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Shoah is a 1985 documentary film examining the Holocaust through extended interviews conducted by Claude Lanzmann. The eleven-year production involved filming at locations in Poland, including former...
Notorious is a 1946 espionage thriller directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The film centers on the intertwined lives of a British intelligence officer, an American woman, and a German double agent involved...
White Heat is a 1949 American film noir directed by Raoul Walsh. The movie’s screenplay, penned by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts, adapts a story by Virginia Kellogg and features performances by James Cagn...
Angels with Dirty Faces is a 1938 Warner Bros. film directed by Michael Curtiz. The story centers on William "Rocky" Sullivan, a former gangster seeking funds after prison, and his conflicted relation...
Foyle’s War is a British detective drama focusing on Inspector Michael Foyle investigating crimes during and immediately following World War II. The series ran for eight seasons, beginning in 2002 and...
The Roaring Twenties is a 1939 crime drama set between 1919 and 1933. The film depicts the experiences of three men navigating the Prohibition era’s violence and the impact of the 1929 stock market cr...
The 1940 film follows an American reporter investigating a suspected conspiracy involving enemy spies across a European nation during the lead-up to World War II. Joel McCrea stars alongside Laraine D...
Spike Lee's powerful tale of four Black Vietnam vets returning to the jungle to find their fallen squad leader's remainsand a hidden fortune.
Judgment at Nuremberg portrays a dramatization of the 1947 Judges’ Trial held in Nuremberg following World War II. The film centers on a group of German jurists brought to trial within the American oc...
The Counterfeiters depicts a fictionalized account of Operation Bernhard, a Nazi scheme involving the production of counterfeit British currency during World War II. The narrative focuses on Salomon ‘...
American Gangster portrays the rise of Frank Lucas, a heroin trafficker who utilized returning military aircraft to import narcotics into the United States. The narrative follows his criminal activiti...
House of Saddam is a 2008 British docudrama miniseries examining the life and reign of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Produced by BBC Television and HBO Films, the four-part series aired on BBC Two fr...
Lust, Caution, released in 2007, depicts a wartime scenario involving Chinese students’ attempts to carry out an assassination. The narrative unfolds in Japanese-occupied Shanghai and centers on a sch...
In the Valley of Elah is a 2007 crime drama directed by Paul Haggis and starring Tommy Lee Jones and Charlize Theron. The story unfolds in relation to the biblical valley named for the contest between...
Lord of War depicts the activities of Yuri Orlov, a Ukrainian-American arms dealer, during the period surrounding the collapse of the Soviet Union. The narrative explores his involvement in the intern...
Teheran 43 depicts a plot centered on the purported 1943 assassination attempt against Allied leaders at the Tehran Conference. The film explores a fictionalized account of Operation Long Jump, involv...
