Home » Archive by Category

Articles in the History Category

Other Boleyn Girl, The
Monday, 9 Jun, 2008 – 2:11 | No Comment
Other Boleyn Girl, The

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family’s blind ambition, compete …

Nightwatching
Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 – 23:00 | No Comment
Nightwatching

With the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth in 2006, NIGHTWATCHING is truly a feast for the senses. Extravagant, suspenseful and sensuously beautiful, the mystery behind the extraordinary artist’s infamous painting is perfectly explored by one …

Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Monday, 5 May, 2008 – 1:21 | No Comment
Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Nearly a decade after Cate Blanchett drew the attention of audiences and critics alike with ELIZABETH, the Oscar-winning actress returns to the role of the Virgin Queen. Though the protestant ruler has been on the …

Seabiscuit
Sunday, 4 May, 2008 – 6:50 | No Comment
Seabiscuit

In an era when Americans were in great need of heroic figures to help them forget their troubles, SEABISCUIT comes to the rescue. The picture relates a moving story of friendship and devotion in rehabilitating …

300 Spartans, The
Monday, 28 Apr, 2008 – 3:50 | No Comment
300 Spartans, The

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army more than 20 …

Goodbye Bafana
Thursday, 17 Apr, 2008 – 2:41 | No Comment
Goodbye Bafana

GOODBYE BAFANA is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner’s name was Nelson Mandela.

Bounty, The
Wednesday, 26 Mar, 2008 – 6:23 | No Comment
Bounty, The

The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and …

Nomad
Monday, 3 Mar, 2008 – 2:11 | No Comment
Nomad

An historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country’s three warring tribes.

Glory
Thursday, 7 Feb, 2008 – 13:31 | No Comment
Glory

Based on the letters of Colonel Robert G. Shaw. Shaw was an officer in the Federal Army during the American Civil War who volunteered to lead the first company of black soldiers. Shaw was forced …

Amistad
Sunday, 16 Dec, 2007 – 11:22 | No Comment
Amistad

AMISTAD is about a 1839 mutiny onboard a slave ship that is traveling towards the Northeast Coast of America. Much of the story involves a court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.

Marie Antoinette
Friday, 9 Nov, 2007 – 7:15 | No Comment
Marie Antoinette

Based on Antonia Fraser’s book about the ill-fated Archduchess of Austria and later Queen of France, ‘Marie Antoinette’ tells the story of the most misunderstood and abused woman in history, from her birth in Imperial …

Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman
Sunday, 21 Oct, 2007 – 8:38 | No Comment
Look, Up in the Sky: The Amazing Story of Superman

In 1938, two aspiring comic strip talents, Jerry Siegal and Joe Shuster, published a character that would create a new genre of fantasy, Superman, the first superhero. This film explores the creation of the character …

Catch a Fire
Thursday, 18 Oct, 2007 – 13:48 | No Comment
Catch a Fire

A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero’s journey to freedom. In the country’s turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who …

300
Thursday, 18 Oct, 2007 – 11:14 | No Comment
300

It is spring 480 BC, Persian King Xerxes, continuing his father Darius’ master plan to conquer the Hellenic city-states, arrives in Hellas. The previous Persian invasion and diplomatic attempts have already turned most northern Hellas …

Troy
Thursday, 4 Oct, 2007 – 0:50 | No Comment
Troy

It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with …

Hollywoodland
Monday, 1 Oct, 2007 – 11:17 | No Comment
Hollywoodland

An exploration of fame and identity, inspired by one of Hollywood’s most infamous real-life mysteries. June 16, 1959. The glamour of Tinseltown permanently fades for actor George Reeves, the heroic Man of Steel on TV’s …