Robespierre, a powerful figure in the French Revolution and the subsequent Reign of Terror Read More »
History
The Longest Day (1962) Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Read More »
St. Francis of Assisi (1989) Liliana Cavani, Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, Andréa Ferréol
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death Read More »
Adventures of Casanova (1948) Roberto Gavaldón, Arturo de Córdova, Lucille Bremer, Turhan Bey
Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been murdered Read More »
Whirlwind (1964) Hiroshi Inagaki, Yôsuke Natsuki, Makoto Satô, Yuriko Hoshi
After defeat at the Siege of Osaka several survivors attempt to deliver a young prince to safety. Read More »
Wild Girl (1932) Raoul Walsh, Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy
Bret Harte’s story of Salomy Jane,a California mountain girl Read More »
Allegheny Uprising (1939) William A. Seiter, Claire Trevor, John Wayne, George Sanders
In British colonial America, Captain Swanson’s adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar’s Read More »
Hell in the Aegean (1970) Vasilis Georgiadis, Hristos Politis, Stephanos Stratigos, Giorgos Tzortzis
In May 1941, after the fall of the mainland of Greece just before the Germans entered Athens Read More »
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940) John Cromwell, Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon
Biopic of Abe Lincoln, 16th President of he United States, from his early days in backwoods Kentucky to his election as President. Read More »
Reds (1981) Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann
American journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) journeys to Russia to document the Boleshevik Revolution and returns a revolutionary. Read More »
The Wooden Horse (1950) Jack Lee, Ian Dalrymple, Leo Genn, David Tomlinson, Anthony Steel
In a POW camp, the Nazis have placed the huts far from the boundary so that any escape tunnel would have to be a long one. Read More »
The Marquise of O (1976) Éric Rohmer, Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, Edda Seippel
During the attack on an Italian town by Russian forces, the Marquise of O., the daughter of the colonel in charge of the defence Read More »
Lady Caroline Lamb (1972) Robert Bolt, Sarah Miles, Jon Finch, Richard Chamberlain
A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron. Read More »
Love Leads the Way: A True Story (1984) Delbert Mann, Timothy Bottoms, Eva Marie Saint, Arthur Hill
When an insurance salesman is blinded in a boxing accident, his world is turned upside down Read More »
The Lark Farm (2007) Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani, Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Alessandro Preziosi
A stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I Read More »