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  • Alvarez Kelly picture
    Movies

    Alvarez Kelly (1966)

    A Confederate colonel (Richard Widmark) makes a cattleman (William Holden) teach his troops how to...

  • A Man For All Seasons picture
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    A Man For All Seasons (1966)

    Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) opposes Henry VIII's (Robert Shaw) appointing himself head of the...

  • White Mischief picture
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    White Mischief (1988)

    A titled Englishman's (Joss Ackland) bride (Greta Scacchi) has a scandalous affair with an ill-fated...

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    Queimada! (1969)

    A British colonist is sent to instigate a revolution on a Caribbean island instrumental to the sugar...

  • King Solomon's Mines picture
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    King Solomon's Mines (1985)

    A renowned adventurer (Patrick Swayze) leads a dangerous quest to find a woman's (Alison Doody)...

  • Reds picture
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    Reds (1981)

    U.S. journalist John Reed (Warren Beatty) and wife Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) witness the Russian...

  • Quiz Show picture
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    Quiz Show (1994)

    A scandal rocks 1950s America when a former game-show champion admits he was given the answers....

  • Prisoners of the Sun picture
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    Prisoners of the Sun (1991)

    An Australian captain (Bryan Brown) tries to prosecute a Japanese baron (George Takei) for POW-camp...

  • Chicago 10 picture
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    Chicago 10 (2008)

    Following the riots at the 1968 Democratic Convention, Abbie Hoffman (Hank Azaria), David Dellinger...

  • Charlie Wilson's War picture
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    Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

    A congressman (Tom Hanks), a socialite (Julia Roberts) and a CIA agent (Philip Seymour Hoffman) are...

  • The Great Debaters picture
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    The Great Debaters (2007)

    In 1930s Texas, Mel Tolson (Denzel Washington) inspires students at a predominately black college to...

  • Shake Hands with the Devil picture
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    Shake Hands with the Devil

    Lt. Gen. Roméo Dallaire (Roy Dupuis) witnesses atrocities while leading a U.N. peacekeeping mission...

  • Man on Wire picture
    Movies

    Man on Wire (2008)

    Frenchman Philippe Petit makes an illegal high-wire walk across the World Trade Center.

  • Shanghai (Weinstein Co) picture
    Movies

    Shanghai (Weinstein Co) (2008)

    Set in Shanghai in 1941, an American spy becomes entangled in intrigue and romance.

  • The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 picture
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    The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306

    The Reverend Samuel "Billy" Kyles, a witness to Martin Luther King's assassination, reflects on...

  • Letters to the President picture
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    Letters to the President

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad encourages his people to write him letters.

  • Rob Roy picture
    Movies

    Rob Roy (1995)

    The Scottish folk hero (Liam Neeson) fights for clan and honor, hunted by vile aristocrats in the...

  • Sirens picture
    Movies

    Sirens (1994)

    An English clergyman (Hugh Grant) and his wife (Tara Fitzgerald) are stirred by an artist (Sam...

  • Amistad picture
    Movies

    Amistad (1997)

    U.S. lawyers (Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey) defend Africans who revolted against their...

  • Rosewood picture
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    Rosewood (1997)

    Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in...

  • Elizabeth picture
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    Elizabeth (1998)

    After succeeding her sister Mary to the throne in 1558, Elizabeth I (Cate Blanchett) rules Britain...

  • Alive picture
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    Alive (1993)

    Members of an Uruguayan rugby team do what they must to survive a 1970s plane crash in the frigid...

  • Tora! Tora! Tora! picture
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    Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

    The history of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor is re-created from U.S. and Japanese...

  • Lake of Fire picture
    Movies

    Lake of Fire (2007)

    Filmmaker Tony Kaye examines the abortion issue from both sides, including interviews with Alan...

  • The Fall of the Roman Empire picture
    Movies

    The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

    Decadent Commodus takes over and plays god after the poisoning of Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec...

  • Richard III picture
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    Richard III (1955)

    Shakespeare's hunchbacked king (Laurence Olivier) works his mad way from the battlefield to the...

  • The Swan picture
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    The Swan (1956)

    A European princess (Grace Kelly) waltzes with her tutor (Louis Jourdan) but is destined to marry a...

  • Tales of the Rat Fink picture
    Movies

    Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)

    The life and times of car designer Ed ``Big Daddy'' Roth.

  • The Assisi Underground picture
    Movies

    The Assisi Underground (1985)

    This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...

  • Far and Away picture
    Movies

    Far and Away (1992)

    An Irish farmer (Tom Cruise) and his landlord's daughter (Nicole Kidman) come to 1890s Boston, where...