Browse Movies : TBA Month : Historical (Page #4)

A mail clerk turned code breaker is thrust into the fledgling C.I.A. to stop an elite squad of Nazi saboteurs from destroying the U.S. on its own soil.

"The Farnsworth Invention" is a biopic of inventor Philo Farnsworth, who, at the age of 21, was the first man to produce and transmit a moving television picture. After a series of prolonged legal battles with the broadcasting giant RCA over the invention, Farnsworth eventually lost his patent rights and died in obscurity.

Set in 1942, a group of prisoners from the Marzahn Concentration Camp -- exclusively for Gypsies -- are pressed into work as actors, bit players and extras during the filming of "Tiefland," a movie directed by and starring Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl.

The story is set around the British-owned mines of Andalusia's Rio Tinto in 1888 and depicts the friendship of two women, one Spanish and the other British, against the social upheavals of the time.

American officers discover German jewels and attempt to smuggle them to New York. It is based on true events in 1945.

The true story of a group of young, rich men who started the Yale Flying Club, and, using their money and family connections, strengthened the country's air force. The students signed up for service and flew WWI missions, many becoming decorated war heroes.

In "The Monster of Longwood", Napoleon Bonaparte (Al Pacino) has been exiled to the island of St. Helena and develops a relationship with a young British girl who befriends him in his last days.

This historical drama follows conquistador Hernando Cortez and his conquest of the Aztec people of Mexico in the 16th century.

A poor village under attack recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.

An invisible girl must embark on a journey of redemption and revenge to save her best friend from the horrors of Nazi Germany.

The story centers on an opera singer (Brittany Murphy) who seeks out the services of Sigmund Freud in post-World War I Vienna. Haunted by hallucinatory dreams about a white hotel, she becomes Freud's famous case study Anna G. Together, they unlock the key to figuring out her memories and her premonitions of the future, which include the Holocaust.

A working-class single mom becomes the first female to join the Ironworkers Union. She battles intense sexism to earn the respect of her all-male co-workers and the love of a good man.

Based on the true life story of a German officer who does not agree with his surrounding Nazi party and instead helps the American POWs escape.

Set in first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker Jesus of Nazareth walks across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he calls the "Kingdom of God." The revolutionary movement he launches is so threatening to the established order that he is captured, tortured, and executed as a state criminal.

A young FBI agent leads the charge to restore the 18½-minute gap on Nixon Tape 342. When he gains control of the tape, he comes under the scrutiny of a veteran "spy catcher" within the FBI.

This documentary charts the history of British cinema similar to what Martin Scorsese has previously done for American and Italian cinema with 1995's "A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies" and 2001's "My Journey to Italy".

Gerald Arbuthnot, who introduces his prospective employer, Lord Illingworth, to his mother. But she realizes that Illingworth is the man who jilted her long ago and is Gerald's father.

A counter-espionage officer defies orders and embarks on a compromising mission to clear the name of a French-Jewish officer who was unfairly accused of spying for Germany and imprisoned on Devil’s Island in the late 1890s.