
After the advice of his main adviser Niccolo Macchiavelli, Cesare Borgia decides to try to unify the nation so as to become even stronger. Read More »
History
The Bunker (1981) George Schaefer, Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, Drama, History, War

Back in 1945, The Third Reich is in its death throes with the Allies relentlessly attacking the capital town of Berlin. Read More »
Marat/Sade (1967) Peter Brook, Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, Glenda Jackson, Drama, History, Music

July 13, 1808 in the Charenton Insane Asylum just outside Paris. Read More »
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) Roberto Rossellini, Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, César Silvagni, Biography, History

1661: Cardinal Mazarin dies. In the power vacuum, the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Read More »
Joan at the Stake (1954) Roberto Rossellini, Ingrid Bergman, Tullio Carminati, Giacinto Prandelli, Biography, Drama, History, Musical

The film takes place mostly in a surrealistic fantasy around the time of the execution of Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, played by Ingrid Bergman, is being burned alive for heresy. Read More »
The Assisi Underground (1985) Alexander Ramati, Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Drama, History, War

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943. Read More »
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) Alexandra Dean, Nino Amareno, Charles Amirkhanian, Jeanine Basinger, Documentary, Biography, History, War

Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood movie star who was hailed as the most beautiful and glamorous in the world. Read More »
The Four Feathers (1978) Don Sharp, Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War

In 1882, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the insurgent Arab tribes, British Lieutenant Faversham resigns his officer’s commission in order to remain with his fiancée Ethne in England. Read More »
Inherit the Wind (1960) Stanley Kramer, Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Biography, Drama, History

In the 1920s, Tennessee schoolteacher Bertram Cates (Dick York) is put on trial for violating the Butler Act Read More »
Gone with the Wind (1939) Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Drama, History, Romance, War

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Read More »