Browse Movies : Development : Period

A feared theater critic, a newspaper owner and an actress are all caught in a web of blackmail, deceit and murder.

Set in the 1950s, a young book editor grows troubled by the social trappings of her time and slowly descends into mental illness.

The story centers on the showman Dr. William Key and his performing horse, Beautiful Jim Key. His promoters claimed the horse could read, write and do math. Key, a former slave, was relegated to carnivals so he recruited a one-time promoter for P.T. Barnum to be his front man — leading to the horse becoming a national sensation at the 1904 St. Louis Exposition.

Ernest Shackleton leads three British expeditions to the Antarctic. His ship Endurance is crushed by ice floes and he manages to keep everyone alive in a harrowing journey to safety in sub zero temperatures.

In addition to being a wife and mother, a woman is a Blackhawk pilot in the National Guard who is called to serve a tour of duty in Iraq.

In the 1920s, Dr. Perry Baird, who was born in Texas and educated at Harvard, begins his career ascent in the field of medicine. Over time, he grows more and more interested in the cause of manic depression. Sadly

In 1511, Gonzalo Guerrero is shipwrecked in a violent storm and finds himself cast away on an unknown shore in the New World. He and his Spaniard shipmates are enslaved by a Mayan tribe. With no hope of escape, the brilliant and pragmatic adventurer searches for a way to advance in a strange new culture.

Set in Los Angeles, the story will connect two events from May of 1974 - the unsolved murder of an LAPD cop and a shoot-out in South Central LA between the LAPD and the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Set in the Utah territory during the mid-1800s gold rush, Porter Rockwell, a U.S. Deputy Marshal, reluctantly leads a family of prospectors into the mountains, where they are ambushed and he is left for dead. Fueled by vengeance, Rockwell treks through rugged and snowy terrain to hunt down the gang that kidnapped a rebellious young girl.

The story of Lillian Leitzel, a trapeze artist who in the early 20th century was one of the biggest stars in the world as she performed for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Centers on the country's first black police captain in New Orleans in the early 1870s.

Weeks after Hitler’s suicide but before the German surrender, American Captain Jack Lee must find a way to free prisoners they learn have been sentenced to be killed by the Nazi soldiers to prevent them from providing damning war crimes testimony. About 200 hardened Waffen SS troops are right behind the Americans, with orders to murder the prisoners, and the badly outnumbered Americans must turn to the German castle guards who just surrendered to them, to help move the French POWs to safety.

With crime rampant in 1940s, Boston mayor gave the nod to the creation of a task force known as "The Shadows," the first police force to work with criminal informants, wear plain clothes and go undercover.

The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.

A young woman is accused of murder in Iceland in 1829 and faces becoming the last woman to be publicly executed in the country. The film will tell the story of a tragic romance set against the odds during an endless Icelandic summer.

Unlikely relationship develops between Joseph Merrick and the young woman assigned to his care at the Fawsley Hall Estate, where he's been invited to experience nature and leisure in the final weeks of his life.

The film centers on a forbidden romance that develops between composer, priest and violin virtuoso Antonio Vivaldi and his protege, singer Anna Tessieri Giro, leading him to write his enduring masterpiece "The Four Seasons."

Responding to a meat shortage in the U.S. in 1910, two bitter enemies, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, join forces to try and import hippopotamuses to the swamps of Louisiana and convince Americans to eat them.

A young woman who, after waking up in a strange town, realizes that she has been transported into a 1940s musical. She meets new friends along the way who help her figure out what happened and how she can find her way home.