13 Hours That Saved Britain 2010
This film explores the events of September 15th, 1940 – the day Churchill described as the ‘crux of the battle.’ On a day now celebrated as Battle of Britain Day,…
Samrat Prithviraj 2022
Based on Prithviraj Raso, a biopic of legendary Hindu Rajput warrior king of Chahamanas Dynasty “PRITHVIRAJ CHAUHAN” which captures his early life, military accomplishments, marriage to Sanyukta and battle with…
Major 2022
Based on the life of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, who was martyred in action during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks and was consequently awarded the Ashoka Chakra, India’s highest peacetime gallantry…
Mr. Malcolm’s List 2022
A young woman courts a mysterious wealthy suitor in 19th century England.
Stand Up and Fight 1939
It starts in 1844 in Maryland, where Robert Taylor, plantation owner with slaves, is forced by debts to sell his estate and his people. Then he leaves for Cumberland, looking…
If I Were King 1938
In 1463, Paris is besieged by the Duke of Burgundy, arch-rival of the king, who is content to sit tight while the poor starve. But there are traitors in Paris,…
Victoria the Great 1937
The story opens on the morning of 20 June 1837, when the Lord Chamberlain and Archbishop of Canterbury arrive to inform young Princess Victoria that her uncle, William IV, is…
Conquest 1937
After a brief informal meeting two months earlier when they were impressed with each other, Countess Marie Walewska formally meets Napoleon Bonaparte at a ball in Warsaw. When Napoleon notes…
The Gorgeous Hussy 1936
It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal – Peggy to most that know her – is the daughter of Major William O’Neal, who is the innkeeper of…
Strauss’ Great Waltz 1934
Schani, Johan Strauss Jr., is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery. Here he falls in love with Resi. The girl gets very jealous…
The Crusades 1935
The Third Crusade as it didn’t happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get…
Nell Gwyn 1934
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of…
Broken Lullaby 1932
A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each having attended the…
The Conquerors 1932
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Alexander Hamilton 1931
With the end of the Revolutionary War in 1783, General George Washington took Colonel Hamilton with him into the newly formed government. While the main disagreements in the early days…
Shakespeare’s Globe: Henry IV, Part 1 2010
Henry IV faces armed opposition from former allies and at the same time is worried by the company his son and heir Prince Hal is keeping, company that includes the…
Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002 2002
A documentary about the history of the most successful club in England from it’s foundation in 1878 up to 2002.
H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer 2004
Depicts the entire life of Herman Mudgett, AKA Holmes, and his castle of horrors. Also known as the torture doctor, Holmes designed his own building, complete with torture chambers, where…
The Judge and the Assassin 1976
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier, a former Sergeant in the French military, shoots his beloved and attempts to kill himself. Having survived with two bullets in his brain, he is released…
A Southern Yankee 1948
Aubrey Filmore (Red Skelton) is a bumbling bellboy in a Missouri town who pesters the Union officers there; he desperately wants to be a spy for the North in the…
Captain Boycott 1947
Fact-based historical drama about the Irish farmer rebellion against the landed and privileged class. In 1880, prominent Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell, President of the Irish Land League which represented…
The Young Mr. Pitt 1942
William Pitt the Younger, son of a famous politician father, becomes the youngest Prime Minister England has ever known, wins an election on the promise of peace and prosperity, yet…
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport 2000
For nine months prior to World War II, in an act of mercy unequalled anywhere else before the war, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission, opening its doors to over…
The Private Life of Henry VIII 1933
This movie tells the story of King Henry VIII and the last five of his six wives. Set almost entirely within the royal castle, it begins just before the death…
Fighting for Lincoln: The Wide Awakes 2020
This is the story of the 1860 election, and how a group of politically minded young men created a national political organization – the Wide Awakes – who marched by…
John Paul Jones 1959
The swashbuckling adventures of the Revolutionary War hero and inspiration of the US Navy. His contributions weren’t always appreciated by the new U.S. government. After the Revolutionary War, Congress loans…
China’s Emperor of Evil 2016
In China’s Valley of the Kings, there stands a tall, carved stone. It honors the resting place of a woman named Wu Zetian, who rose from concubine to become China’s…
Whelm 2019
Set during the Great Depression, two Midwest brothers get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and an eccentric young criminal.
The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell 2011
The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don’t ask, don’t tell» where sexual orientation was a “non-talk” policy in the American forces, leading to 13.368 getting kicked out…
Day One 1989
Based on true events surrounding the creation of the atomic bomb, this drama follows the complicated relationship between physicist Leo Szilard, scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Gen. Leslie Groves. Assigned…
Solomon Northup’s Odyssey 1984
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He’s a born freeman who works as a…
Forever and a Day 1943
During World War II, an American travels to Britain to sell an old house near London that belongs to his family. However, he meets Leslie Trimble who lives in the…
Rasputin and the Empress 1932
As Europe looms on the edge of war in 1913, the family and members of the court of the Russian czar Nicholas come under the sway of a mysterious mystic…
Walter’s War 2008
The substantially true story of Walter Tull, a black man whose grandfather was a slave but who was born in Folkestone, Kent, in England, and who, in the years prior…
The Girl Who Wore Freedom 2020
Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women, and children who lived through German occupation and Allied liberation of Normandy, France. Powerful and deeply personal, THE GIRL WHO…