It’s the late nineteenth century Austria. The Emperor Franz-Joseph and his son, the Crown Prince Read More »
History
Europa Europa (1990) Agnieszka Holland, Solomon Perel, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider
A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan Read More »
If I Were King (1938) Frank Lloyd, Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee
In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. Read More »
Betrayed (1954) Gottfried Reinhardt, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature
Carla Van Oven becomes an allied spy for the British intelligence in The Netherlands during WW2 Read More »
Sin AKA Il peccato (2019) Andrey Konchalovskiy, Adriano Chiaramida, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Orso Maria Guerrini
Florence, early XVI century. Although widely considered a genius by his contemporaries Read More »
Quiz Show (1994) Robert Redford, Ralph Fiennes, John Turturro, Rob Morrow
An idealistic young lawyer working for a Congressional subcommittee in the late 1950s discovers that TV quiz shows are being fixed. Read More »
Waterloo (1970) Sergey Bondarchuk, Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war Read More »
Battle of the Bulge (1965) Ken Annakin, Henry Fonda, Robert Shaw, Robert Ryan
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. Read More »
Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) Franklin J. Schaffner, Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
The tragic story of Nicholas II (Michael Jayston), the last Czar of Russia Read More »
Katyn (2007) Andrzej Wajda, Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski
When the Soviet Union on 17 September 1939 invades Poland, Anna Aleksandrowna leaves her home in Krakow Read More »
Attack and Retreat AKA Italiani brava gente (1964) Giuseppe De Santis, Arthur Kennedy, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Raffaele Pisu
During the summer of 1941, Germany and its European allies invade the Soviet Union. Read More »
Hibiscus Town AKA Fu rong zhen (1986) Jin Xie, Wen Jiang, Linian Liu, Xiaoqing Liu
Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life Read More »
Walker (1987) Alex Cox, Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois
William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century Read More »
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend, John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man Read More »
Wuthering Heights (1992) Peter Kosminsky, Juliette Binoche, Ralph Fiennes, Janet McTeer
Heathcliff is Cathy Earnshaw’s foster brother; more than that, he is her other half. Read More »