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    Christopher Columbus

    The 15th-century explorer (Fredric March) asks Queen Isabella (Florence Eldridge) of Spain to back...

  • Captain Boycott picture
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    Captain Boycott

    An Irish tenant farmer (Stewart Granger) leads others against a land agent (Cecil Parker)...

  • National Treasure: Book of Secrets picture
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    National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)

    A page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth implicates Ben Gates' (Nicolas Cage) great-great...

  • Red Cliff: Part I picture
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    Red Cliff: Part I (2009)

    In the early part of the 3rd century, three kingdoms in China wage a massive war, culminating in the...

  • Milk picture
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    Milk (2008)

    In San Francisco, Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) becomes the first openly gay man elected to a notable U.S....

  • Of Time and the City picture
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    Of Time and the City (2009)

    Director Terence Davies' love song and eulogy to his birthplace of Liverpool. It is also a response...

  • Babette's gastebud picture
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    Babette's gastebud (1988)

    An exiled Paris chef (Stéphane Audran) enlightens two pious Danish sisters who forsook romance and...

  • Julius Caesar picture
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    Julius Caesar (1953)

    Shakespeare's Brutus (James Mason), Cassius (John Gielgud) and others plot the Roman ruler's death,...

  • Oscar and Lucinda picture
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    Oscar and Lucinda (1997)

    A Victorian British cleric (Ralph Fiennes) with a penchant for gambling meets a poker-playing...

  • The Last of the Mohicans picture
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    The Last of the Mohicans (1992)

    Colonial guide Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis), with his Indian friends, Chingachgook (Russell Means) and...

  • Nixon picture
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    Nixon (1995)

    Insecurities haunt the 37th president (Anthony Hopkins) as he wins two terms, ends the Vietnam War...

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    Sommersby (1993)

    A farmer's wife (Jodie Foster) suspects the man (Richard Gere) in her bed, back from the Civil War,...

  • The Emperor Caligula: the Untold Story picture
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    The Emperor Caligula: the Untold Story (1982)

    After the 1977 popularity of the hardcore Caligula by Tinto Brass, several similar "Caligula" films...

  • The People vs. Larry Flynt picture
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    The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996)

    Arrested on obscenity charges, the publisher (Woody Harrelson) of Hustler magazine, with the help of...

  • Il Decamerone picture
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    Il Decamerone (1971)

    The Decameron was the first of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "trilogy of life." The film, based on...

  • Dangerous Exile picture
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    Dangerous Exile

    A French duke (Louis Jourdan) saves Louis XVI's son during the Reign of Terror and hides him with a...

  • The Seventh Seal picture
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    The Seventh Seal (1957)

    Returning from a Crusade with his squire (Gunnar Bjornstrand), a weary knight (Max von Sydow) plays...

  • Macbeth picture
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    Macbeth (1948)

    An 11th-century Scottish nobleman's (Orson Welles) wife (Jeanette Nolan) drives him to murder his...

  • Oswald's Ghost picture
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    Oswald's Ghost (2007)

    Delves into the conspiracies, truths, myths and lies stemming from the assassination of President...

  • Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson picture
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    Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (2008)

    Home videos, audiotapes and writings from the late adventurer.

  • American Swing picture
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    American Swing (2009)

    In 1970s New York, clothing-optional nightclub Plato's Retreat becomes a haven for swingers and...

  • Every Little Step picture
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    Every Little Step (2009)

    Follows the plight of real-life dancers as they struggle through auditions for the Broadway revival...

  • Wyatt Earp picture
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    Wyatt Earp (1994)

    The portrait traces him from Southern boy to Western lawman (Kevin Costner) defending boomtowns with...

  • Pathfinder picture
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    Pathfinder (2007)

    American Indians adopt and raise as their own a Viking boy who was left behind by his own people...

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    Breaker Morant (1980)

    Australian Lt. Morant (Edward Woodward) and two fellow officers are court-martialed for executing...

  • Saint of 9/11 picture
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    Saint of 9/11 (2006)

    When two planes ripped through the World Trade Center on September 11, the first official casualty...

  • Spartacus picture
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    Spartacus (1960)

    A gladiator slave (Kirk Douglas) leads a revolt in decadent Rome and attempts to lead his followers...

  • Braveheart picture
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    Braveheart (1995)

    Enraged by the killing of his wife, Scotsman William Wallace (Mel Gibson) leads a revolt against the...

  • Lords of Dogtown picture
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    Lords of Dogtown (2005)

    In the 1970s a group of California surfers (Emile Hirsch, Victor Rasuk, John Robinson) pioneers a...

  • War and Peace picture
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    War and Peace (1956)

    Pierre (Henry Fonda) loves Natasha (Audrey Hepburn), and Napoleon attacks Russia in this epic based...