Film Type: Feature Film
'Breaker' Morant (Breaker Morant)
- Director: Bruce Beresford
- Release Date: 1980
- Production Country: Australia
Three Australian enlisted men find themselves on trial for war crimes after they execute several Boer prisoners and the German missionary who was the only witness. The men insist they were acting under orders, while their officers want to convince the military establishment that the three men were loose cannons operating outside both the law and human decency.
10,000 BC
- Director: Roland Emmerich
- Release Date: 2008
- Production Country: United States, South Africa
D'leh, a prehistoric hunter, must leave his idyllic, egalitarian village in pursuit of Bronze Age horse-riding nomads who have stolen his one true love, along with most of his tribe's viable breeders and replacement units; however, at the end of the road, the small, multicultural, multiethnic band of freedom fighters D'leh has assembled finds itself facing an enemy that is truly out of this world.
1066
- Director: Robin Jacob
- Release Date: 2012
- Production Country: United Kingdom
1066 should have been a good year for the newly crowned King of England, Harold, but first his brother brings in the Norwegians to dethrone him, and then that pesky Norman bastard, William, decides that being the previous king's 1st cousin-once-removed on his father's side made him King. To keep his crown, Harold must suck it up and race his weary troops south to meet William's invading army at Hastings, where the future of both men, and possibly the world itself, will be decided in battle.
120
- 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.
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.
1612: Khroniki smutnogo vremeni (1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time)
- Director: Vladimir Khotinenko
- Release Date: 2007
- Production Country: Russia
Czarina Kseniya Godunova is heir to the throne with a power hungry Polish husband who wants to rule Russia; a serf enamored with the czarina attempts to help her reach her rightful place.
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 Days of War (5 Days of August)
- Director: Renny Harlin
- Release Date: 2011
- Production Country: United States
A United States film crew visits a friend in Georgia, suspecting that something may be brewing, only to find themselves caught in the cross-fire when Georgia moves against separatist groups and the Russians step in to help out the separatists.
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.