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A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Lone

Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Josh Brolin

During World War II, a secret agent must seduce then assassinate an official who works for the Japanese puppet government in Shanghai. Her mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Non

A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gemma Arterton

During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bourvil

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator...

Genre: History

Cast: Madonna

During routine manoeuvres near Hawaii in 1980, the aircraft-carrier USS Nimitz is caught in a strange vortex-like storm, throwing the ship back in...

Genre: War

Cast: Kirk Douglas

On the eve of the Second World War, two of the greatest minds of the twentieth century, C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud converge for their own personal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Hopkins

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Nicole Kidman

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryan Phillippe

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dana Andrews

In 1946, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, took a stand against Major League Baseball's infamous colour line when he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chadwick Boseman

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Fox

19 year old Irena Gut is promoted to housekeeper in the home of a highly respected Nazi officer in Poland when she finds out that the Jewish ghetto...

Genre: War

Cast: Sophie Nélisse

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1944, during World War II. Andries Riphagen, a powerful underworld boss, has made his fortune by putting his many criminal...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge

At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kenneth Branagh

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix

A lonely boy discovers a mysterious egg that hatches a sea creature of Scottish legend.

Genre: Family

Cast: Alex Etel

The comic adventures of a group of misfits who form an extremely bad concert party touring the hot and steamy jungles of Burma entertaining the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Windsor Davies

The Camomile Lawn is British adaptation of the Mary Wesley's classic novel that aired on Channel 4. As storm clouds gather over Europe in 1939, five...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosemary Harris

1945 Zero hour. Europe is reduced to rubble. Thirty million displaced and uprooted people. At the heart of this ravaged continent lies Switzerland....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miron Sharshunov

18 years old Engraçadinha starts a secret love affair with her cousin Sílvio, who's engaged to her best friend Letícia, who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cláudia Raia

During World War II, the Germans convert the castle of Colditz into an escape-proof prison where recidivist escapees are imprisoned under one roof....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Damian Lewis

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emma Thompson

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mathieu Kassovitz

After the sudden death of ex-Secret Intelligence Service man Alexander, his wife Alison investigates when mysteries from her husband's past come...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruth Wilson

The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Labor Party from the end of World War Two up to the...

Genre: War & Politics

Cast: Ed Devereaux

Homefront is an American television drama series created and produced by Lynn Marie Latham and Bernard Lechowick in association with Warner Bros....

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Newsom

From Here to Eternity was short-lived dramatic television series that aired in 1980. It was a spinoff of the successful 1979 miniseries of the same...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roy Thinnes

The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jon Bernthal

A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Geraldine James

A gripping family drama and entrepreneurial fable, set in a post-war Paris fashion house. It exposes the grit behind the glamour of a rising...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Coyle

Genre: Drama

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Set in Shanghai in 1948. A traitor tells information about a high-level CCP undercover and Nationalist secret service tries to find him out.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wu Xiubo

Screen adaptation of the memoires of Daniel Cordier, a member of the French Resistance and close friend of Resistance leader, Jean Moulin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jules Sadoughi

East Berlin, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, revolutionary of the theater and poet of the state, looks back: his exploits as a teenager during the World War I;...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Burghart Klaußner

Genre: Drama

Cast: Javier Gutiérrez

Gary Sparrow is an ordinary bloke in 1990s Britain, married to the ambitious Yvonne and working as a TV repairman. Then his whole world changes when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nicholas Lyndhurst