A 70-year-old General becomes the leader in a fight against the invading French army in 1885 China. Despite what seemed like an impossibility, his knowledge of war and love of his country helped his people to rise up and prove they would not go quietly.
Two self-destructive teenagers growing up on a rough London estate won't let anything come between their friendship and their ultimate plan, but when dysfunctional family life becomes intolerable, loyalty leads one to make a choice that will change their lives forever.
Since 2012 the Colombian Government and FARC have held Peace Talks in Cuba. With unprecedented access to both political leaders, this intimate, insightful documentary goes behind the scenes during this profound moment in history.
Follow the spectacular journey of a Viking Age group, as they make their way across Europe, where they participate in massive-scale Viking reenactments and a series of epic competitive battles, including full contact fighting.
Help the Free French? Not world-weary Harry Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). But he changes his mind when a sultry siren named Marie asks, "Anybody got a match?" That red-hot match is Bogart and 19-year-old Lauren Bacall in her acting debut. Full of intrigue and racy banter (certain whistling instructions), this thriller excites further interest for what it has and has not. Cannily directed by Howard Hawks and smartly written by William Faulkner and Jules Furthman, it doesn't have much similarity to...
In the music business getting what you want can cost you EVERYTHING! "To Hell With A Bullet" is set against the sleazy backdrop of the music business, and follows the antics of a washed up rock singer who makes a deal with a mysterious doctor, who promises to return his voice to its prime, with horrifying consequences.
Kayla returns to her hometown and gets a job as head of the arts program at her high school alma mater. When she learns that the school is planning on eliminating the arts department due to budget cuts, she teams up with Jordan, another teacher, to save the arts department...and falls in love in the process.
Directed by Agniezska Holland, this gripping and chilling drama is based on the true story of political unrest in Poland prior to the fall of communism and Father Jerzy Popieluszko, the Solidarity chaplain who was murdered by the secret police in 1984. Christopher Lambert is Father Alek, a Polish labor union chaplain at Saint Sebastian's church in Warsaw. All gathered within the great church adore him, save one the police captain, Stefan (Ed Harris), who believes this priest who dares to mix...
A maverick cop sets out to solve a brutal murder, and falls prey to a dangerous sexual obsession.
A teenage school girl is raped on her way home. Years later, she and her newlywed husband move into a new house in the country. They soon begin to realize the house is haunted by the ghost of a strange man. Yet, somehow she finds herself strangely drawn to the ghost, while depriving her husband of any semblance of a romantic sex life. When a paranormal expert is called in, it's discovered there's more to the ghost than first suspected. This made-for-TV British film is well-played and genuinely...
To Love Again is a love,drama and family life nollywood african movie
Caught in the shadows of two dysfunctional romantic relationships, Hank finds himself in a twilight world of both depression and new possibilities. When he meets Rose, a kindred romance begins in a way that most people experience a one-night stand.
Race-car driver Clark Gable is at the wheel, but journalist Barbara Stanwyck is in control as she exposes his fierce, speed-demon tactics in the revved-up star vehicle To Please a Lady. Racing sequences ranging from dirt-track events to the Indianapolis 500 set the pace for this high-octane romance featuring Gable at his manliest and Stanwyck at her savviest. A plunge through a rotted pier traps Stanwyck's husband (Barry Sullivan) in the sand in the race-against-time thriller Jeopardy. She...
Sidney Poitier reprises his role as Mark Thackeray in "To Sir, With Love II," the sequel to the original 1967 classic film "To Sir, With Love." It is the eve of Thackeray's retirement from the working class London school where he has taught for the last 30 years. During his speech to the faculty and friends who have gathered to send him off with good wishes, he announces that he has taken a teaching position on Chicago's South Side. But Mark has another reason for wanting to go to the States...
Fourteen-year-old twins Mia (Brisa Lalich) and Mackie Castillo (Laura Krystine, Instructions Not Included) have been dancing since they were toddlers. They support each other's passion through competitions and rehearsals, even though they prefer different styles: Mia loves tap and Mackie loves jazz. When their favorite pop star launches an online contest to find the most unique dance group, the twins each form their own team to compete for the chance to dance in the video. With the help of...
Sisterhood is tested, rivalries heat up and new bonds are formed when students go back to their performing arts school to compete for an all-expense paid summer scholarship program to a prestigious Conservatory of Fine Arts.
What must I do to be saved? That was the question asked of the apostle Paul nearly 2,000 years ago. His answer resonates to this very day. Follow Paul's remarkable visit to the city of Philippi as he connects with people from all walks of life, demonstrating that the good news of Jesus is indeed for all people--to the very ends of the earth.
Narrated by Emma Thompson. To the Ends of the Earth follows concerned citizens living at the frontiers of extreme oil and gas extraction - tar sands in Alberta, oil shale in Utah, and seismic testing in the Arctic - bearing witness to a global crossroads. They call for human ingenuity to rebuild society at the end of the fossil fuel era. Two films on one DVD: 80 min Director's Cut amd 55 min Broadcast Cut.
TO THE LAST MAN (1933): Mark Hayden returns home from the Civil War determined to end the decades-long feud between his family and the Colbys. Before a peace can be brokered, his father is hit by a stray bullet from Jed Colby. Instead of taking justice into his own hands, Mark turns Jed over to the law. Jed Colby is released from prison fifteen years later intent on exterminating the Hayden bloodline - to the last man. It'll be more difficult than he thinks, since his daughter and Mark's son...
As beneficiary of Grantleigh Manor, the snobbish Lady fforbes-Hamilton b ecomes a happy widower upon the death of her husband. But in the face of her late husband's creditors, bank, and the government, she can no longer afford to maintain the family's hold on the estate. Reluctantly, she sees it auctioned to Richard De Vere (formerly Bedrich Polouvicka), a millionaire bachelor of Czechoslovakian extraction who runs a multinational grocery business. With his mother he wastes no time in moving...
To The Moon follows Dennis and Mia, a young couple who find their weekend retreat become a hallucinatory nightmare when Dennis' estranged brother Roger arrives and begins to distort their senses.
This Academy Award-nominated documentary chronicles the US assault on Japanese-held island Iwo Jima during World War II. The iconic image of six soldiers planting an American flag atop Mt. Suribachi is captured here as it happened, as is a stunning array of up-close and sometimes graphic footage, all shot by the military's own "embedded" photo-journalists. Some 7,000 US soldiers and 20,000 Japanese were killed during the course of this 5-week battle; less than five months later the US would...
This short documentary depicts the American assault on the Japanese held island of Iwo Jima. Producer Milton Sperling would later go on to helm such Hollywood war classics as The Battle of the Bulge, Merrill's Marauders, and The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell, for which he and writing partner Emmet Lavery earned an Oscar nomination for best screenplay.