In the War of 1812, the British have sacked Washington and hope to capture New Orleans Read More »
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Raffles (1930) George Fitzmaurice, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast, Ronald Colman, Kay Francis, David Torrence
A distinguished English gentleman has a secret life–he is the notorious jewel thief the press has dubbed “The Amateur Cracksman”. Read More »
Shoah: Four Sisters / Les quatre soeurs (2018) Claude Lanzmann, Paula Biren, Ruth Elias
Four interviews done in the 1970s with women who survived the Holocaust. Read More »
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Hanns Schwarz, Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott
Sir Percy Blakeney(in the guise of the masked Scarlet Pimpernel), an Englishman who with the aid of a band of his friends Read More »
Seven Angry Men (1955) Charles Marquis Warren, Raymond Massey, Debra Paget, Jeffrey Hunter
Fictionalized account of abolitionist John Brown and his six sons who fought to ensure Kansas would enter the Union as a slave-free state. Read More »
Clive of India (1935) Richard Boleslawski, Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive
In the mid-1700’s the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. Read More »
A Royal Scandal (1945) Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch, Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter
In 18th century Russia,a naive and idealistic lieutenant,Alexei Chernoff, deserts his unit Read More »
Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (1981) Sharad Patel, Joseph Olita, Thomas Baptiste, Leonard Trolley
This biographical movie begins with a short blurb about Uganda Read More »
Kengo tengu matsuri / Festival of Swordsmen (1961) Shigehiro Ozawa, Eiji Okada, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Shingo Yamashiro
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. Read More »
The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936) John Ford, Warner Baxter, Gloria Stuart, Claude Gillingwater
A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd Read More »