
The Tall Target (1951)
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.
Genre: History, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Anthony Mann, Joel Freeman, Leslie H. Martinson
Actors: Adolphe Menjou, Dick Powell, Erville Alderson, Florence Bates, Leif Erickson, Marshall Thompson, Paula Raymond, Richard Rober, Ruby Dee, Will Geer
Country: United States of America
John Paul Jones (1959)
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Anna Karenina (1935)
In 19th century Russia a woman in a respectable marriage to a senior statesman must grapple with her love for a dashing soldier.
Masterpiece: Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (2013)
This is the master-crafted work of the legendary writer and artist Frank Miller. The film encapsulates, and celebrates the stunning achievement of Batman: the Dark Knight Returns, galvanizing the reason…
The Marshal’s Two Executions (2018)
The film confronts two different views of the execution of General Ion Antonescu, Romania’s leader during the Second World War.
Ferrari (2023)
Set during the summer of 1957. Ex-racecar driver, Enzo Ferrari, is in crisis. Bankruptcy stalks the company he and his wife, Laura, built from nothing ten years earlier. Their tempestuous…
The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai (2022)
In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his…
Anthropoid (2016)
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.
The Toast of New York (1937)
After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his…