History
The Light of Freedom
HDIt is the year 1861 and President Lincoln has called for 75,000 men to join the Union Army. As the Civil War begins, another battle has been raging for decades. It is the fight for freedom waged by the Underground Railroad.
The Book of Daniel
HDIn 605 B.C. Jerusalem was conquered by the Babylonians and many of their best young men were taken into captivity, including Daniel. Daniel was taken to Babylon to serve it. As Powerful King , Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel as an example ...
Why We Ride
HDThe passion of the riders and the soul of their machines.
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
HDThe history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963.
12 Years a Slave
HDIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Nixon
HDA biographical story of former U.S. President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame.
Restoration
HDThe exiled royal physician to King Charles II devotes himself to helping Londoners suffering from the plague, and in the process falls in love with an equally poor woman.
Killing Kennedy
HDBased on Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's best seller comes this shocking thriller starring Rob Lowe and Ginnifer Goodwin. As John F. Kennedy (Lowe) rises to become U.S. president, a former Marine grows disillusioned with America...
Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love
HDTwo female friends become sexual rivals at maturity.
Some Mother's Son
HDThe 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I.R.A. prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle.
Hype!
HDDocumentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle "grunge" music scene in the early 90s
The Crucible
HDA Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Samson and Delilah
HDMara and her husband Manoa are both upstanding and religious Israelites living under the harsh and unjust rule of the Philistines. Much to their regret, they have not been able to have children. One day, a mysterious stranger appe...
Evita
HDThe hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Ghosts of Mississippi
HDA Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
Old Man
HDA prisoner is tempted by the opportunity to escape during the Great Flood of 1927.
Paradise Road
HDA group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery.
Rosewood
HDA dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
4 Little Girls
HDA documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement.
Mrs Brown
HDWhen Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr. John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil.
Marquise
HDThe rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV.
Victor Young Perez
HDVictor "Young" Perez , tells the astonishing, harrowing and incredible moving story of a Tunisian Jewish boxer, who became the World Flyweight Champion in 1931 and 1932. Perez started training as a boxer at age 14 along with his o...
An Adventure in Space and Time
HDA dramatisation of the early years of Doctor Who (1963), with the story revolving around BBC executive Sydney Newman, novice producer Verity Lambert and actor William Hartnell.
Bent
HDIn 1930s Berlin, a gay Jew is sent to a concentration camp under the Nazi regime.
Ill Gotten Gains
HDWEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.
Amistad
HDIn 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legal...
Friends from France
HDIn 1979, Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on tour in Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. They are cousins and pretend engaged. The day as tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening, they part company and the group meet...
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
HDA chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Soekarno
HDThis movie follows the life of Soekarno, the first president of the Republic of Indonesia, from his childhood until he managed to proclaimed Indonesian freedom with M. Hatta in 1945.
Kundun
HDFrom childhood to adulthood, Tibet's fourteenth Dalai Lama deals with Chinese oppression and other problems.
Shakespeare in Love
HDThe world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
The Physician
HDIn 11th-century Persia, a surgeon's apprentice disguises himself as a Jew to study at a school that does not admit Christians.