A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet. Read More »
Biography
The Men Who Made the Movies: King Vidor (1973) Richard Schickel, Sydney Pollack, King Vidor
King Vidor is unusual in the series “The Men Who Made the Movies” in that of all the directors, as a person. Read More »
Wallenberg: A Hero’s Story (1985) Lamont Johnson, Richard Chamberlain, Alice Krige, Kenneth Colley
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust. Read More »
Prince of Players (1955) Philip Dunne, Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek
A tragic and sentimental story that depicts the early career of the 19th century American actor Read More »
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972) Joseph Losey, Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider
After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940. Read More »
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) Ken Burns, Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson
The story of Jack Johnson is huge. The first black Heavyweight Champion of the World, 1908 to 1915, he was rowdy, smart, rebellious, and proud. Read More »
Bluebeard AKA Landru (1963) Claude Chabrol, Michèle Morgan, Danielle Darrieux, Hildegard Knef
France, WWI. Landru, the father of four children, contacts Parisian women through newspaper ads, seduces and eventually kills them. Read More »
Pay or Die (1960) Richard Wilson, Ernest Borgnine, Zohra Lampert, Alan Austin
Movie deals with organized crime “protection” rackets. 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 »
Sweet Dreams (1985) Karel Reisz, Jessica Lange, Ed Harris, Ann Wedgeworth
Patsy Cline was the first female solo artist to be elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame. Read More »
Valentino (1951) Lewis Allen, Eleanor Parker, Richard Carlson, Patricia Medina
Largely fictional account of the last few years in the life of matinée idol Rudolph Valentino. Read More »
Respectable: The Mary Millington Story (2016) Simon Sheridan, Dexter Fletcher, David Sullivan, Dudley Sutton
Documentary chronicling the extraordinary life and tragic death of Mary Millington – Britain’s most famous pornographic actress of the 1970s. Read More »
Hostage (1983) Frank Shields, Kerry Mack, Ralph Schicha, Gabriella Barraket
Horrific true tale set in the late 70’s Australia about Christine Lewis, a naive 16 year old who in 1974 Read More »
Night and Day (1946) Michael Curtiz, Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. Read More »
Julius Caesar (1953) Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Louis Calhern, Marlon Brando, James Mason
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. Read More »