Witness the Holocaust survival story
Watch the 2023 Oscar-winning film Oppenheimer about the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and the development of the atomic bomb.
Puyi from the Forbidden City to a Beijing garden, shot inside the real palace.
Columbus crosses, then governs badly; the Vangelis theme outlived the film by decades.
Five episodes of the 1986 disaster and the lies around it; the highest-rated series on IMDb.
A novice nun in 1962 Poland learns she is Jewish and goes to find the graves.
Jack, Rose, the door, and eleven Oscars; the film that was everything in 1997.
A pianist and his bouncer-driver tour the 1962 Deep South with the Negro Motorist Green Book.
Salieri's jealous confession of Mozart, from Peter Shaffer's play.
William Wallace, blue face paint and the Battle of Stirling without the bridge.
George VI, a stammer and an Australian speech therapist with no credentials.
Solomon Northup, a free man in New York, is kidnapped and sold into Louisiana.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
The Boston Globe team that broke the Catholic Church abuse story, told as process.
Five Points, 1863, and the nativist butcher who runs it.
One month of political horse-trading to pass the Thirteenth Amendment.
Maximus's quest for revenge in ancient Rome (2000).
Watch Spartacus, the 1960 epic historical drama directed by Stanley Kubrick (the film is often incorrectly attributed to David Lynch; it stars Kirk Douglas as the Thracian gladiator who leads a slave revolt against the Roman Republic). The film is famous for its massive battle scenes, the iconic 'I am Spartacus' sequence, and a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo (a blacklisted writer who received credit, helping break the Hollywood blacklist).
John Dillinger robbing banks across the Midwest while the FBI invents itself to catch him.
The week after Dallas, seen entirely from inside Jacqueline Kennedy.
The Washington Post decides whether to print the Pentagon Papers, with Streep as the publisher who says yes.
Black maids in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi tell a young writer what the job is actually like.
Spike Lee's three-hour life of the man from prison to Mecca to the Audubon Ballroom.
Houston, we have a problem: the 1970 rescue told with slide rules, duct tape and no music cue to spare.
The 54th Massachusetts, the first Black regiment of the Civil War, marching to Fort Wagner.
A Brooklyn insurance lawyer negotiates a Cold War prisoner swap on a bridge in Berlin.
Two Napoleonic officers keep meeting to fight over an insult neither can remember; Scott's first feature.
A blacksmith becomes a knight and holds Jerusalem against Saladin; watch the directorโs cut, not the release.
One accusation told three ways, ending in the last judicial duel France allowed.
Two women give birth on the same day, and Spain digs up a Civil War grave.
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