This historical drama is based on the events surrounding the release of the Pentagon Papers, documents which detailed the history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam. The story centers on Kay Graham, the first female newspaper publisher in the country (specifically of the Washington Post), as well as her tough editor, Ben Bradlee. The two become involved in an unprecedented power struggle between journalists and the government, exposing a cover-up that has spanned four different American presidencies.
| Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. |
The story of World War One front line medics - their hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies.
Produced by Norman Rosemont 2003
Directed by Delbert Mann
Directed by Peter Watkins 2010
Icarus Films
Directed by Philip Martin 2012
Written by Sebastian Faulks
Produced by Martin Lisemore 2002
Directed by Herbert Wise
BBC 2004
Produced by Steven Spielberg, Ian Royce, Gary Levinson and Mark Gordon 1998
Directed by Steven Spielberg
Directed by Michael Darlow 1989
Production designer Jackson De Govia 1983
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck 1962
Directed by Ken Annakin
Directed by Steven Spielberg 1993
Screenplay by Steven Zaillian
Produced by Steve Marlton, Elton Brand and Harry Knapp 2007
Directed by Werner Herzog
Set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War
The Great War, March 1918. C-company arrives to take its turn in the front-line trenches of northern France, led by the war-weary Captain Stanhope. With a German offensive imminently approaching, the company anxiously awaits their unknown fate.
Based on the play by R.C. Sherriff
"Krotoa, a feisty, bright, young 11 year old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan van Riebeeck, her uncle's trading partner. She is brought into the first Fort established by the Dutch East India Company in 1652. There she grows into a visionary young woman who assimilates the Dutch language and culture so well that she rises to become an influential interpreter for van Riebeeck who became the first Governor of the Cape Colony. As such Krotoa ends up being rejected by her own Khoi people and destroyed by the Dutch when she tries to find the middle way between the two cultures."
The inspiring real-life romance of Seretse Khama, King of Bechuanaland (later Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments.
True-life story of brilliant pianist and composer Wladyslaw Szpilman, the most acclaimed young musician of his time until his promising career was interrupted by the onset of World War II.
Produced by Robert Papazian and James Hirsch 2009
Directed by Nicolaj Arcel 2012
Produced by Sam Spiegel
Directed by David Lean
A Talkback/BBC production 2003
Produced by John Chapman
Written and directed by Stephen Poliakoff
Produced by David Heyman 2008
Written for screen and directed by Mark Herman
Produced by Harry Salzman and S. Benjamin Fisz 1969
Directed by Guy Hamilton
Produced by Elmo Williams 1970
Directed by Toshio Masuda and Kinji Fukasku
Produced by Lisa Bryer Andrea Calderwood and Charles Steel 2007
Directed by Kevin MacDonald
John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath tells the specific story of the Joad family in order to illustrate the hardship and oppression suffered by migrant laborers during the Great Depression 1940
In Thirties Berlin, Max and Rudy are lovers. But the Nazis have decided that homosexuals should be persecuted as well as Jews and, when a group of soldiers burst in on Greta's Club, Rudy and Max are lucky to escape. They are eventually caught and are due to be transported to Dachau concentration camp
Rachel, a young Jewish girl, hides from the Nazis during World War II in The Netherlands. She sees her hiding place blown up and escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but their boat sails into a trap set by the Germans.
"The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial and devastating, it changed the face of battle for ever"
As a young man, Jean Valjean is convicted of stealing. After escaping prison, he rises, against all odds to become mayor, but he cannot escape his past or Javert, the fanatical police inspector who is determined to recapture him.
A German soldier tries to determine if the Dutch resistance has planted a spy to infiltrate the home of Kaiser Wilhelm in Holland during the onset of World War II, but falls for a young Jewish Dutch woman during his investigation.
1942: The Third Reich is at its peak. The Czech resistance in London decides to plan the most ambitious military operation of WWII: Anthropoid. Two young recruits in their late twenties, Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader - Reich-protector Reinhard Heydrich, Head of the SS, the Gestapo, and the architect of the Final Solution
Produced by Steven Spielberg
Based on the book by Chris Kyle
Created by Neil Jordan 2011
Produced by Carlo Ponti 1965
Directed by David Lean
Directed by Richard Loncraine 2003
Produced by Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, and Gareth Unwin 2010
Directed by Tom Hooper
Produced by Clint Eastwood and Steven Spielberg 2007
Directed by Clint Eastwood
Produced by Robert Clark 1955
Directed by Michael Anderson
Produced by A. Kitman Ho 2004
Directed by Terry George
Nord-Ouest présente ; une co-production France-Allenagne-Angleterre-Belgique-Roumanie ; entre Nord-Ouest Production ... [et al.] et TF1 Films Production, Les Productions de La Guéville ; avec la participation de Canal+ 2006
"Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice... When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation."
"Shot over a number of years, this ... film pays tribute to an unsung heroine of the armed struggle against apartheid. This is the story of Nokuthula Simelane, a 23 year old student who was unofficially held captive and then disappeared in 1983. Her fate remains locked in diffusing memories and suspicions, admissions and denials, woven through with the thread of betrayal.
