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From childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.

Shakespeare in Love is a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, and Geoffrey Rush. The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is...

The Newton Boys is a movie starring Matthew McConaughey, Ethan Hawke, and Skeet Ulrich. The story of the Newton gang, the most successful bank robbers in history, owing to their good planning and minimal violence.

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

The early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Esther is a TV movie starring Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham, and Jürgen Prochnow. The Bible story of Esther starring Louise Lombard, F. Murray Abraham and Jurgen Prochnow.

On his death bed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days, when he was allowed to go hunting and have fun, and inventing love games. Then he was oblig

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a TV movie starring Anthony Michael Hall, Noah Wyle, and Joey Slotnick. History of Apple and Microsoft.

The 13th Warrior is a movie starring Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, and Dennis Storhøi. A man, having fallen in love with the wrong woman, is sent by the sultan himself on a diplomatic mission to a distant land as an ambassador....

Grass is a movie starring Woody Harrelson, Harry J. Anslinger, and George Bush. The history of the American government's war on marijuana in the 20th century.

The Trench is a movie starring Paul Nicholls, Daniel Craig, and Julian Rhind-Tutt. A story about a group of soldiers' last days before the battle of the Somme in 1916.

Wo de fu qin mu qin is a movie starring Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, and Hao Zheng. Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.

Joan of Arc is a movie starring Milla Jovovich, John Malkovich, and Rab Affleck. A young girl receives a vision that drives her to rid France of its oppressors.

Anna and the King is a movie starring Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, and Bai Ling. The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.

Titus is a movie starring Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, and Osheen Jones. Titus returns victorious from war, only to plant the seeds of future turmoil for himself and his family.

Tesla: Master of Lightning is a TV movie starring Stacy Keach, Elisabeth Noone, and Nikola Tesla. Biography of electrical inventor and visionary genius Nikola Tesla.

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace is a TV movie starring Ulrich Tukur, Johanna Klante, and Robert Joy. The story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German clergyman of great distinction, who actively opposed Hitler and the Nazis. His convictions...

The riveting true story of Rita Vogt, a 1970s West German terrorist who escapes to the East with the help of the Stasi. She lives in constant fear of having her cover blown, until it unavoidably happens after the German re-unificatio

Thirteen Days is a movie starring Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, and Shawn Driscoll. In October 1962, the Kennedy administration struggles to contain the Cuban Missile Crisis.

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

The Grey Zone is a movie starring David Arquette, Velizar Binev, and David Chandler. A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves...

The Affair of the Necklace is a movie starring Hilary Swank, Simon Baker, and Jonathan Pryce. In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's...

Nirgendwo in Afrika is a movie starring Juliane Köhler, Merab Ninidze, and Matthias Habich. A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya.

Salem Witch Trials is a TV movie starring Kirstie Alley, Henry Czerny, and Gloria Reuben. A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials.

Bloody Sunday is a movie starring James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Nicholas Farrell. A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

The True Story of Killing Pablo is a TV movie starring David Jeremiah, Mark Bowden, and Morris Busby. The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.

It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of capturing him with the help of an experienced

As the feudal Japan era draws to a close, a widower samurai experiences difficulty balancing clan loyalties, 2 young daughters, an aged mother, and the sudden reappearance of his childhood sweetheart.

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers.

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Unlikely Heroes is a movie starring Ben Kingsley, Lore Perl, and William Perl. For most, the idea of Jewish resistance or defiance during the Holocaust is limited to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and a few isolated acts throughout...

This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts.

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself is a TV movie starring Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, and Alan Arkin. Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.

Documentary that looks at the concept of the corporation throughout recent history up to its present-day dominance.

The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John is a movie starring Henry Ian Cusick, Daniel Kash, and Christopher Plummer. The story of Jesus' life as told by the apostle John, narrated by Christopher Plummer.

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.

Forty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, more than 80% of Americans still believe that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone. This documentary attempts to separate fact from conspiracy theories to get to the truth.

The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara.

The Bridge of San Luis Rey is a movie starring Gabriel Byrne, Robert De Niro, and Harvey Keitel. In 1714 Peru, a friar is tried by the Inquisition for questioning God's intentions when five die in the collapse of an Andean rope...

Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.

Miracle is a movie starring Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, and Nathan West. The true story of Herb Brooks, the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad.

The Alamo is a movie starring Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, and Emilio Echevarría. Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces...

Troy is a movie starring Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, and Orlando Bloom. An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Edelweisspiraten is a movie starring Ivan Stebunov, Bela B., and Jochen Nickel. Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his...

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

An in-depth making of documentary about the original Star Wars trilogy, covering the productions of the three films and their impact on popular culture.