The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust. Read More »
War
Ulysses’ Gaze AKA To vlemma tou Odyssea (1995) Theodoros Angelopoulos, Harvey Keitel, Maia Morgenstern, Erland Josephson
A, a Greek filmmaker living in exile in the United States, returns to his native Ptolemas Read More »
Prisoner 13 AKA El prisionero 13 (1933) Fernando de Fuentes, Alfredo del Diestro, Luis G. Barreiro, Adela Sequeyro
El Prisionero 13 (Prisoner 13) is part of the trilogy of films made by Fernando Fuentes concerning the Mexican Revolution. Read More »
I Am Cuba AKA Soy Cuba (1964) Mikhail Kalatozov, Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before Read More »
Zulu Dawn (1979) Douglas Hickox, Burt Lancaster, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
In 1879 South Africa, the administrators of the British Cape Colony have designs to eliminate the Zulus as a hindrance to their colonial economy. Read More »
Sergeant Ryker (1968) Buzz Kulik, Bradford Dillman, Peter Graves, Vera Miles
During the Korean War Sergeant Paul Ryker is accused of defecting to Communist China and then returning to his unit as a spy. Read More »
Noble Lady Bound Vase AKA Kifujin shibari tsubo (1977) Masaru Konuma, Naomi Tani, Hitoshi Takagi, Tokuko Watanabe
Yoshitarô, a wealthy but ignorant landowner buys, who lives in the modern city. Read More »
Afganistan – The last war bus (L’ultimo bus di guerra) (1989) Pierluigi Ciriaci, Mark Gregory, John Vernon, Savina Gersak
A group of soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Read More »
Fighter Squadron (1948) Raoul Walsh, Edmond O’Brien, Robert Stack, John Rodney
At an American air base in England, 1943, is conniving Sergeant Dolan Read More »
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) Clarence Brown, Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall
London based American nurse, Susan, Lady Ashwood, is at the hospital awaiting the imminent arrival of injured soldiers. Read More »
The Spring River Flows East AKA Yi jiang chun shui xiang dong liu (1947) Chusheng Cai, Junli Zheng, Yang Bai, Tao Jin, Yang Nai
1930’s China. The village of a poor family is taken over by the occupying Japanese army. Read More »
The Pride and the Passion (1957) Stanley Kramer, Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren
The story in this movie deals with the perseverance of Spaniards to take back their country from the French Read More »
Pork Chop Hill (1959) Lewis Milestone, Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino, Rip Torn
Grim story of one of the major battles of the Korean War. While negotiators are at work in Panmunjom trying Read More »
The Message AKA Al-Risâlah (1977) Moustapha Akkad, Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara
This must-see epic depicts the birth of Islam. In the 7th century Mohammed is visited by Angel Gabriel Read More »
Eleni (1985) Peter Yates, Kate Nelligan, John Malkovich, Linda Hunt
Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for this. Read More »