This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy. His charge up San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898 is re-created. He becomes vice president in March 1901 and assumes the presidency when William McKinley is assassinated six months later. According to the narrator, Roosevelt refused to be beholden to political bosses, doing what he believed to be right for the American people.

Two incarcerated women in a secured forest of the North of Quebec are subjected to hard labour of re...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

The boredom of a young middle-class woman at home a Sunday afternoon. Not to be confused with Carlos...

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes beh...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar...

Agnes is not satisfied with her life. She wants a change, but her relationship with her single paren...

In the 1960s, a white couple living in East Germany tells their dark-skinned child that her skin col...

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...

Larry Flynt is the hedonistically obnoxious, but indomitable, publisher of Hustler magazine. The fil...

A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...