”THE TOKYO TRIAL” is a 4 1/2-hour account of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East that is visually satisfying but historically empty. Read More »
War
Something of Value (1957) Richard Brooks, Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller
Even though Peter and Kimani grow up together, Kimani soon finds that different races are treated differently. Read More »
Housewife, 49 (2006) Gavin Millar, Victoria Wood, David Threlfall, Christopher Harper
In the late 1930s Nella Last, a housewife aged 49, living in Barrow-in-Furness on the North West English coast Read More »
Seraphim Falls (2006) David Von Ancken, Pierce Brosnan, Liam Neeson, Anjelica Huston
In the 1860s, five men have been tracking a sixth across Nevada for more than two weeks. Read More »
Up Front (1951) Alexander Hall, David Wayne, Tom Ewell, Marina Berti
Based on the famed W.W.II cartoons: Lowbrow G.I.s Willie and Joe, on the Italian front Read More »
From a Far Country (1981) Krzysztof Zanussi, Sam Neill, Christopher Cazenove, Lisa Harrow
The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtyla was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Read More »
The Captive (1915) Cecil B. DeMille, Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward
With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. Read More »
Guerrilla (2011) Nasiruddin Yousuff, Joya Ahsan, Ferdous Ahmed, Shampa Reza
Bilkis Banu, lost her husband Hasan on the bloody night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him Read More »
Battle Circus (1953) Richard Brooks, Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn
Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Read More »
‘Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders (1943) Ray Enright, Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr.
Seven weeks after Pearl Harbor, volunteers form the new 2nd Marine Raider Battalion whose purpose is to raid Japanese-held islands. Read More »