William Walker and his mercenary corps enter Nicaragua in the middle of the 19th century Read More »
History
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960) Budd Boetticher, Ray Danton, Karen Steele, Elaine Stewart
Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. Read More »
Some Mother’s Son (1996) Terry George, Helen Mirren, Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen
The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against Read More »
The Royalists / Les chouans (1947) Henri Calef, Jean Marais, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Dux
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. Read More »
The Gaucho War / La guerra gaucha (1942) Lucas Demare, Enrique Muiño, Francisco Petrone, Ángel Magaña
The story of the irregular forces on the north of Argentina, fighting against the Spanish Crown for the independence. Read More »
I Shot Jesse James (1949) Samuel Fuller, Preston Foster, Barbara Britton, John Ireland
While the law hunts him, Jesse James lives quietly in a rented house on the corner of Lafayette Read More »
Dr. Akagi / Kanzô sensei (1998) Shôhei Imamura, Akira Emoto, Kumiko Asô, Jacques Gamblin
Dr. Akagi, a rural physician in Japan during WWII, wages a one-man crusade against hepetitis Read More »
Band of Assassins AKA Shinsengumi (1969) Tadashi Sawashima, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, Kin’ya Kitaôji
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins Read More »
Destination Unknown (2017) Claire Ferguson, Frank Blaichman, Roman Ferber, Stanley Glogover
Destination Unknown blends intimate testimony with immersive archive to bring the stories of twelve Holocaust survivors to the screen. Read More »
Tripoli (1950) Will Price, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, Howard Da Silva
The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with “From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli” Read More »