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The Egyptian queen Cleopatra, a firm ruler and military tactician, embarks on a ruthless rise to power. She twice marries brothers, killing each of them as well as a sister. Romantic alliances with the much-older Roman honchos Julius Caesar and Marc Antony help her solidify power, but her dalliance with Antony undoes both of them.
Gerald Arbuthnot, who introduces his prospective employer, Lord Illingworth, to his mother. But she realizes that Illingworth is the man who jilted her long ago and is Gerald's father.
Autobiography of the Roman emperor written as a series of letters to his nephew, Marcus Aurelius.
The movie follows two wreck divers who discovered the hull of a German U-boat in waters off New Jersey in 1991. The divers spent seven years searching for the truth behind the ship and men who died inside it.
"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.
Based on the real-life events of Col. Wendell Fertig, a soldier in the Phillipines during World War II. He became a pivotal figure in the Pacific Theater because of his heroic and relentless pusuit to control the island, with only the help of his team of tattered U.S. soldiers.
A young Queen Amanirenas rules over the Kush Kingdom of Nubia, one of the richest kingdom's in Ancient Africa. She successfully leads her army of Nubians into battle against the mighty invading Roman Empire forcing them to withdraw and negotiate peace.
Story centers on a small town sheriff who must try to keep his town from exploding into violence during World War II.
Sun Tzu, a military general living in the 500 B.C. era, has a unique military strategy.
This is the epic adventure of how an 18th century Hawaiian tribal leader, Kamehameha (The Rock), conquered the seven main islands of Hawaii, and linked those tribes together as a single kingdom under his rule, which established them as a nation rather than a collection of feuding tribes. The timing couldn't have been more perfect, as this consolidation also allowed King Kamehameha to more adequately deal with the English explorers who came to the islands, starting with Captain Cook, who brought to Hawaii the wonders of modern technology, like firearms and tall-mast sailing.
Based on a true story, this war drama follows an all-black tank battalion's 183 days on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge.
A Frederick Douglass biopic.
After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Mafia godfather Carlos Marcello confesses to FBI informant Jack Van Laningham to having ordered JFK's assassination. As part of a dangerous and long-secret undercover operation, the FBI had positioned Van Laningham to become confidant to Marcello, who ruled organized crime in Louisiana and most of Texas for decades.
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 triangle forms between two warrior princes and a female doctor in the fictional locale of Al-Rassan during the Christian re-conquest of Moorish Spain.
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.
A young FBI agent leads the charge to restore the 18½-minute gap on Nixon Tape 342. When he gains control of the tape, he comes under the scrutiny of a veteran "spy catcher" within the FBI.
Chronicles the battle to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s.