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The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant. Make do, supplies will not arrive. Stay strong, despite the overwhelming odds. The nation was shaken by the plight of U.S. and Filipino forces in the early days of America's World War II involvement, a tale of courage and camaraderie. The priorities are clear for Army nurses on Bataan Peninsula in 1942. Take your quinine, malaria is rampant....

Spectacular film recounting the liberation of Paris from the Nazis after WWII.

On October 6th, 1973, under cover of darkness, on Israel's holiest day and during the month of Ramadan, the combined forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan begin a surprise attack on the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. Outnumbered and outgunned, Israel's only female Prime Minister, Golda Meir, confronts the immediate, clear, and present danger of a ticking timebomb that she hoped never to face. Surrounded, isolated, and frustrated by the infighting...

Story of a marriage between a twelve-year-old New Orleans prostitute and an older photographer, set around the time of WWI. A photographer, obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district, circa 1917, is bewitched by a twelve-year-old child prostitute.

Films include: Lenny: The story of the complexities and contradictions of the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce’s mercurial character. Bojangles: Biography of the legendary showman Bill Robinson better known as Mr. Bojangeles. Lenny: The story of the complexities and contradictions of the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce's mercurial character. Bojangles: Biography of the legendary showman Bill Robinson better known as Mr. Bojangles.

Takes a behind-the-scenes look at Bill Clinton's team of strategists during the 1992 presidential campaign. The 1992 presidential election was a triumph not only for Bill Clinton but also for the new breed of strategists who guided him to the White House and changed the face of politics in the process. For this thrilling, behind-closed-doors account of that campaign, the filmmakers closely followed the brainstorming and bull sessions of Clinton's...

Howard Hughes was a rich young man from Texas, heir to his father's fortune, when he decided he wanted to make movies. Age 21, he made the most expensive Hollywood film ever (at the time); and went on to break air-speed records, make another fortune in aircraft design, smash Charles Lindbergh's round-the-world flight record, and be romantically linked with almost all of Hollywood's famous beauties. Nevertheless, he died alone, sealed into a room he...

During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari and his wife built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

In a small, remote village in the Outer Scottish Hebrides, Kirsty yearns for adventure and another life across the ocean. Though she finds comfort in time spent with her mother and younger sister, she sees hope and a future with Murdo, an intelligent, curious poet. The two fall in love as World War I looms, and Murdo is soon conscripted to join the other men of the village to fight. As a gesture of farewell, the village hosts a road dance, a celebration...

The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.