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Geronimo
Genres: Action, History, Biography
Starring: Denver Pyle, Armando Silvestre, Adam West, Ross Martin, Eduardo Noriega, Claudio Brook, Chuck Connors
Directors: Arnold Laven
Country: USA
Year: 1962
An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.
Nightwatching
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Starring: Martin Freeman, Toby Jones, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Kevin McNulty, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Emily Holmes
Directors: Peter Greenaway
Country: UK, Canada, Netherlands, France, Poland
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son an...
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Jordi Mollà , Rhys Ifans, John Shrapnel, Cate Blanchett, Eddie Redmayne, Geoffrey Rush, Clive Owen
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Country: Germany, UK, France
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Two faiths, two empires, two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue, Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary, Walsingham, using as a pawn Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, who's under house arrest in the North. The trap springs, and the armada sets sail, to rendezvous with French ground forces and to attack. During these months, the Virgin Queen falls in love with Walter Raleigh, keeping him close to court and away from the sea and America. Is treachery or heroism at his heart? Does loneliness await...
Flags of Our Fathers
Genres: Action, Drama, History
Starring: Chris Bauer, Adam Beach, Barry Pepper, Jesse Bradford, Neal McDonough, Ryan Phillippe, Paul Walker
Directors: Clint Eastwood
Country: USA
Year: 2006
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In February, 1945, one of the fiercest battles of the Pacific theater of World War II occurs on the tiny island of Iwo Jima. Thousands of Marines attack the stronghold maintained by thousands of Japanese, and the slaughter on both sides is horrific. Early in the battle, an American flag is raised atop the high point, Mount Suribachi, and a photograph of the raising becomes an American cause celebre. As a powerful inspiration to war-sick Americans, the photo becomes a symbol of the Allied cause. The three surviving flag raisers, Rene Gagnon, John Bradley, and Ira Hayes, are whisked back to civilization to help raise funds for the war effort. B...
Gangs of New York
Genres: Crime, Drama, History
Starring: Cara Seymour, Jim Broadbent, Liam Neeson, John C. Reilly, Cameron Diaz, Gary Lewis, Larry Gilliard Jr.
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 2002
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Having seen his father killed in a major gang fight in New York, young Amsterdam Vallon is spirited away for his own safety. Some years later, he returns to the scene of his father's death, the notorious Five Points district in New York. It's 1863 and lower Manhattan is run by gangs, the most powerful of which is the Natives, headed by Bill "The Butcher" Cutting. He believes that America should belong to native-born Americans and opposes the waves of immigrants, mostly Irish, entering the city. It's also the time of the Civil War and forced conscription leads to the worst riots in US history. Amid the violence and corruption, young Vallon tri...
The Last King of Scotland
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Chris Wilson, Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, David Oyelowo, Simon McBurney
Directors: Kevin Macdonald
Country: UK
Year: 2006
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In 1970, the just-graduated doctor Nicholas Garrigan moves to Uganda to get rid of his conservative father. While working in a mission in the country, he meets the new President Idi Amin after the coup-d'
Kingdom of Heaven
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Starring: Steven Robertson, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, Orlando Bloom, Marton Csokas, David Thewlis, Bronson Webb
Directors: Ridley Scott
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Spain
Year: 2005
Available Quality: DivX, DVD, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
In 1184, French village blacksmith Balian just lost his wife trough suicide grief-stricken by their child's death; the crusader lord Godfrey, baron of Ibelin, reveals himself as Balian's father and offers him a crusader life, which the youngster spontaneously rejects but after the local priest taunts him till his sword strikes fatally accepts, fleeing the French bishop's bloody justice and seeking divine forgiveness as promised to crusaders in Jerusalem. On the way, Balian is instructed the skills of war and chivalric honor code and dubbed a knight in Messina by his father, who was fatally wounded fighting off the bishop's men. After shipwrec...
A Viking Saga
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Starring: Erik Holmey, Ken Vedsegaard, Peter Gantzler, Kenneth Carmohn, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Jesper Pedersen, Alexandre Willaume-Jantzen
Directors: Michael Mouyal
Country: USA, Denmark
Year: 2008
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.
1492: Conquest of Paradise
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Mark Margolis, Fernando Rey, Michael Wincott, Arnold Vosloo, Loren Dean
Directors: Ridley Scott
Country: Spain, France
Year: 1992
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants, and Columbus' struggle to civilize the New World.
The Game of Their Lives
Genres: Drama, History, Sport
Starring: Gerard Butler, Bill Smitrovich, Craig Hawksley, Wes Bentley, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Patrick Stewart, Costas Mandylor
Directors: David Anspaugh
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Based on a true story, this film tells the tale of the 1950 US soccer team who, against all odds, beat England 1 - 0 in the city of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Although no US team has ever won a World Cup title, this story is about the family traditions and passions which shaped the lives of the players who made up this team of underdogs.
Pathfinder
Genres: Action, Thriller, Adventure
Starring: Karl Urban, Clancy Brown, Nathaniel Arcand, Ralf Moeller, Moon Bloodgood, Russell Means, Jay Tavare
Directors: Marcus Nispel
Country: USA
Year: 2007
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen.
The Road to Wellville
Genres: Comedy, History
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey, Camryn Manheim, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Lerner, Colm Meaney, Bridget Fonda
Directors: Alan Parker
Country: USA
Year: 1994
In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the 'polluted' body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kello...
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Francis McDonald, Angela Lansbury, Moroni Olsen, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Henry Wilcoxon
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Country: USA
Year: 1949
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran.
Thirteen Days
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Bruce Greenwood, Bruce Thomas, Kevin Costner, Frank Wood, Dakin Matthews, Lucinda Jenney, Caitlin Wachs
Directors: Roger Donaldson
Country: USA
Year: 2000
In the early days of October 1962, U.S. spy planes photograph the impending installation of Soviet missile sites in Cuba. While there is widespread agreement that the missiles must not be allowed, there is no clear way to ensure that. The military feels that their destruction followed by the invasion of Cuba is likely the only option. President Kennedy realizes however that to do so, would lead the Soviet Union to invade West Berlin with the result being an all out war. He pushes his subordinates, coordinated by brother Bobby, to come up with an alternative solution. Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara proposes a naval blockade of Cuba which...
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Starring: Mykelti Williamson, Naomi Watts, Nick Searcy, Sean Penn, April Grace, Michael Wincott, Don Cheadle
Directors: Niels Mueller
Country: USA, Mexico
Year: 2004
Fact-based story about a disturbed office furniture salesman who in 1972 concocted a plot to kill then-President Nixon by hi-jacking a plane to fly over the White House to drop a gas bomb. At the start of the movie, the man is separated from his wife and stressed in his job where he is made the butt of jokes and is an under-performer. Attempts to get his brother's old tire business resurrected with a black partner is rejected by the banks. When he is officially served with divorce papers, everything comes apart and Richard Nixon's broken promises comes to represent all the evils that have come down on him. A news story about a pilot that land...
Catch a Fire
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Derek Luke, Tumisho Masha, Charlotte Savage, Tim Robbins, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Terry Pheto, Mncedisi Shabangu
Directors: Phillip Noyce
Country: USA, UK, South Africa, France
Year: 2006
Patrick Chamusso is an honest oil refinery foreman. When he is interrogated about a terrorist attack at the refinery on his shift, he produces false alibi, which worsen his condition. His jail time experience pushes him across the line, and he joins the African National Congress.
Windtalkers
Genres: Action, Romance, History
Starring: Peter Stormare, Nicolas Cage, Roger Willie, Holmes Osborne, Adam Beach, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo
Directors: John Woo
Country: USA
Year: 2002
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WWII. Joe Enders, a decorated Marine who is by-the-book to a fault, is just coming back on duty (by cheating on his medical tests). "Ox" Anderson, much greener, is also getting the same new task: Protect the Navajo codetalkers (Ben Yahzee and Charles Whitehorse, respectively). While Enders is initially frustrated with his assignment, his respect grows as the codetalkers prove their worth in the brutal battle to take Saipan.
Caligula
Genres: Drama, History
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud, Teresa Ann Savoy, John Steiner, Guido Mannari
Directors: Tinto Brass, Bob Guccione
Country: USA, Italy
Year: 1979
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
Passchendaele
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Gil Bellows, Adam Harrington, Joe Dinicol, Jesse Frechette, Michael Greyeyes, Paul Gross, Caroline Dhavernas
Directors: Paul Gross
Country: Canada
Year: 2008
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle.
Enemy at the Gates
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Starring: Ron Perlman, Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, Bob Hoskins, Matthias Habich
Directors: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Ireland
Year: 2001
In World War II, the fall of Stalingrad will mean the collapse of the whole country. The Germans and Russians are fighting over every block, leaving only ruins behind. The Russian sniper Vassili Zaitsev stalks the Germans, taking them out one by one, thus hurting the morale of the German troops. The political officer Danilov leads him on, publishing his efforts to give his countrymen some hope. But Vassili eventually start to feel that he can not live up to the expectations on him. He and Danilov fall in love with the same girl, Tanya, a female soldier. From Germany comes the master sniper K