Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Sport
Summer 1961: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports Babe Ruths single-season 60 home runs. Its a big story and the intense plain-spoken Maris is the bad guy: sports writers bait him and minimize his talent fans cheer Mantle the leagues golden boy and baseballs commissioner announces that Ruths record stands unless its broken within...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel the bookseller who works at Marks & Co. 84 Charing Cross...
Country: France, Spain
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Big budget account of Christopher Columbus discovery of the Americas. Released in 1992 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the discovery. Shows the disastrous effects the Europeans had on the original inhabitants and Columbus struggle to civilize the New...
Country: United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
The story takes place in 16th century England. But men like Sir Thomas More who love life yet have the moral fiber to lay down their lives for their principles are found in every century. Concentrating on the last seven years of English chancellors life the struggle between More and his King Henry VIII hinges on Henrys determination to break with Rome so he can divorce his current wife and...
Country: United States, United Kingdom
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
On January 23 2002 Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is to fly from Karachi to Dubai with his pregnant wife Mariane also a reporter. On the day before with great care he has arranged an interview in a café with an Islamic fundamentalist cleric. When Danny doesnt return Mariane initiates a search. Pakistani police American embassy personnel and the FBI examine witnesses phone...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Brief vignettes about Lincolns early life include his birth early jobs unsubstantiated affair with Ann Rutledge courtship of Mary Todd and the Lincoln-Douglas debates; his presidency and the Civil War are followed in somewhat more detail though without actual battle scenes; film concludes with the...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
An epic film that follows the life of Alexander the Great the macedonian king that united all ancient greek tribes and led them against the vast Persian Empire. Alexander conquered most of the then known world and created a greek empire that spanned all the way from the Balkans to...
Country: United States
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
In 1964 a brash new pro boxer fresh from his olympic gold medal victory explodes on to the scene Cassius Clay. Bold and outspoken he cuts an entirely new image for African Americans in sport with his proud public self confidence with his unapologetic belief that he is the greatest boxer of all time. To his credit he sets out to prove that with his highly agile and forceful style soon making...
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