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The Hessen Affair
[ 2009, Belgium, Canada ] starting from $1.99The Winner Takes All... And More.
Genres: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Actors: Michael Bowen, John B. Lowe, Mike O'Brien, Noah Segan, Rudolph Segers, Will Woytowich, Billy Zane, Lyne Renee
Director(s): Paul Breuls
1945 - Castle Kronberg, outside Frankfurt, is turned into a 'country club' for victorious American officers. The cynical Colonel Jack Durant and the dazzling beautiful Lieutenant Kathleen Nash uncover the crown jewels of Germany - more diamonds, rubies, emeralds, sapphires and pearls than are gathered in any one place outside the Tower of London. Nash and Durant manage to get the gems to New York, where they must deal with gangsters to fence the loot. To make matters worse for the two renegade officers, Princess Sophie discovers the theft of her jewels and complains to American army headquarters. It now turns out that her brother fought for the Allies and is about to marry the future Queen of England. With double-crossing gangland figures trying to control the gems and the army closing in on them, will Kathy Nash and Jack Durant stay true to one other and their plan? Or will one sell the other out?
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Brother's War
[ 2009, USA ] starting from $1.99Enemy At The Gates Meets The Man Who Would Be King. During the Final days
Actors: Tino Struckmann, Michael Berryman, Olivier Gruner, Hayley Carr, Hugh Daly, Jack Dimich, Adam Leadbeater, Tye Olson, Steve Holm, Dylan Kenin, Boris Kievsky, Time Winters, Joshua Minnick, Andreas T. Ramani, Mark Doerr
Director(s): Jerry Buteyn
The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother's War is based on real events. The western Allies push into Germany and the Red Army is fights its way towards Berlin. Churchill is worried about Russia's post-war plans for Europe but most not endanger the increasingly threatened alliance between the west and Russian A British military attached to the Red Army discovers a Russian war crime against the Polish government in exile and is seized by Stalin's feared intelligence service. He finds unexpected help from an enemy and fellow prisoner a German Captain. They discover a common bond in freemasonry and are bound by honor, oath and secrets. They are joined by Anna, a beautiful Polish nurse cast adrift on the tides of war. The three are pursued by A Ruthless Russian commander through Germany caring a secret that can change the outcome of the world and the fate of millions. Brother's War was produced with strict attention to historic accuracy and military detail and portrays the horrors and heroism of desperate battles. The film also opens the door into the ancient order of the freemasons and presents unmatched insight on the real histories of these men, brothers all, who have fought in every war for hundreds of years.
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The Young Victoria
[ 2009, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99Genres: Drama, History, Romance
Actors: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Thomas Kretschmann, Mark Strong, Jesper Christensen, Harriet Walter, Jeanette Hain, Julian Glover, Michael Maloney, Michiel Huisman, Genevieve O'Reilly, Rachael Stirling
Director(s): Jean-Marc Vallée
A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.
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Bananas!*
[ 2009, Sweden ] starting from $1.99Genres: Crime, Documentary, Drama, History
Actors: Byron Rosales Romero, Juan J. Dominguez, Duane Miller, Rick McKnight, David Delorenzo, Mercedes Del Carmen Romero
Director(s): Fredrik Gertten
Juan "Accidentes" Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.
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Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup
[ 2009, USA ] starting from $1.99Does History Repeat Itself?
Genres: Documentary, History, War
Actors: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Richard Gage, Michael Hess, Stephen Jones, Norman Mineta, Daniel Sunjata, Michelle Little
Director(s): Dylan Avery
With the departure of the Bush Administration and the arrival of an era of transparency, opportunities are arising for the disclosure of new information that may shed more light on the events that took place before and after 9/11/2001. Dramatically narrated by Daniel Sunjata of FX s Rescue Me, and an outspoken advocate for the First Responders, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup first examines mysterious and infamous events that reshaped world history from the Reichstag Fire in 1933 that catapulted Hitler to dictatorship - to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964 that led to the Vietnam War, and then takes viewers on a turbulent journey through several pivotal moments in history before delving into the most significant catastrophe in recent memory, 9/11.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
[ 2008, UK, USA ] starting from $1.99Two sisters divided for the love for a king.
Genres: Drama, History, Romance
Actors: Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance, Kristin Scott Thomas, David Morrissey, Benedict Cumberbatch, Oliver Coleman, Ana Torrent, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Cox, Michael Smiley, Montserrat Roig de Puig, Juno Temple
Director(s): Justin Chadwick
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
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The Children of Huang Shi
[ 2008, Australia, China, Germany ] starting from $1.99Actors: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Yun-Fat Chow, Michelle Yeoh, Guang Li, Lin Ji, Matt Walker, Anastasia Kolpakova, Ping Su, Imai Hideaki, Sciichiro Hashimoto, Shinichi Takashima, Xing Mang, Ruixiang Zhu, Yuelong Fang
Director(s): Roger Spottiswoode
Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George Hogg came to lead sixty orphaned boys on an extraordinary journey of almost a thousand perilous miles across the snow-bound Liu Pan Shan mountains to safety on the edge of the Mongolian desert. And of how, in doing so, he came to understand the true meaning of courage. During his journey, Hogg learns to rely on the support of Chen, the leader of a Chinese partisan group who becomes his closest friend. He soon finds himself falling in love with Lee, a recklessly brave Australian adventurer whom war has turned into an unsentimental nurse on horseback. Along the way Hogg befriends Madame Wang, an aristocratic survivor who has also been displaced by war, who helps the young Englishman, his friends and their sixty war orphans make their way across awesome (and rarely filmed) mountain and desert regions to a place of safety near the western end of the Great Wall of China.
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The Duchess
[ 2008, UK, Italy, France ] starting from $1.99Based On The Incredible True Story
Actors: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper, Hayley Atwell, Simon McBurney, Aidan McArdle, John Shrapnel, Alistair Petrie, Patrick Godfrey, Michael Medwin, Justin Edwards, Richard McCabe, Calvin Dean, Hannah Stokely
Director(s): Saul Dibb
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
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A Viking Saga
[ 2008, Denmark, USA ] starting from $1.99Genres: Adventure, Drama, History
Actors: Ken Vedsegaard, Peter Gantzler, Erik Holmey, Kim Sønderholm, Kenneth Carmohn, Julie Ølgaard, Neel Rønholt, Hans Henrik Clemensen, Jesper Pedersen, Alexandre Willaume-Jantzen, Jan Linnebjerg, Lars Bjarke, Klaus Hyr Hansen, Simon Braager, Samuel P. Strong
Director(s): Michael Mouyal
Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.
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Valkyrie
[ 2008, USA, Germany ] starting from $1.99Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Actors: Tom Cruise, Manfred-Anton Algrang, David Bamber, Matthias Freihof, Andy Gatjen, Christian Oliver, Christopher Karl Hemeyer, Carice van Houten, Eddie Izzard, Justus Kammerer, Thomas Kretschmann, Bill Nighy, Florian Panzner, Halina Reijn, Terence Stamp
Director(s): Bryan Singer
Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.
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Passchendaele
[ 2008, Canada ] starting from $1.99in love, there is only one rule... don't die.
Actors: Alex Arsenault, Gil Bellows, Don Bland, David Brown, Tom Carey, Jason Cermak, Ryan Cowie, Ross Crockett, Joe Dinicol, Jesse Frechette, Michael Greyeyes, Paul Gross, Adam Harrington, David Haysom, Chris Ippolito
Director(s): Paul Gross
Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle.
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The Baader Meinhof Complex
[ 2008, Germany, France, Czech Republic ] starting from $1.99Genres: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Actors: Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers, Stipe Erceg, Niels-Bruno Schmidt, Vinzenz Kiefer, Simon Licht, Alexandra Maria Lara, Hannah Herzsprung, Tom Schilling, Daniel Lommatzsch, Sebastian Blomberg, Eckhard Dilssner
Director(s): Uli Edel
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he's only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.
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Max Manus
[ 2008, Norway, Denmark, Germany ] starting from $1.99Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Actors: Nicolai Cleve Broch, Ron Donachie, Ken Duken, Nils Düwell, Mats Eldøen, Eirik Evjen, Patrick Güldenberg, Aksel Hennie, Stig Henrik Hoff, Knut Joner, Paul Kvarving, Sondre Krogtoft Larsen, Petter Næss, Jakob Oftebro, Christian Rubeck
Director(s): Joachim Rønning
The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.
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Hunger
[ 2008, UK, Ireland ] starting from $1.99A compelling and unforgettable portrayal of life within the maze prison at the time of 1981 IRA hunger strike.
Actors: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Larry Cowan, Liam Cunningham, B.J. Hogg, Des McAleer, Dennis McCambridge, Liam McMahon, Brian Milligan, Rory Mullen, Ben Peel, Lalor Roddy, Thomas James Scott, Helena Bereen, Helen Madden
Director(s): Steve McQueen
Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.
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Waveriders
[ 2008, UK, Ireland ] starting from $1.99Genres: Adventure, Biography, Documentary, History, Sport
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Kelly Slater, Richard Fitzgerald, Gabe Davies, Chris Malloy, Keith Malloy, Dan Malloy, Rabbit Kekai, Kevin Naughton, Craig Peterson, John McCarthy, Easky Britton, Fergal Smith, Arthur Verge, Drew Kampion
Director(s): Joel Conroy
WAVERIDERS is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today's pioneers of Irish big wave surfing. The story unfolds via the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS then journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth's wave of influence. This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland catching monster waves of over fifty feet.
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Goodbye Bafana
[ 2007, Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, UK, Luxembourg ] starting from $1.99Based on the memoirs of Nelson Mandela's prison guard
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger, Shiloh Henderson, Patrick Lyster, Faith Ndukwana, Mehboob Bawa, Adrian Galley, Warrick Grier, Leslie Mongezi, Sizwe Msutu, Matthew Roberts, Eduan van Jaarsveldt, Terry Pheto, Giulia Troiano
Director(s): Bille August
GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.
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Elizabeth: The Golden Age
[ 2007, UK, France ] starting from $1.99Woman. Warrior. Queen.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: Jordi Mollà, Geoffrey Rush, Aimee King, Cate Blanchett, John Shrapnel, Susan Lynch, Elise McCave, Samantha Morton, Abbie Cornish, Penelope McGhie, Rhys Ifans, Eddie Redmayne, Stuart McLoughlin, Clive Owen, Adrian Scarborough
Director(s): Shekhar Kapur
Nearly a decade after Cate Blanchett drew the attention of audiences and critics alike with ELIZABETH, the Oscar-winning actress returns to the role of the Virgin Queen. Though the protestant ruler has been on the throne for decades in 1585, Elizabeth I's reign is still under attack from both inside her country and from the continent. Her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots (Samantha Morton), carries the favour of the nation's Catholics as she schemes for the throne from prison, while Spain's King Philip II (Jordi Molla) plots an invasion with the power of his famous armada. But Elizabeth is also concerned with the arrival of Sir Walter Raleigh (Clive Owen), a charming pirate and adventurer. Unable to reconcile her feelings with her crown, she encourages Bess (Abbie Cornish), her beloved lady-in-waiting, to pursue a relationship with Raleigh. Nine years haven't dulled Blanchett's ability to play this—or any other—character with an impressive range of fire and tenderness. Her chemistry with the infinitely watchable Owen is one of the film's highlights. As in ELIZABETH, director Shekhar Kapur doesn't restrict himself from using artfully constructed shots that aren't normally used in period dramas. It's a modern retelling of history, and Kapur and his director of photograpy, Remi Adefarasin, aren't content to let the film have the standard look of many films in the genre. Costume designer Alexandra Byrne follows the same logic, creating stunning dresses for Elizabeth that draw inspiration both from modernity and the time period. If Blanchett weren't such a gifted actress, the gorgeous costumes might threaten to overtake her as the star of the film.
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Nightwatching
[ 2007, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Netherlands, UK ] starting from $1.99Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery
Actors: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Michael Teigen, Christopher Britton, Michael Culkin, Harry Ferrier, Jonathan Holmes, Toby Jones, Kacper Kasiecki, Adam Kotz, Adrian Lukis, Maciej Marczewski, Richard McCabe, Kevin McNulty, Rafal Mohr
Director(s): Peter Greenaway
With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt's birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist's infamous painting is perfectly explored by one of the most iconic Directors of our time - Peter Greenaway. 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 and heir, Rembrandt is determined to expose the conspiring murderers and builds his accusation meticulously in the form of the commissioned painting, uncovering the seamy and hypocritical side to Dutch Society in the Golden Age. Rembrandt's great good fortune turns. Saskia dies. Rembrandt reveals the accusation of murder in the painting and the conspirators plan revenge. They set out to discredit him at home and abroad. They plant a treacherous mistress, Geertje, to seduce him. They try to blind him. They plan his social and financial ruin, and to create the circumstances for his slide into penury, insult his young mistress Hendrickje, conspire to destroy his son, and bring Rembrandt to his knees. The bold and courageous painting of the Nightwatch, exceptional in aesthetics and content, is Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, it consolidated his reputation as a master-painter but it also destroyed him socially and financially.
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Talk to Me
[ 2007, USA ] starting from $1.99Never underestimate a man with something to say.
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
Actors: Jim Annan, Benz Antoine, Matt Birman, David Brown, Cedric the Entertainer, Don Cheadle, J. Miles Dale, Davidx, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Mike Epps, Kamal Jones, Jeff Kassel, Jim Malmberg, Erick Peterson, Kwame Rakes
Director(s): Kasi Lemmons
The true life story of Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene Jr. In the mid-to-late 1960s, in Washington, D.C., vibrant soul music and exploding social consciousness were combining to unique and powerful effect. It was the place and time for Petey to fully express himself - sometimes to outrageous effect - and "tell it like it is." With the support of his irrepressible and tempestuous girlfriend Vernell, the newly minted ex-con talks his way into an on-air radio gig. He forges a friendship and a partnership with fellow prison inmate Milo's brother Dewey Hughes. From the first wild morning on the air, Petey relies on the more straight-laced Dewey to run interference at WOL-AM, where Dewey is the program director. At the station, Petey becomes an iconic radio personality, surpassing even the established popularity of his fellow disc jockeys, Nighthawk and Sunny Jim. Combining biting humor with social commentary, Petey openly courts controversy for station owner E.G. Sonderling. Petey was determined to make not just himself but his community heard during an exciting and turbulent period in American history. As Petey's voice, humor, and spirit surge across the airwaves with the vitality of the era, listeners tune in to hear not only incredible music but also a man speaking directly to them about race and power in America like few people ever have. Through the years, Petey's "The truth just is" style — on - and off-air - would redefine both Petey and Dewey, and empower each to become the man he would most like to be.
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