Sir Percy Blakeney(in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid of a band of his friends Read More »
History
Seven Angry Men (1955) Charles Marquis Warren, Raymond Massey, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter
Fictionalized account of abolitionist John Brown and his six sons who fought to ensure Kansas would enter the Union as a slave-free state. Read More »
Pippin: His Life and Times (1981) David Sheehan, Ben Vereen, William Katt, Leslie Denniston
At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne Read More »
Clive of India (1935) Richard Boleslawski, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive
In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. Read More »
A Royal Scandal (1945) Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter
In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit Read More »
Boj na Kosovu AKA The Battle of Kosovo (1989) Zdravko Sotra, Milos Zutic, Gorica Popovic, Vojislav Brajovic
On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad Read More »
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) Sharad Patel, Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley
This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda Read More »
Kengo tengu matsuri AKA Festival of Swordsmen (1961) Shigehiro Ozawa, Eiji Okada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shingo Yamashiro
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. Read More »
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 »
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) Connie Field, Lola Weixel, Margaret Wright, Lyn Childs
Documentary about women working in factories during WWII and resultant loss of jobs after the war. Read More »
The Gorgeous Hussy (1936) Clarence Brown, Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore
It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal – Peggy to most that know her – is the daughter of Major William O’Neal Read More »
Wilson (1944) Henry King, Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton Read More »
Ghetto (2006) Audrius Juzenas, Heino Ferch, Sebastian Hülk, Erika Marozsán
In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. Read More »
Contest (1964) Bulat Mansurov, Rovshan Aliyev, M. Annayev, Ilmurad Bekmiyev
About the legendary musical competition between the famous Turkmen dutar player Shukur Bakhshy 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 »