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Goodbye Bafana

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: Germany, France, Belgium, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom, Luxembourg

Director: Bille August

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

James Gregory once lived in a farm and had befriended a native youth Bafana and had even had a photograph taken with him. Years later now married to Gloria and father of three children Chris Brett and Natasha James has nothing but shame and regret as many South African Caucasians in the oppressive Apartheid-era ridiculed him leading him to hate Africans. He seeks to redeem himself by...

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Giulio Cesare, Il Conquistatore Delle Gallie

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Italy

Director: Tanio Boccia

Duration: 91 min

Year: 1962

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms

In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterix and others whod once pledged allegiance to Rome. At first things go badly for the Romans complicated by the fact that Vercingetorix has captured and...

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Garbo: The Spy

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: Spain

Director: Edmon Roch

Duration: 88 min

Year: 2009

Actors: Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith

A compelling account of Juan Pujol an extraordinary Spanish double agent during WWII who helped change the course of...

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Gandhi, My Father

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: India

Director: Feroz Abbas Khan

Duration: 136 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Akshaye Khanna, Darshan Jariwala, Shefali Shetty

Mohandas was born in the Gujarati speaking family had several brothers who jointly owned property in Rajkot. At the age of 13 Mohandas married Kasturba. On attaining maturity he re-located to England became a Barrister returned home and together with Kasturba re-located to South Africa. They returned to India for a few years and this is where they became parents of four sons: Harilal...

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My Boy Jack

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Brian Kirk

Duration: 93 min

Year: 2007

Actors: David Haig, Daniel Radcliffe, Kim Cattrall

English gentleman author Rudyard Kipling famous for the Jungle Book uses his considerable influence being on a War Office propaganda think tank to get his nearly 18 year-old son John Jack admitted for military service during World war I after he is repeatedly refused on account of his bad eyesight. He is enrolled in the Irish Guards: their patriotic dream but mother and sisters nightmare....

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Mrs Brown

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Ireland

Director: John Madden

Duration: 105 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer

Queen Victoria is deeply depressed after the death of her husband disappearing from public. Her servant Brown who adores her through caress and admiration brings her back to life but that relationship creates scandalous situation and is likely to lead to monarchy...

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Mongol: The Rise Of Genghis Khan

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: Russia, Germany, Kazakhstan

Director: Sergey Bodrov

Duration: 126 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun

The movie is an epic story of a young Genghis Khan and how events in his early life lead him to become a legendary conqueror. The 9-year-old Temüjin is taken on a trip by his father to select a girl as his future wife. He meets Börte who says she would like to be chosen which he does. He promises to return after five years to marry her. Temüjins father is poisoned on the trip and dies. As...

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Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Matthew Akers, Jeff Dupre

Duration: 106 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Marina Abramovic, Ulay, Klaus Biesenbach

This feature-length documentary film follows the artist as she prepares for what may be the most important moment of her life: a major retrospective of her work at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. To be given a retrospective at one of the worlds premiere museums is for any living artist the most exhilarating sort of milestone. For Marina it is far more - it is the chance to finally...

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Marie Antoinette

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, France, Japan

Director: Sofia Coppola

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Rip Torn

All eyes will be on you says the Austrian Empress Maria Theresa to her youngest daughter Marie Antoinette. The film marketed for a teen audience is an impressionistic retelling of Marie Antoinettes life as a young queen in the opulent and eccentric court at Versailles. The film focuses on Marie Antoinette as she matures from a teenage bride to a young woman and eventual queen of...

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Malcolm X

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Japan

Director: Spike Lee

Duration: 202 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo

Biograpical epic of Malcolm X the legendary African American leader. Born Malcolm Little his father a Garveyite Baptist minister was killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Malcolm became a gangster and while in jail discovered the Nation of Islam writings of Elijah Muhammad. He preaches the teachings when let out of jail but later on goes on a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca there he converts to the...

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Made In Dagenham

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Nigel Cole

Duration: 113 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough

In 1968 the Ford auto factory in Dagenham was one of the largest single private employers in the UK. In addition to the thousands of male employees there are also 187 underpaid women machinists who primarily assemble the car seat upholstery in poor working conditions. Dissatisfied the women represented by the shop steward and Rita OGrady work with union rep Albert Passingham for a better...

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Macarthur

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United States

Director: Joseph Sargent

Duration: 130 min

Year: 1977

Actors: Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ed Flanders

The story of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Supreme Allied Commander during World War II and United Nations Commander for the Korean War. MacArthur begins in 1942 following the fall of Phillipines and covers the remarkable career of this military legend up through and including the Korean War and into MacArthurs days of forced retirement after being dismissed from his post by...

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Luther

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Eric Till

Duration: 123 min

Year: 2003

Actors: Joseph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz, Peter Ustinov

Biography of Martin Luther the 16th-century priest who led the Christian Reformation and opened up new possibilities in exploration of faith. The film begins with his vow to become a monk and continues through his struggles to reconcile his desire for sanctification with his increasing abhorrence of the corruption and hypocrisy pervading the Churchs hierarchy. He is ultimately charged with...

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Kon-tiki

Genres: Adventure, History

Country: United Kingdom, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden

Director: Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg

Duration: 118 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Pål Sverre Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård

The Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific Ocean in a balsawood raft in 1947 together with five men to prove that South Americans back in pre-Columbian times could have crossed the ocean and settled on Polynesian islands. After financing the trips with loans and donations they set off on an epic 101-day-long trip across 8000 kilometers while the world was waiting for the result...

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Koch

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Country: United States

Director: Neil Barsky

Duration: 100 min

Year: 2012

Actors: Ed Koch, Michael Bloomberg, Calvin O. Butts III

Three-time New York City Mayor 1978-1989 Ed Koch was combative funny and blunt. He was also intensely private. Koch gives us a contemporary history of the worlds greatest city and an intimate portrait of the 86-year old former mayor as he confronts his own mortality and legacy. The film examines issues still relevant today - race homelessness AIDS and gay rights - and gives us a...

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Elizabeth - Das Goldene Königreich

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 114 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Clive Owen, Geoffrey Rush

Two faiths two empires two rulers - colliding in 1588. Papist Spain wants to bring down the heretic Elizabeth. Philip is building an armada but needs a rationale to attack. With covert intrigue Spain sets a trap for the Queen and her principal secretary Walsingham using as a pawn Elizabeths cousin Mary Stuart whos under house arrest in the North. The trap springs and the armada sets...

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Elizabeth

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom

Director: Shekhar Kapur

Duration: 124 min

Year: 1998

Actors: Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston

This film details the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First as played by Cate Blanchett. The main focus is the endless attempts by her council to marry her off the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert...

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El Presidente

Genres: Action, Biography, Drama, History, ...

Country: Philippines

Director: Mark Meily

Duration:

Year: 2012

Actors: Jorge Estregan, Nora Aunor, Christopher De Leon

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David

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, Italy, Germany

Director: Robert Markowitz

Duration: 190 min

Year: 1997

Actors: Nathaniel Parker, Jonathan Pryce, Leonard Nimoy

The tribes of Israel need to defeat the superior might of the Philistines: Now appoint a king to lead us such as all the other nations have. I Samuel 8:5. And so the prophet Samuel gives the Hebrews their first king Saul a simple farmer who with Gods help becomes a brave and mighty warlord who leads the united tribes of Israel against their enemies. Saul however has incessant doubts...

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Danton

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: France, Poland

Director: Andrzej Wajda

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1983

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro

Action opens in November of 1793 with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety under Robespierres incitement has begun a series of massive executions The Terror. Confident in the peoples support Danton clashes with his former ally but calculating Robespierre soon rounds up Danton and his followers tries them before a...

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Cry Freedom

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Richard Attenborough

Duration: 157 min

Year: 1987

Actors: Denzel Washington, Kevin Kline, Josette Simon

Donald Woods is chief editor of the liberal newspaper Daily Dispatch in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko. But after having met him for the first time he changes his opinion. They meet several times and this means that Woods and his family get attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody he writes a book about...

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Cromwell

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, War

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Ken Hughes

Duration: 139 min

Year: 1970

Actors: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil...

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Confucius

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: China

Director: Mei Hu

Duration: 125 min

Year: 2010

Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Xun Zhou, Yi Lu

The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher...

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Cleopatra (1963)

Genres: Biography, Drama, History, Romance

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian (uncredited)

Duration: 192 min

Year: 1963

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison

In 48 B.C. Caesar pursues Pompey from Pharsalia to Egypt. Ptolemy now supreme ruler after deposing his older sister Cleopatra attempts to gain favor with Caesar by presenting the conquerer with the head of Pompey borne by his governors Pothinos and Achillas. To win Caesars support from her brother Cleopatra hides herself in a rug which Apollodorus her servant presents to Caesar. The...

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Christopher Columbus: The Discovery

Genres: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Director: John Glen

Duration: 120 min

Year: 1992

Actors: Marlon Brando, Tom Selleck, Georges Corraface

Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies by traveling west instead of east across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada he...

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Charlie Wilson's War

Genres: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Country: United States, Germany

Director: Mike Nichols

Duration: 102 min

Year: 2007

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman

In the early 1980s Charlie Wilson is a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas who seemed to be in the minor leagues except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However prodded by his major conservative supporter Houston Socialite Joanne Herring Wilson learns about the plight the people are suffering in the brutal Soviet...

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Catch A Fire

Genres: Biography, Drama, History

Country: United States, United Kingdom, France, South Africa

Director: Phillip Noyce

Duration: 101 min

Year: 2006

Actors: Derek Luke, Tim Robbins, Bonnie Henna

A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African heros journey to freedom. In the countrys turbulent and divided times in the 1980s Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the countrys oppressive reigning system even as police Colonel Nic Vos further...

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Bugsy

Genres: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Country: United States

Director: Barry Levinson

Duration: 136 min

Year: 1991

Actors: Warren Beatty, Annette Bening, Harvey Keitel

New York gangster Ben Bugsy Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womaniser with a foul temper Siegel doesnt hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life the movies and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives...

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Bathory: Countess Of Blood

Genres: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History

Country: United Kingdom, Slovakia, Hungary, Czech Republic

Director: Juraj Jakubisko

Duration: 141 min

Year: 2008

Actors: Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan

Bathory is based on the legends surrounding the life and deeds of Countess Elizabeth Bathory known as the greatest murderess in the history of mankind. Contrary to popular belief Elizabeth Bathory was a modern Renaissance woman who ultimately fell victim to mens aspirations for power and...

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