Admiral Lee Sun-shin designs and builds the 'Turtle Ships' in preparation of the Japanese invasion during the Injin War. He is promoted after his victories, but due to his expanding influence and increased popularity in military circles, the king comes to fear him and has him imprisoned. A year later, the Japanese navy attempts another invasion and the king is required to enter the prison and beg the admiral's assistance.
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An Jung-geun fights for Korea's independence from the Japanese Empire and sparks a movement. In 1909...
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German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented ...
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In...
Set in the South just after the US Civil War, Laurel Sommersby is just managing to work the farm wit...
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
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A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
In 1913, in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, the Government gives some lands to a foreign railwa...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
Elderly Dastaguir and his newly deaf 5-year-old grandson Yassin hitchhike and walk, but mostly walk,...
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic fami...
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...
An HBCU warrior choir fights the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror against their schools with songs of ...