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Ethel

The drama is about Ethel Rosenberg, who, along with her husband Julius, was executed in 1953 for conspiracy to commit espionage.

Grant

Story of one of the most complicated military leaders-turned politicians in American history, Ulysses S. Grant.

Great Men

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum creates four sixty-foot presidential heads carved in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

In The Skin of a Lion

Patrick Lewis arrives in Toronto in the 1920s and earns his living searching for a vanished millionaire and tunneling beneath Lake Ontario.

K Troop

Set after the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan rises in the South in 1865 and Major Lewis Merrill leads the U.S. Army's K Troop against the KKK in 1871. However, the group surfaces again in 1915 and in the 1950s.

Larklight

Set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, a brother and sister team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.

Lincoln In The Bardo

Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.

Monte Cristo

Set in early 19th century France, the tale centers on Edmond Dantes, a young man betrayed and falsely jailed. While on a prison island, Dantes meets a fellow inmate who not only educates the man but also points him in the direction of a fortune. When Dantes finally escapes after many years, he re-emerges in Paris society primed to take revenge against the men who took away his love and his freedom.

Mrs. Lowry & Son

The film examines the relationship between early 20th century British painter L.S. Lowry and his mother, Elizabeth.

Nathan Hale

Nathan Hale was executed at the age of 21 in 1776 by the British after being discovered as a spy during the Revolutionary War.

Promised Land

Explores the events leading up to the partition of Palestine and the creation of the state of Israel.
Location: Israel

Rip Van Winkle

Set in colonial America, a villager falls asleep only to wake up decades later, missing the American Revolution.

Spartacus

Unlike the 1960 film of the same title, this version will rely on historic facts of Spartacus as a revolutionary, focusing on him leading a band of elite gladiators and freed slaves in revolt against the Roman war machine.

The Axmann Conspiracy

In the wake of World War II, a young U.S. Counter Intelligence Corps officer, Jack Hunter, uncovers a dangerous Nazi conspiracy for a Fourth Reich. Artur Axmann is a Hitler confidante and the Nazi national leader of Hitler Youth. After conscripting kids to fight in the waning days of WWII, he is among those in the bunker when Hitler kills himself. After nearly being killed along with two others who escape the bunker, Axmann hunkers down with his plot. Hunter tracks down the men behind the conspiracy and alters the course of history forever. Axmann is eventually arrested when an Army counterintelligence operation sniffs out his plot to rekindle the Reich.

The Conspiracy

A true and complex story of intrigue, espionage and romance in the royal Court of Philip II of Spain, in the late 16th Century.

The Devil's Brigade

During WWII, Davie Berman, the only Jewish member of the Luciano mob, is requested by the U.S. military to help turn the tide of events against the Germans in Italy. He almost single-handedly drives the Germans out of the southern region of Italy.

The Drummer Boy

No plot details announced; however, we know it involves the faith-based musical group For King & Country.

The Galapagos Affair

Set in the late 1920s, German doctor Friedrich Ritter and his patient, Dore Strauch, leave their spouses to pursue a utopian dream on the deserted Galapagos island of Floreana. Their peace and solitude is disrupted by the arrival of the glamorous "Baroness" Eloise Wagner de Bosquet and her two young lovers. Disturbed by the Baroness, Friedrich and Dore's island paradise gradually descends in a spiral of jealousy, resentment, violence and eventually murder.

The Man Who Laughs

Follows a young man (Marc-Andre Grondin) with a face mutilated to appear that he is constantly laughing. The man, who works in a travelling caravan and is named Gwynplain, is revealed to be a son of a baron who was kidnapped at the age of two, sold and disfigured, and is now heir to a vast fortune.