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...
Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California histor...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
'Sugar' Ray is the owner of an illegal casino and must contend with the pressure of vicious gangster...
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea...
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to co...
Based on the life of the Korean anarchist Park Yeol, the film shows his struggle to counter the mass...
The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish Englis...
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow pat...
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, t...
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...
A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trap...
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...
In 1928, Amelia Earhart gains fame by undertaking a transatlantic flight as a passenger. In 1937, sh...
In 1920, a combat flight training school named "Willows" is founded in California. People who want t...
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...
The movie takes place in the kitchen of Cankaya Mansion on Sunday night, October 28, 1923, a day bef...
New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession...
Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of en...
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...