It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas’ dictatorship. Read More »
History
Word and Utopia AKA Palavra e Utopia (2000) Manoel de Oliveira, Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa
The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil Read More »
Tempest AKA La tempesta (1958) Alberto Lattuada, Silvana Mangano, Van Heflin, Viveca Lindfors
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way Read More »
The Return of Martin Guerre AKA Le retour de Martin Guerre (1982) Daniel Vigne, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier
During the middle of the 16th century, Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France Read More »
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) AKA Oktyabr (1927) Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February of 1917 Read More »
Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident (1976) Delbert Mann, Lee Majors, Noah Beery Jr., Nehemiah Persoff
The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the C.I.A. Read More »
Captain Lightfoot (1955) Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Barbara Rush, Jeff Morrow
In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society Read More »
Day One (1989) Joseph Sargent, Brian Dennehy, David Strathairn, Michael Tucker
The complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer Read More »
Bad Men of Missouri (1941) Ray Enright, Dennis Morgan, Jane Wyman, Wayne Morris
The Younger brothers, Cole (Dennis Morgan), Bob (Wayne Morris) and Jim (Arthur Kennedy) Read More »
Heimat: A Chronicle of Germany AKA Heimat – Eine Chronik in elf Teilen (1984) Edgar Reitz, Marita Breuer, Rüdiger Weigang, Kurt Wagner
The series tells the story of the village Schabbach, on the Hunsrueck in Germany through the years 1919-1982. Read More »
El Cid (1961) Anthony Mann, Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Epic movie of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar (Charlton Heston) Read More »
Compensation (1999) Zeinabu irene Davis, John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb
The life of a deaf African American woman in the early 1900s parallels with another living in the 1990s. Read More »
The Official Story AKA La historia oficial (1985) Luis Puenzo, Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe
Alicia Marnet de Ibáñez is a high school history professor and a well-to-do housewife Read More »
Sons Of The Sea AKA Atlantic Ferry (1941) Walter Forde, Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Griffith Jones
In 1840 two rival steamship companies race to see who should have the best cargo between England and America. Read More »
The Black Arrow (1948) Gordon Douglas, Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready
Sir Richard Shelton, a young British nobleman, returns from the War of the Roses Read More »