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The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement.

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Patmos is a movie starring Louis Rolston, Mark Mulholland, and Joe McPartland. The elderly apostle John lives as a prisoner in the penal colony on the island of Patmos, where he gets inspiration to write the Book of Revelation.

La historia oficial is a movie starring Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, and Chunchuna Villafañe. During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her...

Guided by seasoned New Yorkers, political figures, and cultural connoisseurs, "Empire City" examines Manhattan and its surrounding boroughs in order to paint a portrait of the ever-evolving metropolis. Appearing to be both adaptable

The story of Lady Jane Grey, who was Queen of England for only nine days.

After years of political agitation, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht, and Leo Jogiches form a revolutionary German party, the Spartacists.

Salvador is a movie starring James Woods, Jim Belushi, and Michael Murphy. A burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.

Caravaggio is a movie starring Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, and Nigel Terry. A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.

Eighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews. It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943.

The Last Emperor is a movie starring John Lone, Joan Chen, and Peter O'Toole. The story of the final Emperor of China.

Matewan is a movie starring Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, and Mary McDonnell. A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Hong gao liang is a movie starring Gong Li, Wen Jiang, and Rujun Teng. When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while...

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.

In the mid-60s, a teenage 4.0 high-school student is drawn out of his element on a dare by his peers, to become a dancer on popular TV music show.

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.

Hei tai yang 731 is a movie starring Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, and Linjie Hao. Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where they're horribly tortured and experimented on to test new...

Camille Claudel is a movie starring Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, and Madeleine Robinson. Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for...

Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

Triumph of the Spirit is a movie starring Willem Dafoe, Edward James Olmos, and Robert Loggia. In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to...

Based on the Profumo Scandal of 1963, an affair between an exotic dancer and the Minister of War shakes up the British government.

Francesco is a movie starring Mickey Rourke, Helena Bonham Carter, and Andréa Ferréol. Docudrama about the life of St-Francis of Assisi.

Two young boys from very different backgrounds become friends in 1933 Stuttgart. However, they don't realize how different they are until much later as one is the son of a well-to-do Jewish doctor and the other the son of a German ar

Comic Book Confidential is a movie starring Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, and Sue Coe. A survey of the artistic history of the comic book medium and some of the major talents associated with it.

Romero is a movie starring Raul Julia, Richard Jordan, and Ana Alicia. The life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero who opposed, at great personal risk, the tyrannical repression in El Salvador.

Legendary tea master Sen no Rikyu is faced with his warmongering lord's unrealistic pretensions.

Roadkill is a movie starring Valerie Buhagiar, Gerry Quigley, and Larry Hudson. A music promoter sends a young woman on a road trip in search of a band who hasn't been showing up for their gigs.

Fat Man and Little Boy is a movie starring Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, and Bonnie Bedelia. This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.

An in-depth look at various NASA moon landing missions, starting with Apollo 8.

Ben Kline is a successful television actor looking for a meaningful role to make him a movie star. When he sets out to play a hero who died in the Holocaust, he is forced to face the reality of those victimized by the war. In assumin

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

Berkeley in the Sixties is a movie starring Jentri Anders, Joan Baez, and Frank Bardacke. A documentary about militant student political activity in the University of California-Berkely in the 1960's.

A kung-fu manual known as the sacred scroll is stolen from the Emperor's library. An army detachment is sent to recover it. Meanwhile, a young swordsman and his fellow disciple are accidentally drawn into the chaos.

The Long Walk Home is a movie starring Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, and Dwight Schultz. Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by...

Echoes That Remain paints a rich portrait of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust. Folk stories, parables, and anecdotes come together in a complex tapestry woven from archival research and oral histories.

Late 1800s Foshan, Guangdong: Wong Fei Hung/Jet Li trains men in martial arts to help defend against foreign powers already holding Hong Kong and Macau. He looks after cute 13th Aunt, who's just returned from England. Lots of fight s

Edward II is a movie starring Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, and Andrew Tiernan. In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the...

Dà hóng denglong gaogao guà is a movie starring Gong Li, Jingwu Ma, and Saifei He. A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.

JFK is a movie starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, and Jack Lemmon. New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.

A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899. When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business.

Videogramme einer Revolution is a movie starring Ion Caramitru, Elena Ceausescu, and Nicolae Ceausescu. This documentary uses news footage and amateur video to paint a vivid picture of Romania's 1989 revolution and the fall of...

A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famou

1492: Conquest of Paradise is a movie starring Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, and Sigourney Weaver. Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.

Malcolm X is a movie starring Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, and Delroy Lindo. Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his...

Wong Fei Hung III: Si wong jaang ba is a movie starring Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, and Siu Chung Mok. Master Wong and his disciples enroll in the 'Dancing Lion Competition' to stop an assassination plot and to battle an arrogant,...