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Set during British India 1857, Captain Clayboune Rock Hudson is faced with restoring his reputation after being harshly disciplined for disobeying orders

In 1803 France, Napoleon Bonaparte Robert Cornthwaite orders the capture of notorious highwayman Purple Mask Tony Curtis, who routinely rescues imprisoned nobles and harasses the Revolutionary officials

Trials and tribulations beset the one hundred odd settlers that journey to Virginia in 1620 including unexpectedly arriving in Plymouth, Massachusetts

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asuncion, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires

In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King

Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid 1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan

During the First World War, a female German spy Fraulein Doktor and her team of saboteurs plan to kill Lord Kitchener, obtain the Allied defense plans and steal the new French mustard gas formula

In the Life of Music, a story told in three chapters, tells of how one song Champa Battambang, made famous by Sinn Sisamuth the King of Khmer Music, plays a role in the lives of three different generations

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey Debuting in 1974, the LA based channels eclectic slate of movies

A film about real life musician Augustin Barrios Mangore, an influential and important composer and classical guitarist from Paraguay

WWII In German occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her

When an aging, but gentlemanly stagecoach robber is released from prison, he decides to go to Canada to become a train robber

While Heinrich Bullinger and Leo Jud wait for news from Huldrych Zwingli from the bloody battle of Kappel am Albis, the young Bullinger learns from Jud how things could get this far When Zwingli begins to preach as a priest in Zurich, the plague atta

Frictions develop when Yisroel Izzy Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art world iconoclast na

Belle Melina Mercouri is a tempestuous gypsy girl who is after Sir Paul Deverill Keith Michell Her plan is to marry him and take him for every cent he has before moving on to other lovers

As the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime

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To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold

When Warren Jeffs rose to Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, he took control of a religion with a history of polygamous and underage marriage In a short time, Warren managed to expand these practices and the

French civilization in the desert Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh He catches the eye of Madeline, the daught

Film about the later life of Joan Of Arc including her trial and execution

The story of Juan Pablo Duarte, founding father of the Dominican Republic, from his struggles for Dominican independence to his exile at Venezuela in the final years of his life

In the second of the Angelique series, the heroine joins a group of bandits, rescues her children, becomes a successful businesswoman, and once again becomes entangled in politics and matters of the heart

In the town of Pompeii, 79 A D , a few weeks before the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius, a Roman lady Helene meets and falls in love with a young Greek man Lysias He is betrothed to another woman who, to win him back, acquires a potio

For the first time on the big screen, the film tells the fascinating story of one on the worlds most famous wines and how it exploded as a world phenomenon

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu Wang

This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in 1945 It depicts the strength and courage of Am

In 1938, Philippine President Manuel L Quezon agrees to welcome Jewish refugees from Germany in the Philippines

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War

The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peters sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him

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The most daring moments in the struggle for liberation from colonial rule