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Elvis & Nixon is a movie starring Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, and Alex Pettyfer. The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock 'n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing,...

Confirmation is a TV movie starring Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, and Greg Kinnear. Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that...

All the Way is a TV movie starring Bryan Cranston, Anthony Mackie, and Melissa Leo. Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination and spends his first...

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks is a movie starring Jessica Henwick, Scott Adkins, and Amy Johnston. The History of Hong Kong martial arts cinema and its influence.

Amundsen is a movie starring Pål Sverre Hagen, Christian Rubeck, and Katherine Waterston. Life and facts of Roald Amundsen, first man to arrive South Pole.

Ben-Hur is a movie starring Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, and Rodrigo Santoro. Judah Ben-Hur, a prince falsely accused of treason by his adopted brother, an officer in the Roman army, returns to his homeland after years at sea to seek...

Southside with You is a movie starring Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, and Vanessa Bell Calloway. The film chronicles the summer 1989 afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady,...

Togo is a movie starring Willem Dafoe, Julianne Nicholson, and Christopher Heyerdahl. The story of the sled dog, Togo, who led the 1925 serum run, but was considered by most to be too small and weak to lead such an intense race.

Gernika is a movie starring James D'Arcy, María Valverde, and Jack Davenport. The fates of Henry - a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul - and Teresa, one of the Republic's censors and in charge of overseeing the...

Jackie is a movie starring Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Greta Gerwig. Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her...

Silence is a movie starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, and Liam Neeson. In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to...

Traceroute is a movie starring Johannes Grenzfurthner, Eddie Codel, and Jenny Marx. A Personal Journey Into The Uncharted Depths Of Nerd Culture, A Realm Full Of Dangers, Creatures And More Or Less Precarious Working Conditions...

Silicon Cowboys is a movie starring Rod Canion, Jim Harris, and Bill Murto. Three friends dream up the Compaq portable computer at a Texas diner in 1981, and soon find themselves battling mighty IBM for PC supremacy. Their...

Alone in Berlin is a movie starring Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, and Daniel Brühl. After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in...

The Lost City of Z is a movie starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, and Sienna Miller. A true-life Drama, centering on British explorer Major Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the...

VHS Massacre is a movie starring Mike Aransky, Alan Bagh, and Troy Bernier. This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media and its effect on Independent and cult films. Ranging from the origin of home movies...

LBJ is a movie starring Woody Harrelson, Michael Stahl-David, and Richard Jenkins. Lyndon B. Johnson aligns himself with John F. Kennedy, rises to the Presidency, and deals with the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.

Dawson City: Frozen Time is a movie starring Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, and Sam Kula. The History of Dawson City, the gold rush town that had a historical treasure of forgotten silent films buried in permafrost for decades...

Kono sekai no katasumi ni is a movie starring Non, Ava Pickard, and Kenna Pickard. Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen-year-old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and...

I Called Him Morgan is a movie starring Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, and Wayne Shorter. An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Harriet is a movie starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Joe Alwyn. The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and...

Mrs Lowry & Son is a movie starring Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, and Stephen Lord. A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.

Legiony is a movie starring Sebastian Fabijanski, Bartosz Gelner, and Wiktoria Wolanska. A universal story about entering adulthood in difficult times, growing up to the community. The great History is the background for the love...

The Great Alaskan Race is a movie starring Brian Presley, Treat Williams, and Brad Leland. In 1925's historic great race of mercy, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly...

Cinderella Man is a movie starring Russell Crowe, Renée Zellweger, and Craig Bierko. The story of James Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to become a champion and an inspiration in the 1930s.

The Coming War on China is a movie starring Franklin Blaisdell, James Bradley, and Bruce Cumings. The Coming War on China is John Pilger's 60th film for ITV. Pilger reveals what the news doesn't - that the United States and the...

Ignacio de Loyola is a movie starring Andreas Muñoz, Javier Godino, and Julio Perillán. 'If you could hear the voice of God, would you want to keep it secret?' A historical Drama based on the memoirs of St. Ignatius of Loyola,...

Finding Oscar is a movie starring Kate Doyle, Scott Greathead, and Fredy Peccerelli. FINDING OSCAR is a feature length documentary about the search for justice in the devastating case of the Dos Erres massacre in Guatemala. That...

Egon Schiele: Tod und Mädchen is a movie starring Noah Saavedra, Maresi Riegner, and Valerie Pachner. Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century. His life and work are driven...

The Sultan and the Saint is a movie starring Zack Beyer, Jeremy Irons, and Alexander McPherson. Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of War, distrust, and...

A Real Vermeer is a movie starring Jeroen Spitzenberger, Lize Feryn, and Roeland Fernhout. The life story of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, from his beginnings as a rebellious young artist in 1920s Amsterdam to his rise to infamy...

Mei Gong he xing dong is a movie starring Hanyu Zhang, Eddie Peng, and Baoguo Chen. Inspired by the true story known as the Mekong Massacre--two Chinese commercial vessels are ambushed while traveling down the Mekong River in the...

Les innocentes is a movie starring Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, and Agata Kulesza. 1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is...

In Dubious Battle is a movie starring Nat Wolff, James Franco, and Vincent D'Onofrio. An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

Birkebeinerne is a movie starring Jakob Oftebro, Kristofer Hivju, and Torkel Dommersnes Soldal. In the year 1206 Norway is raged by civil War. The King's illegitimate infant son, Håkon Håkonsson, which half the kingdom wants killed...

Deokhyeongju is a movie starring Ye-jin Son, Hae-il Park, and Mi-ran Ra. "The Last Princess" is both a Drama and an Action film that is based upon the life of Princess Deok-hye (1912-1989) who was born into Korea's last royal family...

Te Ata is a movie starring Q'orianka Kilcher, Gil Birmingham, and Brigid Brannagh. Te Ata set her sights on Broadway and what she thought was her life's dream. Audition after audition she was rejected and began to wonder if she was...

To Keep the Light is a movie starring Antti Reini, Erica Fae, and David Patrick Kelly. Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper's wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century...

La danseuse is a movie starring Soko, Gaspard Ulliel, and Mélanie Thierry. Loïe Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergères at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumière Brothers. The film...

Frantz is a movie starring Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, and Ernst Stötzner. In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.

Operation Dunkirk is a video starring Ifan Meredith, Kimberley Hews, and Darren Hill. A band of soldiers must battle their way through Nazi territory to rescue a scientist that could help turn the tide of WWII.

Don't Take Me Home is a movie starring Gareth Bale, Chris Coleman, and Aaron Ramsey. The story of the Welsh international football team's rise through the FIFA World Rankings, and onto their first international tournament for 58...

6 Days is a movie starring Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, and Abbie Cornish. In April 1980, armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London and took all inside hostage. Over the next six days a tense standoff took place,...

Taeksi woonjunsa is a movie starring Kang-ho Song, Thomas Kretschmann, and Hae-jin Yoo. A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting...

Gunhamdo is a movie starring Jung-min Hwang, Ji-seob So, and Joong-Ki Song. During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island ("Hashima Island") to mine for coal, attempt to a...

Mohawk is a movie starring Kaniehtiio Horn, Ezra Buzzington, and Eamon Farren. Late in the War of 1812, a young Mohawk woman and her two lovers battle a squad of American soldiers hell-bent on revenge.

Ikitie is a movie starring Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, and Hannu-Pekka Björkman. Based on true events an epic story of one man's struggle for survival. Jussi Ketola, returns to Finland from the great depression struck...

The Farthest is a movie starring Frank Drake, Carolyn Porco, and John Casani. It is one of humankind's greatest achievements. More than 12 billion miles away a tiny spaceship is leaving our Solar System and entering the void of deep...