In "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force and attempting to win over Rome.

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...
The film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caug...

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C....

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friend...