7.1 /10
A victim from World War II's "Death Railway" sets out to find those responsible for his torture. A true story.
Run Time: 1hr 56` . MMPA: R . Release: 02 Dec 2013
Director: Pamela Willis , Lucy Enfield , Jonathan Teplitzky
Producer: Zygi Kamasa , Bud Hopes , Tamonwan Ngamvilai
Stars: Colin Firth , Nicole Kidman , Stellan Skarsgård , Jeremy Irvine , Hiroyuki Sanada , Tanroh Ishida
7.1 /10
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen - John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes - who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
Run Time: 2hr 15` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Oct 2006
Director: Peter Dress , Mable Lawson-McCrary , Clint Eastwood
Producer: Steven Spielberg , Phyllis Huffman , Robert Lorenz
Stars: Ryan Phillippe , Jesse Bradford , Adam Beach , John Benjamin Hickey , John Slattery , Barry Pepper
7.1 /10
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: R . Release: 18 Aug 1989
Director: Brian De Palma , Michael Stevenson
Producer: Fred C. Caruso , Art Linson , Ray Freeborn
Stars: Michael J. Fox , Sean Penn , Don Harvey , John C. Reilly , John Leguizamo , Ving Rhames
7.1 /10
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son, Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love, but they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
Run Time: 2hr 22` . MMPA: . Release: 07 Feb 1986
Director: Trevor Nunn , Mary Holdsworth
Producer: Peter Snell , Joyce Nettles , Rebecca Howard
Stars: Helena Bonham Carter , Cary Elwes , John Wood , Patrick Stewart , Joss Ackland , Michael Hordern
7.1 /10
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before the U.S. Court of Appeals and overturn a century of sex discrimination.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 2018
Director: Mimi Leder , Nathalie Paquette
Producer: Adrian Knight , Robert W. Cort , Mélanie Simard
Stars: Felicity Jones , Armie Hammer , Justin Theroux , Sam Waterston , Kathy Bates , Cailee Spaeny
7.1 /10
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Run Time: 1hr 41` . MMPA: R . Release: 04 Oct 1991
Director: Bruce Beresford , Marie La Haye
Producer: Brian Moore , Jake Eberts , Eric Norlen
Stars: Lothaire Bluteau , Sandrine Holt , August Schellenberg , Tantoo Cardinal , Lawrence Bayne , Aden Young
7.1 /10
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Run Time: 2hr 18` . MMPA: . Release: 16 Sep 1965
Director: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed , Elmo Williams , Darryl F. Zanuck
Stars: Charlton Heston , Rex Harrison , Diane Cilento , Harry Andrews , Alberto Lupo , Adolfo Celi
7.1 /10
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Oct 2010
Director: Nigel Cole
Producer: Lucy Bevan , Stephen Woolley , Paul White
Stars: Sally Hawkins , Bob Hoskins , Miranda Richardson , Geraldine James , Rosamund Pike , Andrea Riseborough
7.1 /10
A 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.
Run Time: 2hr 21` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 28 Nov 2013
Director: Justin Chadwick
Producer: Harvey Weinstein , Simon Rhodes , Moonyeenn Lee
Stars: Idris Elba , Naomie Harris , Tony Kgoroge , Riaad Moosa , Fana Mokoena , Robert Hobbs
7.1 /10
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Run Time: 2hr 3` . MMPA: PG . Release: 15 May 1981
Director: Hugh Hudson , Hugh O'Donnell , Melvin Lind
Producer: David Puttnam , Caroline Langley , Ron Phipps
Stars: Ben Cross , Ian Charleson , Cheryl Campbell , Alice Krige , Nigel Havers , Ian Holm
7.1 /10
In the 1970s, aimless teenager Greg Laurie searches for all the right things in all the wrong places until he meets Lonnie Frisbee, a charismatic hippie/street preacher. Together with local pastor Chuck Smith, they open the doors of a languishing church to an unexpected revival.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 23 Feb 2023
Director: Brent McCorkle , Jon Erwin , Brent McCorkle
Producer: Andrew Erwin , Kevin Downes , Joshua Walsh
Stars: Joel Courtney , Kelsey Grammer , Jonathan Roumie , Kimberly Williams-Paisley , Anna Grace Barlow , Julia Campbell
7.1 /10
Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.
Run Time: 2hr 15` . MMPA: NR . Release: 01 Apr 1957
Director: Don Alvarado , Billy Wilder , James A. Rosenberger
Producer: Leland Hayward , Billy Wilder
Stars: James Stewart , Murray Hamilton , Patricia Smith , Bartlett Robinson , Marc Connelly , Arthur Space
7.1 /10
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: R . Release: 25 Oct 1996
Director: Neil Jordan
Producer: Redmond Morris , Susie Figgis , Lynn Goldman
Stars: Liam Neeson , Aidan Quinn , Stephen Rea , Alan Rickman , Julia Roberts , Ian Hart
7.1 /10
Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.
Run Time: 2hr 17` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Dec 2008
Director: Edward Zwick , Jayne-Ann Tenggren
Producer: Gail Stevens , Annija Tetere , Victoria Thomas
Stars: Daniel Craig , Liev Schreiber , Jamie Bell , Alexa Davalos , Allan Corduner , Mark Feuerstein
7.1 /10
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Run Time: 2hr 1` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 10 Sep 2015
Director: Laura Miles , Zoe Morgan , Baltasar Kormákur
Producer: Tim Bevan , David Nichols , Tori Parry
Stars: Jason Clarke , Josh Brolin , John Hawkes , Sam Worthington , Emily Watson , Kumud Pant
7.1 /10
The true story of fraudulent Washington, D.C. journalist Stephen Glass, who rose to meteoric heights as a young writer in his 20s, becoming a staff writer at The New Republic for three years. Looking for a short cut to fame, Glass concocted sources, quotes and even entire stories, but his deception did not go unnoticed forever, and eventually, his world came crumbling down.
Run Time: 1hr 34` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 14 Nov 2003
Director: Natalia Ortelli , Billy Ray , Nathalie Picard
Producer: Emily Rice , Paula Wagner , Robin D. Cook
Stars: Hayden Christensen , Peter Sarsgaard , Chloë Sevigny , Rosario Dawson , Melanie Lynskey , Hank Azaria
7.1 /10
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.
Run Time: 2hr 7` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 17 May 2009
Director: Alejandro Amenábar , Carmen Soriano
Producer: Mark Sansone , Jina Jay , Fernando Bovaira
Stars: Rachel Weisz , Max Minghella , Oscar Isaac , Ashraf Barhom , Michael Lonsdale , Rupert Evans
7.1 /10
Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936 Olympics, where he faces off against Adolf Hitler's vision of Aryan supremacy.
Run Time: 2hr 14` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 19 Feb 2016
Director: Stephen Hopkins
Producer: Suzanne Crowley , Kate Garwood , Randi Wells
Stars: Stephan James , Jason Sudeikis , Carice van Houten , Jeremy Irons , Amanda Crew , William Hurt
7.1 /10
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.
Run Time: 1hr 55` . MMPA: R . Release: 11 Feb 2007
Director: Bille August , Morag Cameron
Producer: Neil Van Der Linde , Paul Schnee , Vlokkie Gordon
Stars: Joseph Fiennes , Dennis Haysbert , Diane Kruger , Shiloh Henderson , Patrick Lyster , Norman Anstey
7.1 /10
When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond while exposing corporate corruption and racial injustice.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: R . Release: 06 Oct 2023
Director: Margaret Betts , Ian Watermeier , Steve Lonano
Producer: Anna P. McCarthy , Celine Rattray , Charlotte Gale
Stars: Jamie Foxx , Tommy Lee Jones , Jurnee Smollett , Alan Ruck , Mamoudou Athie , Pamela Reed
