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Made in Dagenham is a movie starring Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, and Andrea Riseborough. A Dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

War Horse is a movie starring Jeremy Irvine, Emily Watson, and David Thewlis. Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the...

The Eagle is a movie starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, and Donald Sutherland. In Roman-ruled Britain, a young Roman soldier endeavors to honor his father's memory by finding his lost legion's golden emblem.

Gettysburg is a TV movie starring Sam Rockwell, George Wunderlich, and Peter Carmichael. An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

Jin ling shi san chai is a movie starring Christian Bale, Ni Ni, and Xinyi Zhang. An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the...

The Substance: Albert Hofmann's LSD is a movie starring Trevor J. Roling, Hanspeter Müller, and Mario Scarabelli. In 1943, the year in which the first A-bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become...

W.E. is a movie starring Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, and Andrea Riseborough. The affair between King EdWard VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary Romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Mlyn i krzyz is a movie starring Rutger Hauer, Michael York, and Charlotte Rampling. This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel's painting. The theme of Christ's suffering is set against...

Guan yun chang is a movie starring Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, and Li Sun. The story of legendary Guan Yu crossing five passes & slaying six generals. He played a major role in the civil War that led to the collapse of Han Dynasty & the...

Too Big to Fail is a TV movie starring James Woods, John Heard, and William Hurt. Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

17 Miracles is a movie starring Jasen Wade, Emily Wadley, and Jason Celaya. The Mormon pioneers trek across the plains.

Game Change is a TV movie starring Ed Harris, Julianne Moore, and Woody Harrelson. Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCain's running mate in the 2008 Presidential election.

Lo imposible is a movie starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor, and Tom Holland. The story of a tourist family in Thailand caught in the destruction and chaotic aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

Lincoln is a movie starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, and David Strathairn. As the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his...

Hyde Park on Hudson is a movie starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney, and Olivia Williams. The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and...

Emperor is a movie starring Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, and Tommy Lee Jones. As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a War criminal. Influencing...

For No Good Reason is a movie starring Ralph Steadman, Johnny Depp, and Hunter S. Thompson. Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renown artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S....

Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present is a movie starring Marina Abramovic, Ulay, and Klaus Biesenbach. A documentary that follows the Serbian performance artist as she prepares for a retrospective of her work at The Museum of...

11 settembre 1683 is a movie starring F. Murray Abraham, Enrico Lo Verso, and Jerzy Skolimowski. In the summer of 1683, 300,000 Warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way...

Linhas de Wellington is a movie starring Nuno Lopes, Soraia Chaves, and Marisa Paredes. On September 27, 1810, the French troops commanded by Marshal Massena, were defeated in the Serra do Buçaco by the Anglo-Portuguese army of...

WWII from Space is a TV movie starring Corey Johnson, Kevin Farrell, and Geoffrey Wawro. The events of World War II from 1941 onWard are depicted from the perspective of space.

How to Survive a Plague is a movie starring Peter Staley, Larry Kramer, and Iris Long. The story of two coalitions -- ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group) -- whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a...

The Gatekeepers is a movie starring Ami Ayalon, Avraham Shalom, and Avi Dichter. A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely...

Treasure Island is a TV movie starring Eddie Izzard, Toby Regbo, and Rupert Penry-Jones. In 1765, young English boy Jim Hawkins gets involved with buccaneers during his quest to find pirate Captain Flint's treasure buried on a...

Kon-Tiki is a movie starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, and Gustaf Skarsgård. Legendary explorer Thor Heyerdal's epic 4,300-mile crossing of the Pacific on a balsawood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove that it...

Barabbas is a TV movie starring Billy Zane, Cristiana Capotondi, and Filippo Nigro. Billy Zane stars as Barabbas--the man whose life was spared because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Based on the Nobel Prize in Literature...

Hammer of the Gods is a movie starring Charlie Bewley, Alexandra Dowling, and Clive Standen. A young man transforms into a brutal Warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother, Hakan the...

The Invisible Woman is a movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, and Kristin Scott Thomas. At the height of his career, Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes) meets a younger woman who becomes his secret lover until his death.

The Physician is a movie starring Tom Payne, Stellan Skarsgård, and Olivier Martinez. In Persia in the 11th Century, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.

Tim's Vermeer is a movie starring Tim Jenison, Penn Jillette, and Martin Mull. Inventor Tim Jenison seeks to understand the painting techniques used by Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a TV movie starring Bryce Clyde Jenkins, Harrison Knight, and Skai Jackson. The Watsons set out on a family road trip where their experiences give them a newfound courage to stand up for what is right...

Beyond the Edge is a movie starring Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa, and John Wraight. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary's monumental and historical ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 - an event that stunned the world and defined a nation.

An Adventure in Space and Time is a TV movie starring David Bradley, Ross Gurney-Randall, and Roger May. A Dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who (1963), with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice...

Savannah is a movie starring Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Jaimie Alexander. Drama about the friendship between an Oxford-educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn-of-the-century Savannah.

Soekarno: Indonesia Merdeka is a movie starring Ario Bayu, Muhammad Abbe, and Moch. Achir. This movie follows the life of Soekarno, the first president of the Republic of Indonesia, from his childhood until he managed to proclaimed...

Victor Young Perez is a movie starring Brahim Asloum, Steve Suissa, and Isabella de Ligne-La Trémoïlle. Victor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the...

A Field in England is a movie starring Julian Barratt, Peter Ferdinando, and Richard Glover. Amid the Civil War in 17th-century England, a group of deserters flee from battle through an overgrown field. Captured by an alchemist, the...

Phantom is a movie starring Ed Harris, Julian Adams, and David Duchovny. The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert...

Muscle Shoals is a movie starring Rick Hall, Aretha Franklin, and Keith Richards. A documentary that celebrates Rick Hall, the founder of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the signature sound he developed in songs such as...

Killing Lincoln is a TV movie starring Tom Hanks, Regen Wilson, and Billy Campbell. Based on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of...

The Normal Heart is a TV movie starring Mark Ruffalo, Jonathan Groff, and Frank De Julio. A gay activist attempts to raise H.I.V. and A.I.D.S. aWareness during the early 1980s.

Jimmy's Hall is a movie starring Barry Ward, Francis Magee, and Aileen Henry. During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the...

Pan deng zhe is a movie starring Jing Wu, Ziyi Zhang, and Boran Jing. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando confront the most difficult mount. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength until...

Dark Waters is a movie starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, and Tim Robbins. A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy History of pollution.

Les Misérables is a movie starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway. In 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a...

A Nightingale Falling is a movie starring Tara Breathnach, Muireann Bird, and Gerard McCarthy. Set in Ireland during the War of Independence, two sisters lives are changed forever as they care for a wounded soldier. What transpires...

An Honest Liar is a movie starring James Randi, Deyvi Peña, and Penn Jillette. The life and career of the renowned stage magician turned scientific skeptic of the paranormal, James Randi.

My Life in China is a movie starring Yau King Eng. In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for a better life. How did they...