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Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen (2019) Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the leader of a Celtic Tribe. However, her mother is unsure, doing whatever it takes to ...

In the Fascist Italy Pre-World War II of Benito Mussolini, the cruel General Rodolfo Graziani is directly assigned by Il Duce to fight in the colonial war in Libya to vanquish the Arab ...

My Boy Jack (2007) English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling, famous for the Jungle Book, uses his considerable influence, being on a War Office propaganda think tank, to get his nearly 18 year-old son John 'Jack', admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on acc

Evolution of Evil (2015) They are a rogues gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea, from Chairman Mao to Colonel Gaddafi ...

Xin hai ge ming 2011 At the beginning of the 20th century, China is in a state of crisis The country is split into warring factions, the citizens are starving, and recent political reforms have made matters worse, not better The ruling Qing Dynasty, led by a seven year old emperor, and his ruthless

Bathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.

Silkwood (1983) Fairly accurate recounting of the story of Karen Silkwood, the Oklahoma nuclear-plant worker who blew the whistle on dangerous practices at the Kerr-McGee plant and who died under circumstances which are still under debate.

Slave Queen of Babylon (1963) General Onnos returns from a successful military campaign to the Assyrian capital of Nineveh. He presents King Minurte with a number of newly-captured slaves including Kir, defeated king of the Dardanians. Kir attracts the attention of Semiramis, a beautiful young woman

61* (2001) Aiming for one of the most famed records in sports history, a pair of very different baseball players hit home runs at an impressive rate. Roger Maris, a reserved sort, is much less popular than his hard-partying New York Yankee teammate Mickey Mantle, the player who many observers think

The Man Standing Next (2020) In the 1970s Korea is under the absolute control of the president Park who controls the KCIA the organization with the edge over any branch of government.

The Secret Invasion (1964) The Nazis imprison an Italian general who was planning to switch sides and turn over his army to the Allied side. Allied headquarters sends a small, somewhat misfit group of soldiers to spring the general from prison and carry out his plans.

Furious (2017) A story of a legendary battle, where seventeen fearless warriors defend their land against an army of thousands well-trained soldiers. In 13th-century Mongol warrior hordes and their leader, Batu Khan, control most of the known world. As the Mongols move towards Europe they invade the

Franklin 2024 Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklins career At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco American alliance of 1778

The Secret Romantic Guesthouse 2023 A work about an incident that takes place when the owners of the boarding house called Guest Summer Palace, which breaks stereotypes, and boarders with secrets gather to find Lee Seol who disappeared 13 years ago

A United Kingdom (2016) Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

Guru Bhagwan, His Secretary His Bodyguard 2010 The Seventies A quest for spirituality and sexual freedom In England, young Hugh Milne hears the voice of spiritual teacher Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh on an audiotape and travels to India in search of his own self Sheela Patel, a young Indian woman, is brou

Inside the Third Reich (1982) A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. The film is based on Speer's autobiography of the same name.

At the strait 'Roaring Currents', master strategist Admiral Yi and his 12 battleships oppose enemy's fleet of 330, and win the most incredible victory of history.

The events of the war in 1944, from the Blue Hills to Sõrve Peninsula. Shown through the eyes of Estonian soldiers who had to pick sides and fight against fellow brothers. Choices have to ...

Cold War (2018) A passionate love story between two people of different backgrounds and temperaments, who are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold ...

Egypt (2005 ) Dramatization of the great discoveries of ancient Egypt, from the exploration of tombs in the early 1800s, to the unraveling of the Rosetta Stone to translate the ancient language on the tombs, to the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb.

Betrayed 2020 We follow the Jewish Braude familys experiences when the Jews are arrested and deported from the camp Berg, on the ship Donau and down to the extermination in the concentration camp in Auschwitz

For Pablo Escobar (Benicio Del Toro), family is everything. When young surfer Nick (Josh Hutcherson) falls for Escobar's niece, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business. (C) TWC Radius

Overlord (1975) During the Second World War a young lad is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-day.

The Egyptian (1954) In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty

The Assassin (2015) In 8th century China, 10-year-old general's daughter Nie Yinniang is handed over to a nun who initiates her into the martial arts, transforming her into an exceptional assassin charged with eliminating cruel and corrupt local governors. One day, having failed in a task, she is se

Andersonville (1996) Sort of Civil War version of "Schindler's List" looks at the atrocities that occurred in the 1864 prisoner-of-war camp run by the Confederacy in Georgia. The prison originally planned to house 8000, eventually swelled to 33,000 which left little shelter, food or water

The Seventh Seal (1957) A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turm

Honour (2019 ) Having discovered that the recently murdered woman had been to the police five times to report threats from members of her own family, DCI Goode vows that she would not rest until she gets justice for her.

Dead Mountain 2020 January 1959, Soviet Union In the icy Ural Mountains, a group of nine students sets out on a ski trek Even though they all are well experienced hikers, they never reach their destination As their bodies turn up a month later, it leaves local investigators puzzled Their tent was cu

Jaguar (2021 ) Set in 1960s Spain, a refuge for hundreds of Nazis after World War II. Isabel Garrido, a young woman who managed to survive the Mauthausen extermination camp, is on the trail of Bachmann, known as the most dangerous man in Europe. She will discover that she is not alone in her mission

The Red Sea Diving Resort - Inspired by remarkable true life rescue missions, this is the incredible story of a group of Mossad agents and brave Ethiopians who in the early 80s used a deserted holiday retreat in Sudan as a front to smuggle thousands of refugees to Israel. The undercover team carryin

The Bastard (1978) Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke. When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his father's family and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved in the events leading to the American Revolution.

Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Eyes on the Prize (19871990) This is a documentary series about the glory years of the American Civil Rights Movement, starting in 1952 with the murder of Emmit Till and the subsequent trial and ending with the civil rights march to Selma in 1965. Along the way, the series touches on the major figur

Birdsong (2012) As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.

The Lost City of Machu Picchu (2019) High in the Peruvian Andes lies the ancient city of Machu Picchu, a lost city of doorways and passages that hint at the ghost of its past. Who were the mysterious people who built it and why?

On May 16, 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wy, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a single ...

1521 2023 In the pre Spanish era Philippines, a young native princess with goddess like beauty falls in love with a dashingly handsome Spanish soldier Against all odds, and pulled apart by their loyalties to their own people, they fight fo

Joan of Arc 2019 In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne Believing that God had chosen her, the young Joan Lise Leplat Prudhomme leads the army of the King of France When she is captured, the Church sends her for trial on charges of heresy Refusing to a

Jin yi wei 2010 A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent Donnie Yen in the emperors court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden.

North and South, Book II (1986) The continuing saga of the Hazards and the Mains. The Hazards are from the north and the Mains from the south. George Hazard (James Read) and Orry Main (Patrick Swayze) met at West Point and fought in the Mexican-American war together becoming fast friends. Now they f

The Last King (2016) In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil war. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed off, is guarded in secrecy by two men. A story which changed the course of the country's history.

The Counterfeit Traitor (1962) An American oil company executive of Swedish descent, now living in Sweden, is blackmailed into spying for the Allies during World War II. At first resentful, his relationship with a beautiful German Allied agent causes him to realize how vital his work is. When he lea

A Bridge Too Far (1977) The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of WW2 by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. The idea was for US airborne divisions to take the towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen and a British airborne division,

The Man Who Would Be King (1975) This adaptation of the famous short story by Rudyard Kipling tells the story of Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnahan, two ex-soldiers in India when it was under British rule. They decide that the country is too small for them, so they head off to Kafiristan in order to

A chronicle of how American Indians were displaced as the U.S. expanded west. Based on the book by Dee Brown.