Video Games: The Movie (2014)
Animation | Documentary | History
Video Games: The Movie, a feature length documentary, aims to educate & entertain audiences about how video games are made.
Starring: Sean Astin, Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Chris Hardwick, Wil Wheaton
Director: Jeremy Snead
Secretariat (2010)
Drama | Family | History | Sport
Despite knowing nothing about horse racing, stay-at-home mum Penny Chenery agrees to take over the Meadow Stables in Virginia after her father falls ill. With the help of veteran trainer Lucien Laurin, Chenery manages to overcome the odds by navigating her way through an aggressive, male-dominated business and ultimately producing the champion racehorse, Secretariat, who becomes the first Triple Crown winner for 25 years in 1973.
Starring: Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Margo Martindale, Nelsan Ellis, Dylan Walsh, Otto Thorwarth
Director: Randall Wallace
Killer Legends / The Urban Legend Project (2014)
Crime | Documentary | History | Horror
Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror-documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them.
Starring: Rachel Mills, Joshua Zeman
Director: Joshua Zeman
Day of the Siege / September Eleven 1683 / 11 settembre 1683 (2012)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History
In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Enrico Lo Verso, Alicja Bachleda, Jerzy Skolimowski, Piotr Adamczyk, Cristina Serafini
Director: Renzo Martinelli
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Poslední cyklista / Last of the Cyclists (2014)
Drama | History
Last of the Cyclists is a Czech drama – World War 2 story of a Christian orphan raised in Jewish family who has to face the cruel fate of Auschwitz.
Starring: Markéta Hrubesová, Petr Vanek, Ági Gubik, Lenka Vlasáková, David Novotný, Marta Vancurová, Václav Helsus
Director: Jirí Svoboda
The Wind Rises / / Untitled Hayao Miyazaki Project / Kaze tachinu (2013)
Animation | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Inspired by the aesthetics of design, and the freedom of flying, Jiro Horikoshi only dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes. Nearsighted from a young age, and unable to be a pilot, Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927. Having dreamed of creating an elegant and flight worthy plane since childhood, Jiro's life-long labor finally pays off in adulthood, when he creates the Mitsubishi A6M Zero. What Jiro never imagined, however, not even in his wildest dreams, was the fate that would befall his beloved creation – that his labor of love would eventually be used for something beyond his wildest expectation: war.
Starring: Hideaki Anno, Miori Takimoto, Hidetoshi Nishijima, Masahiko Nishimura, Steve Alpert, Morio Kazama
Director: Hayao Miyazaki
Iceman / The Iceman Cometh / Bing fung: Cung sang zi mun (2014)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | History | Sci-Fi
He Ying is a loyal Ming Dynasty bodyguard in the Ming Dynasty. While returning from a mission in India, he is accused of working with Japanese pirates by comrade in arms Sao. During the ensuing chase, an avalanche buries He Ying, Sao and other soldiers, keeping them frozen in ice for centuries. In 2014, a mysterious man orders He Ying and Sao to be brought to Hong Kong and resurrected. However, a traffic accident causes He Ying to return to life prematurely. While He Ying roams the city like a fish out of water, Sao has also been resurrected and is determine to make He Ying pay for his crimes. With the help of a kind bar waitress, He Ying sets out to evade capture and clear his name.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Yu Kang, Simon Yam, Hoi-Pang Lo, Suet Lam
Director: Wing-cheong Law
9th Company / 9 rota (2005)
Action | Drama | History | War
A year in the shared lives of a group of young soldiers drafted to serve in Afghanistan during the final year of the Soviet conflict. It is a story of the unit s dedication to each other during their valiant defense of Height 3234…a futile battle.
Starring: Aleksey Chadov, Artur Smolyaninov, Konstantin Kryukov, Mikhail Porechenkov, Fedor Bondarchuk, Mikhail Evlanov
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Anita / Anita: Speaking Truth to Power (2013)
Documentary | Drama | History
An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with a clear, unwavering voice recounted the repeated acts of sexual harassment she had endured while working with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. That October day in 1991 Anita Hill, a bookish law professor from Oklahoma, was thrust onto the world stage and instantly became a celebrated, hated, venerated, and divisive figure. Anita Hills graphic testimony was a turning point for gender equality in the U.S. and ignited a political firestorm about sexual misconduct and power in the workplace that resonates still today. She has become an American icon, empowering millions of women and men around the world to stand up for equality and justice. Against a backdrop of sex, politics, and race, Anita reveals the intimate story of a woman who spoke truth to power.
Starring: Anita Hill
Director: Freida Lee Mock
A Tale of Samurai Cooking: A True Love Story / Bushi no kondate (2013)
Drama | History
Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu (Aya Ueto) is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her cooking talents, she marries Yasunobu (Kengo Kora), who is an heir in the Funaki family. The Funaki family serves as the cook for the Kaga Domain. Nevertheless, Yasunobu himself is a terrible cook. With the help of Oharu's mother-in-law Mitsuru (Kimiko Yo), she begins to teach Yasunobu how to cook.
Starring: Aya Ueto, Kengo Kôra, Kimiko Yo, Toshiyuki Nishida
Director: Yûzô Asahara
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai / E Zhan (2014)
Action | Crime | History
Possessing unique martial arts skills since childhood, Ma Yongzhen (Philip Ng) travels from his hometown to Shanghai to seek a livelihood. There he meets rising overlord Lung Chat (Andy On). The two youth who both possess a dream quickly befriend each other and they become brothers after going through difficulties together. Since then, the two brothers have worked hard together, defeating numerous enemies, and took down the largest triad gang the Axe Gang in one swoop, which makes them renown throughout Shanghai. At the same time, Ma also got help from retired kung fu master, the Iron Leader (Sammo Hung), to fight their common enemy.
Starring: Philip Ng, Andy On, Sammo Hung, Luxia Jiang, Raiden Integra
Director: Ching-Po Wong
Overlord (1975)
Drama | History | War
During the war a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.
Starring: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner
Director: Stuart Cooper
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Drama | Family | History | Musical | Romance
Film version of the stage musical, based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem. Tevye the Milkman is a Jewish peasant in pre-Revolutionary Russia, coping with the day-to-day problems of 'shtetl' life, his Jewish traditions, his family (wife and daughters), and state-sanctioned pogroms.
Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann, Rosalind Harris
Director: Norman Jewison
Miracle (2004)
Drama | Family | History | Sport
The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team's coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels' now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"
Starring: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Sean McCann, Kenneth Welsh, Eddie Cahill
Director: Gavin O'Connor
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
Drama | History
Anne of the Thousand Days concentrates on the romance between Britain's King Henry VIII and his ill-fated second wife Anne Boleyn. After holding out for marriage rather than an illegitimate union, Anne marries Henry after he sheds himself of Katherine of Aragon, thus causing a rift between the Crown and the Catholic Church. Anne's inability to produce a male heir leads Henry to look about for other suitable mates. Henry's sinister right-hand man Cromwell arranges for Anne to be condemned on a charge of adultery,after which she is beheaded, while Henry disconsolately sits in Windsor Castle, regretting this callous example of political expediency.
Starring: Geneviève Bujold, Richard Burton, Irene Papas, Anthony Quayle, John Colicos
Director: Charles Jarrott
Casualties of War (1989)
Drama | History | War
The true story of a group of U.S. soldiers, and their battle-scarred sergeant who takes his problems out on a new squad member during the war in Vietnam.
Starring: Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Dale Dye
Director: Brian De Palma
Gintama: The Movie / Gekijouban Gintama: Shin'yaku benizakura hen (2010)
Action | Animation | Comedy | History | Sci-Fi
The silver-haired samurai Sakata Gintoki investigates the disappearance of a legendary sword named Benizakura while his partners Kagura and Shimura Shinpachi try to find out what has happened to Gintoki's friend, Kotaro Katsura.
Starring: Susumu Chiba, Satoshi Hino, Akira Ishida, Takehito Koyasu, Rie Kugimiya, Kazuya Nakai, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Tomokazu Sugita, Kenichi Suzumura
Director: Shinji Takamatsu
55 Days at Peking (1963)
Action | Drama | History | War
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, Harry Andrews, Leo Genn
Director: Nicholas Ray, Guy Green
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
The Kiyosu Conference / Kiyosu kaigi (2013)
History
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata (Koji Yakusho), Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
Starring: Fumiyo Kohinata, Kôji Yakusho, Yô Ôizumi, Kôichi Satô, Eisuke Shinoi, Kyôka Suzuki, Yûsuke Iseya, Miki Nakatani, Kankurô Nakamura, Ayame Gôriki
Director: Kôki Mitani
