Valkyrie (2008)
A dramatization of the July 20, 1944 assassination and political coup plot by desperate renegade German Army officers against Adolf Hitler during World War II
The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
In 1971, twenty four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building
Conspiracy (TV Movie 2001)
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so called Final Solution to the Jewish Question can be best implemented
Experimenter (2015)
In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority
The Cokeville Miracle (2015)
Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened
Boiling Pot (2015)
On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as issues of the past emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups
The Devils (1971)
In 17th century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun
Gandhi (1982)
The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest
Amadeus (1984)
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozarts talent and claimed to have murdered him
Citizenfour (2014)
A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Story of a black woman in the South who was born into slavery in the 1850s and lives to become a part of the civil rights movement in the 1960s
Triumph of the Spirit (1989)
In Greece during World War II, a young Jewish boxer, meets regularly with girlfriend Allegra until they and their families are sent to Auschwitz When the Nazis learn of his boxing, they force him to participate in weekly boxing matc
Amazing Grace (2006)
The idealist William Wilberforce Ioan Gruffudd maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade
Operation: Daybreak (1975)
In 1942, Britain sends a group of British trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services
Little Boy (2015)
An eight year old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father
Last Hero in China (1993) Jet Li
Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese Robin Hood who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel
Child 44 (2015)
A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin era Soviet Union
Helter Skelter (2004)
A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself
Men Behind the Sun 1988
Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to unit 731, where theyre horribly tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons
Red Tails (2012)
The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II
The Robe (1953)
In the Roman province of Judea during the 1st century, Roman tribune Marcellus Gallio is ordered to crucify Jesus of Nazareth but is tormented by his guilty conscience afterwards
The Duchess (2008)
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life
Woman in Gold (2015)
Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines
The Great Escape (1963)
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II
The Hindenburg (1975)
A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames
One Night with the King (2006)
In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects
One Night with the King (2006)
In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects
Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life
Mad Love (2001) Juana la Loca (2001)
The love story that transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana the Mad A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a political motive behind
Bless Me, Ultima (2013)
A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village
Battle in Seattle (2007)
Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings
Missing (1982)
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup detat in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him
History of the World: Part I (1981)
Mel Brooks brings his one of a kind comic touch to the history of mankind covering events from the Old Testament to the French Revolution in a series of episodic comedy vignettes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (2007)
A historic chronicle based on the book by Dee Brown explains how Native Americans were displaced as the United States expanded west
Gettysburg 2011
An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level
Testament of Youth (2014)
A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times
Red Army (2014)
The story of the Soviet Unions famed Red Army hockey team through the eyes of its players
Killing Jesus 2015
A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth
Cleopatra (1963)
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome
Truth (2015)
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers
Bridge of Spies (2015)
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers
The Eichmann Show (2015)
Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer
Nas: Time Is Illmatic (2014)
The story behind Nass groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, and the early life of one of the most talented rappers of all time Featuring Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Q Tip, and Busta Rhymes
Suffragette (2015)
In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end
Empire of the Sun (1987)
A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II