Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
A movie starring Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness and Omar Sharif
Amistad (1997)
A rated R history movie starring Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne and Anthony Hopkins
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case ... (more)
The Return (2024)
A rated R history movie starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Charlie Plummer
After twenty years away, Odysseus washes up on the shores of Ithaca, haggard and unrecognizable. The king has finally returned home, but much has changed in his kingdom since he left to fight in the Trojan war.
Train Dreams (2025)
A rated PG-13 drama starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones and William H. Macy
Train Dreams tells the story of one such ordinary man, Robert Grainier, who lives all of his years in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, working on the land, helping to create a new world at the turn of the 20th century.
The Good Shepherd (2006)
A history movie starring Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie and Robert De Niro
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded OSS. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.
Enemy at the Gates (2001)
A war movie starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.