This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda Read More »
Biography
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) John Ford, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd Read More »
Mr. Rock ‘n’ Roll: The Alan Freed Story (1999) Andy Wolk, Judd Nelson, Mädchen Amick, David Gianopoulos
This is the story of Alan Freed. He was working as a DJ in Cleveland, Ohio Read More »
Berthe Morisot (2012) Caroline Champetier, Marine Delterme, Malik Zidi, Alice Butaud
At 25, Berthe dreams of making a living from her painting, never to marry, and to always stay with her sister Edma. Read More »
The House of Rothschild (1934) Alfred L. Werker, George Arliss, Boris Karloff, Loretta Young
The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. Read More »
The Vanishing Virginian (1942) Frank Borzage, Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia. Read More »
Leadbelly (1976) Gordon Parks, Roger E. Mosley, Paul Benjamin, Madge Sinclair
The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Read More »
One Foot in Heaven (1941) Irving Rapper, Fredric March, Martha Scott, Beulah Bondi
In the early twentieth century, William Spence and Hope Morris Spence are a Methodist minister and his wife. Read More »
Gentleman Jim (1942) Raoul Walsh, Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson
Because boxing is a considered an illegal and disreputable enterprise in 1880’s San Francisco Read More »
The Buster Keaton Story (1957) Sidney Sheldon, Donald O’Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming
Buster Keaton leaves his family vaudeville act for the movies. Read More »
Brakhage (1998) Jim Shedden, Jerry Aronson, Jane Brakhage, Marilyn Brakhage
Jim Sledden’s 1998 documentary Brakhage is an interesting, well-constructed portrait of avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage Read More »
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) John Sturges, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming
After a long career as a lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp decides to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. Read More »
His Majesty O’Keefe (1954) Byron Haskin, Burt Lancaster, Joan Rice, André Morell
In 1870, Yankee sea captain O’Keefe finds himself stranded after a mutiny on the Micronesian island of Yap Read More »
Jango (1984) Silvio Tendler, Leonel Brizola, Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, João Goulart
The film depicts the life and career of João Belchior Marques Goulart, known as “Jango” Read More »
Prince Ehtejab (1974) Bahman Farmanara, Jamshid Mashayekhi, Fakhri Khorvash, Valiyollah Shirandami
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. Read More »