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    Crusoe (1989)

    A shipwrecked slave-trader (Aidan Quinn) learns to respect people, following his experiences with a...

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    O Jerusalem (2007)

    Epic drama of 1948, in which Arabs and Jews fought each other for the city of Jerusalem.

  • The Rape of Europa picture
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    The Rape of Europa (2007)

    The Nazis loot and destroy European artwork during World War II.

  • Captain John Smith and Pocahontas picture
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    Captain John Smith and Pocahontas (1953)

    Indian princess Pocahontas (Jody Lawrence) weds Jamestown settler Smith (Anthony Dexter) after...

  • The Charge of the Light Brigade picture
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)

    Lords Raglan (John Gielgud) and Cardigan (Trevor Howard) doom the British against the Russians at...

  • Empire of the Sun picture
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    Empire of the Sun (1987)

    Steven Spielberg's acclaimed account of an English boy's life in a WWII internment camp in...

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    Mongol (2008)

    Genghis Khan (Tadanobu Asano) returns to his homeland to unite the Mongols under one ruler.

  • The Crucible picture
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    The Crucible (1996)

    A 17th-century Salem woman (Winona Ryder) accuses an ex-lover's (Daniel Day-Lewis) wife of witchery...

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    The Reckoning (2004)

    In 14th-century England, actors (Willem Dafoe, Brian Cox) stage a play based on a mute woman accused...

  • Far From the Madding Crowd picture
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    Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)

    An English farmer (Alan Bates), soldier and aristocrat (Peter Finch) court a rural Victorian beauty...

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    The Killing of John Lennon (2008)

    Mark David Chapman (Jonas Ball) travels to New York in the fall of 1980 to kill musician John...

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    Goya's Ghosts (2007)

    A Spanish Inquisitor's (Javier Bardem) plan to curry favor with his superiors backfires after he...

  • Valkyrie picture
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    Valkyrie (2008)

    Fearing that Hitler will destroy his beloved Germany, Col. Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) joins...

  • Che: Part One picture
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    Che: Part One (2009)

    In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (Benicio Del Toro) and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an...

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    Taking Woodstock (2009)

    A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the...

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    Eight Men Out (1988)

    Disgruntled Chicago White Sox stand trial for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series for mobster...

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    Haunted Summer (1988)

    Set in england during the summer of 1816

  • Enemy At the Gates picture
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    Enemy At the Gates (2001)

    A Nazi sniper (Ed Harris) travels to Stalingrad to find and kill a Russian sharpshooter (Jude Law),...

  • Thirteen Days picture
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    Thirteen Days (2000)

    President John F. Kennedy (Bruce Greenwood) and members (Kevin Costner, Steven Culp) of his staff...

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    Dangerous Liaisons (1988)

    Former lovers, a marquise (Glenn Close) and a viscount (John Malkovich), pass the time in decadent...

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    Talk to Me (2007)

    Fueled by the music and social upheaval of the times, ex-convict Ralph ``Petey'' Greene (Don...

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    Anna and the King (1999)

    The King of Siam (Chow Yun-Fat) hires an English widow (Jodie Foster) to teach the ways of the...

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    Dragonard (1989)

    When the new colonial governor of a Caribbean island revives the use of a whip to torture prisoners,...

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    Chapter 27 (2008)

    Obsessed with the character of Holden Caulfield in J.D. Salinger's ``The Catcher in the Rye,'' Mark...

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    No End in Sight (2007)

    Filmmaker Charles Fergusen analyzes the policies, mistakes and failures surrounding President George...

  • Flame & Citron picture
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    Flame & Citron

    Follows two Danish resistance fighters who liquidate Nazi informers.

  • The Baader Meinhof Complex picture
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    The Baader Meinhof Complex (2009)

    A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings,...

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    1900 (1977)

    Set in the countryside of the Province of Emilia in Italy, the story of two men, one a bastard born...

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    The Hawaiians (1970)

    A seaman's grandson returns to the islands and builds a pineapple plantation in this sequel to...

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    Frida (2002)

    Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (Salma Hayek) marries fellow artist Diego Rivera who shares her radical...