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: Craig Barwick , David Middlemas , Arnold Ross
Stars: Mel Gibson , Anthony Hopkins , Laurence Olivier , Edward Fox , Daniel Day-Lewis , Bernard Hill
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: Melissa V. Barnes , David Webb , George Clooney
Producer: Andrew Lazar , Gym Hinderer , Jonathan Gordon
Stars: Sam Rockwell , Drew Barrymore , George Clooney , Julia Roberts , Rutger Hauer , Maggie Gyllenhaal
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: Alberto Mangiante , Jacki Phipps , Scott Harris
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
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: Franklin A. Vallette , Milos Milicevic , Tim Blake Nelson
Producer: Danny Dimbort , Will Cantler , Avi Lerner
Stars: David Arquette , Velizar Binev , Michael Stuhlbarg , Daniel Benzali , Allan Corduner , Steve Buscemi
6.9 /10
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
Run Time: 2hr 19` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 01 Aug 2014
Director: Cleta Elaine Ellington , Tate Taylor , Cate Hardman
Producer: Peter Afterman , Robin Mulcahy Fisichella , Jez Butterworth
Stars: Chadwick Boseman , Nelsan Ellis , Dan Aykroyd , Viola Davis , Lennie James , Fred Melamed
6.9 /10
Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her family turns to him, hoping that his connection with fanatical Inquisitor Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure her release.
Run Time: 1hr 54` . MMPA: R . Release: 08 Nov 2006
Director: Miloš Forman
Producer: Camilla-Valentine Isola , Salvador Yagüe , Saul Zaentz
Stars: Javier Bardem , Natalie Portman , Stellan Skarsgård , Randy Quaid , José Luis Gómez , Michael Lonsdale
6.9 /10
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist Gary Webb.
Run Time: 1hr 52` . MMPA: R . Release: 09 Oct 2014
Director: Michael Cuesta
Producer: Don Handfield , Louis Phillips , Scott Stuber
Stars: Jeremy Renner , Mary Elizabeth Winstead , Michael Sheen , Ray Liotta , Robert Patrick , Andy García
6.9 /10
Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
Run Time: 1hr 45` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Sep 2023
Director: Claire Cowperthwaite , Matthew R. Milan , Zachary Citarella
Producer: Rebecca Angelo , Matt Kozak , Jason Albarron
Stars: Paul Dano , Pete Davidson , America Ferrera , Nick Offerman , Anthony Ramos , Sebastian Stan
6.9 /10
Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Run Time: 2hr 20` . MMPA: G . Release: 16 Jul 1970
Director: Ken Hughes , Ted Sturgis
Producer: Andrew Donally , Maude Spector , Vicki Deason
Stars: Richard Harris , Alec Guinness , Robert Morley , Dorothy Tutin , Frank Finlay , Timothy Dalton
6.9 /10
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Run Time: 1hr 51` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 25 Nov 2016
Director: Amma Asante
Producer: Brunson Green , Sasha Robertson , David Oyelowo
Stars: David Oyelowo , Rosamund Pike , Tom Felton , Jack Davenport , Terry Pheto , Laura Carmichael
6.9 /10
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame, drugs and his identity.
Run Time: 1hr 47` . MMPA: R . Release: 09 Aug 1996
Director: Lisa Janowski , Julian Schnabel , Jonathan Starch
Producer: Peter Brant , Georgianne Walken , Randy Ostrow
Stars: Jeffrey Wright , David Bowie , Dennis Hopper , Gary Oldman , Benicio del Toro , Claire Forlani
6.9 /10
Based on the true story of the collapse of a mine in San Jose, Chile—that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Run Time: 2hr . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 06 Aug 2015
Director: Constanza Hevia , Patricia Riggen , Waldo Salgado
Producer: Moira Miller , Christopher Trunkey , José Luis Escolar
Stars: Antonio Banderas , Rodrigo Santoro , Kate del Castillo , Juliette Binoche , James Brolin , Lou Diamond Phillips
6.9 /10
In the highlands of Scotland in the 1700s, Rob Roy tries to lead his small town to a better future, by borrowing money from the local nobility to buy cattle to herd to market. When the money is stolen, Rob is forced into a Robin Hood lifestyle to defend his family and honour.
Run Time: 2hr 19` . MMPA: R . Release: 13 Apr 1995
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Producer: Susie Figgis , Peter Broughan , Michael Caton-Jones
Stars: Liam Neeson , Jessica Lange , John Hurt , Tim Roth , Eric Stoltz , Brian Cox
6.9 /10
Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co-conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln. As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 15 Apr 2011
Director: Richard Graves , Robert Redford , Eric Sherman
Producer: Cody Chandler , Robert Stone , Laura Bryant
Stars: James McAvoy , Robin Wright , Evan Rachel Wood , Kevin Kline , Alexis Bledel , Danny Huston
6.9 /10
In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex is assaulted by something no one could believe—a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance.
Run Time: 2hr 2` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 03 Dec 2015
Director: Sophie Higel , Tom Rye , Jo Beckett
Producer: Robert Sterne , Laura Mateos , Paula Weinstein
Stars: Chris Hemsworth , Benjamin Walker , Cillian Murphy , Brendan Gleeson , Ben Whishaw , Michelle Fairley
6.9 /10
The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Run Time: 1hr 39` . MMPA: R . Release: 16 May 1980
Director: Craig R. Baxley , Walter Hill , Sandy King
Producer: Tim Zinnemann , Jane Feinberg , James Keach
Stars: David Carradine , Keith Carradine , Robert Carradine , James Keach , Stacy Keach , Dennis Quaid
6.9 /10
In 1961, a 60-year-old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery’s history. What happened next became the stuff of legend.
Run Time: 1hr 36` . MMPA: R . Release: 23 Jul 2021
Director: Malinda Kaur , Gemma Nunn , Roger Michell
Producer: Lian Furness , Christopher Burton , Tian Boyce
Stars: Jim Broadbent , Helen Mirren , Fionn Whitehead , Matthew Goode , Aimee Kelly , Charlotte Spencer
6.9 /10
This biopic traces Elvis Presley’s life from his impoverished childhood to his meteoric rise to stardom to his triumphant conquering of Las Vegas.
Run Time: 2hr 48` . MMPA: PG . Release: 10 Feb 1979
Director: John Carpenter
Producer: James Ritz , Joyce Selznick , Dick Clark
Stars: Kurt Russell , Shelley Winters , Bing Russell , Robert Gray , Pat Hingle , Season Hubley
6.9 /10
A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life.
Run Time: 1hr 50` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 05 Sep 2008
Director: Iain B. MacDonald , Saul Dibb , Sam Donovan
Producer: Carolyn Marks Blackwood , Mark Woolley , Cameron McCracken
Stars: Keira Knightley , Ralph Fiennes , Charlotte Rampling , Dominic Cooper , Hayley Atwell , Simon McBurney
6.9 /10
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.
Run Time: 1hr 25` . MMPA: PG . Release: 13 Apr 2018
Director: Richard Lanni
Producer: Emmanuel Laurent , Nicolas Trout , Tom Sheehan
Stars: Logan Lerman , Helena Bonham Carter , Gérard Depardieu , Jim Pharr , Jordan Beck , Jason Ezzell
