Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn (Merle Oberon), his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour (Wendy Barrie), but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves (Elsa Lanchester) as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.

The Private Life of Henry VIII

Author J.D. Salinger leads a reclusive lifestyle after the success of his popular and controversial novel The Catcher in the Rye.

Rebel in the Rye

In 1913, brilliant East Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) travels to Trinity College in England to work with professor G.H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons).

The Man Who Knew Infinity

Aging King George III (Nigel Hawthorne) of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788. As the monarch alternates between bouts of confusion and near-violent outbursts of temper, his hapless doctors attempt the ineffectual cures of the day. Meanwhile, Queen Charlotte (Helen Mirren) and Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger (Julian Wadham) attempt to prevent the king's political enemies, led by the Prince of Wales (Rupert Everett), from usurping the throne.

The Madness of King George

A 12-year old boy and his misfit friends enlist an older woman in their fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the air raids on Belfast in 1941.

In the 1800s, a group of all-female warriors protects the African kingdom of Dahomey with skills and fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen. Faced with a new threat, Gen. Nanisca trains the next generation of recruits to fight against a foreign enemy that's determined to destroy their way of life.

The Woman King

Germany becomes the daylight target of opposing World War II nations.

Target for Today

In 1942 Berlin, young Jewish graphic artist Cioma Schönhaus refuses to be intimidated by the Nazis and audaciously adopts the identity of a German naval officer to escape being deported like his family. He joins a network of underground rescuers and becomes infamous for his masterfully forged IDs that save the lives of hundreds of Jews. Cioma throws himself into the city's nightlife, until one day his only chance of survival is one last forged document with his own name on it.

The Forger

A 17th-century Hungarian countess believes that bathing in the blood of virgins will keep her young.

The Countess

Civil War lovers (James Dunn, Mae Clarke) set the stage for battle: the ironclad Monitor vs. the Merrimack.

Hearts in Bondage

During the Great Depression, Rusty Russell gives up a privileged position to coach football at an orphanage in Fort Worth, Texas. Whipping his young players into shape, they soon become an inspiration to their city, state and an entire nation.

12 Mighty Orphans

During World War II, 8-year-old Bruno (Asa Butterfield) and his family leave Berlin to take up residence near the concentration camp where his father (David Thewlis) has just become commandant. Unhappy and lonely, he wanders out behind his house one day and finds Shmuel (Jack Scanlon), a Jewish boy of his age. Though the barbed-wire fence of the camp separates them, the boys begin a forbidden friendship, oblivious to the real nature of their surroundings.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Justices (Frank Langella, Danny Glover) of the Supreme Court discuss boxer Muhammad Ali's refusal to fight in the Vietnam War.

Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight

The veteran major (Burt Lancaster) in charge of a U.S. advisory group follows futile orders to their tragic end in 1964.

Go Tell the Spartans

Clio Dulaine (Ingrid Bergman) was born out of wedlock. Her mother was a servant of a wealthy New Orleans landowner who paid for the pregnant woman to flee the country and move to France. Now looking to avenge her mother's ruined reputation, Clio travels to New Orleans to destroy the family that humiliated her mother all those years ago. And if she can charm herself into a marriage with rich Texas gambler Col. Clint Maroon (Gary Cooper) along the way, even better.

Saratoga Trunk

Lily (Gillian Anderson) is a ravishing socialite who quickly discovers the precariousness of her position when her beauty and charm start attracting unwelcome interest and jealousy. She seeks a wealthy husband and, in trying to conform to social expectations, she misses her chance for real love with Lawrence Selden (Eric Stoltz). Her quest for a husband comes to a scandalous end when she is falsely accused of having an affair with a married man and is rejected by society and her friends.

The House of Mirth

Young Thurgood Marshall faces one of his greatest challenges while working as a lawyer for the NAACP. Marshall travels to conservative Connecticut when wealthy socialite Eleanor Strubing accuses Black chauffeur Joseph Spell of sexual assault and attempted murder. He soon teams up with Sam Friedman, a local Jewish lawyer who's never handled a criminal case. Together, the two men build a defense while contending with racist and anti-Semitic views from those who deem Spell to be guilty.

Marshall

Based on Leon Uris' novel, this historical epic provides a dramatic backstory to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, in the aftermath of World War II. Ari Ben Canaan (Paul Newman), a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.

Exodus

Winston Churchill (Albert Finney) wages a battle against Nazi tyranny while facing obstacles in his marriage to Clementine (Vanessa Redgrave).

The Gathering Storm

Faced with the potential of Israel's complete destruction, Prime Minister Golda Meir must navigate overwhelming odds, a skeptical cabinet and a complex relationship with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger as millions of lives hang in the balance during the tense 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973.

Golda

During the 1972 Munich Olympics, an American sports broadcasting crew finds itself thrust into covering the hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

September 5

In 400 A.D., in a forgotten time in ancient America, a lone Hebraic fugitive must preserve the history of his fallen nation while being hunted by a ruthless tyrant.

The Oath

At the dawn of World War II, a desperate Winston Churchill orders his new spy agency to train women for covert operations. Together, these female agents help undermine the Nazi regime in France, leaving an unmistakable legacy in their wake.

A Call to Spy

During the D-Day invasion, a group of U.S. soldiers must smuggle a member of the French resistance behind enemy lines to assassinate a high-value Nazi target.

Murder Company

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