Region: Southern Europe
1492: Conquest of Paradise
- Director: Ridley Scott
- Release Date: 1992
- Production Country: France, Spain
When Columbus finds land while searching for a route to China, he believes this is his opportunity to start a new life with a new city under his rule... but the arrival of his ships has tragic consequences for the natives they encounter and Columbus struggles with the duties of leader. Meanwhile, back in Spain, forces there are conspiring against Columbus to strip him of all he has gained.
300
- Director: Zack Snyder
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: United States
King Leonidas and his 300 Spartan warriors sacrifice themselves in battle against thousands of Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BCE; however, their efforts prove worthwhile, ensuring the escape of the majority of the Greek army and Greece's eventual success against the Persian Invasion.
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.
Al-massir (Destiny)
- Director: Youssef Chahine
- Release Date: 1997
- Production Country: France, Egypt
Averroes is appointed as grand ulama by the caliph, but is driven out by the caliph's fundamentalist rivals.
Alatriste
- Director: Agustín Díaz Yanes
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: Spain
Alariste, a Spanish mercenary, does his best to raise his adopted son, hiring out his skills as necessary until, in the end, he must fight for country and king—the king who has imprisoned Alariste's son in the galleys for crimes he did not commit.
Alba de América (Dawn of America)
- Director: Juan de Orduña
- Release Date: 1951
- Production Country: Spain
Christopher Columbus convinces the Spanish Royal couple to finance his journey to look for a western route to China, and stumbles upon an entirely "New World."
Alexander
- Director: Oliver Stone
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: Germany, United States, Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Italy
Alexander sets out from Macedonia to conquer the world and succeeds.
Alexander the Great
- Director: Robert Rossen
- Release Date: 1956
- Production Country: United States, Spain
Alexander reminds the Greeks his father conquered them, then assumes position at the head of their army to set out and conquer the world.
An Islamic History of Europe
- Director: Paul Sapin
- Release Date: 2004
- Production Country: United Kingdom
The landscape of medieval Europe was the dynamic space in which Muslim kingdoms and the Ottoman Empire provided the seeds of science and learning that led to the European Renaissance.
Annibale (Hannibal)
- Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: Italy
Despite his military prowess, Hannibal, acclaimed as one of the greatest military geniuses in history, could not save his home city of Carthage from the Roman Empire.
Antony and Cleopatra
- Director: Charlton Heston
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: United Kingdom, Spain, Switzerland
Summoned back to Rome from Egypt, Antony leaves behind Cleopatra and their torrid affair, only to be told he must marry Octavian's sister; however, as Octavian's power and ego grow, Antony tires of the triumvir's whims and returns to Egypt, taking Cleopatra as his queen and claiming the eastern third of the new Roman Empire as their own–but it is a claim that Octavian cannot let stand if he wants to secure his own hold over his newly proclaimed Roman Empire.
Arrivano i titani (My Son, the Hero)
- Director: Duccio Tessari
- Release Date: 1962
- Production Country: Italy, France
When Cadmus sets himself up in Jove's temple as king of the gods, Jove allows one of his Titan children, Krios, to go free in order to make things right; the prize for his success would mean the freedom for all the Titans—but Krios finds himself falling for the mortal daughter of Cadmus and must decide which is more important to him.
Athens: The Truth About Democracy (Athens: The Dawn of Democracy)
- Director: Timothy Copestake
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: United Kingdom
This new perspective on historical Athens discusses the fact that the democratic rights of a few were supported on the backs of many–those female, poor, or enslaved.
Attila, il flagello di Dio (Attila)
- Director: Pietro Francisci
- Release Date: 1954
- Production Country: Italy, France
Fearing an invasion by Attila and his Huns, Emperor Valentinian sends his best general to negotiate a peaceful settlement. But his efforts are undermined by the Emperor's sister, Honoria, who thinks sharing a throne with the fierce and ruthless Attila would be far more interesting than living in the weak, civilized empire that Rome has become.
Barabba (Barabbas)
- Director: Richard Fleischer
- Release Date: 1961
- Production Country: Italy
Freed in place of Jesus of Nazareth, Barabbas suffers from survivor's guilt even as he labors in sulfur mines and the gladiatorial games. Barabbas also survives earthquakes and other disasters, eventually gaining a reputation as the man who cannot die. However, when he falls in with Christians in Rome, he may find his luck coming to an end.
Before the Rain
- Director: Milcho Manchevski
- Release Date: 1994
- Production Country: Republic of Macedonia, France, United Kingdom
In Macedonia, a young Albanian Muslim girl seeks refuge from her Christian neighbors in a monastery with a silent monk. In London, a Macedonian war photographer seeks refuge from the the bloody conflict that has polarized his peaceful home into armed camps of Muslim versus Christian. Though many miles apart, violence links their lives in unforeseen ways, showing that there is no refuge from humanity's propensity to choose violence as a solution to the world's problems.
Behind Enemy Lines
- Director: John Moore
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: United States
Detouring over a demilitarized zone in Bosnia to take photographs of what turns out to be a mass grave, a Navy jet is shot down into hostile territory. Since any rescue attempt by U.S. forces could collapse a fragile peace process, the surviving navigator must traverse miles of dangerous territory to reach a safe extraction point—but the Serbian forces hunting him are willing to do anything to prevent news of their genocide from getting out to the rest of the world.
Ben-Hur
- Director: William Wyler
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: United States
Falling from wealthy merchant to galley slave, Judah Ben Hur returns to Jerusalem as the adopted son of the rich Roman whose life he saved and is intent on finding his family and punishing the childhood friend who unjustly imprisoned them—but his brief encounters with a strange carpenter from Nazareth may change everything.
Bitka na Neretvi (Battle of Neretva)
- Director: Veljko Bulajic
- Release Date: 1969
- Production Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, West Germany
In a desperate attempt to divert oncoming Axis forces, partisans pretend to destroy all the bridges across the River Neretva, hoping they can repair one and defeat the Chetnik cavalry on the other side before the Germans catch on and return with their vastly superior troops and weapons.
Blood and Oil: The Middle East in World War I
- Director: Marty Callaghan
- Release Date: 2006
- Production Country: United States
Numerous aspects of the Middle East are examined, including Western political intrigues from World War I, the demise of the Ottoman Empire, and the birth of the Republic of Turkey as the foundation for current events in the Middle East.