Originally a 1966 Broadway musical, this groundbreaking Bob Fosse musical was in turn based on
Christopher Isherwood's Goodbye to Berlin, previously dramatized for stage and screen as I Am a Camera with Julie Harris as Sally Bowles. Fosse uses the ...
Based on real events, Chappaquiddick tells the story of the 1969 incident in which Senator
Ted Kennedy (Jason Clarke) drove his car into a lake, killing campaign strategist Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara). Kennedy fled the scene and didn't inform ...
One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby's Oscar-winning Coming
Home), Michael Cimino's epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war's effect on American working class steel ...
In 1966, after learning that she won a record deal in the United States, singer
Helen Reddy (Tilda Cobham-Hervey), along with her 3-year-old daughter, decides to travel to New York from Australia. Unfortunately, the supposedly life-changing trip becomes a nightmare ...
Juarez was originally designed to concentrate almost exclusively on the tragedy of Hapsburg Emperor Maximillian,
whose attempts to establish a puppet government in Mexico on behalf of Napoleon III ended in disaster and death. But when Paul Muni decided that ...
As a rule, many tend to think of Norway as a neutral country with a
passive military. But in a couple of historical instances, the Norwegian army engaged in acts of controversial brutality by opening fire on innocent locals. This ...
Maxwell Anderson's blank-verse play Mary of Scotland was adapted for the screen by Dudley Nichols
and directed with a surprising paucity of verve by John Ford. Katharine Hepburn, in one of the icy roles that would later earn her the ...
When her communist husband Robert (Emmanuel Bourdieu) is sent to a concentration camp during the
World War II German occupation of France, young writer Marguerite Duras (Mélanie Thierry) begins a cat-and-mouse relationship with the Gestapo agent (Benoît Magimel) who arrested ...