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Total Recall(2012)

PG-13
| 2h 1min | Action, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 2,476 votes)

Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police - controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen, the leader of the free world - Quaid teams up with a rebel fighter to find the head of the underground resistance and stop Cohaagen. The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Directed by Len Wiseman - With Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bill Nighy, ...
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Drums Along the Mohawk(1939)

1h 40min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 43 votes)

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.

Directed by John Ford - With Claudette Colbert, Henry Fonda, Edna May Oliver, John Carradine, Ward Bond, Eddie Collins, ...
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The Four Feathers(1939)

NR
| 2h 9min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, War, History
3.6/5 (with 37 votes)

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Directed by Zoltan Korda - With John Clements, June Duprez, Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, John Laurie, Henry Oscar, ...
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Unconquered(1947)

NR
| 2h 27min | Drama, Adventure, History
3.1/5 (with 22 votes)

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway, Ward Bond, ...

The Charge of the Light Brigade(1936)

NR
| 1h 51min | Drama, Adventure, War
3.3/5 (with 30 votes)

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, David Niven, Patric Knowles, Nigel Bruce, Donald Crisp, ...
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Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy(2019)

2h 49min | Drama, History, War
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.

Directed by Surender Reddy - With Chiranjeevi, Amitabh Bachchan, Nayanthara, Misha Arobelidze

Concerning Violence(2014)

1h 25min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.

Directed by Göran Olsson - With Lauryn Hill, Kati Outinen

Clive of India(1935)

1h 34min | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War, Romance / Love
2.1/5 (with 4 votes)

Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.

Directed by Ryszard Bolesławski - With Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, ...

Coup 53(2019)

1h 58min | Documentary, History
4.0/5 (with 4 votes)

Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.

Directed by Taghi Amirani

A Little Piece of Sunshine(1990)

1h 36min | Crime, Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.

Directed by James Cellan Jones

The American Dream: Europeans in the New World(2019)

1h 31min | Documentary, History, TV Movie
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.

the meaning of style(2012)

5min

Shot with Malaysian skinheads in Penang, it’s a meditative fantasy on signs, signals and butterflies, leading to pointed reflections on the relationship between British colonial history and popular culture in South-East Asia.

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Rewi's Last Stand(1940)

1h 52min | Drama, War, History
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Star-crossed lovers, Robert and Ariana, are caught up in the New Zealand wars of the 1860s. Ariana is claimed by the Maniapoto people as one of their own and, despite Robert's chivalrous defence, is taken by them and must help them prepare for war. Robert likewise must do his patriotic duty and enlists to fight on the other side. He volunteers to ride despatch, thinking it may give him an opportunity to see Ariana again, which it does, but their joy is short-lived; Maniapoto women fight beside their men, and furthermore she is a Rangitira (noble) and will not let her people down. The climax is the siege of Oraku Pa where 300 Maori hold off 2000 troops for three days. The Maniapoto are defeated, but Ariana, although wounded, survives to be reunited with Robert.

NZ WARS: Stories of Waitara(2023)

44min | Documentary, War, TV Movie

Stories of Waitara combines oral histories, state of the art animations and powerful dramatic re-enactments to bring to life the narratives of Te Ātiawa in their epic battle against the military might of the British Empire. Created and presented by award-winning journalist Mihingarangi Forbes NZ Wars: Stories of Waitara documents the epic battle for control over the fertile lands of Taranaki. Shared through the eyes of Te Atiawa descendants including Dr Ruakere Hond with insights from acclaimed historian Dr Vincent O'Malley this digital documentary project focuses on the beginning of the Taranaki wars which started in Waitara and raged across the region for over two decades. The Taranaki pa site of Pukerangiora holds a significant place in New Zealand's military history as a lasting symbol of Maori resistance and resilience. Pukerangiora is now the backdrop for the latest installment of RNZ's award-winning docu-series on the bloody birth of modern New Zealand.