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In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry. Brown hopes the attack will ignite a slave uprising. Instead it leaves 11 dead and leads to Brown's capture, after which he is found guilty of treason and hanged. Political enemies consider Brown a madman and a terrorist, but the notoriety of his violent attacks are credited with sparking the Civil War.

Over a 24-hour period in 1775 during the American Revolution, Boston silversmith Paul Revere makes "midnight ride" from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts in order to warn the Colonial militia of the impending British invasion.

Set against the dramatic landscape of the English coastal town of Lyme-Regis and centers on two female 19th century fossil hunters who make significant discoveries that changed the scientific world forever. The story reveals invisible women in science who were influential but marginalized and whose accomplishments were appropriated by men.

Set in Germany four years after Caesar has invaded Gaul and Augustus has risen to become of the first emperor.

A man receives a grant to make a documentary about the effects of Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's march through the South during the Civil War, but he gets dumped by his girlfriend just before filming. He shifts the focus on the film, and instead tells a personal story about the women in his life.

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.

In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroic sailors who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece.

Tstory of ornithologist Francis Wills (Firth), who is hired to transport English songbirds to recently deposed South African prime minister Cecil Rhodes (McKellen). Wills falls in love with a firebrand political activist (Weisz) and becomes entangled in a plot to stop the imminent Boer War.

"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.

In the 16th century, the Ottoman Empire, led by Suleiman, held control of most of the lower Mediterranean and sought to begin an invasion of Europe using the island of Malta as a stepping stone.

Set in mid-1945 after V-E Day, but before the fall of Japan, this is the story of an Australian battalion sent to New Guinea to force the beleaguered Japanese to retreat - however the enemy troops will fight to the very end.

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.