Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Read More »
History
Cabeza de Vaca (1991) Nicolás Echevarría, Juan Diego, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Roberto Sosa
An international award winning saga of old Mexico. In 1528, a Spanish expedition founders off the coast of Florida with 600 lives lost. Read More »
The Waldheim Waltz (2018) Ruth Beckermann, Kurt Waldheim
A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General Read More »
The Tracker (2002) Rolf de Heer, David Gulpilil, Gary Sweet, Damon Gameau
It’s 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman Read More »
Rasputin and the Empress (1932) Richard Boleslawski, John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore
As Europe looms on the edge of war in 1913, the family and members of the court of the Russian czar Nicholas Read More »
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa (1990) Ettore Scola, Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Massimo Troisi
In the Eighteenth Century, the “Traveling Company of Scenic Arts” composed of Tyrant Read More »
Wild River (1960) Elia Kazan, Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet
A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. Read More »
The Profession of Arms (2001) Ermanno Olmi, Christo Jivkov, Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov
The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Read More »
Knickerbocker Holiday (1944) Harry Joe Brown, Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling
The wild and woolly early days of New York — when it was still known as New Amsterdam Read More »
Suez (1938) Allan Dwan, Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella
De Lesseps is a young aristocrat who conceives the idea for the Suez Canal. Read More »
Northwest Passage (1940) King Vidor, Jack Conway, Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan
Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers’ Rangers Read More »
S.O.S. Titanic (1979) William Hale, David Janssen, Cloris Leachman, Harry Andrews
On April 14, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage. Read More »
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) Frank Lloyd, Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone
Midshipman Roger Byam joins Captain Bligh and Fletcher Christian aboard HMS Bounty for a voyage to Tahiti. Read More »
A Hunting Accident (1978) Emil Loteanu, Galina Belyaeva, Oleg Yankovskiy, Kirill Lavrov
You can’t make a heart love somebody. This gospel is well known to the young Olenka. Read More »
All This and World War II (1976) Susan Winslow, Milton Berle, Humphrey Bogart, William C. Bullitt
Beatles’ “significance” pushed to the breaking point in this bizarre documentary that juxtaposes their songs Read More »