Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic Read More »
History
Dragon Seed (1944) Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway, Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon
Ling Tang and his family live on his prosperous farm in rural Southern China Read More »
Native Land (1942) Leo Hurwitz, Paul Strand, Paul Robeson, Fred Johnson, Mary George
Paul Robeson narrates a mix of dramatizations and archival footage about the bill Read More »
Memories on Stone AKA Bîranînen li ser kevirî (2014) Shawkat Amin Korki, Hussein Hassan, Nazmi Kirik, Shima Molaei
Kurdish childhood friends Hussein and Alan direct and produce a film about the genocide Read More »
Marketa Lazarová (1967) Frantisek Vlácil, Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. Read More »
Copenhagen (2002) Howard Davies, Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig, Francesca Annis
A television adaptation of Michael Frayn’s celebrated and award-winning stage play Read More »
Amazing Grace (2006) Michael Apted, Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Michael Gambon
In 1797, William Wilberforce, the great crusader for the British abolition of slavery Read More »
Germany Pale Mother AKA Deutschland bleiche Mutter (1980) Helma Sanders-Brahms, Eva Mattes, Ernst Jacobi, Elisabeth Stepanek
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out Read More »
The Beginning or the End (1947) Norman Taurog, Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake
Docudrama on the development of the first atomic bomb. 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 »
Requiem for a Romantic Woman AKA Requiem für eine romantische Frau (1999) Dagmar Knöpfel, Sylvester Groth, Janina Sachau, Jeanette Hain
Frankfurt, Germany, 1807. Clemens Bretano, a writer, meets Auguste Bußman Read More »
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict AKA Kozure Ôkami: Sono chîsaki te ni (1993) Akira Inoue, Masakazu Tamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yushi Shoda
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) Read More »
Les Miserables (1952) Lewis Milestone, Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget
After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced Read More »
Escape AKA Flukt (2012) Roar Uthaug, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Milla Olin
It’s been ten years since the Black Plague ravaged the lands. 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 Read More »