History
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Stars: Diana Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay, Rolando Villazón, Ian Richardson, Christian Carion, Philippe Rombi
A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II. Stars: Charlton Heston Henry Fonda James Coburn Glenn Ford Robert Mitchum Toshiro Mifune Jack Smight Donald S. Sanford
The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. Stars: Anatoliy Solonitsyn Ivan Lapikov Nikolay Grinko Irina Tarkovskaya Mikhail Kononov Nikolay Grabbe Andrei Tarkovsky
Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles' policies, and the self-interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England.
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud, Stuart Burge, William Shakespeare
In 11th century Normandy, a Norman duke sends one of his knights to build a defensive fortress in order to guard the borders against Frisian raiders.
Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth, Maurice Evans, Guy Stockwell, James Fernatino, Franklin J. Schaffner, Leslie Stevens, Jerome Moross
Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorke's Drift.
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. Stars: Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Martin Landau Martin Benson John Cairney Douglas Wilmer Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Barabbas, the criminal that the Jewish leaders induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.
Stars: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews, Jack Palance, Richard Fleischer, Pär Lagerkvist
The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.
Herod, King of Judea, is made a prisoner by the Romans. Convinced the King is dead, his faithful lieutenant, Aaron, is nevertheless unable to keep his promise to kill the Queen if something untoward happened to the King. He leads the young woman out into the desert. Herod's pleas to Augustus are successful and he returns to his palace. His son, Antipater, informs Herod that Aaron has betrayed him.
Stars: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Massimo Girotti, Viktor Tourjansky
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov, John Gavin, Woody Strode, Stanley Kubrick, Dalton Trumbo, Alex North
In 1836, a small band of soldiers sacrifice their lives in hopeless combat against a massive army in order to prevent a tyrant from smashing the new Republic of Texas.
Stars: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge. Stars: Charlton Heston Jack Hawkins Haya Harareet Stephen Boyd Hugh Griffith Martha Scott William Wyler Lew Wallace
The muscular Hercules performs his Labors, sails with the Argonauts, and romances the fair Iole.
Stars: Steve Reeves, Sylva Koscina, Fabrizio Mioni, Gianna Maria Canale, Pietro Francisci
A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess.
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar, but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Stars: Marlon Brando, John Gielgud, James Mason, Richard Hale, Donald Elson, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, William Shakespeare, Miklós Rózsa
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
The story of Japanese-American soldiers who fought in Europe during World War II.
Stars: Van Johnson (I), Lane Nakano, Henry Nakamura, Gianna Maria Canale, John Banner, Frank Wilcox (I), Robert Pirosh, Alberto Colombo (I)
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge.
Stars: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Sam Wood
A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, Raymond Hatton, John Ford (I), John Steinbeck, Alfred Newman
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean. Stars: Olivia de Havilland Errol Flynn Lionel Atwill Basil Rathbone Ross Alexander Guy Kibbee Michael Curtiz Rafael Sabatini