Region: Americas
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.
15 Février 1839 (February 15, 1839)
- Director: Pierre Falardeau
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: Canada
Sentenced to death for rebelling against the oppressive, British-backed government in Montreal, two French Canadians have one last day to look back upon their lives and reflect on what they wanted to achieve by revolting—and what they actually accomplished.
1776
- Director: Peter H. Hunt
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: United States
Improvisation and compromise are the games of the day, as John Adams and Benjamin Franklin coerce a reluctant Thomas Jefferson into authoring the Declaration of Independence as a desperate stalling tactic while they scramble to convince enough of their fellow landholders to vote for separation from Great Britain–a tall order, since the one man who insisted the vote must be unanimous is not inclined to agree with their notion that independence is the future for the Colonies.
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.
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.
500 Years Later
- Director: Owen 'Alik Shahadah
- Release Date: 2005
- Production Country: United Kingdom, United States
The people of Africa, scattered all over the globe after 500 years of colonial and imperial encounters, struggle still for equality in education, in opportunity, in prosperity. This is their story.
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 Man Called Horse
- Director: Elliot Silverstein
- Release Date: 1970
- Production Country: United States
After years of enslavement by a band of Lakota, an English aristocrat realizes that his only chance of freedom is to adopt the ways of his captors—but freedom is not the same as escape. If he becomes civilized according to Lakota culture, enough so that he can move freely among them, will that render him unfit for England and her idea of "civilized" life if he should ever have the chance to return?
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.
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.
A Yank in the R.A.F. (The Eagle Flies Again)
- Director: Henry King
- Release Date: 1941
- Production Country: United States
Ace pilot Tim Baker takes a job ferrying newly made bombers from the U.S. to Britain, where he runs into his old girlfriend who, because of her belief in the necessity to fight Hitler, has joined up as a nurse in the British forces. Wanting to impress her, Tim joins the Royal Air Force, where he gradually begins to understand, after several missions, what the war is all about.
Abraham Lincoln
- Director: D.W. Griffith
- Release Date: 1930
- Production Country: United States
The infamous director D.W. Griffith takes on both the myth of Lincoln and a new technology: sound in movies.
Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun)
- Director: Walter Salles
- Release Date: 2001
- Production Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Tonho's sense of honor drives him to avenge his older brother's death by murdering one of the rival family's sons, leading him to wonder afterwards whether or not everyone would be better off if, rather than waiting for their own deaths as part of the unending feud, Tonho and his younger brother simply ran away with the circus and the beautiful acrobat, Clare.
Addio zio Tom (Goodbye Uncle Tom)
- Director: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi
- Release Date: 1971
- Production Country: Italy
The lives of slaves in the antebellum United States present a graphic record of the brutal and inhuman treatment many African-American slaves endured.
Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes (Aguirre: The Wrath of God)
- Director: Werner Herzog
- Release Date: 1972
- Production Country: West Germany
A brief mission by a small group of conquistadors sent to explore up the Amazon becomes a nightmare when one of the men leads a mutiny, refusing to turn back because he believes that El Dorado lies ahead of them, up the river. Forced to continue their trip, the soldiers who supported the mutineer find themselves trapped with him as he descends into madness, but it's not clear if he is corrupted by his own dreams of power and avarice, or if the land itself taking revenge on the conquerors.
Air Force
- Director: Howard Hawks
- Release Date: 1943
- Production Country: United States
The crew of a B-17 flying fortress sacrifice life and limb while performing heroic acts as part of the early Allied war efforts in the Pacific.
Al Capone
- Director: Richard Wilson
- Release Date: 1959
- Production Country: United States
A small town hoodlum who came to town merely as a bodygaurd, Al Capone rises from common thug to mobster kingpin in the era of Prohibition, only to meet his ignominious end, when the great mobster is brought down by tax laws.
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."
All the President's Men
- Director: Alan J. Pakula
- Release Date: 1976
- Production Country: United States
Assigned to cover a minor burglary case in court, cub reporter Bob Woodward quickly realizes that there is more to the break-in at the Democratic National Headquarters, but when he and his newly assigned partner, Carl Bernstein, begin to dig deeper, they never expected to find themselves unraveling the story that will define a generation and shape the future of a nation.