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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

IMDb: 7.4
2009

An examination of the social costs of corporate interests pursuing profits at the expense of the public good

Midway (1976)

IMDb: 6.8
1976

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II

Mrs Brown (1997)

IMDb: 7.2
1997

When Queen Victorias husband Prince Albert dies, she finds solace in her trusted servant, Mr John Brown, but their relationship also brings scandal and turmoil

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

IMDb: 7.4
1973

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

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Z

IMDb: 6.3
2010

Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teachers death Huo Yuanjia in Japanese occupied Shanghai A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas

The Pendle Witch Child (2011)

IMDb: 6.7
2011

Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine year old girl Jennet Device, a beggar girl

The Lady (2011)

IMDb: 7.1
2011

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burmas democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris

The Assault (2010)

IMDb: 6.1
2010

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers

Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)

IMDb: 6.5
1989

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built

Escape from Sobibor (1987)

IMDb: 7.4
1987

German death camp in Sobibor, Poland, killed two hundred fifty thousand Jews It had the most successful prisoner escape in World War II on October 14, 1943

The Last Play at Shea (2010)

IMDb: 8.0
2010

A documentary feature chronicling the history of two New York icons and the journey that brought them together for the last musical performance at Shea Stadium

Genghis: The Legend of the Ten (2012)

IMDb: 5.9
2012

This epic actioner features the relentless brave warriors from Ghengis Khans Aravt crew, as they are sent into the woods on a dangerous mission that will put the band of Mongol warriors on the edge of life and death

Darwin (2011)

IMDb: 7.0
2011

Propelled from society by tragic turns, the isolated community of Darwin, Death Valley population 35 must now find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children

Against the Wall (1994)

IMDb: 6.7
1994

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971

Bent (1997)

IMDb: 7.2
1997

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label the one for Jews instead of pink the one for gays In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears

The Innocents (2016)

IMDb: 7.3
2016

1945 Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun In her convent, several nuns are pregnant

Marvels Captain America: 75 Heroic Years

IMDb: 7.4
2016

Marvel celebrates the history of Captain America, both in the comics and on TV and film, and examines the character as a reflection of American culture throughout the years

Frost/Nixon (2008)

IMDb: 7.7
2008

A dramatic retelling of the post Watergate television interviews between British talk show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon

The Walkers Among Us (2015)

IMDb: 7.7
2015

With The Walking Dead franchise at the peak of its popularity, Documentarians Cris Macht and Ian Vacek explore and examine why humanity is obsessed with the zombie apocalypse Cris and Ian interview fans that have been there since

Doomsday Gun (1994)

IMDb: 6.1
1994

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

Killing Reagan (2016)

IMDb: 6.7
2016

A look at John Hinkleys 1981 assassination attempt against U S President Ronald Reagan

Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker (1

IMDb: 6.5
1989

Based on the true story of Richard The Night Stalker Ramirez who terrorized California in 1985 and the two Los Angeles police detectives who try to track him down

The Kings Choice (2016)

IMDb: 7.1
2016

April 1940 Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace Ultimately, the decision on Norways future will rest with the Kin

Bomber Harris (1989)

IMDb: 7.0
1989

The history of one of the key commanders of WW2, the head of RAF Bomber Command, Air Chief Marshall Sir Arthur Bomber Harris

Beep: A Documentary History of Game Soun

IMDb: 6.0
2016

Beep is a documentary history of game sound, from the Victorian penny arcades through pinball and the video games right up to 2015

Batalon (2015)

IMDb: 6.5
2015

Russia, 1917, WWI This is the story of the 1st Russian Womens Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917

Daughters of the Dust (1991)

IMDb: 6.6
1991

Languid look at the Gullah culture of the sea islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia where African folk ways were maintained well into the 20th Century and was one of the last bastions of these mores in America Set in 1

The Looming Tower (2018)

IMDb: 8.0
2018

A look at how the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently set the stage for the tragedy of 911 and the war in Afghanistan

Memory of the Camps (2014)

IMDb: 8.4
2014

Cameramen from Britains Army Film Unit capture footage of concentration camps in German in 1945

Death Defying Acts (2007)

IMDb: 5.8
2007

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini Guy Pearce enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him

Undercover (1984)

IMDb: 6.7
1983

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of womens lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles

Eight Men Out (1988)

IMDb: 7.2
1988

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series

The Colt (2005)

IMDb: 6.7
2005

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabbs beloved mare Refusing the orders to shoot it, lest it prove a hindrance,

The Game of Their Lives (2005)

IMDb: 6.1
2005

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The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John (20

IMDb: 7.8
2003

Clip Rise from the Dead

Savannah (2013)

IMDb: 5.8
2013

Drama about the friendship between an Oxford educated Southerner and a former black slave in turn of the century Savannah