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An American Haunting

POOPER: Kate Batts never cursed the family.  John raped Betsy, and the spirit of her stripped-away innocence ...

Braveheart

William Wallace (Mel Gibson) is captured by the English, and executed by being beheaded, drawn & ...

USA

Hidden Figures

In 1961 Virginia, three black women work at NASA as “computers,” doing math by hand given ...

USA

Silence

In 1637, two Jesuit priests (Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver) travel to Japan to provide guidance for ...

Jackie

Jackie Kennedy (Natalie Portman) is being interviewed shortly after her husband was assassinated in Dallas.  As ...

Schindler’s List

Academy Award - BEST PICTURE By the end of World War II, Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson) has ...

USA

Hacksaw Ridge

Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) served in the Army but never handled a weapon. Despite the scrutiny ...

Thirteen Days

POOPER Khrushchev agrees to the terms of the first letter, and withdraws the missiles from Cuba.  In ...

USA

The Birth of a Nation

Nat Turner (Nate Parker) was a slave who knew how to read, so the slave owners ...

USA

Southside With You

Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) spend the day together in Chicago. They ...

USA

The Last Emperor

Academy Award - BEST PICTURE Pu is captured by the Japanese, is "rehabilitated" in a Communist Chinese ...

AMADEUS

Academy Awards - BEST PICTURE A young classical music composer named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) completes ...

Gandhi

Academy Awards - BEST PICTURE Gandhi's (Ben Kingsley's) silent protest, most famous of all his hunger strike, ...

13 Hours

On September 11th, 2012, an American compound in Benghazi, Libya was attacked. U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens ...

Evita

Spectacular re-telling of the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical that fictionally depicts the rise of Eva ...

USA

The Big Short

The housing market along with Bear Sterns collapses. Michael Burry (Christian Bale), Mark Baum (Steve Carell), ...

USA

The Revenant

Pooper: Glass makes it back to the settlement. He and Captain Henry track down Fitzgerald, who kills ...

The Monuments Men

POOPER: All of the Monuments Men survive the war, except for Jeffries (who died trying to protect ...

The Three Musketeers

(The first of two companion Three Musketeers movies produced by Alexander Salkind. The movies were going ...

Bridge of Spies

Insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) defends Russian spy Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) against charges ...

Conspiracy

Upon the United States' entry into WWII, Hitler orders General Heydrich (Kenneth Branagh) to summon select ...

UK, USA

Woman in Gold

As a young woman, Maria Altmann (Tatiana Maslany) is forced to flee Austria, leaving behind a ...

UK

Nicholas and Alexandra

The inept Tsar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) ignores the pleas of his wise minister Witte (Laurence Olivier) ...

UK

Mutiny

In the war of 1812, an American ship must break the British blockade to bring back ...

USA

The Mission

Pooper: Cardinal Altamirano sides with the European powers, transferring the native's land to  Portuguese control and revoking ...

Selma

Pooper: Dr. King ultimately leads a successful march from Selma to Birmingham soon after President Johnson publicly ...

Zulu

The movie begins with a voiceover revealing that Zulu warriors in South Africa have decimated a ...

UK

Mr. Turner

Mr. Turner” summarizes the life of the famous painter, J. M. W. Turner, exploring how the ...

Pompeii

POOPER: Milo rescues Cassia from Corvus, who is killed by the lava from an erupting Mt. Vesuvius. ...

Foxcatcher

Due the deteriorating relationship and possible declining mental health, John E. DuPont (Steve Carell) shoots and ...

USA