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Country: United States
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Year: 1993
After success cleaning up Dodge City Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone Arizona and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps which leads to a...
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1993
130 min
Tombstone
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 1998
Four Newton brothers are a poor farmer family in the 1920s. The oldest of them Willis one day realizes that theres no future in the fields and offers his brothers to become a bank robbers. Soon the family agrees. They become very famous robbers and five years later execute the greatest train robbery in American...
1998
113 min
The Newton Boys
Country: China
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, History, War
Year: 2006
In 907 AD the Tang Dynasty is in tatters; infighting snarls the imperial family. Crown Prince Wu Luan loves Little Wan but his father takes her as his Empress. Wu Luan goes into exile studying dance and music. His uncle murders his father taking throne and Empress; uncle sends assassins to kill Wu Luan. The Crown Prince eludes death and comes to court. The Emperor arranges for Little Wans...
2006
131 min
The Banquet
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Year: 2002
An unseen man regains consciousness not knowing who or where he is. No one seems to be able to see him except the mysterious man dressed in black. He eventually learns through their discussions that this man is a 19th century French aristocrat who he coins the European. This turn of events is unusual as the unseen man has a knowledge of the present day. The two quickly learn that they are in...
2002
99 min
Russian Ark
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, Musical, Romance
Year: 1995
Capt. John Smith leads a rag-tag band of English sailors & soldiers to the New World to plunder its riches for England or more precisely for Governor Ratcliffe who comes along for the ride. Meanwhile in this New World Chief Powhatan has pledged his daughter Pocahontas to be married to the villages greatest warrior. Pocahontas however has other ideas. She has seen a vision of a...
1995
81 min
Pocahontas
Country: Australia, United Kingdom, United States, France
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, History, Western
Year: 2003
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2003
110 min
Ned Kelly
Genre: History, Western
Year: 1970
Jack Crabb is 121 years old as the film begins. A collector of oral histories asks him about his past. He recounts being captured and raised by indians becoming a gunslinger marrying an indian watching her killed by General George Armstrong Custer and becoming a scout for him at Little Big...
1970
139 min
Little Big Man
Genre: Drama, History, Musical
Year: 1973
Based on a concept album project written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and the subsequent long-running Broadway performance this film tells the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot. Too often mis-labeled a musical this film is a rock opera. There are no spoken lines everything is...
1973
108 min
Jesus Christ Superstar
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Music, Musical
Year: 2007
1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. Its a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner piano player Tyrone Pine Top Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man the chicken man and the landlord Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint away from Touissants the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar...
2007
124 min
Honeydripper
Genre: Comedy, History, Musical
Year: 1981
From the dawn of man to the distant future mankinds evolution or lack thereof is traced. Often ridiculous but never serious we learn the truth behind the Roman Emperor we learn what REALLY happened at the Last Supper the circumstances that surrounded the French Revolution how to test eunuchs and what kind of shoes the Spanish Inquisitor...
1981
92 min
History Of The World: Part I
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, Western
Year: 1980
Michael Ciminos bleak anti-western based on events in 1890s Wyoming. Sheriff James Averill attempts to protect immigrant farmers from wealthy cattle interests and also clashes with a hired gun Nathan Champion over the woman they both love Ella Watson. Both men find themselves questioning their roles in the furious conflict between wealthy landowners and European immigrants attempting to...
1980
219 min
Heaven's Gate
Genre: Drama, History, Western
The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular Geronimo is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture...
115 min
Geronimo: An American Legend
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Musical, Thriller
Year: 1996
High-flying adored! The film adaptation of the hit Broadway musical depicting the infamous real-life story of Eva Evita Duarte de Peron the wife of President Juan Peron who rose from poverty to become the most famous Argentine woman in history. Her huge political influence and constant charity works earned her scorn and fear from the military and upper classes but adoration and love from the...
1996
135 min
Evita
Country: Canada, Australia, United States
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Western
Year: 1991
In the 17th century a Jesuit priest and a young companion are escorted through the wilderness of Quebec by Algonquin Indians to find a distant mission in the dead of winter. The Jesuit experiences a spiritual journey while his young companion falls in love with the Algonquin chiefs beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them...
1991
97 min
Black Robe
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, History, Musical
Year: 1986
Fievel is a young Russian mouse separated from his parents on the way to America a land they think is without cats. When he arrives alone in the New World he keeps up hope searching for his family making new friends and running and dodging the cats he thought hed be rid...
1986
Full
An American Tail
Country: South Korea
Genre: Drama, History
Year: 2012
To escape a life of poverty Hwa-yeon is forced to offer herself as one of the kings concubines. Once inside the royal palace two men are immediately captivated by her. The Grand Prince Seong-won a powerful lust filled megalomaniac and Kwon-yoo who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is...
2012
122 min
The Concubine
Country: Hong Kong, China
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, War
Year: 1988
Story of a Japanese terror camp in the end of WW2 where the Japanese are using the Chinese as guinea pigs in terrible experiments to develop deadly...
1988
105 min
Men Behind The Sun
Country: United Kingdom, India, United States, Germany, Japan
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes habits and hobbies are the same. Years later the two have matured but have maintained their friendship. Tara gets married to the local prince Raj Singh who soon succeeds the throne as the sole heir. After the marriage Raj gets bored of Tara and starts seeking another female to satisfy his sexual needs. He notices Maya and is...
114 min
Kama Sutra: A Tale Of Love
Country: Japan, France
Year: 1976
Based on a true story set in pre-war Japan a man and one of his servants begin a torrid affair. Their desire becomes a sexual obsession so strong that to intensify their ardor they forsake all even life...
1976
109 min
In The Realm Of The Senses
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1956
To escape the edict of Egypts Pharoah Rameses I condemning all newborn Hebrew males the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaohs daughter Bithiah he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Setis favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri as well as the hatred of Setis son Rameses. When his...
1956
220 min
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Year: 1983
Tom Wolfes book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling funny charming and electrifying all at...
1983
193 min
The Right Stuff
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History, Musical
This is the extraordinary tale of two brothers named Moses and Ramses one born of royal blood and one an orphan with a secret past. Growing up the best of friends they share a strong bond of free-spirited youth and good-natured rivalry. But the truth will ultimately set them at odds as one becomes the ruler of the most powerful empire on earth and the other the chosen leader of his people!...
The Prince Of Egypt
Country: United Kingdom
Jeremy Irons plays a Spanish Jesuit who goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region. Robert DeNiro plays a slave hunter who is converted and joins Irons in his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portugese...
125 min
Mission
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Storyline: In the 1870s Captain Nathan Algren a cynical veteran of the American Civil war who will work for anyone is hired by Americans who want lucrative contracts with the Emperor of Japan to train the peasant conscripts for the first standing imperial army in modern warfare using firearms. The imperial Omura cabinets first priority is to repress a rebellion of traditionalist Samurai...
154 min
The Last Samurai
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War
Year: 1992
Storyline: British and French troops do battle in colonial America with aid from various native American war parties. The British troops enlist the help of local colonial militia men who are reluctant to leave their homes undefended. A budding romance between a British officers daughter and an independent man who was reared as a Mohican complicates things for the British officer as the...
1992
112 min
The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)
Country: United States, United Arab Emirates, Poland
Year: 2010
Storyline: In 1941 three men reach India from Tibet having walked 4000 miles after escaping a Siberian gulag. The film tells their story and that of four others who escaped with them and a teenage girl who joins them in flight. The groups natural leader is Janusz a Pole condemned by accusations secured by torturing his wife; he knows how to live in the wilds. They escape under cover of a...
2010
133 min
The Way Back
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1984
Storyline: The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny...
1984
132 min
The Bounty (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1997
Storyline: After the death of 11 climbers Austrian Heinrich Harrer Brad Pitt decides to add glory to his country and to the German pride by climbing Nanga Parbat in British India and leaves his expectant wife behind. Egoist and a loner he does not get along with others on his team - but must bend to their wishes after bad weather threatens them. Then WWII breaks out they are arrested and...
1997
136 min
Seven Years In Tibet
Year: 2009
Storyline: In this sequel to Red Cliff first minister Cao Cao convinces Emperor Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Xu and Wu who have become allied forces against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic...
2009
142 min
Red Cliff 2
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Year: 2008
Storyline: In 208 A.D. in the final days of the Han Dynasty shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale led by the Prime Minister himself. Left with no other hope for survival the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu...
2008
150 min
Red Cliff
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Storyline: A young Viking boy is left behind at a hostile tribe of American Indians whom eventually accept him into the tribe and raise him. A personal war begins for the young Viking when the Vikings return 15 years later and initiate a barbaric attack on the tribe and the woman he...
107 min
Pathfinder (2007)
Country: United Kingdom, United States
Year: 1962
Storyline: An inordinately complex man who has been labeled everything from hero to charlatan to sadist Thomas Edward Lawrence blazed his way to glory in the Arabian desert then sought anonymity as a common soldier under an assumed name. The story opens with the death of Lawrence in a motorcycle accident in Dorset at the age of 46 then flashbacks to recount his adventures: as a young...
1962
216 min
Lawrence Of Arabia
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland
Year: 2004
Storyline: Based on a more realistic portrayal of Arthur than has ever been presented onscreen. The film will focus on the history and politics of the period during which Arthur ruled -- when the Roman empire collapsed and skirmishes over power broke out in outlying countries -- as opposed to the mystical elements of the tale on which past Arthur films have...
2004
126 min
King Arthur
Storyline: Before the USA entered World War I young Americans went to France to be fighter pilots joining the Lafayette Escadrille. This fictional version follows a laconic Texas rancher an eager Nebraska kid a Black boxer already in France and a New York swell as they arrive green for training get their baptism by fire when German planes ambush them on their first mission and graduate to...
140 min
Flyboys
Country: West Germany
Storyline: It is 1942 and the German submarine fleet is heavily engaged in the so called Battle of the Atlantic to harass and destroy British shipping. With better escorts of the Destroyer Class however German U-Boats have begun to take heavy losses. Das Boot is the story of one such U-Boat crew with the film examining how these submariners maintained their professionalism as soldiers...
209 min
Das Boot
Country: Turkey
Storyline: In 1453 the Byzantine capital of Constantinople is surrounded by Ottoman Turks. The city is but a shadow of its former glory due to the empires ever receding coffers while the Ottoman Empire continues to grow rich. After years of tolerating the existance of Byzantium the ambitious sultan Mehmet II launches his campaign to end the Byzantine Empire and take Constantinople for the...
160 min
Conquest 1453
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 1959
Storyline: Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views separate them. During the welcome parade a roof tile falls down from Judahs house and...
1959
212 min
Ben-hur (1959)
Country: Spain
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Romance
Storyline: Alexandria 391 AD: Hypatia teaches astronomy mathematics and philosophy. Her student Orestes is in love with her as is Davus her personal slave. As the citys Christians led by Ammonius and Cyril gain political power the great institutions of learning and governance may not survive. Jump ahead 20 years: Orestes the citys prefect has an uneasy peace with Christians led by...
127 min
Agora
Country: China, Hong Kong
Year: 2011
Storyline: A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing...
2011
121 min
1911 Revolution
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Storyline: The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the UK visited upstate New...
94 min
Hyde Park On Hudson
Storyline: A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South...
Endgame (2009)
Country: 150 min
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Storyline: In 1865 as the American Civil War winds inexorably toward conclusion U.S. president Abraham Lincoln endeavors to achieve passage of the landmark constitutional amendment which will forever ban slavery from the USA. However his task is a race against time for peace may come at any time and if it comes before the amendment is passed the returning southern states will stop it before...
DreamWorks Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox Film Co
Lincoln (2012)
Country: Germany, France, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Storyline: A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her...
98 min
The Countess
90 min
Hatfields And Mccoys: Bad Blood
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Storyline: A Medieval Knight resurrects to fulfill his vow and bestow a blood-thirst vengeance upon the kindred spirits of those who betrayed him long ago. In the course of one night identities will be revealed destinies met and a poetic justice of the macabre maniacally...
100 min
Night Of The Templar
Country: Norway, Sweden
Storyline: English and German pilots shoot each other down and later find themselves at the same cabin. In order to survive the tough winter in the Norwegian wilderness they have to stand together. Its the start of a long and unlikely...
Into The White
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Storyline: In this tale of sex violence race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago Cadillac Records follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of Americas musical legends including Muddy Waters Leonard Chess Little Walter Howlin Wolf Etta James and Chuck...
Cadillac Records
Country: France
Year: 1999
Storyline: In 1412 a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337 English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13 she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it she finds the...
1999
158 min
The Messenger: The Story Of Joan Of Arc
Country: Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Storyline: It is about around Yip Mans resistance against invading foreigners along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun...
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man
Genre: Action, Drama, History
In 1935 in Foshan south China there are martial arts schools on every street corner. Ip Man is the undisputed martial arts champion yet he has not devoted himself to teaching. Despite this it seems that all the kung fu masters of the city are eager to fight him to improve their...
106 min
Ip Man
Storyline: A crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program having faced segregation while kept mostly on the ground during World War II are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J....
Red Tails
Storyline: Opening with the Allied invasion of Normandy on 6 June 1944 members of the 2nd Ranger Battalion under Cpt. Miller fight ashore to secure a beachhead. Amidst the fighting two brothers are killed in action. Earlier in New Guinea a third brother is KIA. Their mother Mrs. Ryan is to receive all three of the grave telegrams on the same day. The USA Army Chief of Staff George C....
169 min
Saving Private Ryan
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Storyline: On the run and hiding in the deep forests of the then German occupied Poland and Belorussia World War II the four Bielski brothers find the impossible task of foraging for food and weapons for their survival. They live not only with the fear of discovery contending with neighboring Soviet partisans and knowing whom to trust but also take the responsibility of looking after a large...
137 min
Defiance
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Morocco
Genre: Action, Adventure, History, War
Year: 2005
Storyline: It is the time of the Crusades during the Middle Ages - the world shaping 200-year collision between Europe and the East. A blacksmith named Balian has lost his family and nearly his faith. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him yet he is pulled into that immense drama. Amid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem he falls in love grows into a...
2005
190 min
Kingdom Of Heaven
Year: 2001
Storyline: Action/war drama based on the best-selling book detailing a near-disastrous mission in Somalia on October 3 1993. On this date nearly 100 U.S. Army Rangers commanded by Capt. Mike Steele were dropped by helicopter deep into the capital city of Mogadishu to capture two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord. This lead to a large and drawn-out firefight between the Rangers and hundreds...
2001
144 min
Black Hawk Down
Genre: Action, Fantasy, History, War
In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes led a Army of well over 100000 Persian king Xerxes before war has about 170000 army men to Greece and was confronted by 300...
117 min
300
Year: 2000
Storyline: Maximus is a powerful Roman general loved by the people and the aging Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Before his death the Emperor chooses Maximus to be his heir over his own son Commodus and a power struggle leaves Maximus and his family condemned to death. The powerful general is unable to save his family and his loss of will allows him to get captured and put into the Gladiator games...
2000
171 min
Gladiator
Genre: Kung Fu, Action, Adventure, History, Western
Storyline: The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies and were brutally treated by the Americans under the harsh working conditions. Thus the American workers hatred towards the Chinese immigrants is high. As a result So gets into trouble with the Americans...
102 min
Once Upon A Time In China 6
Genre: Kung Fu, Action, History
Once Upon A Time In China 4
