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Barry Lyndon is a movie starring Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, and Patrick Magee. An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.

The Man Who Would Be King is a movie starring Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Christopher Plummer. Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since...

The Hindenburg is a movie starring George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, and William Atherton. A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history.

All the President's Men is a movie starring Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, and Jack Warden. "The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President...

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arri

Die Marquise von O... is a movie starring Edith Clever, Bruno Ganz, and Edda Seippel. A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II.

Mad Dog Morgan is a movie starring Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, and David Gulpilil. The true story of Irish outlaw Daniel Morgan, who is wanted, dead or alive, in Australia during the 1850s.

Novecento is a movie starring Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, and Dominique Sanda. The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

21 Hours at Munich is a TV movie starring William Holden, Shirley Knight, and Franco Nero. A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered eleven Israeli athletes.

Il Casanova di Federico Fellini is a movie starring Donald Sutherland, Tina Aumont, and Cicely Browne. The myth of Giacomo Casanova, the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure. A sex scandal lands him...

L'une chante l'autre pas is a movie starring Thérèse Liotard, Valérie Mairesse, and Robert Dadiès. The lives of Pomme, an aspiring singer, and Suzanne, a struggling mother, as they search for their own identity in 1970s France.

A Bridge Too Far is a movie starring Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, and Michael Caine. Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of...

MacArthur is a movie starring Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, and Ed Flanders. Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

The Man in the Iron Mask is a TV movie starring Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, and Louis Jourdan. D'Artagnan and his fellow Musketeers plot to replace the ineffectual Louis XIV of France with his secretly imprisoned twin...

A Navy Captain uses his experimental Snark to reach a nuclear submarine stuck on an ocean ledge.

Caravans is a movie starring Anthony Quinn, Michael Sarrazin, and Christopher Lee. In 1948, at the U.S. embassy in Zadestan, a young diplomat is ordered to find the missing daughter of an influential U.S. Senator.

The Brink's Job is a movie starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, and Allen Garfield. A fictional retelling of the infamous Brink's Company robbery in Boston, which took place on January 17th, 1950, with a score of $2.700.000, and cost...

Jean Valjean (Richard Jordan), convicted of stealing bread, is hounded for several decades by the relentless and cruel Policeman Javert (Anthony Perkins).

The Patriot Game is a movie starring Winnie Marshall. A history of the Northern Irish conflict from 1922 until the 1970s.

Caligola is a movie starring Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, and Helen Mirren. Details the graphic and shocking but undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war.

Kagemusha is a movie starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, and Ken'ichi Hagiwara. A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to...

Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.

The story of four generations of a Russian Jewish immigrant family of musicians whose careers parallel the history of American popular music in the 20th century.

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar.

Mel Brooks brings his one-of-a-kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes.

The Decline of Western Civilization is a movie starring Eugene Tatu, Alice Bag Band, and Black Flag. A look into the Los Angeles punk rock scene, that was largely ignored by the rock music press of the time.

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

The famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend Bakin.

La guerre du feu is a movie starring Everett McGill, Ron Perlman, and Nicholas Kadi. This story takes place in prehistoric time when three tribesmen search for a new fire source.

A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia, and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.

Night Crossing is a movie starring John Hurt, Jane Alexander, and Doug McKeon. True tale about two men planing to escape from communist East Germany in a hot air balloon, but only if they can take their families with them.

Missing is a movie starring Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, and Melanie Mayron. When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.

Orson Welles and Elizabeth Taylor compassionately narrate this harrowing documentary about Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany, which soon turned into a notoriously industrious plan to wipe them from existence.

Le retour de Martin Guerre is a movie starring Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, and Maurice Barrier. In medieval France, some villagers challenge a man's claim of identity when he (as he says) returns home from some time in the army.

Attack Force Z is a movie starring John Phillip Law, Mel Gibson, and Sam Neill. A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber.

In 1870, a Maori warrior working with the British finds his village massacred, and vows revenge.

Phar Lap is a movie starring Tom Burlinson, Judy Morris, and Martin Vaughan. The true story of an Australian racehorse that became a champion, with the help of a local stableboy.

La chiave is a movie starring Frank Finlay, Stefania Sandrelli, and Franco Branciaroli. In 1940s Venice, after twenty years of marriage, a Professor and his younger wife witness the passion wane. Now, all that remains is to confess...

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

Amadeus is a movie starring F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, and Elizabeth Berridge. The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of...