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12 Strong
6.3
2018

12 Strong

A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle...

The Lost Bus
7.1
2025

The Lost Bus

A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
7.0
2003

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrat...

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools
8.0
2023

The Harvest: Integrating Mississippi's Schools

In The Harvest, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his h...

The Ten Commandments
7.8
1956

The Ten Commandments

Escaping death, a Hebrew infant is raised in a royal household to become a prince. Upon discovery of his true heritage, ...

Caligula
6.0
1979

Caligula

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody ...

Cold Mountain
6.9
2003

Cold Mountain

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate sol...

The Zone of Interest
7.0
2023

The Zone of Interest

The commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolf Höss, and his wife Hedwig, strive to build a dream life for their family in a house ...

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy
4.2
2011

The Legend of Hell's Gate: An American Conspiracy

In 1870s Texas, a ruthless bounty hunter and an Irish desperado flee the law with a young criminal claiming to possess a...

Nouvelle Vague
7.3
2025

Nouvelle Vague

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinc...

The Count of Monte Cristo
4.0
1913

The Count of Monte Cristo

A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his ...

Public Enemies
6.7
2009

Public Enemies

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but h...

The Outpost
6.9
2020

The Outpost

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains...

Gangs of New York
7.3
2002

Gangs of New York

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seekin...

Napoleon
6.3
2023

Napoleon

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to powe...

Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane
6.5
2002

Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane

At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oral ...

Köln 75
7.2
2025

Köln 75

The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize...

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
7.5
2012

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend ...

The Burial
7.1
2023

The Burial

When a handshake deal goes sour, funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic, smooth-talking attorney Willie...

Hamilton
7.6
2025

Hamilton

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash h...