In 1909, Emiliano Zapata, a well-born but penniless Mexican Mestizo from the southern state of Morelos Read More »
History
Stand Up and Fight (1939) W.S. Van Dyke, Wallace Beery, Robert Taylor, Florence Rice, Drama, History, Romance, Western
It starts in 1844 in Maryland, where R.Taylor, owner a plantation with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate ad his people. Read More »
Macbeth (1971) Roman Polanski, Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw, Drama, War, History
Roman Polanski imbues his unflinchingly violent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragedy of ruthless ambition and murder in medieval Scotland with grit and dramatic intensity. Read More »
Mountains of the Moon (1990) Bob Rafelson, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant, Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery
The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria’s British Empire. Read More »
Count Five and Die (1957) Victor Vicas, Jeffrey Hunter, Annemarie Düringer, Nigel Patrick, Drama, History, Thriller, War
American and British counter-espionage combine to convince the Germans the cross-channel invasion will be in the Netherlands instead of France. Read More »
Cantando dietro i paraventi / Singing Behind Screens (2003) Ermanno Olmi, Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa, Sally Ming Zeo Ni, Drama, History, Music, War
A young Western student, of unusual candor, due to a misunderstanding of address, is led to a theater-brothel for customers inclined to strong and transgressive emotions. Read More »
Jeanne la Pucelle I – Les batailles / Joan the Maid 1 – The Battles (1994) Jacques Rivette, Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Biography, Drama, History, War
Joan the Maid 2: The Prisons (1994) Jacques Rivette, Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Biography, Drama, History
Raid on Entebbe (1976) Irvin Kershner, Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Action, Drama, History
Matewan (1987) John Sayles, Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell
Mingo County, West Virginia, 1920. Coal miners, struggling to form a union, are up against company operators and the gun thugs of the notorious Baldwin-Felts detective agency. Read More »