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Was Shakespeare a Fraud?
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 796 ratings · 21 Oct 2011 · English · 2h 10m · Released
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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The Words
Movie · 6.7 / 10 · 7 Sept 2012 · English
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Official Secrets
Movie · 7.2 / 10 · 30 Aug 2019 · English
The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.
Victoria & Abdul
Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 13 Sept 2017 · English
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Shattered Glass
Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 14 Nov 2003 · English
Stephen Glass is a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September 1998 Vanity Fair article - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks.
Julius Caesar
Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 4 Jun 1953 · English
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but both have sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Snowden
Movie · 7.1 / 10 · 15 Sept 2016 · English
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Need for Speed
Movie · 6.4 / 10 · 12 Mar 2014 · English
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer's head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.
A Call to Spy
Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 2 Oct 2020 · English
The story of Vera Atkins, a crafty spy recruiter, and two of the first women she selects for Churchill's "secret army": Virginia Hall, a daring American undaunted by a disability and Noor Inayat Khan, a pacifist. These civilian women form an unlikely sisterhood while entangled in dangerous missions to turn the tide of the war.
Richard Jewell
Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 13 Dec 2019 · English
Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime by sloppy FBI work and sensational media coverage.
Bob Marley: One Love
Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 14 Feb 2024 · English
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
Fair Game
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 20 May 2010 · English
A devoted wife and mother leads a secret life as a CIA agent until her husband’s article exposes a scandal, putting her identity and loved ones at risk. As her world crumbles, she must navigate the fallout of her double life.
The Last of the Mohicans
Movie · 7.4 / 10 · 26 Aug 1992 · English
In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native American allies, the aristocratic daughter of a British Colonel and her party are captured by a group of Huron warriors. Fortunately, a group of three Mohican trappers comes to their rescue.