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King Arthur
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 2004
Country: USA, UK, Ireland
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Til Schweiger, Ken Stott, Stephen Dillane, Ray Winstone, Clive Owen, Keira Knightley, Ivano Marescotti
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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 focused.
The Bounty
Year: 1984
Country: USA, UK
Director: Roger Donaldson
Starring: Mel Gibson, Liam Neeson, Bernard Hill, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, John Sessions
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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 lifeboat.
Hollywoodland
Genres: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Year: 2006
Country: USA
Director: Allen Coulter
Starring: Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Adrien Brody, Bob Hoskins, Neil Crone, Molly Parker, Lois Smith
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An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood's most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV's Adventures of Superman, as the actor dies in his Hollywood Hills home. Felled by a single gunshot wound, Reeves leaves behind a fianc
Amistad
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 1997
Country: USA
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Morgan Freeman, Djimon Hounsou, Razaaq Adoti, Pete Postlethwaite, Anthony Hopkins, Anna Paquin, Nigel Hawthorne
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AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Once Upon a Time in China and America
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 1997
Country: Hong Kong
Director: Sammo Hung Kam-Bo
Starring: Jet Li, Rosamund Kwan, Xin Xin Xiong, Kwok-Pong Chan, Jeff Wolfe, Joseph Sayah, Chrysta Bell Zucht
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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 and the mob, and calls Master Wong for help.
Les misérables
Year: 1998
Country: Germany, USA, UK
Director: Bille August
Starring: Tim Barlow, Claire Danes, Christopher Adamson, Ben Crompton, Reine Brynolfsson, Timothy Bateson, David Birkin
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a police officer named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Gladiator
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2000
Country: USA, UK
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Spencer Treat Clark, Djimon Hounsou, Tommy Flanagan, John Shrapnel, Joaquin Phoenix, Sven-Ole Thorsen, Russell Crowe
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In Gladiator, victorious general Maximus Decimus Meridias has been named keeper of Rome and its empire by dying emperor Marcus Aurelius, so that rule might pass from the Caesars back to the people and Senate. Marcus' neglected and power-hungry son, Commodus, has other ideas, however. Escaping an ordered execution, Maximus hurries back to his home in Spain, too late to save his wife and son from the same order. Taken into slavery and trained as a gladiator by Proximo, Maximus lives only that he might someday take his revenge and fulfill the dying wish of his emperor. The time soon comes when Proximo's troupe is called to Rome to participate in...
Gallipoli
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1981
Country: Australia
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Mel Gibson, Reg Evans, Tim McKenzie, Robert Grubb, Bill Kerr, David Argue, Mark Lee
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The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the might of the Turkish army.
Nightwatching
Genres: Drama, History, Mystery
Year: 2007
Country: UK, Canada, Netherlands, France, Poland
Director: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Martin Freeman, Toby Jones, Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Kevin McNulty, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Emily Holmes
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The year 1642 marks the turning point in the life of the famous Dutch painter, Rembrandt, turning him from a wealthy respected celebrity into a discredited pauper. At the insistence of his pregnant wife Saskia, Rembrandt has reluctantly agreed to paint the Amsterdam Musketeer Militia in a group portrait that will later become to be known as The Nightwatch. He soon discovers that there is a conspiracy afoot with the Amsterdam merchants playing at soldiers maneuvering for financial advantage and personal power in, that time, the richest city in the Western World. Rembrandt stumbles on a foul murder. Confident in the birth of a longed-for son an...
Sharpe's Peril
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama
Year: 2008
Country: UK
Director: Tom Clegg
Starring: Sean Bean, Daragh O'Malley
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Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
The Killing Fields
Year: 1984
Country: UK
Director: Roland Joffé
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, John Malkovich, Julian Sands, Spalding Gray, Bill Paterson, Athol Fugard, Sam Waterston
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Sydney Schanberg is a New York Times journalist covering the civil war in Cambodia. Together with local representative Dith Pran, they cover some of the tragedy and madness of the war. When the American forces leave, Dith Pran sends his family with them, but stays behind himself to help Schanberg cover the event. As an American, Schanberg won't have any trouble leaving the country, but the situation is different for Pran; he's a local, and the Khmer Rouge are moving in.
A Passage to India
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1984
Country: USA, UK
Director: David Lean
Starring: Alec Guinness, James Fox, Art Malik, Richard Wilson, Nigel Havers, Saeed Jaffrey, Judy Davis
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Adela Quested, a young Englishwoman, travels to India in the late 1920s to visit her fianc
The Last King of Scotland
Genres: Thriller, Drama, History
Year: 2006
Country: UK
Director: Kevin Macdonald
Starring: Gillian Anderson, Chris Wilson, Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, David Oyelowo, Simon McBurney
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In 1970, the just-graduated doctor Nicholas Garrigan moves to Uganda to get rid of his conservative father. While working in a mission in the country, he meets the new President Idi Amin after the coup-d'
Kingdom of Heaven
Genres: Action, Adventure, History
Year: 2005
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Spain
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Steven Robertson, Liam Neeson, Michael Sheen, Orlando Bloom, Marton Csokas, David Thewlis, Bronson Webb
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In 1184, French village blacksmith Balian just lost his wife trough suicide grief-stricken by their child's death; the crusader lord Godfrey, baron of Ibelin, reveals himself as Balian's father and offers him a crusader life, which the youngster spontaneously rejects but after the local priest taunts him till his sword strikes fatally accepts, fleeing the French bishop's bloody justice and seeking divine forgiveness as promised to crusaders in Jerusalem. On the way, Balian is instructed the skills of war and chivalric honor code and dubbed a knight in Messina by his father, who was fatally wounded fighting off the bishop's men. After shipwrec...
Nomad
Year: 2005
Country: France, Kazakhstan
Director: Sergei Bodrov, Ivan Passer
Starring: Kuno Becker, Mark Dacascos, Jay Hernandez, Jason Scott Lee, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ashir Chokubayev, Zhanas Iskakov
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Rebirth of a nation. Not since Genghis Khan has anyone united the Kazakh tribes. Jungar tribesmen of Mongolia rule Kazakh land, but a prophecy has it that a descendant of Genghis will unite his people. Oraz the Wise travels the land looking for the child who will fulfill the prophecy. He finds that infant and protects him from the warriors of Galdan, the Jungar king. Oraz recruits one lad from each Kazakh tribe and teaches them the art of war, loyalty, and camaraderie. Two are the best: Mansur and Erali. They are like brothers. Each must prove himself; both fall in love with the same young woman; both fall into enemy hands. At what cost does ...
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Year: 1965
Country: USA
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Harry Andrews, Tomas Milian, Diane Cilento, Alberto Lupo, Adolfo Celi
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Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not on the battlefield uniting Italy, the Pope nags Michelangelo to speed up his painful work on the frescoes.
Geronimo
Genres: Action, History, Biography
Year: 1962
Country: USA
Director: Arnold Laven
Starring: Denver Pyle, Armando Silvestre, Adam West, Ross Martin, Eduardo Noriega, Claudio Brook, Chuck Connors
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An Apache warrior who defies U.S. attempts to bring the Indians under control grapples with an array of U.S. soldiers sent to subdue his revolt. Sympathetic scouts seek to bring Geronimo back to the reservation before he is hunted down.
Black Robe
Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Year: 1991
Country: Australia, Canada
Director: Bruce Beresford
Starring: Billy Two Rivers, Sandrine Holt, Tantoo Cardinal, August Schellenberg, Lothaire Bluteau, Lawrence Bayne, Aden Young
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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 chief's beautiful daughter underneath the imposing and magnificent mountains. Dread and death follows them upriver.
The Road to Wellville
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Director: Alan Parker
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Dana Carvey, Camryn Manheim, Anthony Hopkins, Michael Lerner, Colm Meaney, Bridget Fonda
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In Welville, at Battle Creek, eccentric rich Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (a historical figure) runs a stylish health farm for the wealthy, an idea ahead of his time, based on extreme vegetarianism, neither sex, masturbation or even sensual stimulation, but laughing therapy and purging the 'polluted' body, mainly by exercises, often in open air, vicious diet, his invention corn flakes, laxatives, anal yogurt cure, enemas and brutal mechanical cleansing. Eleanor Lightbody drags her sickly, incredulous husband Will along to the therapy; the couple is almost immediately separated and getting horny for more available members of the opposite sex. Kello...
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Year: 1949
Country: USA
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Starring: Francis McDonald, Angela Lansbury, Moroni Olsen, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Henry Wilcoxon
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Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran.