Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, offi...

When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly politica...

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

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with ...

The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical prof...

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Unio...

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

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...