Some Mother's Son

Movie · 6.8 / 10 · 13 Sept 1996 · English

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.

Lion of the Desert

Movie · 7.3 / 10 · 17 Apr 1981 · English

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 28 Nov 2013 · English

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela's life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa.

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 14 Feb 2019 · English

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Shirley

Movie · 6.6 / 10 · 15 Mar 2024 · English

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

Uprising

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 4 Nov 2001 · English

In the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, Jews rise against the Nazis.

The Way Back

Movie · 7.0 / 10 · 22 Nov 2010 · English

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and embarks on a treacherous journey across five countries in a desperate race for freedom and survival.

The Last Emperor

Movie · 7.6 / 10 · 4 Oct 1987 · English

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

The Wind and the Lion

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 22 May 1975 · English

At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers, and the attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.

Unconquered

Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 10 Oct 1947 · English

England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.

The Great Escape

Movie · 7.9 / 10 · 3 Jul 1963 · English

The Nazis, exasperated at the number of escapes from their prison camps by a relatively small number of Allied prisoners, relocate them to a high-security 'escape-proof' camp to sit out the remainder of the war. Undaunted, the prisoners plan one of the most ambitious escape attempts of World War II. Based on a true story.

I Am David

Movie · 6.9 / 10 · 3 Dec 2003 · English

A 12-year-old boy manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own, through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark, and a compass to help get him there.