The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Drama | History
A movie about the corruption in all levels of society. A baby is born from a supposed-to-be virgin woman, so a chain of hysteria about divine intervention in the birth takes place.
Starring: Julia Ormond, Ralph Fiennes, Philip Stone
Director: Peter Greenaway
The Borgias (TV Series 2011-2013)
Crime | Drama | History
The Showtime Original Series The Borgias is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons) to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. The unbounded audacity of this original crime family went on to inspire Machiavelli's The Prince and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Don't miss a minute of the lavish, sexy, scandalous drama from the creative mind of Academy Award® winner Neil Jordan.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Colm Feore, Peter Sullivan, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Lotte Verbeek, David Oakes, Bosco Hogan, Vernon Dobtcheff, David Alpay
Creator: Neil Jordan
The Borgias (TV Series 2011-2013)
Crime | Drama | History
The Showtime Original Series The Borgias is the sordid saga of one of the most remarkable and legendary families in history. Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia (Academy Award® winner Jeremy Irons) to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family. The unbounded audacity of this original crime family went on to inspire Machiavelli's The Prince and Mario Puzo's The Godfather. Don't miss a minute of the lavish, sexy, scandalous drama from the creative mind of Academy Award® winner Neil Jordan.
Starring: Jeremy Irons, François Arnaud, Holliday Grainger, Colm Feore, Peter Sullivan, Joanne Whalley, Sean Harris, Lotte Verbeek, David Oakes, Bosco Hogan, Vernon Dobtcheff, David Alpay
Creator: Neil Jordan
Kon-Tiki (2012)
Action | Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947.
Starring: Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Odd Magnus Williamson, Tobias Santelmann, Jakob Oftebro
Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Les Misérables (1998)
Crime | Drama | History | Romance | Thriller
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Starring: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman, Claire Danes
Director: Bille August
Game Change (2012)
Biography | Drama | History
Game Change is a searing, behind- the-scenes look at John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, from the decision to select Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as McCain's running mate to the ticket's ultimate defeat in the general election just sixty days later. Told primarily through the eyes of senior McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, who originally championed Palin and later came to regret the choice, Game Change pulls back the curtain on the intense human drama surrounding the McCain team, the critical decisions made behind closed doors and how the choice was made to bring Palin on the ticket. The film examines how we choose our leaders by offering a unique glimpse into the inner workings of an historic campaign.
Starring: Julianne Moore, Ed Harris, Woody Harrelson, Sarah Paulson, Peter MacNicol, Jamey Sheridan
Director: Jay Roach
Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)
Biography | Drama | History | War
The movie describes the life of Adolf Hitler from childhood to manhood, and how he became so powerful. It describes his poor childhood in Austria, it describes the first world war from his point of view, and how he became the strongest man in Germany. The movie show us how turned Hitler from a poor soldier into the leader of the Nazis, and how he survived the attempts to kill him. It describes his relationship with his mistress Eva Braun, and his decisions and enemies inside Germany and inside the Nazi party.
Starring: Robert Carlyle, Stockard Channing, Jena Malone
Director: Christian Duguay
Marie Antoinette (2006)
Biography | Drama | History
Biopic of the beautiful Queen of France who became a symbol for the wanton extravagance of the 18th century monarchy, and was stripped of her riches and finery, imprisoned and beheaded by her own subjects during the French Revolution that began in 1789.
Starring: Kirsten Dunst, Steve Coogan, Judy Davis, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn, Molly Shannon
Director: Sofia Coppola
Merry Christmas / Happy Christmas / Joyeux Noël (2005)
Drama | History | Music | Romance | War
In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called an informal, and unauthorized, truce where the various front-line soldiers of the conflict peacefully met each other in No Man's Land to share a precious pause in the carnage with a fleeting brotherhood. This film dramatizes one such section as the French, Scottish and German sides partake in the unique event, even though they are aware that their superiors will not tolerate its occurrence.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Dany Boon, Gary Lewis, Daniel Brühl
Director: Christian Carion
Bowling for Columbine / Bowling à Columbine (2002)
Documentary | History
The United States of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor, activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so, he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns, violent national history, violent entertainment and even poverty are inadequate to explain this violence when other cultures share those same factors without the equivalent carnage. In order to arrive at a possible explanation, Michael Moore takes on a deeper examination of America's culture of fear, bigotry and violence in a nation with widespread gun ownership. Furthermore, he seeks to investigate and confront the powerful elite political and corporate interests fanning this culture for their own unscrupulous gain.
Starring: Michael Moore, Charlton Heston, Marilyn Manson
Director: Michael Moore
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Heaven's Gate / Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate (1980)
Drama | History | Romance | Western
A Harvard graduate relocates to Wyoming as a federal marshal; there, he learns of a government-sanctioned plot by cattle barons to kill the area's European settlers for their land. The resulting battle is based on the bloody real-life Johnson County War of 1892.
Starring: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Isabelle Huppert
Director: Michael Cimino
Joseph: King of Dreams (2000)
Adventure | Animation | Biography | Drama | Family | History | Musical
When Joseph receives a beautiful coat from his parents, his eleven brothers hate him even more and are driven to sell him to desert merchants who take him to Egypt! There he is made the servant of a wealthy Egyptian who misunderstands him and has him thrown into prison! He shows his God-given gift by interpreting the dreams of two other prisoners. Eventually, the Pharaoh begins to be plagued by dreams and sends for Joseph, who interprets them and saves Egypt in the process. He is made second in command to Pharaoh, and has most of Egypt's grain stored. Eventually his brothers arrive in Egypt to buy food because of famine, and he must forgive them. Then the dreams that had angered his brothers were in reality prophecies that had come from God.
Starring: Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Richard Herd, Maureen McGovern, Jodi Benson, Judith Light, James Eckhouse, Richard McGonagle
Director: Rob LaDuca, Robert C. Ramirez
Nordwand / North Face (2008)
Adventure | Drama | History | Sport
Set in 1936, centers around four mountain climbers who attempt to climb the north face of the Eiger Mountain in Switzerland and the tragic events that follow.
Starring: Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Simon Schwarz, Georg Friedrich
Director: Philipp Stölzl
Patton (1970)
Biography | Drama | History | War
Patton is a three-dimensional bronze bust of World War II field general George S. Patton who wrote poetry, fired pistols at strafing fighter planes, and loved the United States of America with a lofty and historical zeal. Tracing his personal rivalries with such generals as Rommel and Montgomery, his problematic treatment of his own men, and his nearly runaway contempt for diplomacy, the film triumphs as an enduring portrait of a complex and larger-than-life figure.
Starring: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates, Karl Michael Vogler, Edward Binns, Jack Gwillim
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Drama | History | War
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.
Starring: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers, Joe Pantoliano, Leslie Phillips
Director: Steven Spielberg
Mongol / Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan / Da mo ying xiong (2007)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Recounts of the the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave, born as Temudgin in 1162, before going on to conquer half the world, including Russia, in 1206.
Starring: Tadanobu Asano, Sun Hong-Lei, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren, Amarbold Yuvinbayar
Director: Sergei Bodrov
Under African Skies / Paul Simon's Graceland Journey: Under African Skies (2012)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the journey of his Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.
Starring: Paul Simon
Director: Joe Berlinger
Farewell, My Queen / Les adieux à la reine (2012)
Drama | History
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the first days of the French Revolution.
Starring: Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois, Noémie Lvovsky
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Genghis: The Legend of the Ten / Aravt (2012)
Action | History
A little known fact is that Chinggis Khaan, better known as Genghis Khan, would collect orphans from his bloody battlefields and have his own mother raise them. These adopted brothers grew up to become his most loyal officials and advisers. Khaan organised his Mongol soldiers into groups according to the decimal system. Soldiers were arranged in units of 10 ("aravt"), 100 ("zuut"), 1,000 ("minghan") and 10,000 ("tumen"). Each unit had an appointed leader reporting to a larger unit. A 10-person "aravt" unit is ordered by Khaan to locate a skilled doctor who lives in a forest. En route, they discover an abandoned baby. He is in fact the child of an enemy warrior who gives pursuit, even though they have saved the child's life. Whilst protecting the child from attacks from enemy soldiers, the members of the "aravt" must also complete their mission.
Starring: T. Altanshagai, B. Amarcanihan, C. Ariunbyamba, Ayurdadi, Baacanjab, B. Jargalsaihan, Bodi, D. Gurse, Buyanhexig
Director: D. Jolbayar, U. Shagdarsuren
Flame and Citron / Flame & Citron / Flammen & Citronen (2008)
Drama | History | Thriller | War
Follows two Danish resistance fighters who liquidate Nazi informers.
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade, Christian Berkel, Peter Mygind
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
