Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
Starring: Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Ian McKellen, Mick Jagger, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Sadie Frost, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Paul Bettany, Brian Webber ..
Directed by: Sean Mathias
Sharpe's Waterloo
Based on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815.
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Abigail Cruttenden, Cecile Paoli, Paul Bettany, Alexis Denisof, Hugh Fraser, John Tams, Jason Salkey ..
Directed by: Tom Clegg
Sharpe's Revenge
Sharpe is framed as the thief who stole Napolean's gold, and he must clear his name to avoid execution. Meanwhile his wife Jane - urged on by a friend - makes some questionable choices.
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Abigail Cruttenden, Philip Whitchurch, Cecile Paoli, Féodor Atkine, James Laurenson, John Benfield, Alexis Denisof ..
The story of the post World War II Jewish refugee situation from liberation to the establishment of the modern state of Israel.
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Ed Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes, David Paymer, Nina Siemaszko, Helen Slater, Michael York ..
Directed by: Mark Jonathan Harris
Sharpe's Justice
Napoleon has been exiled to Elba, the English have returned from the wars, and Major Richard Sharpe finds himself in a sort of exile to lead a company of Yorkshire Yeomen. His duties include protecting mill owners from restless workers who are on the verge of strike or outright revolt. Meanwhile, Sharpe's faithless wife and her lover fall within range of Sharpe's wrath. Sharpe, with his two of his devoted Chosen Men nearby, must decide whether to continue to protect the mill owners or to take the side of their fiercely downtrodden workers.
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley, Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe, Philip Glenister, John Tams, Alexis Denisof ..
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Starring: Ving Rhames, Jon Voight, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Elise Neal, Michael Rooker, Robert Patrick, Esther Rolle, Catherine Kellner ..
Directed by: John Singleton
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Starring: Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy, Sheryl Lee, Ben Daniels, Richard Ashcroft, Gideon Turner, Maurice Roëves, Dominic Rowan, Edward Hall ..
Directed by: Robert Markowitz
A group of English, American, Dutch and Australian women creates a vocal orchestra while being imprisoned in a Japanese POW camp on Sumatra during World War II.
Starring: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Cate Blanchett, Julianna Margulies, Jennifer Ehle, Wendy Hughes, Johanna ter Steege, Elizabeth Spriggs, Pamela Rabe ..
Directed by: Bruce Beresford
Welcome to Sarajevo
Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo—now a danger zone of sniper and mortar attacks where residents still live. While reporting on an American aid worker who's trying to get children out of the country, a British correspondent decides to take an orphaned girl home to London.
Starring: Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Goran Visnjic, Emira Nuševi?, Kerry Fox, James Nesbitt, Emily Lloyd, Igor Džambazov, Gordana Gadži? ..
Directed by: Michael Winterbottom
George Wallace is a 1997 television film starring Gary Sinise as George Wallace, the former Governor of Alabama. It was directed by John Frankenheimer, who won an Emmy award for it; Sinise and Mare Winningham also won Emmies for their performances. The film was based on the 1996 biography Wallace : The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace by Marshall Frady, who also co-wrote the teleplay. Frankenheimer's film was highly praised by critics: in addition to the Emmy awards, it received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV. Angelina Jolie also received a Golden Globe for her performance as Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.
Starring: Gary Sinise, Mare Winningham, Clarence Williams III, Joe Don Baker, Angelina Jolie, Terry Kinney, William Sanderson, Mark Rolston, Tracy Fraim, Skipp Sudduth ..
Directed by: John Frankenheimer
David, now an old man, is still king of Israel. Among his sons, the ambitious Adonijah and the clever Solomon. The two young men are fierce rivals, since both are prospective heirs to the throne and only one can be successful.
Starring: Ben Cross, Vivica A. Fox, Anouk Aimée, Max von Sydow, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Umberto Orsini, Stefania Rocca, Richard Dillane, Marta Zoffoli, Ivan Kaye ..
Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y
An acclaimed hijacking documentary that eerily foreshadowed 9/11. We meet the romantic skyjackers who fought their revolutions and won airtime on the passenger planes of the 1960s and '70s. By the 1990s, such characters were apparently no more, replaced on our TV screens by stories of anonymous bombs in suitcases. Director Johan Grimonprez investigates the politics behind this change, at the same time unwrapping our own complicity in the urge for ultimate disaster.
Directed by: Johan Grimonprez
Christmas Unwrapped: The History of Christmas
Christmas abounds with traditions, from neighborhood carolers to lovingly decorated trees, but from where did all these rituals emerge? This enlightening program looks at the origins of the Western world's most popular Christmas traditions -- from the significance of December 25th and its relationship to winter solstice to the enchanting legend of Santa Claus and Prince Albert's 1841 unveiling of the Christmas tree.
Starring: Harry Smith ..
Born Under the Red Flag: 1976–1997
CHINA: A CENTURY OF REVOLUTION is a six-hour tour de force journey through the country's most tumultuous period. First televised on PBS, this award-winning documentary series presents an astonishingly candid view of a once-secret nation with rare archival footage, insightful historical commentary and stunning eyewitness accounts from citizens who struggled through China's most decisive century. Mao's death begins BORN UNDER THE RED FLAG, which follows the country's new leadership of Deng Xiaoping and its unlikely transformation into an extraordinary hybrid of communist-centralized politics with an ever-expanding free market economy.
Directed by: Sue Williams
Sharpe: The Legend
Several years after the battle of Waterloo, a former soldier from Shoreditch sits in a London inn reminiscing about the brave and determined officer who took him to hell and back. The narrator is Rifleman Cooper, and the officer whose fame he recalls is the legendary Richard Sharpe.
Starring: Sean Bean, Michael Mears, David Troughton ..
Directed by: Paul Wilmshurst
The Manson Family
Jim Van Bebber's "The Manson Family" is an extremely violent and bloody horror film that reconstructs the early activities of the Family and their descent into the Tate-LaBianca killings. Van Bebber mixes this with a contemporary sub plot involving tabloid journalist Jack Wilson's quest to film a documentary on the subject.The film is loaded with plenty of sex and full-frontal nudity. The final third of "The Manson Family" is a grueling nightmare with some of the most sadistic and savage murders ever captured on screen.
Starring: Marcelo Games, Marc Pitman, Jim Van Bebber, Amy Yates, Leslie Orr, Maureen Allisse, Tom Burns, Michelle Briggs, Sage Stallone, Geoff Burkman ..
Directed by: Jim Van Bebber
Path to Paradise: The Untold Story of the World Trade Center Bombing
The incredible story of the events leading up to the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York and the capture of the terrorists.
Starring: Peter Gallagher, Art Malik, Ned Eisenberg, Marcia Gay Harden, Paul Guilfoyle, Allison Janney, Mike Starr, Mike O'Malley ..
Directed by: Larry Williams, Leslie Libman
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
1997 BBC adaptation of the classic Henry Fielding novel.
Starring: Max Beesley, Samantha Morton, John Sessions, Benjamin Whitrow, Ron Cook, Richard Ridings, Christopher Fulford, Brian Blessed, Frances de la Tour, James D'Arcy ..
Directed by: Metin Hüseyin
In the Shadow of the Reich: Nazi Medicine
Examines the step-by-step process that led German medical professionals down an unethical road to genocide.
Starring: Donald Winning, Arthur Caplan, Donald Dietrich, Michael Grodin, Michael Kater, Jay Katz, Eva Mozes Kor, Hans Münch, Charles Roland, Paul Vinger ..
Directed by: John Michalczyk
Visas and Virtue
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and offer visas, for life.
Starring: Chris Tashima, Susan Fukuda, Diana Georger, Lawrence Craig, Shizuko Hoshi ..
Directed by: Chris Tashima
Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone
British explorer Henry Stanley travels to Africa in 1871 seeking missionary David Livingstone.
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Nigel Hawthorne, Kabir Bedi, Edward Fox, Dylan Baker, Christopher Fulford, Fay Masterson, Robert Willox, Simon Williams ..
Directed by: Simon Langton
Titanic: Untold Stories
The gripping personal accounts of the people and the tragedy. In never-before-seen footage, we journey with historian Charles Haas, as he descends into the depths of the North Atlantic and guides us on a tour of the RMS Titanic. While recounting tales of triumph and struggle, we see among the many sites the doors where all passengers would have entered, peer through the porthole of a first class cabin, see the davits where the too few lifeboats hung and pause by the mail room where the postal workers heroically died. This unique footage coupled with letters, old stills, artifacts and new recreations tells the amazing human stories of this famous ship as never before.
Starring: Linda Hunt ..
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one time seeming innocent, have revealed, after decades, to have homosexual overtones.
Starring: Dan Butler, Don Ameche, Johnny Arthur, Lucille Ball, Noah Beery, Jr., Eric Blore, Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Walter Brennan, Montgomery Clift ..
Directed by: Mark Rappaport
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
Starring: Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly, Lamont Bentley, Tom Bower, Timothy Busfield, Matt Ross, Keith Jefferson, Bob Gunton ..
Directed by: Charles Haid
In 5th century Ireland, a young Celtic chieftain and his allies fight against Roman encroachment, the manipulative pro-Roman puppet ruler of Ireland, Queen Diana, and her immortal adviser who seeks the biblical Spear of Longinus.
Starring: Heath Ledger, Lisa Zane, Sebastian Roché, Vera Farmiga, John Saint Ryan, Alonzo Greer, Mick Roughan, Melissa George, Carl Snell, Andrew Buchanan ..
Directed by: Thomas J. Wright, Lou Antonio, Ian Toynton, Rick Rosenthal, David Jackson, Michael Nankin, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, Ralph Hemecker, Jefery Levy, Tucker Gates
Eight Clouds Rising
Fuzuchi Kuraki is a quiet young high school student blessed with immense psychic powers and an ancient sword. He is searching for other magical artifacts with the help of Nanachi Takeo, a college student with latent powers of his own. They delve deep into the dark magic of Izumo, only to discover the secrets buried within the birthplace of all Japanese mythology.
Starring: Tomokazu Seki, Daisuke Namikawa, Misa Watanabe, Keiji Fujiwara ..
Directed by: Tomomi Mochizuki
The Fifties
Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, based on David Halberstam's bestseller. Among the subjects covered: work and the family; the impact of TV; the Cold War; and the beginnings of the civil-rights movement and the sexual revolution.
Starring: Edward Herrmann, David Halberstam, John Chancellor, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Anderson, Kathleen Brindley ..
Directed by: Tracy Dahlby, Alex Gibney
Sà ngó: The Legendary African King
Bringing 15th-century Africa--before the arrival of colonizers--to rich, colorful life, chronicling the exploits of legendary Yoruba king Sango, ruler of the Oyo empire: his ascension to the throne, his battles with the Olowu and his own war generals, his dangerous experimentations with potent charms, and his ultimate deification.
Starring: Wale Adebayo, Bunmi Sanya, Wale Ogunyemi, Jimi Sholanke, Joe Layode, Jide Ogungbade, Jide Ogungbade, Antar Laniyan, Rachael Oniga, Kayode Odumosu ..
Directed by: Obafemi Bandele Lasode
First Person Singular: I.M. Pei
Architect I.M. Pei speaks about his famous works, such as the addition to the Louvre in Paris, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. Footage of these projects shows both interiors and exteriors. Various other experts comment on the impact and importance of Pei's work.
Starring: I.M. Pei ..
Directed by: Peter Rosen
Food for Ravens
A biopic by the dramatist Trevor Griffiths of Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, the British Labour politician who founded the country's National Health Service in the 1940s.
Starring: Brian Cox, Sinéad Cusack, Roshan Seth, Bernard Lloyd, Malcolm Storry, Michael Cashman, Dean Carey Davies, Brana Bajic, Lynn Hunter, Ian Driver ..
Directed by: Trevor Griffiths
Titanic: Anatomy of a Disaster
"Titanic - Anatomy of a Disaster" is an original Discovery Channel production that looks into not only the history but the mystery surrounding the sinking of Britain's most luxurious passenger liner. This investigation, narrated by Martin Sheen, shows a research and recovery expedition that uses science to piece together the final hours of the Titanic: Discovery Channel has assembled a unique investigative team of oceanologists, marine engineers, archaeologists, microbiologists, metallurgists, engineers, writers, historians and movie makers to uncover the truth about one of history's greatest disasters.
Starring: Martin Sheen ..
Directed by: Stephen Burns
Newton : A Tale of Two Isaacs
As Newton devotes himself to the difficult and solitary path of challenging the existing view of the universe and proving his own theories on celestial movement and gravity, his young scribe Humphrey wavers between pursuing science or following his heart.
Starring: Karl Pruner, Tyrone Savage, Kris Lemche, Lisa Jakub, Adrian Hough, Nigel Bennett, Catherine Byrne, Richard McMillan, Leif Bristow, Agnes Bernelle ..
Directed by: Don McBrearty
New York Underground
In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets and pokey transportation system were a source of constant complaint. On March 24, 1900, ground was broken for the Big Apple's subway; the Interborough Rapid Transit Line opened four years later, running more than 26 miles of underground track at the speed of 35 miles per hour. Soon thousands in the city were "doing the subway."
Starring: Len Cariou, David McCullough ..
Directed by: Ric Burns
Marion du Faouët
Historical drama centred around the legendary Breton heroine Marion du Faouët who was born Marie-Louise Tromel in 1735 in the little village of Faouët in Brittany. She became the leader of a group of highway robbers.
Starring: Carole Richert, Laurent Malet, Bruno Todeschini, Vincent Winterhalter, Kamila Sammler, Mariusz Kilian, Katarzyna Skrzynecka, Pawe? Del?g, Jacek Pacocha ..
Directed by: Michel Favart
Mondo Plympton
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make Love to a Woman". In between, an animated version of Bill answers questions about his life and career.
Starring: Chris Hoffman, Daniel Kaufman, Ruth Maleczech, Maureen McElheron, Bill Plympton, Richard Kuranda ..
Directed by: Bill Plympton
Rescuers: Stories of Courage - Two Women
First in a series of anthology films dealing with Christians who put their lives on the line to help rescue Jews from the Holocaust. In the first of two short films, "Mamusha," as the Nazis invade her country, a Polish Catholic housekeeper takes under her wing the youngster in the Jewish family for whom she is employed, and shepherds him through WWII in hopes of ultimately getting him repatriated to Palestine. In "Woman on a Bicycle," an unmarried French woman is pressed into service by the church to distribute underground communication pamphlets for the Resistance and ultimately ends up helping the church shelter 19 Jews.
Starring: Elizabeth Perkins, Sela Ward, Anne Jackson, Fritz Weaver, Al Waxman, Nicky Guadagni, George Morfogen, George Morfogen, Michael Cameron, Fraser McGregor ..
Directed by: Peter Bogdanovich
Othello Dangerous Desire
A modern re-telling of this international classic.
Starring: Sean Michaels, Cortknee, Kimberly Jade, Mila, Jeremy Steele, Michael Hurt, Mr. Marcus, Jake Steed, Julian St. Jox, Papillon ..
Fire Mountain: The Eruption and Rebirth of Mount St. Helens
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens leveled 230 square miles, sent 540 million tons of ash and volcanic rock twelve miles into the air, and blasted one cubic mile of earth from the crest of the Cascade Mountain Range. Illustrates the terrifying fury of the most destructive volcanic disaster in American history through aerial photography and survivors' own words. Shows examples of nature's plant and animal recovery seventeen years later.
Starring: Matt McCoy ..
Directed by: John Kander
Thu Kyun Ma Khan Bi
The film is about the last king of Burma, Thibaw Min. British and French colonialists interfere in the internal affairs of the Burmese kingdom which leads to its destruction and a subsequent revolt to regain independence.
Directed by: Kyi Soe Tun
The Spitfire Story
The Spitfire was the plane no-one wanted - government, industry and even the Royal Air Force turned it down. Only the faith of its brilliant designer, R.J. Mitchell, kept the Spitfire project moving forward and into service - just in time to become the symbol of British pride and power as a "killer fighter" during the Battle of Britain.
True Women
Covering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
Starring: Dana Delany, Annabeth Gish, Angelina Jolie, Tina Majorino, Rachael Leigh Cook, Michael York, Jeffrey Nordling, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Tony Todd, Julie Carmen ..
Directed by: Karen Arthur
Fratricide in Allah's Name
This film looks back at Algeria's past, covering its fight for independence and its subsequent fight against itself, being one of the few films to capture civil war Algeria and its inhabitants on camera. The filmmakers talk to politicians from both sides, past revolutionaries, and most importantly civilians, whose lives were torn apart by the conflict.
Home for the Holidays: The History of Thanksgiving
From the first Pilgrim celebration to the Macy's parade, here are the familiar stories and little-known facts behind one of our most beloved holidays.
Independence Day: The History of the Fourth of July
Describes the events of July 4, 1776; early celebrations of the day; and the symbols, patriotic music, fireworks, monuments and statues associated with this holiday. Shows celebrations of the holiday both past and present. The power of this holiday, its patriotism, hometown pride and national unity is just as strong today as it was in 1776.