12 Mighty Orphans
A drama starring Luke Wilson, Vinessa Shaw and Wayne Knight
Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way.
13 Assassins (2011)
An action movie starring Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada and Yûsuke Iseya
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.
1982 (2021)
A drama starring Nadine Labaki, Mohammad Dali and Ghassan Maalouf
During the 1982 invasion of Lebanon at a secular mixed school in the mountains above Beirut, 11-year-old Wissam tries to tell a classmate about his crush on her, while his teachers on different sides of the political divide, try to mask their fears.
300 (2007)
An action movie starring Gerard Butler, Lena Headey and David Wenham
Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against the advancing Persians; the battle is said to have inspired all of Greece to band together against the Persians, and helped usher in the world's first democracy.
A Life of Jesus
A history movie
Against the Ice
An adventure movie starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Joe Cole and Charles Dance
In 1909, Denmark's Alabama Expedition led by Captain Ejnar Mikkelsen was attempting to disprove the United States' claim to North-Eastern Greenland, a claim that was rooted in the idea that Greenland was broken up into two different pieces of land. Leaving their crew behind with the ship, Mikkelsen sleds across the ice with his inexperienced crew member, Iver Iversen.