Search results for | Historical Drama

The Painted Veil
(2006) [M]

Based on the novel by W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil is a love story set in the 1920’s about a young English couple, Walter (Edward Norton), a middle class doctor and Kitty (Naomi Watts), an upper-class woman, who marry for the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai, where Kitty falls in...  More

The Counterfeiters
(2007) [MA]

Salomon ‘Sally’ Sorowitsch is the king of the counterfeiters, living the high life of cards, booze and women in Weimar Berlin. A criminal and a Jew, he is arrested into a Nazi concentration camp but his exceptional skills are spotted and he is forced to help the Nazis in an organised...  More

Changeling
(2008) [MA]

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son; but he isn't her boy. Driven by one woman's relentless quest for the truth, the case exposes a world of corruption, captivates...  More

Milk
(2008) [M]

His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars in this stirring celebration of Harvey Milk, a true man of the people. Milk is based on the inspiring true story of the first openly gay man elected to major public office. This compelling film follows...  More

Paris 36
(2008) [M]

Paris 36 is set in a suburb of north-east Paris between December 1935 and July 1936 during the "revolutionary" period of the Popular Front, the period that introduced the first paid holidays and a shorter working week. Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where...  More

Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre)
(2008) [MA]

Based on true events, true stories and real heroines, Female Agents is a powerful, action-packed World War II epic starring Sophie Marceau and Julie Depardieu.

Set in Spring 1944, a five-women commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect...  More

The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn (Disc 1 of 4)
(1970) [M]

This epic 1970 BBC drama established the BBC's reputation for accurate and engrossing historical drama and remains a television classic. A six part series - each episode focussing on one of Henry's six wives - it starred great British actresses and made a star of Keith Michell who put in a...  More

The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves (Disc 2 of 4)
(1970) [M]

This epic 1970 BBC drama established the BBC's reputation for accurate and engrossing historical drama and remains a television classic. A six part series - each episode focussing on one of Henry's six wives - it starred great British actresses and made a star of Keith Michell who put in a...  More

The Six Wives of Henry VIII: Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr (2 disc set) (Discs 3 and 4 of 4)
(1970) [M]

This epic 1970 BBC drama established the BBC's reputation for accurate and engrossing historical drama and remains a television classic. A six part series - each episode focussing on one of Henry's six wives - it starred great British actresses and made a star of Keith Michell who put in a...  More

Female Agents (Les femmes de l'ombre) (Blu-Ray)
(2008) [MA]

Based on true events, true stories and real heroines, Female Agents is a powerful, action-packed World War II epic starring Sophie Marceau and Julie Depardieu.

Set in Spring 1944, a five-women commando unit parachutes into occupied France on a daring and dangerous mission to protect...  More