Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.

A Russian guitarist was enlisted in 1984 in the Afghan war. Imprisoned, he will meet an Afghan music...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

A story built around the music of Oskar Merikanto, tells the love story of the poor musician Lauri A...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

At 2:46 PM on March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant experiences a black out due ...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a drama...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the ...

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...