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In 1955, five young Mexican American caddies, out of the love for the game, were determined to learn how to play, so they created their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert

Anne and Freja seek revenge on the men who murdered their family They end up in Stockholm, where they are drawn into a political power struggle between Sweden and Denmark which culminates in a mass execution

An action, spy film set in the backdrop of the Japanese colonial era

A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton s ill fated expedition to Antarctica in 1914 1916, featuring new footage of the actual locations and interviews with surviving relatives of key expedition members, plus archived audio intervie

This history of the co op film movements of Sydney and Melbourne comes from two of the major figures in Australian documentary who were intimately involved in the filmmaking groundswell that first emerged in the 1960s The Ubu gro

Based on the Bling Ring robberies that took place in LA rich suburbs between 2008 2009 Three part documentary with access to the gang that perpetuated the heist

After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist

Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Annas forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas

Admiral Yi Sun sin faces a tough challenge when he is forced to defend his nation with just 13 battleships against 300 Japanese enemy ships in the Battle of Myeongryang

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J M W Turners life

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm 2002, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime ministers life and career at the end of WWII

An all star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects

The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one mans life

A documentarian and a reporter travel to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexua

The story of the final Emperor of China

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism

Following the assassination of President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husbands historic legacy

This is not a surf movie, it is a film about surfings deepest roots in the subconscious in ancient lore in the craft of surfboard building in mans perpetual quest for a joyful relationship with the natural world

The story of Amos Ozs youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel The film details the young mans relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer

With a career spanning decades Photographer Rose Hartman is known for her Iconic Photos from Studio 54 and the fashion world, her boisterous personality and ever presence capturing the New York social scene

A Joseon dynasty bounty hunter becomes the body guard of the queen he secretly loves

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone

The true story of Herb Brooks, the player turned coach who led the 1980 U S Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christs life told in an anachronistic manner

After becoming king of ancient Israel, Solomon faces threats coming from his jealous dispossessed brother Adonijah, the Egyptian Pharaoh and the scheming Queen of Sheba

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each others way of life