Era: 20th Century
Western civilization increasingly continues its domination. The rest of the world scrambles to catch up, while the West seeks control of the petroleum that fuels their dominance. In the latter half of the century, colonialism recedes, furthering the growth of the post-colonial world. Consumerism drives the creation of a global economy, and the Internet steps onto the world stage.
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- Director: Özhan Eren, Murat Saraçoglu
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: Turkey
It is winter in the Caucasus Mountains, and the only people left in a village able to carry aid to besieged Ottoman soldiers are the children.
1915 Armenian Genocide
- Director: Mark Bedrosian
- Release Date: 2010
- Production Country: United States
In addition to reforming the Ottoman constitution, the political group known as the Young Turks embarked upon a planned destruction of the Christian Armenian population of Turkey in what is now widely agreed to be one of the first modern acts of genocide and the second-most studied Holocaust.
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)
- Director: Michael Radford
- Release Date: 1984
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Winston thought he could keep both his illegal personal diary and his affair with the free-thinking Julia secret, but Big Brother was watching; eventually, Winston, a historian who once spent his days writing revisionist history for the State, has his own personal encounter with revisionist history, courtesy of the totalitarian state of Oceania.
25 Watts
- Director: Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: Uruguay
Leche, Javi, and Seba deal with pointless jobs, unwanted studies, and drug dealers, all of which hinders their desire to drink and have fun on their Saturday.
4 Little Girls
- Director: Spike Lee
- Release Date: 1997
- Production Country: United States
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, a bomb went off under the steps of an African-American church, killing four African-American girls. Less than a year later, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law—in large part because of the national outcry after the bombing. But no matter the resulting changes in society, four families were still without their daughters and four lives had been ended, forever.
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- Director: Brian Helgeland
- Release Date: 2013
- Production Country: United States
During a time when the white man was considered to be the ultimate human achievement and that racial segregation was the natural order of things in the United States, African American Jackie Robinson was recruited to be the first "colored" player to play baseball in the all-white Major League. Dealing with racism both in the dugout and on the field and hostile fans everywhere he went, Robinson proved a compelling argument for the idea that all men are created equal–though some play better baseball than others.
49th Parallel (The Invaders)
- Director: Michael Powell
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United Kingdom
When their U-boat is sunk in Hudson's Bay, three German soldiers flee across the Canadian countryside, desperate to reach safety in neutral territory: the United States.
55 Days at Peking
- Director: Nicholas Ray
- Release Date: 1963
- Production Country: United States
Europeans from different backgrounds and various factions unite to defend themselves from the Siege of the International Legations in Peking (Beijing) during the Boxer Rebellion.
9 Rota (9th Company)
- Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: Finland, Russia, Ukraine
A group of young soldiers attend bootcamp in a foreign but friendly valley in Uzbekistan, but the most important lesson they learn in getting ready for their tour of duty in Afghanistan may be the tragic fate of the soldiers who they replaced. Trapped in a brutal firefight against a much larger force of local mujahideen, the young men had to rely on their own wits and courage to save them when their pleas for aid went unheeded by their commanders.
A Beautiful Mind
- Director: Ron Howard
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United States
Famous mathematician John Nash has a plum teaching position at MIT, but he has grown bored with his duties, so when he is asked to help decode encrypted messages by the Pentagon he jumps at the chance to do something truly challenging—until he believes that he may be in danger and cracks start to show.
A Bridge Too Far
- Director: Richard Attenborough
- Release Date: 1977
- Production Country: United States, United Kingdom
Sent to execute a complex and dangerous mission involving blowing up a number of bridges, the British commander of the Allied forces must deal with logistical nightmares and strategic defeats, complications about which his commanders had been warned before the mission was launched, but through which he now must accomplish his task and get his men home safely.
A Costa dos Murmúrios (The Murmuring Coast)
- Director: Margarida Cardoso
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: Portugal
Moving from Lisbon from Mozambique to marry her fiance, a Portuguese soldier, Evita realizes in the months after the wedding that her husband little resembles the man she fell in love with. Left alone when he is sent on an extended military mission, Evita refuses to remain secluded in the "safe" part of the city as commanded, but as she comes face to face with the ugly reality of a land fighting for its freedom from colonial oppression, can she find a way to help, or is she doomed as a woman to simply cower in acceptance of her husband and her nation's violence?
A Dangerous Method
- Director: David Cronenberg
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Canada. Switzerland
As the world is on the brink of war, two psychologists, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, debate the make-up of the human psyche and how best to treat its dysfunctions, but both men are distracted by the presence of the beautiful and insightful Sabina Spielrein, their fellow psychologist who becomes more than just another patient to them both.
A Dry White Season
- Director: Euzhan Palcy
- Release Date: 1989
- Production Country: United States
When the black gardener at Ben Du Toit's school asks for help finding his son, who he fears has been killed by the police, Ben, who is a white teacher, refuses—he is certain that the government he trusts would not be so unfaithful to any citizen. But when the boy turns up dead, Ben can no longer ignore the brutality and inequality sanctioned by his government and, as it becomes more and more difficult to simply stand by, Ben steps up.
A Farewell to Arms
- Director: Frank Borzage
- Release Date: 1932
- Production Country: United States
Frederick Henry and Catherine, the army nurse who took care of him, have become lovers, but when he returns to the front amidst a misunderstanding between them, Henry begins marking time until he is free to search for the woman he has never stopped loving.
A Hill in Korea (Hell in Korea)
- Director: Julian Amyes
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United Kingdom
A group of young, inexperienced British soldiers is cut off from Allied lines and trapped between advancing groups of Chinese soldiers—all that before the United States Air Force accidentally bombs their location. The British sergeant is determined to do his duty and follow orders, as well as to get his men back alive.
A Night to Remember
- Director: Roy Ward Baker
- Release Date: 1958
- Production Country: United Kingdom
Gaining a berth on the Royal Mail Ship's Titanic as a 2nd Officer is an honor for Charles Lightholler, but the honor is soon tarnished when the ship is badly damaged by an iceberg mid-voyage. While the crew has access to the latest technology and radio quickly for help, that help is slow in coming, and in the meantime, it becomes obvious that not only do they not have enough lifeboats on hand for the passengers, the lifeboats are being loaded more with regard for social status than any other consideration.
À nous la liberté (Freedom for Us)
- Director: René Clair
- Release Date: 1931
- Production Country: France
Freedom isn't always easy to find, as the convict Louis finds out when he escapes prison, only to become saddled with the worries of a factory owner. Contemplating how to free himself from these new cares, he runs into his prison friend Emile who has also escaped and now labors in his factory; both men realize that they have not truly "escaped," but merely transferred from one prison to another.
A Rumor of War
- Director: Richard T. Heffron
- Release Date: 1980
- Production Country: United States
Lt. Philip Caputo is sent to Vietnam with the first American troops, believing that this will be nothing more than a small and insignificant war. During his tour of duty, Caputo is transferred from the front lines to a post where he documents the casualties for both sides before being returned to the front, discovering along the way how very wrong his original assessment was—and how very different this war is from any the United States has fought before.
A Time to Kill
- Director: Joel Schumacher
- Release Date: 1996
- Production Country: United States
Convinced that the two white men who brutalized his ten-year-old daughter will not be convicted, an outraged father, Carl, takes justice into his own hands; however, the murder of two whites by a black man creates a firestorm of reaction in the small Mississippi town that was content to let the rape of a black child pass. As the Ku Klux Klan reunites and violence grows in the town, a young white lawyer tries to figure out how to get Carl acquitted for his crimes.