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The Broken Tower
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Michael Shannon, James Franco, Vince Jolivette, Dave Franco, Stacey Miller, Betsy Franco, David Rothstadt
Directors: James Franco
Country: USA
Year: 2011
A look at the dreams, unapologetic love of men , manic highs and depressive, death-haunted lows of early 20th century rebellious, self-destructive visionary poet Hart Crane from his early years as the son of a wealthy Cleveland businessman through his sojourns in New York, Cuba and Paris.
War Horse
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Peter Mullan, David Thewlis, Patrick Kennedy, Emily Watson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Kebbell, Eddie Marsan
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where, after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found, caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as ...
Red Tails
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: Kevin Phillips, Nate Parker, Terrence Howard, Tristan Wilds, Matthew Marsh, Method Man, Lee Tergesen
Directors: Anthony Hemingway
Country: USA
Year: 2012
A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.
The Mill and the Cross
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Oskar Huliczka, Joanna Litwin
Directors: Lech Majewski
Country: Poland, Sweden
Year: 2011
Behind every great painting lies an even greater story
The Bunker
Genres: Drama, History, War
Starring: Michael Kitchen, Anthony Hopkins, James Naughton, Piper Laurie, Richard Jordan, Martin Jarvis, Michael Lonsdale
Directors: George Schaefer
Country: USA, France
Year: 1981
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Territories
Genres: Horror, History
Starring: Nicole Leroux, Vlasta Vrana, Caroline Redekopp, Roc LaFortune, Tim Rozon, Cristina Rosato, Stephen Shellen
Directors: Olivier Abbou
Country: Canada, France
Year: 2010
Five friends returning from a marriage in Canada return home to the United States. Not far from the border, two customs officers stop them to check their identity. Suspicious, they take their time especially with Jalil, a man of Arab origin. The situation worsens when a customs officer finds a small bag of marijuana in the luggage. Then things degenerate rapidly: a customs officer grabs the little dog that's part of the group and slits open its belly to be sure it's not a mule. When Gab makes a move, he's shot. The customs officer orders the surviving friends to undress and put on orange coveralls. Gradually, it dawns on the four tourists tha...
The Real Robin Hood
Genres: History, Documentary, Biography
Starring: William Hurt, Dominic Kinnaird, Lockhart Ogilvie
Directors: M. David Melvin
Country: USA, Japan
Year: 2010
A special about the origins of the English folk hero.
Alleged
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Colm Meaney, Fred Dalton Thompson, Brian Dennehy, JR Bourne, Ashley Johnson, Nathan West, Linda Boston
Directors: Tom Hines
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, Hi Def
Alleged is a romantic drama based on events occurring behind the scenes and outside the courtroom of the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" of 1925. Charles Anderson, a talented young reporter, feels trapped working for his deceased father's weekly newspaper and living in a tiny town (Dayton, TN) in steep decline. Seeing the "Monkey Trial" as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to break into the journalistic big leagues, Charles manages to insert himself into the middle of the "Trial of the Century." Once in the midst of this staged event, however, he is torn between his love for the more principled Rose, his fiancée, and the escalating moral comprom...
Comic Book Confidential
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Lynda Barry, Charles Burns, Sue Coe
Directors: Ron Mann
Country: USA, Canada
Year: 1988
In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of W...
Prohibition - Season One
Genres: History, Documentary
Starring: Samuel L. Jackson, Paul Giamatti, Campbell Scott, Frances Sternhagen, Tom Hanks, Kevin Conway, Blythe Danner
Directors: Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Patricia Clarkson
Country: Unknown
Year: 2011
"Prohibition" was intended to improve, even to ennoble, the lives of all Americans, to protect individuals, families, and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse. But the enshrining of a faith-driven moral code in the Constitution paradoxically caused millions of Americans to rethink their definition of morality.
Attack Force Z
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Starring: Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood, John Waters, John Phillip Law, Sylvia Chang, Chun Ku
Directors: Tim Burstall
Country: Australia
Year: 1982
Available Quality: Hi Def, Hi Def
A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.
Valkyrie
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Kenneth Cranham, Thomas Kretschmann, David Bamber, Tom Cruise, Tom Wilkinson, Terence Stamp, Kevin McNally
Directors: Bryan Singer
Country: Germany, USA
Year: 2008
In Nazi Germany during World War II, as the tide turned in favor of The Allies, a cadre of senior German officers and politicians desperately plot to topple the Nazi regime before the nation is crushed in a near-inevitable defeat. To this end, Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, an Army officer convinced he must save Germany from Hitler, is recruited to mastermind a real plan. To do so, he arranges for the internal emergency measure, Operation: Valkyrie, to be changed to enable his fellows to seize control of Berlin after the assassination of the Fuhrer. However, even as the plan is put into action, a combination of bad luck and human failings co...
Ghost Adventures - Season Six
Genres: Thriller, History, Sci-Fi
Starring: Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Directors: Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Self-described as "raw" and "extreme", the program originally began as an independent documentary television film, which was filmed by the crew in 2004 and produced by 4Reel Productions in 2006. The Sci-Fi Channel first presented 4Reel's Ghost Adventures on July 25, 2007. The documentary centers on the trio's investigation of alleged paranormal activity in and around Virginia City, Nevada, which the crew returned to on the fourth season of the series, and in Goldfield, Nevada in which the crew returned to in order to finish their lockdown at the Goldfield Hotel.
Ghost Adventures - Season Five
Genres: Thriller, History, Sci-Fi
Starring: Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Directors: Nick Groff, Zak Bagans, Aaron Goodwin
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Self-described as "raw" and "extreme", the program originally began as an independent documentary television film, which was filmed by the crew in 2004 and produced by 4Reel Productions in 2006. The Sci-Fi Channel first presented 4Reel's Ghost Adventures on July 25, 2007. The documentary centers on the trio's investigation of alleged paranormal activity in and around Virginia City, Nevada, which the crew returned to on the fourth season of the series, and in Goldfield, Nevada in which the crew returned to in order to finish their lockdown at the Goldfield Hotel.
JFK
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Jay O. Sanders, Kevin Costner, Edward Asner, Sally Kirkland, Anthony Ramirez, Ray LePere, Steve Reed
Directors: Oliver Stone
Country: USA, France
Year: 1991
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Details the actions of New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison, who takes it upon himself to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas, in 1963. Garrison is extremely suspicious of the official story presented by the FBI, and what he already knows and what he subsequently learns lead him to suspect that there is more to the story than the public is being told.
The Man in the Iron Mask
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Starring: John Malkovich, Gabriel Byrne, Hugh Laurie, Peter Sarsgaard, Judith Godrèche, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gérard Depardieu
Directors: Randall Wallace
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1998
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
1662. Paris starves while youthful Louis XIV debauches young women and wastes the treasury on war. The captain of his guard, D'Artagnan, protects him from conspirators. Louis casts his eye on penniless Christine, the sweetheart of Raoul, a soldier and only son of retired musketeer, Athos. To have Christine, Louis sends Raoul to harm's way on the front. To kill the leader of the conspirators, the king calls in ex-musketeer Aramis, now a priest, accompanied by the Falstaffian Porthos. The queen mother, in widow's weeds, grieves in her chapel, and in the Bastille rots a solitary prisoner, face locked in an iron mask. Perfidy, silence, loyalty, r...
Deadliest Warrior - Season Three
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Starring: Armand Dorian, Geoff Desmoulin
Directors: Armand Dorian, Geoff Desmoulin
Country: USA
Year: 2
Deadliest Warrior is a television program in which information on historical or modern warriors and their weapons are used to determine which of them is the "deadliest" based upon tests performed during each episode. The show is characterized by its use of the data compiled in creating a dramatization of the warriors' battle to the death.
Rob Roy
Genres: Action, Romance, Drama
Starring: Brian Cox, John Hurt, Ewan Stewart, Liam Neeson, David Hayman, Eric Stoltz, Tim Roth
Directors: Michael Caton-Jones
Country: USA, UK
Year: 1995
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
The Universe - Season Three
Genres: History, Documentary, Sci-Fi
Starring: Erik Thompson
Directors: Erik Thompson, Alex Filippenko, Laura Danly
Country: USA
Year: 2009
The Universe is an American documentary television series that premiered on May 29, 2007 on The History Channel. The program is produced by Flight 33 Productions and Workaholic Productions. The show features computer-generated imagery/computer graphics of astronomical objects in the universe and interviews with experts who study in the fields of cosmology, astronomy and astrophysics.
The Special Relationship
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Dennis Quaid, Michael Sheen, Chris Wilson, Demetri Goritsas, Michael Warren, Hope Davis, Adam Godley
Directors: Richard Loncraine
Country: USA, UK
Year: 2010
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A dramatization that traces former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair's relationships with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.