
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 »
History
The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight (1979) Kevin Billington, John Stride, Claire Bloom, Ronald Pickup, Drama, History

Henry VIII is a proud and wilful monarch who defies Rome’s ban on divorce to marry his mistress Anne Boleyn. Read More »
It Happened on July 20th (1955) Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Bernhard Wicki, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Carl Wery, Drama, History, Thriller, War

A dramatic reconstruction of the July 1944 attempt by German Army Officers to assassinate Hitler with a bomb and end the war before Germany was totally destroyed. Read More »
The Dam Busters (1955) Michael Anderson, Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Drama, History, War

The British are desperate to shorten the length of WW2 and propose a daring raid to smash Germany’s industrial heart. Read More »
The Look of Silence (2014) Joshua Oppenheimer, Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan, Documentary, Biography, History

An Indonesian man with a communist background named Ramli was brutally murdered when the “Communist” purge occurred in 1965. Read More »
American Hot Wax (1978) Floyd Mutrux, Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Drama, History, Music

This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock ‘n’ roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Read More »
Henry V (1944) Laurence Olivier, Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks

In the motivated Olivier notion, Shakespeare’s drama begins as a function at the Globe Theatre Read More »
Midway (1976) Jack Smight, Charlton Heston, Henry Fonda, James Coburn, Action, Drama, History, War

He summer of 1942 attracted Naval stalemate into the Pacific since the Japanese and American fleets stood even numbers each waiting for another to start a renewed offensive. Read More »
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984) Rob Epstein, Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg, Documentary, Biography, History

An actual twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the very first openly homosexual U.S. politicians elected to public office Read More »
Violette (1978) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Within a interwar France struggling with deep political and social change, 18-year-old Violette Noziere rebels against the limits of her working-class (and potentially incestuous) household, with troubling consequences. Read More »