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The Rape of Europa
Documentary, History, War
The Rape of Europa
Release date: 2007
Cast: Joan Allen
World War II was not just the most destructive conflict in humanity, it was also the greatest theft in history: lives, families, communities, property, culture and heritage were all stolen. The story...
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
Documentary, Music, History
Soundies: A Musical History Hosted by Michael Feinstein
Release date: 2007
Cast: Michael Feinstein, Leonard Maltin, Les Paul, Hugh Hefner
Before MTV and the age of television, there were Soundies. First appearing in 1941, these three minute black-and-white films featured artists of the Big Band, Jazz and Swing era, like Duke Ellington,...
Goodbye Bafana
History, Drama
Goodbye Bafana
Release date: 2007
Cast: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Shiloh Henderson, Patrick Lyster
The true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela....
The Situation
Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
The Situation
Release date: 2007
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Damian Lewis, Mido Hamada, Driss Roukhe, Nasser Memarzia
The first U.S.-made film drama set during the Iraq war, THE SITUATION chronicles the tragic death of an Iraqi teenager at the hands of U.S. soldiers. The incident sets off an "investigation," a...
Beaufort
History, Drama, War
Beaufort
Release date: 2007
Cast: Oshri Cohen, Alon Aboutboul, Ohad Knoller, Itay Tiran, Daniel Bruck
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a...
The Real Joan of Arc
History, Documentary
The Real Joan of Arc
Release date: 2007
The myth of Joan of Arc has fascinated people the world over. In the collective memory, she is the young shepherd girl who died at the stake having saved France. But 15th century chronicles report...
Sakuran
History, Drama
Sakuran
Release date: 2006
Cast: Anna Tsuchiya, Kippei Shiina, Hiroki Narimiya, Yoshino Kimura, Miho Kanno
Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwara District, navigating brothel politics while trying to cling to the man she loves....
638 Ways to Kill Castro
History, Documentary
638 Ways to Kill Castro
Release date: 2006
Cast: Fidel Castro, Wayne Smith, Enrique Encinosa, Enrique Ovares, Fabian Escalante
Dollan Cannell's documentary on the hundreds of alleged plots to assassinate Fidel Castro, and a look at the evolution of Cuban politics. If the title of this extraordinary film sounds ludicrous,...
Children of Glory
Drama, History
Children of Glory
Release date: 2006
Cast: Kata Dobó, Iván Fenyő, Sándor Csányi, Károly Gesztesi, Ildikó Bánsági
During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics....
Freedom's Fury
Documentary, History
Freedom's Fury
Release date: 2006
Cast: Viktor Ageyev, Antal Bolvari, János Bük, Sándor Csóori, Dwight D. Eisenhower
A documentary on the 1956 Olympic semifinal water polo match between Hungary and Russia. Held in Australia, the match occurred as Russian forces were in Budapest, stomping out a popular revolt....
Blockade
Documentary, History, War
Blockade
Release date: 2006
The images comprise only of material Sergei Loznitsa found in the Moscow film archives about the siege of Leningrad during the World War II. By providing the originally silent images with a...
The Armenian Genocide
Documentary, History
The Armenian Genocide
Release date: 2006
Cast: Julianna Margulies, Ron Suny, Peter Balakian, Elizabeth Frierson, Vahakn Dadrian
Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during and since World War I, but also takes a direct...
Shooting Dogs
Drama, History
Shooting Dogs
Release date: 2006
Cast: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Nicola Walker, David Gyasi
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and face a moral dilemna. Do they place themselves in danger and protect the refugees, or escape the...
Killing the Shadows
Comedy, Drama, History
Killing the Shadows
Release date: 2006
Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Beyaz, Şebnem Dönmez, Güven Kıraç, Ragıp Savaş
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad...
Soldier of God
Drama, History
Soldier of God
Release date: 2005
Cast: Tim Abell, Bill Mendieta, Mapi Galán, Nicholas Kadi, Scott Cleverdon
The Knights Templar, a religious order originally assigned to protect Christian pilgrims, has disintegrated from chivalric order and justice into dissolute chaos, as its individual factions...
St. Peter
Drama, Family, History
St. Peter
Release date: 2005
Cast: Omar Sharif, Daniele Pecci, Flavio Insinna, Claudia Koll, Lina Sastri
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's...
Helen of Troy
History, Documentary
Helen of Troy
Release date: 2005
Cast: Bettany Hughes
British historian Bettany Hughes tours the eastern Mediterranean in search of facts behind the legends of "the face that launched a thousand ships," exploring the ways Greeks made love and war circa...
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery, Drama, Crime, History
The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
Release date: 2005
Cast: Douglas Henshall, Tim McInnerny, Emily Blunt, Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack
What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation....