fort McCoy (2011)
Drama | History | War
Frank Stirn (Eric Stoltz) moves with his family to become a barber for the American Army and POW camp at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, in the summer of 1944. Embittered that he cannot fight, Frank must take a stand when a Nazi SS Officer threatens his wife (Kate Connor, playing her real-life grandmother). Her Catholic sister (Lyndsy Fonseca) falls for a Jewish soldier (Andy Hirsch) haunted by the battle of Monte Cassino and the death of his best friend (Matthew Lawrence). Their audacious friend (Camryn Manheim) encourages the couple, while the local priest (Seymour Cassel) cannot. Frank's daughter befriends a German prisoner boy during this magical summer, but war still finds its victims even thousands of miles from the battlefields in rural America.
Starring: Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor, Lyndsy Fonseca, Andy Hirsch, Camryn Manheim, Seymour Cassel, Brendan Fehr
Director: Kate Connor, Michael Worth
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Cadillac Records (2008)
Biography | Drama | History | Music | Romance
In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, 'Cadillac Records' follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Columbus Short
Director: Darnell Martin
The War Lord (1965)
Drama | History
A knight in the service of a duke goes to a coastal villiage where an earlier attempt to build a defensive castle has failed. He begins to rebuild the duke's authority in the face of the barbarians at the border and is making progress until he falls in love with one of the local women.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, Niall MacGinnis
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
The Hornet's Nest (2014)
Action | Documentary | History | War
A career Journalist takes his son to the war zone in Afghanistan, covering U.S. Combat Troops on the front lines. What starts out as an effort to reconnect with his son, becomes a remarkable true story and fight for survival for all.
Starring: Carlos Boettcher, Mike Boettcher
Director: David Salzberg, Christian Tureaud
The Game of Their Lives / The Miracle Match (2005)
Drama | History | Sport
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 – 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley, Jay Rodan, Patrick Stewart, Gavin Rossdale, Costas Mandylor, Louis Mandylor, Zachery Ty Bryan
Director: David Anspaugh
Obecná skola / The Elementary School (1991)
Comedy | Drama | Family | History
The time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict – but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women.
Starring: Jan Tríska, Zdenek Sverák, Libuse Safránková, Rudolf Hrusínský, Irena Pavlásková
Director: Jan Sverák
City of Life and Death / Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)
Drama | History | War
Centers on the Nanking Massacre that occurred in December, 1937, when Japanese aggressor troops occupied the eastern Chinese city and killed over 300,000 citizens.
Starring: Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, John Paisley, Wei Fan
Director: Chuan Lu
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Adventure | Drama | History
A young officer, falsely imprisoned by his jealous "friends," escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge.
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan
Director: David Greene
The German Doctor / Wakolda (2013)
Drama | History | Thriller
Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva, Enzo and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter, Lilith, to his care, not knowing that they are harboring one of the most dangerous criminals in the world. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring THE GERMAN DOCTOR to justice.
Starring: Àlex Brendemühl, Natalia Oreiro, Diego Peretti, Elena Roger, Guillermo Pfening, Florencia Bado, Alan Daicz
Director: Lucía Puenzo
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