LGBTQ-related film, Late Western, Satire, Western film, action film, adventure film, comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, flashback film, historical film, revisionist Western, war film
The film is framed with narration by 121-year-old Jack Crabb, who is telling his life story to a historian. In 1859, ten-year-old Jack and his sister Caroline survive the massacre of their parents by the Pawnee, and are rescued by Shadow, …
War Film, adventure film, drama film, historical film, war film
In September 1944, Teuntje Visser works in the office of a collaborationist mayor in German-occupied Zeeland as the Allies approach from Belgium. While she and her father, a doctor, choose to be neutral, her younger brother Dirk is a membe…
Action, Drama, Historie, War Film, action film, historical drama film
In the year 1307, Switzerland is a province under the rule of the Austrian royal house of Habsburg. The Swiss people are resenting this foreign occupation, and rebellion is brewing, especially since the Habsburg soldiers brutalize the popu…
Dark Comedy, Drama, comedy drama, crime film, historical film
In 2002, Dr. Frank Tassone is superintendent of the Roslyn Union Free School District on Long Island. He and assistant superintendent Pam Gluckin have overseen major improvements in the district, with Roslyn High School becoming the fourth…
Part one Shortly after the end of World War II, Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring surrenders to the United States and enjoys the hospitality of a U.S. Army Air Force base. Samuel Rosenman, acting on the orders of U.S.
Destiny, Justice Drama, Sitcom, biographical film, comedy film, drama film
King George III's bout of madness in 1788 touched off the Regency Crisis of 1788 and triggered a power struggle between factions of Parliament under the Tory Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger and the reform-minded Leader of the Oppos…
Thriller, War Film, drama film, historical film, thriller film, war film
In 1944, Dutch Jewish singer Rachel Stein is hiding in the occupied Netherlands. When the farmhouse where she had been hiding is destroyed by an Allied bomber, she goes to see a lawyer named Smaal who had been helping her family. He arrang…
Action, Drama, Monumental Film, drama film, war film
Historical background Famine in Northern China is affecting millions of peasants by the summer of 1900. Starvation will be one of the major causes of the ensuing Boxer Rebellion. The legations of various industrialized countries are trappe…
Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Deborah Lipstadt is an American professor of Holocaust studies whose speaking engagement is disrupted by David Irving, a British writer on Nazi Germany. He files a libel lawsuit in the United Kingdom against Lipstadt and her publisher for …
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film, historical film, independent film
On December 19, 1974, photographer Peter Hujar visits the SoHo apartment of writer Linda Rosenkrantz to participate in an interview for her book project documenting ordinary days in the lives of artists. Sitting on her couch with a cigaret…
Biographical picture, biographical film, drama film
On June 1, 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan, start their attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Moving in vignettes from her early years when Earhart was captivated by an aircraft flying overhead on the Kansas prair…
Justice Drama, Political Thriller, crime film, drama film, historical drama, independent film, mystery film, neo-noir, thriller film
In the early 1950s, a four-man squad of LAPD detectives, frustrated with the rules and weaknesses of the legal system stopping them from more aggressively battling crime, toss Jack Flynn, a powerful gangster from Chicago, off a cliff on Mu…
Historie, adventure film, drama film, historical drama, sword-and-sandal film, war film
In the year 140 AD, twenty years after the Ninth Legion of the Roman army disappeared in the north of Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, arrives in Roman Britain to serve at his first post as a garrison commander. Mar…
Drama, Historie, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical film, medieval film, war film
The film begins with Muhammad sending an invitation to accept Islam to the surrounding rulers: Heraclius, the Byzantine Emperor; Muqawqis, the Patriarch of Alexandria; Kisra, the Sasanian Emperor. Earlier, Muhammad is visited by the angel …
In the early eighteenth century, Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage are an impoverished couple living in a Yorkshire mansion with their daughter Fanny. The Duke and Duchess of Devonshire inform the Savages that they intend to stay with them for …
Drama, action film, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama film, medieval film, period drama film, war film
The film begins with Chorus, in this case a person in modern dress, introducing the subject of the play. He is walking through an empty film studio and ends his monologue by opening the doors to begin the main action. Chorus reappears seve…
War Film, Western, Western film, drama film, historical film, war film
At a party in 1835, while trying to persuade people to migrate to Texas, Sam Houston encounters David Crockett, recently defeated in his bid for re-election to Congress. In San Felipe, the Texas provisional government is meeting to discuss…
Destiny, Drama, Swords and Sandals, biographical film, historical drama, historical film, sword-and-sandal film
In 391 C.E., Alexandria is part of the Roman Empire, and Greek philosopher Hypatia is a teacher at the Platonic school, where future leaders are educated. Hypatia is the daughter of Theon, the director of the Musaeum of Alexandria. Hypatia…
Kebede Bimro, an Ethiopian Jew loosely based on Ferede Aklum, works with the Israeli Mossad agent Ari Levinson to evacuate Jewish-Ethiopian refugees to Israel via Sudan. Ari realizes that his ability to operate in Ethiopia would be improve…
Biographical picture, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical drama
In 1880, Thomas Edison has unveiled his electric lightbulb. He plans to distribute power to American neighborhoods using Direct Current (DC), which is cheaper and cleaner than gaslight, but is limited in range and needs an expensive wiring…
Biographical picture, Drama, Historie, biographical film, drama film, historical film
Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, gives birth to their fifth child and first son, Alexei. Despite pleas from Grand Duke Nicholas and Count Sergei Witte, Nicholas refuses to end the Russo-Japanese War or acce…
On December 6, 1989, a young man prepares his Ruger Mini-14 and leaves a message for his mother. He then goes to Polytechnique Montreal, an engineering school, and enters a classroom during class with the Ruger Mini-14. He orders the men t…
Biographical picture, Romance Film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, romance film
Griet is a shy girl living in the Dutch Republic in 1665. Her father, a Delftware painter, has recently gone blind, rendering him unable to work and leaving his family in a precarious financial situation. Griet is sent to Delft to work as …
Adventure, Drama, Pseudohistorical Fantasy, Swords and Sandals, War Film, action film, drama film, sword-and-sandal film
The Roman Empire has been unable to fully conquer Britain, reaching a harsh stalemate in the North. The Picts engage in guerrilla warfare against the Romans along the Glenblocker forts and the Gask Ridge at the southern border of the Scott…
