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: Mable Lawson-McCrary , Clint Eastwood , Peter Dress
Producer: Phyllis Huffman , Robert Lorenz , Clint Eastwood
Stars: Ryan Phillippe , Jesse Bradford , Adam Beach , John Benjamin Hickey , John Slattery , Barry Pepper
7 /10
Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused, beloved, betrayed, and finally crucified. Yet that terrible fate would not be the end of the story.
Run Time: 2hr 51` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 11 Oct 1961
Director: Noël Howard , José María Ochoa , Nicholas Ray
Producer: Samuel Bronston , Stanley Goldsmith , Alan Brown
Stars: Jeffrey Hunter , Siobhán McKenna , Hurd Hatfield , Ron Randell , Viveca Lindfors , Rita Gam
7 /10
Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream of becoming a full-fledged agent, with his unexpected promotion and assignment to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a renowned senior agent with 25 years in the FBI. However, he soon learns the reason for his promotion is to gain Hanssen's trust and find proof that he is a traitor to the country. Determined to draw the suspected double-agent out of deep cover, O'Neill finds himself in a lethal game of spy vs. spy, where nothing is as it seems.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 12 Feb 2007
Director: Grant Lucibello , Billy Ray , Richard L. Fox
Producer: Robin D. Cook , Robert F. Newmyer , Adam Merims
Stars: Chris Cooper , Ryan Phillippe , Laura Linney , Dennis Haysbert , Caroline Dhavernas , Kathleen Quinlan
7 /10
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: PG . Release: 04 May 1984
Director: Michael Stevenson , David Tringham , Roger Donaldson
Producer: Jonty Barraud , Craig Barwick , David Middlemas
Stars: Mel Gibson , Anthony Hopkins , Laurence Olivier , Edward Fox , Daniel Day-Lewis , Bernard Hill
7 /10
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Run Time: 4hr 11` . MMPA: G . Release: 12 Jun 1963
Director: Ray Kellogg , Fred R. Simpson , Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer: Forrest E. Johnston , Stuart Lyons , Walter Wanger
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , Rex Harrison , Pamela Brown , George Cole , Hume Cronyn
7 /10
The second of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he works in a cinema, which gives him ample opportunity to cross paths with virtually every artistic device and dramatic character known to man. The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from the evidence of 92 suitcases found around the world—92 being the atomic number of the element Uranium. The project by Peter Greenaway includes three feature films, a TV series, 92 DVDs, CD-ROMs, and books.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 09 Feb 2004
Director: Peter Greenaway
Producer:
Stars: JJ Feild , Raymond J. Barry , Valentina Cervi , Marcel Iureș , Steven Mackintosh , Ornella Muti
7 /10
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, Hoover makes Dillinger his first Public Enemy Number One and assigns his top agent, Melvin Purvis, the task of bringing him in dead or alive.
Run Time: 2hr 20` . MMPA: R . Release: 01 Jul 2009
Director: Eric Richard Lasko , Bryan H. Carroll , Michael Waxman
Producer: Lois J. Drabkin , Kevin Misher , PJ Fishwick
Stars: Johnny Depp , Christian Bale , Marion Cotillard , Jason Clarke , Rory Cochrane , Billy Crudup
7 /10
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos form an unlikely alliance to boost funding for Afghan freedom fighters in their war against invading Soviets. The trio's successful efforts to finance these covert operations contributes to the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Run Time: 1hr 42` . MMPA: R . Release: 19 Dec 2007
Director: Mark Trapenberg , Mary Bailey , Basil Grillo
Producer: Nicole Abellara Hallman , Ryan Biegel , Ryan Kavanaugh
Stars: Tom Hanks , Amy Adams , Julia Roberts , Philip Seymour Hoffman , Emily Blunt , Om Puri
7 /10
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
Run Time: 2hr 8` . MMPA: PG . Release: 28 Jan 1971
Director: Stefan Zürcher , Cheryl Leigh , William P. Cartlidge
Producer: Marguerite Green , Terence Churcher , Ann Stanborough
Stars: Michael Caine , Omar Sharif , Florinda Bolkan , Nigel Davenport , Per Oscarsson , Madeleine Hinde
7 /10
The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.
Run Time: 2hr 9` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 23 Sep 1988
Director: Tim Lewis , Michael Apted , Mary Holdsworth
Producer: Christine Forsyth-Peters , Terence A. Clegg , Peter Guber
Stars: Sigourney Weaver , Bryan Brown , Julie Harris , John Omirah Miluwi , Iain Cuthbertson , Constantin Alexandrov
7 /10
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Run Time: 2hr 14` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Dec 1997
Director: Barbara Pastrovich , Alberto Mangiante , Jacki Phipps
Producer: Vito Colazzo , Adil Abdelwahab , Melissa Mathison
Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong , Tencho Gyalpo , Tsewang Migyur Khangsar , Gyurme Tethong , Robert Lin , Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
7 /10
A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody ever escaped from.
Run Time: 1hr 46` . MMPA: R . Release: 24 Jun 2015
Director: Florian Gallenberger , Eileen Byrne
Producer: Nicolas Steil , John Hubbard , Martin Ware
Stars: Emma Watson , Daniel Brühl , Michael Nyqvist , Richenda Carey , Vicky Krieps , Jeanne Werner
7 /10
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Run Time: 2hr 6` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 24 Mar 2017
Director: Niki Caro
Producer: Jamie Patricof , Diane Miller Levin , Mickey Liddell
Stars: Jessica Chastain , Daniel Brühl , Johan Heldenbergh , Michael McElhatton , Timothy Radford , Efrat Dor
7 /10
Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CIA assassin by night, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA at the height of his TV career and trained to become a covert operative. Or so Barris said.
Run Time: 1hr 53` . MMPA: R . Release: 31 Dec 2002
Director: Agnieszka Kroskowska , Anne Alloucherie , Marie La Haye
Producer: Josette Perrotta , Rand Ravich , Amy Minda Cohen
Stars: Sam Rockwell , Drew Barrymore , George Clooney , Julia Roberts , Rutger Hauer , Maggie Gyllenhaal
7 /10
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Run Time: 2hr 12` . MMPA: R . Release: 06 Sep 2000
Director: Peggy Sutton , Ed Harris
Producer: James Francis Trezza , Fred Berner , Meryl Emmerton
Stars: Ed Harris , Marcia Gay Harden , Tom Bower , Jennifer Connelly , Bud Cort , John Heard
7 /10
Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments.
Run Time: 2hr 5` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 29 Oct 1970
Director: Tom Pevsner , Elaine Schreyeck , Billy Wilder
Producer: Ivo Nightingale , Lesley De Pettit , I. A. L. Diamond
Stars: Robert Stephens , Colin Blakely , Geneviève Page , Christopher Lee , Tamara Toumanova , Clive Revill
7 /10
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Apr 2010
Director: Kira Bohn , Jamie Crooks , Jeremy Sims
Producer: Ross Thomas , Sandy Stevens , John Lee
Stars: Brendan Cowell , Harrison Gilbertson , Steve Le Marquand , Gyton Grantley , Alan Dukes , Alex Thompson
7 /10
The story of Auschwitz's twelfth Sonderkommando — one of the thirteen consecutive "Special Squads" of Jewish prisoners placed by the Nazis in the excruciating moral dilemma of assisting in the extermination of fellow Jews in exchange for a few more months of life.
Run Time: 1hr 48` . MMPA: . Release: 13 Sep 2001
Director: Kamen Velkovsky , Peter Mechkoff , Franklin A. Vallette
Producer: Bernard Telsey , Pamela Koffler , Trish Hofmann
Stars: David Arquette , Velizar Binev , Michael Stuhlbarg , Daniel Benzali , Allan Corduner , Steve Buscemi
7 /10
Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne, tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.
Run Time: 1hr 55` . MMPA: NR . Release: 11 Jun 1958
Director: André Smagghe , Richard Fleischer , Lucie Lichtig
Producer: Lutz Hengst , Lee Katz , Tony Curtis
Stars: Kirk Douglas , Tony Curtis , Ernest Borgnine , Janet Leigh , James Donald , Alexander Knox
7 /10
This film is a glimpse into the life, love and the unconquerable spirit of the legendary Bruce Lee. From a childhood of rigorous martial arts training, Lee realizes his dream of opening his own kung-fu school in America. Before long, he is discovered by a Hollywood producer and begins a meteoric rise to fame and an all too short reign as one the most charismatic action heroes in cinema history.
Run Time: 1hr 59` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 07 May 1993
Director: Dane Junod , Fran Joseph , Deirdre Horgan
Producer: Rick Nathanson , Wan Allen , John Badham
Stars: Jason Scott Lee , Lauren Holly , Robert Wagner , Michael Learned , Nancy Kwan , Kay Tong Lim
