Biography

The king of the Huns, whose hordes from various tribes and allies have been sweeping the Asian steppes and both Roman empires, dies, leaving the throne to two sons. Read More »

Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia’s Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. Read More »

Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »

In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Read More »

This depiction of childhood and adolescence draws heavily from the filmmaker’s own boyhood. Read More »

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »

A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. Read More »

The tumultuous presidency of 17th-president Andrew Johnson is chronicled in this biopic. Read More »

In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »

Knut Hamsun is Norway’s most famous and respected writer. Ever since he was young he’s despised the English because of the starvation that they caused Norway through WWI. Read More »