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Burial Rites

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.

Vivaldi

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."

Agincourt

A young man with a death sentence on his head is saved when his skills with the bow catch the attention of King Henry V, who is preparing to lead his outnumbered English troops against the French in the Battle Of Agincourt. The archer develops into a warrior and falls in love with a young woman whose virtue he saves from a lecherous priest.

Maya Lord

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.

The Movie Critic

No plot details have been announced. Said to be set in late 1970s Los Angeles with a female lead.

Dead or Alive

Centers on two men, Mitsuyo Maeda and Rickson Gracie, and how they developed and spread a mixed martial art that became known as Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

The Hunger

Described as a historical-based story about the Donner Party, one of the more spectacular and bizarre tragedies in American history.

The Shadows

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 Virginian

A down-and-out, young George Washington — desperate to join the British Army — accepts a dangerous mission to conquer a French fort and save the American colonies.

Home Front

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.

The Armies of the Night

100,000 people march from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to the gates of the Pentagon in Virginia to protest the Vietnam War.

Brooklyn Bridge

The brilliant but inexperienced engineer Washington Roebling is left to oversee the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge when his father dies. Besieged by calamity, danger and doubt, Washington's obsession threatens his health and risks driving his family apart until he discovers he has an improbable ally in his charming and shrewd wife Emily.

Ernest Shackleton Project

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.

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe and his fellow returning knights suffer to different degrees from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder following their ultimately failed exploits against Saladin and his successful recapturing of Jerusalem.

Beautiful Jim Key

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.

Bunker Hill

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.

Harry’s All Night Hambu...

A down-on-his-luck high school senior discovers that the roadside diner where he works nights is actually the hangout of a parallel universe of travelers.

Queen of the Air

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.