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Hawai Middowei daikaikûsen: Taiheiyô no arashi is a movie starring Yôsuke Natsuki, Toshirô Mifune, and Kôji Tsuruta. Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the...

A chronicle of Oscar Wilde's libel suit against the Marquis of Queensberry and the tragic turn his life takes because of it.

Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.

Inherit the Wind is a movie starring Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly. Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution.

In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.

Sword of Sherwood Forest is a movie starring Richard Greene, Peter Cushing, and Niall MacGinnis. While King Richard is away at the Crusades, some Nottingham nobles and their Sheriff plot to confiscate estates of fallen Crusaders but...

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.

King of Kings is a movie starring Jeffrey Hunter, Siobhan McKenna, and Hurd Hatfield. The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ.

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Barabbas is a movie starring Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, and Arthur Kennedy. Barabbas, the criminal that the Jewish leaders induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of...

Salvatore Giuliano is a movie starring Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, and Frederico Zardi. The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of...

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary War, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lieutenant Scott-Padget, whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.

In 1880s Arizona, General Crook and his troops are trying to subdue the last tribe of Apache led by Geronimo.

A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army.

Il figlio di Spartacus is a movie starring Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, and Gianna Maria Canale. During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus'...

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread-fruit from Tahiti but the savage on-board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian.

In the 16th-century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and Ukrainian cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

Lawrence of Arabia is a movie starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, and Anthony Quinn. The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in...

Il gattopardo is a movie starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, and Claudia Cardinale. The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of...

Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

The Great Escape is a movie starring Steve McQueen, James Garner, and Richard Attenborough. Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.

Tom Jones is a movie starring Albert Finney, Susannah York, and George Devine. The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th-century England.

I compagni is a movie starring Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, and Gabriella Giorgelli. A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile...

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find "The Mother of All Voices", a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules.

The Secret Invasion is a movie starring Stewart Granger, Raf Vallone, and Mickey Rooney. In 1943, a group of hardened criminals is pardoned on the condition it accepts a mission to free a captive Italian general from the clutches of...

The Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.

Culloden is a TV movie starring Tony Cosgrove, Olivier Espitalier-Noel, and Don Fairservice. A reconstruction of the Battle of Culloden, the last battle to take place on British soil, as if modern TV cameras were present.

Samurai is a movie starring Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi, and Michiyo Aratama. February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the...

The Greatest Story Ever Told is a movie starring Max von Sydow, Dorothy McGuire, and Charlton Heston. An all-star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.

Il vangelo secondo Matteo is a movie starring Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, and Susanna Pasolini. The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Pasolini shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore...

Nicht versöhnt oder Es hilft nur Gewalt, wo Gewalt herrscht is a movie starring Heinrich Hargesheimer, Carlheinz Hargesheimer, and Martha Staendner. An entangled story which details the lives of a German family throughout their...

The Brigand of Kandahar is a movie starring Ronald Lewis, Oliver Reed, and Duncan Lamont. The British army fights off rampaging locals in 1850s India.

Popioly is a movie starring Daniel Olbrychski, Boguslaw Kierc, and Piotr Wysocki. Set in the time of Napoleon wars, shows how the wars swept over the unfortunate Polish country at the beginning of the 19th century. Story revolves...

The Heroes of Telemark is a movie starring Kirk Douglas, Richard Harris, and Ulla Jacobsson. Norwegian resistance tries to stop German efforts to produce an atomic bomb component during World War II.

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

Paris brûle-t-il? is a movie starring Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, and Leslie Caron. August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and residence groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However,...

Andrey Rublev is a movie starring Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, and Nikolay Grinko. The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

Marat/Sade is a movie starring Patrick Magee, Clifford Rose, and Glenda Jackson. In an insane asylum, Marquis de Sade directs Jean Paul Marat's last days through a theater play. The actors are the patients.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre is a movie starring Jason Robards, George Segal, and Ralph Meeker. Al Capone's Valentine's Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

In Cold Blood is a movie starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, and John Forsythe. After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality...

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Lo sbarco di Anzio is a movie starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, and Robert Ryan. One of WWII's bloodiest battles as the Allies smash through the German lines which have enclosed the Anzio beachhead. Four months and 30,000...

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

A film about the greatest pre-Woodstock rock music festival.