FR #31 | TV | History, Drama | UK, USA | English, Russian
Writer
Craig Mazin
Cast
Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard
Plot
In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
FR #36 | Movie | Romance, History | USA | English, German
Director
Michael Curtiz
Writer
Philip G. Epstein, Julius J. Epstein, Howard Koch
Cast
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Plot
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
The history of the United States from the 1950s to the '70s unfolds from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, who yearns to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.
FR #60 | Movie | Drama, History | Germany, France | German, Japanese
Director
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Writer
Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
Cast
Ulrich Muhe, Martina Gedeck, Sebastian Koch
Plot
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Margaret Mitchell, Sidney Howard, Oliver H.P. Garrett
Cast
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell
Plot
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
FR #98 | Movie | Biography, History | UK, USA | English, Arabic
Director
David Lean
Writer
Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Plot
The story of T.E. Lawrence, the English officer who successfully united and led the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes during World War I in order to fight the Turks.
Amarendra Baahubali, the heir apparent to the throne of Mahishmati, finds his life and relationships endangered as his adoptive brother Bhallaladeva conspires to claim the throne.
A child from the Mahishmati kingdom is raised by tribal people and one day learns about his royal heritage, his father's bravery in battle and a mission to overthrow the incumbent ruler.
FR #143 | TV | History, Drama | USA, France | Japanese, English
Writer
James Clavell (Based On The Novel By)
Cast
Cosmo Jarvis, Anna Sawai, Tadanobu Asano
Plot
When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby Japanese fishing village, Lord Yoshii Toranaga discovers secrets that could tip the scales of power and devastate his enemies.
A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
FR #221 | Movie | History, Drama | Russia | English, Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Plot
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
FR #244 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, USA | English, German
Director
Quentin Tarantino
Writer
Quentin Tarantino
Cast
Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Eli Roth
Plot
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.
FR #272 | TV | History, Adventure | Canada, Ireland | English, Old English
Writer
Michael Hirst
Cast
Katheryn Winnick, Gustaf Skarsgard, Alexander Ludwig
Plot
Vikings transports us to the brutal and mysterious world of Ragnar Lothbrok, a Viking warrior and farmer who yearns to explore--and raid--the distant shores across the ocean.
FR #286 | Movie | History, Drama | Japan | Japanese
Director
Masaki Kobayashi
Writer
Yasuhiko Takiguchi, Shinobu Hashimoto
Cast
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Plot
When a ronin requesting seppuku at a feudal lord's palace is told of the brutal suicide of another ronin who previously visited, he reveals how their pasts are intertwined - and in doing so challenges the clan's integrity.
The story of six young Indians who assist an English woman to film a documentary on the freedom fighters from their past, and the events that lead them to relive the long-forgotten saga of freedom.
FR #356 | Movie | Romance, History | India | Telugu
Director
Hanu Raghavapudi
Writer
Hanu Raghavapudi, Jay Krishna, Raj Kumar Kandamudi
Cast
Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, Rashmika Mandanna
Plot
An orphan soldier, Lieutenant Ram's life changes, after he gets a letter from a girl named Sita. He meets her and love blossoms between them. When he comes back to his camp in Kashmir,After he gets caught in jail, he sends a lette...
FR #383 | Movie | Biography, History | USA | English
Director
Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Writer
Dalton Trumbo, Howard Fast, Peter Ustinov
Cast
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Tony Curtis
Plot
The slave Spartacus survives brutal training as a gladiator and leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman Republic, as the ambitious Crassus seeks to gain power by crushing the uprising.
An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
FR #597 | Movie | History, Drama | USA | English, Spanish
Director
Alan J. Pakula
Writer
Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward, William Goldman
Cast
Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Plot
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
A Hindu man and a Muslim woman fall in love in a small village and move to Mumbai, where they have two children. However, growing religious tensions and erupting riots threaten to tear the family apart.
FR #682 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, Denmark | English, Danish
Director
Martin Zandvliet
Writer
Martin Zandvliet
Cast
Roland Moller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Plot
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
FR #862 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Italy | French, Italian
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi DI Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
FR #1037 | Movie | History, Drama | USA, Canada | English, Arabic
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, George Jonas
Cast
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee Croze
Plot
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
A woman from a village in Tamil Nadu marries a sophisticated city dweller and moves with him to Kashmir, where all is rosy - until he gets kidnapped by militants.
As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
FR #1652 | Movie | History, Drama | Germany, Poland | German, English
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Plot
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
A heart-wrenching tale that captures the pain, suffering, and struggle of the Kashmiri Pandit community in 1990 and leads Krishna, a young college student, to set out on a quest to uncover the truth.
FR #2035 | Movie | History, Drama | Austria, Bosnia And Herzegovina | English, Bosnian
Director
Jasmila Zbanic
Writer
Jasmila Zbanic, Hasan Nuhanovic
Cast
Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Plot
Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
FR #2038 | Movie | Court-Drama, History | Germany, USA | German, Greek
Director
Stephen Daldry
Writer
David Hare, Bernhard Schlink
Cast
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Bruno Ganz
Plot
Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Berg re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
When an army officer is presumed dead in battle, his lookalike is tasked with breaking the news to his family. However, circumstances force him to impersonate the dead man.
FR #2253 | Movie | History, Drama | Yugoslavia, Sweden | Bosnian, Serbian
Director
Srdjan Dragojevic
Writer
Vanja Bulic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Biljana Maksic
Cast
Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic
Plot
During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
FR #2268 | Movie | History, Drama | India, USA | English, Russian
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Plot
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
FR #2278 | TV | History, Drama | UK, USA | English, Portuguese
Writer
Michael Hirst
Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy
Plot
Epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.
Inspired by true stories, this series is a gripping tale of extraordinary heroism demonstrated by the employees of the Indian Railways in Bhopal. They rose against all odds to save their fellow citizens on the night of December 2,...
FR #2329 | Movie | History, Drama | Belgium, France | German, French
Director
Christian Carion
Writer
Christian Carion
Cast
Diane Kruger, Benno Furmann, Guillaume Canet
Plot
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
FR #2397 | Movie | History, Drama | Iran, Turkey | Persian, Turkish
Director
Hasan Fathi
Writer
Hasan Fathi, Farhad Tohidi
Cast
Parsa Pirouzfar, Shahab Hosseini, Hande Ercel
Plot
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
FR #2479 | Movie | History, Drama | Austria | German, Hungarian
Director
Ernst Marischka
Writer
Ernst Marischka
Cast
Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Bohm, Magda Schneider
Plot
The second in a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth "Sissi" of Austria, the film chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict life in the palace and an overbearing mother-in-law.
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of five aristocratic Russian families.
FR #2529 | Movie | History, Drama | USA, India | English, Arabic
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Writer
Mark Boal
Cast
Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Plot
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
FR #2606 | Movie | Documentary, History | India | Hindi
Director
Anuj Bhardwaj
Cast
Suzanne Bernert
Plot
Hitler used a symbol for his political and racial ideology. The world today calls that symbol "Swastika", an Indian name to a symbol used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for ages. But was it a Swastika? or Something else?
FR #2641 | Movie | History, Drama | Turkey | Turkish
Director
Tolga Ornek
Writer
Tolga Ornek, Murat Disli
Cast
Taner Birsel, Ali Dusenkalkar, Halit Ergenc
Plot
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days.
FR #2646 | Movie | History, Drama | France, Germany | German, English
Director
Michael Herbig
Writer
Kit Hopkins, Thilo Roscheisen, Michael Herbig
Cast
Friedrich Mucke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross
Plot
East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.
FR #2812 | Movie | History, Drama | China, Hong Kong | Cantonese, Mandarin
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Eileen Chang, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
Plot
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
FR #2890 | Movie | Documentary, History | Germany, Turkey | English, Turkish
Director
Fatih Akin
Writer
Fatih Akin
Cast
Alexander Hacke, Ahmed Ulug, Cem Yegul
Plot
Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Tu...
FR #2891 | Movie | History, Comedy | Turkey, India | Turkish, Malayalam
Director
Atif Yilmaz
Writer
Yavuz Turgul
Cast
Ilyas Salman, Sener Sen, Yaprak Ozdemiroglu
Plot
In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
