In the era of normalisation, a number of (pseudo)historical films were made, even described as reconstructions, which glorified the world-building mission of the Communist Party and attributed to it exclusively humanitarian intentions ("Days of Betrayal", "Sokolovo", "Liberation of Prague", "The Victorious People"). In 1929, when its fifth congress met, Klement Gottwald, who had taken the line of the Russian Bolsheviks, took over the leadership of the Communists...

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...

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

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealt...

In 1920s China, 19-year-old Songlian becomes a concubine of a powerful lord and is forced to compete...

Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelle...

The film takes place among the prisoners in the camp, who are secretly praying and being bullied by ...

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

Artist Charles Ryder runs into aristocrat Julia Flyte and recalls his friendship with her eccentric ...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

February 1927: Félix Leclerc's last year with his family before attending a private college in the f...

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...

A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trap...

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one ...

The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish Englis...

In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on t...