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Abraham Lincoln

Returning to the historic era of his greatest success, Griffith paid homage to the sixteenth Preside...

The Birth of a Nation

Almost a century after its release, The Birth of a Nation remains one of the most controversial film...

The Boss

Based largely on real people and actual events, Fernando Di Leo's action-packed film- the final part...

Burke & Hare

Two of the most notorious figures in the history of medicine, William Burke and William Hare were a ...

Camille Claudel 1915

In CAMILLE CLAUDEL 1915, Juliette Binoche gives a mesmerizing performance as Auguste Rodin's prot&ea...

Caravaggio

Derek Jarman's most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celeb...

The Chess Players

In 1977's The Chess Players, Satyajit Ray, India's "extraordinary filmmaker" (George Lucas), turned ...

Chile '76

Set during the early days of Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, Chile ‘76 builds from quie...

Concerning Violence

From the director of The Black Power Mixtape comes a bold and fresh visual narrative on Africa, base...

The Conformist

In Mussolini's Italy, repressed Jean-Louis Trintignant, trying to purge memories of a youthful, homo...

The Devil's Needle & Other Tales of Vice and Redemption

Often dismissed as products of a more innocent time, films of the 1910s frequently confronted incend...

Diaspora (DVD + CD ROM)

For 25 years, from his first photograph in Jerusalem, which he believed captured "the authentic Jew"...

The Divine Order

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Divine Order ...

Edison: The Invention of the Movies

A comprehensive survey of one of cinema's most influential figures, Edison: The Invention of the Mov...

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Berlin, 1931. Jakob Fabian works in the advertising department of a cigarette factory by day and dri...

The Films of Amos Gitai

Set in the Mea Sherim quarter of Jerusalem, an enclave of the ultra-Orthodox, Kadosh explores a herm...

The Forger

Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann, star of the hit Neflix series Dark) is a young Je...

A History of Israeli Cinema

Raphaël Nadjari’s extraordinary two-part documentary weaves together clips from more than...

Horses of God

Ten year-old Yachine and his 13-year-old brother Hamid live in Sidi Moumen, an impoverished slum on ...

I Wish I Knew

Shanghai's past and present flow together in Jia Zhangke's poetic and poignant portrait of this fast...

Inherit the Wind (1960)

Acting legends Spencer Tracy (Judgment at Nuremberg) and Fredric March (The Iceman Cometh) go toe-to...

Joan of Arc (70th Anniversary)

Brand New 2K Restoration! This classic epic was directed by the brilliant Victor Fleming (Gone with ...

King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis

Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, KING: A FILMED RECORD...MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS is a mo...

Kippur

From the director of Kadosh, an official selection at the Cannes, New York and Toronto Film Festival...

Korczak

Henryk Goldszmit had become a Polish icon in the 1930s through his writings, teachings, and radio pr...

The Last of England

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying THE LAST OF ENGLAND is a lament...

The Lincoln Conspiracy

The Lincoln Conspiracy is an engrossing, eye-opening tale of speculative fiction for anyone interest...

The Lion in Winter (Special Edition)

Acting greats Peter O’Toole (Lawrence of Arabia), Katharine Hepburn (The Rainmaker), Anthony H...

Lust for Gold : A Race Against Time

Lust for Gold: A Race Against Time is a true story is about obsession, greed, and the hunt for gold....

Never Gonna Snow Again

On a gray, foggy morning outside a large Polish city, a masseur from the East named Zhenia (Alec Utg...

The Olive Trees of Justice

The first and only narrative feature by American documentarian James Blue (Oscar®-nominated for&...

One Day You'll Understand

From acclaimed Israeli director Amos Gitaï (Kadosh, Kippur), One Day You’ll Understand is...

Orphans of the Storm

Re-creating the aristocratic splendor and devestating poverty of 18th-century France, David Wark ...

The Overture (discontinued)

Inspired by the life of maestro Luang Pradith Phairao, the storied master of the ranard-ek -- Thaila...

The Pearl Button

The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds the voices of the Earth and those that...

The President's Last Bang

"A wildly funny whirlwind of anarchy, violence and sex" (New York Magazine), The President's Last ...

Richard III

An astounding rediscovery of the cinema, Richard III is the earliest surviving American feature film...

The Rider Named Death

In "an exquisitely recreated Moscow of nearly a century ago" (The New York Times), steely, elegant...

Scum

NEW RESTORATION! A landmark expose of Britain's violent reform schools, Alan Clarke's Scum is a cont...

Sebastiane

Derek Jarman's (Caravaggio) feature film debut (co-directing with Paul Humfress), SEBASTIANE is a "o...

SEMBENE!

In 1952, Ousmane Sembene, a dockworker and fifth-grade dropout from Senegal, began dreaming an impos...

The Spanish Dancer

Pola Negri was already an international star. Antonio Moreno was her equal in terms of talent and se...

The Sun

Alexander Sokurov continues his brilliant investigation into the lives of dictators with the "engros...

Thousand Pieces of Gold

Set in a mining town in the 1880s, Thousand Pieces of Gold is based on the classic nov...

A Throw of Dice

A lavish silent super-production comprising 10,000 extras, a thousand horses, and scores of eleph...

Titanic

Before James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, the Hollywood Titanic of 1953, the 1958 British fil...

Violeta Went to Heaven

VIOLETA WENT TO HEAVEN tells the story of famed Chilean singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, tracing...

War Requiem

"A stunning visual and serious music treat" (Variety), Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane, Jubilee) 1989 WAR...