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102 Minutes That Changed America

Genres: Documentary, History

Country: United States

Director: Nicole Rittenmeyer, Seth Skundrick

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2008

Actors: George W. Bush, Joe Napolitano, Kelly Edwards

The morning of September 11 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers...

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The Diary Of Anne Frank

Genres: Biography, Drama, Family, History, ...

Country: United States

Director: George Stevens

Duration: 152 min

Year: 1959

Actors: Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters, Joseph Schildkraut

Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...

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The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Henry Hathaway

Duration: 88 min

Year: 1951

Actors: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy

This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...

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The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Laurence Olivier

Duration: 137 min

Year: 1944

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton, Leslie Banks

In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...

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The Baader Meinhof Complex

Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, ...

Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic

Director: Uli Edel

Duration: 150 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek

Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...

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The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Romania

Director: Andrei Ujica

Duration: 180 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Nicolae Ceausescu, Elena Ceausescu, Leonid Brezhnev

During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...

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The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Director: Andrew Dominik

Duration: 160 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Brad Pitt, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard

The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...

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Spartacus

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: United States

Director: Stanley Kubrick

Duration: 197 min

Year: 1960

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons

In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...

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Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: Germany

Director: Marc Rothemund

Duration: 120 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Gerald Alexander Held

The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...

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Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island

Genres: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, ...

Country: Japan

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1956

Actors: Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Kôji Tsuruta

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...

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Robert Mugabe... What Happened?

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, News

Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Simon Bright

Duration: 84 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Guy de Lancey

Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...

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Wilde

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan

Director: Brian Gilbert

Duration: 118 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave

The story of Oscar Wilde genius poet playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosies father the enraged Marquise of Queensberry Wilde refused to flee the country and was...

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Viva Zapata

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War, ...

Country: United States

Director: Elia Kazan

Duration: 104 min

Year: 1952

Actors: Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn

In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...

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Vincere

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Italy, France

Director: Marco Bellocchio

Duration: 128 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi

The story of Mussolinis secret lover Ida Dalser and their son...

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The Young Victoria

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Jean-Marc Vallée

Duration: 105 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany

Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort Conroy since childhood teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IVs rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but following her accession at age eighteen finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance...

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The Times Of Harvey Milk

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Rob Epstein (as Robert Epstein)

Duration: 90 min

Year: 1984

Actors: Harvey Fierstein, Harvey Milk, Anne Kronenberg

Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...

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The Story Of Adele H

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: François Truffaut

Duration: 96 min

Year: 1975

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Bruce Robinson, Sylvia Marriott

Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...

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The Spirit Of St. Louis

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Billy Wilder

Duration: 135 min

Year: 1957

Actors: James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith

Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...

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The Return Of Martin Guerre

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, ...

Country: France

Director: Daniel Vigne

Duration: 122 min

Year: 1982

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier

During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...

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The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France

Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer (as Carl Th. Dreyer)

Duration: 110 min

Year: 1928

Actors: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley

The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...

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The Outlaw

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Spain, Brazil

Director: Andrucha Waddington

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala

A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...

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The New World

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Terrence Malick

Duration: 135 min

Year: 2005

Actors: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...

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The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Carl Colby

Duration: 104 min

Year: 2011

Actors:

A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...

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The Madness Of King George

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nicholas Hytner

Duration: 107 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm

A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...

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The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History

Country: China, Hong Kong

Director: Felix Chong, Alan Mak

Duration: 109 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Donnie Yen, Wen Jiang, Betty Sun

This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...

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The Lady

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United Kingdom, France

Director: Luc Besson

Duration: 132 min

Year: 2011

Actors: Michelle Yeoh, David Thewlis, Jonathan Raggett

THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...

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The Ken & Barbie Killers

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Canada

Director:

Duration: 60 min

Year: 1996

Actors: Michelle Banks, Fred Berlin, Vince Bevan

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The Josephine Baker Story

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Music, ...

Country: United States

Director: Brian Gibson

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Lynn Whitfield, Rubén Blades, David Dukes

Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...

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Queen Margot

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: France, Italy, Germany

Director: Patrice Chéreau

Duration: 174 min

Year: 1994

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade

The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...

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