Country: United States
Genre: Drama, History, War
Based on J. G. Ballards autobiographical novel tells the story of a boy James Graham whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai December 8 1941. Separated from his parents he is eventually captured and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp Jim attempts to reconstruct his...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama
A biopic about the actor James Dean whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life most notably the difficult relationship with his...
Country: Germany, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Anthony Swoff Swofford a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp but makes it through as a sniper paired with the usually-reliable Troy. The Gulf War breaks out and his unit goes to Saudi Arabia for Desert Shield. After 175 days of boredom adrenaline heat worry about his girlfriend finding someone else losing it and...
Country: France, United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
One of the obsessive speculations in American history is whether Thomas Jefferson in the years before he became president had an affair with and fathered a child with his 15-year-old slave Sally Hemings. JEFFERSON IN PARIS follows Jefferson to France as the U.S. ambassador to the court of Louis XVI following the death of his wife his friendships and flirtations with the French his...
Country: United States, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
On November 22 1963 president John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested for the crime and subsequently shot by Jack Ruby supposedly avenging the presidents death. An investigation concludes that Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby acted alone in their respective crimes but Louisiana district attorney Jim Garrison is skeptical. Assembling a trusted group of people...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
The full story of this groundbreaking dance company from their founding in 1956 to the present. The Joffrey is considered the first truly American ballet company and was the first to perform at the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Mandy Patinkin the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern dance with...
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
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Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Carl Panzram is sent to Leavenworth Prison for burglary. While there he is brutally beaten by a guard. Neophyte guard Henry Lesser feels sympathy for Panzram befriends him and gets him to write his life story. Lesser learns that Panzrams past is much more violent than he thought but also that hes capable of being a much better person than the rest of the prison staff believes - or so Lesser...
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