7.1 /10
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Run Time: 2hr 16` . MMPA: PG-13 . Release: 12 Sep 1997
Director: Jean-Jacques Annaud
Producer: Iain Smith , John H. Williams , Jean-Jacques Annaud
Stars: Brad Pitt , Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk , David Thewlis , BD Wong , Mako , Lhakpa Tsamchoe
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
Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved to Africa to build a new life for herself. The film is based on her 1937 autobiographical novel.
Run Time: 2hr 41` . MMPA: PG . Release: 20 Dec 1985
Director: David Tomblin , Sydney Pollack
Producer: Sydney Pollack , Kim Jorgensen , Terence A. Clegg
Stars: Robert Redford , Meryl Streep , Klaus Maria Brandauer , Michael Kitchen , Malick Bowens , Michael Gough
7.1 /10
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
Run Time: 2hr 3` . MMPA: R . Release: 11 Dec 1998
Director: John Madden
Producer: Harvey Weinstein , Julie Goldstein , Donna Gigliotti
Stars: Joseph Fiennes , Gwyneth Paltrow , Geoffrey Rush , Tom Wilkinson , Judi Dench , Imelda Staunton
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: Stephen Woolley , Redmond Morris , Susie Figgis
Stars: Liam Neeson , Aidan Quinn , Stephen Rea , Alan Rickman , Julia Roberts , Ian Hart
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: Michael Stevenson , Brian De Palma
Producer: Lynn Stalmaster , Fred C. Caruso , Art Linson
Stars: Michael J. Fox , Sean Penn , Don Harvey , John C. Reilly , John Leguizamo , Ving Rhames
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: Carmen Soriano , Alejandro Amenábar
Producer: Fernando Bovaira , Mark Sansone , Jina Jay
Stars: Rachel Weisz , Max Minghella , Oscar Isaac , Ashraf Barhom , Michael Lonsdale , Rupert Evans
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
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: Nathalie Paquette , Mimi Leder
Producer: Jonathan King , Melissa H. Morgan , Adrian Knight
Stars: Felicity Jones , Armie Hammer , Justin Theroux , Sam Waterston , Kathy Bates , Cailee Spaeny
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: Morag Cameron , Bille August
Producer: Andro Steinborn , Kerry Barden , Suzanne Crowley
Stars: Joseph Fiennes , Dennis Haysbert , Diane Kruger , Shiloh Henderson , Patrick Lyster , Norman Anstey
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: Jayne-Ann Tenggren , Edward Zwick
Producer: Pieter Jan Brugge , Roma Gailiuviene , Eddie Rubin
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
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Run Time: 3hr 12` . MMPA: R . Release: 22 Dec 1995
Director: David Sardi , Scott Robertson , Maggie Murphy
Producer: Richard Rutowski , Mary Vernieu , Billy Hopkins
Stars: Anthony Hopkins , Joan Allen , Powers Boothe , Ed Harris , Bob Hoskins , E.G. Marshall
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: Joe May , Lee Blaine , Margaret Betts
Producer: Kim Taylor-Coleman , Ian Watermeier , Scott Foundas
Stars: Jamie Foxx , Tommy Lee Jones , Jurnee Smollett , Alan Ruck , Mamoudou Athie , Pamela Reed
7.1 /10
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mountains, and their immense will to survive and pull through alive, forced to do anything and everything they could to stay alive on meager rations and through the freezing cold.
Run Time: 2hr 7` . MMPA: R . Release: 15 Jan 1993
Director: Frank Marshall
Producer: Kathleen Kennedy , Valorie Massalas , Mike Fenton
Stars: Ethan Hawke , Vincent Spano , Josh Hamilton , Bruce Ramsay , John Newton , David Kriegel
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: Mary Holdsworth , Tim Lewis , Michael Apted
Producer: Jon Peters , Christine Forsyth-Peters , Terence A. Clegg
Stars: Sigourney Weaver , Bryan Brown , Julie Harris , John Omirah Miluwi , Iain Cuthbertson , Constantin Alexandrov
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: Jeff Abberley , Jessica Chastain , Elaine Grainger
Stars: Jessica Chastain , Daniel Brühl , Johan Heldenbergh , Michael McElhatton , Timothy Radford , Efrat Dor
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: Andrew Marton , Ray Kellogg , Fred R. Simpson
Producer: C.O. Erickson , Forrest E. Johnston , Stuart Lyons
Stars: Elizabeth Taylor , Richard Burton , Rex Harrison , Pamela Brown , George Cole , Hume Cronyn
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: James Ellis , Barbara Pastrovich , Alberto Mangiante
Producer: Barbara De Fina , Vito Colazzo , Adil Abdelwahab
Stars: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong , Tencho Gyalpo , Tsewang Migyur Khangsar , Gyurme Tethong , Robert Lin , Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
7 /10
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of its fans, the team's new coach and his surviving players try to keep the football program alive.
Run Time: 2hr 4` . MMPA: PG . Release: 12 Dec 2006
Director: McG
Producer: William Fay , Scott Mednick , Brent O'Connor
Stars: Matthew McConaughey , Matthew Fox , Anthony Mackie , David Strathairn , Ian McShane , Kate Mara
