Civil Rights Era

Twice Colonized
HDRenowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter who has led a lifelong fight for the rights of her people. When her youngest son unexpectedly passes away, Aaju embarks on a personal journey to bring her colonizers in both Canada and Denmark to j...

Ghosts of Beirut
S01E04HDGHOSTS OF BEIRUT is a four-part spy drama based on one of the greatest espionage stories of modern times: the manhunt for Imad Mughniyeh, the elusive Lebanese terrorist who outwitted his adversaries in the CIA and Mossad for over ...

Jean de Florette
HDA greedy landowner and his backward nephew conspire to block the only water source for an adjoining property in order to bankrupt the owner and force him to sell.

King
HDForty years after Martin Luther King s assassination, HISTORY, with newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. KING goes beyond the legend to portray the man, th...

Johnny Mad Dog
HDA cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in the West African Country Liberia.

A Gunfighter's Pledge
HDAfter the murder of his wife and son by an escaped criminal Sheriff Matt Austin sets out to capture him only to find he's been hired by a greedy land baron seeking to take land from a widow and her son.

Frost/Nixon
HDA dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.

Quantum of Solace
HDJames Bond descends into mystery as he tries to stop a mysterious organisation from eliminating a country's most valuable resource.

Milk
HDThe story of Harvey Milk and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official.

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
HDIn the late 1880's, a widowed mother of three struggles to keep her family intact and to put food on the table. The oldest daughter sends a letter to her estranged, very wealthy grandmother urging her assistance, much to her mothe...

Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
HDA look at the battles Hugh Hefner fought over the years against the U.S. government, the religious right, and militant feminists.

Pimpin' Pee Wee
HDThree college buddies search for sex in the summer holidays and end up starting a successful whorehouse.

Prayers for Bobby
HDTrue story of Mary Griffith, gay rights crusader, whose teenage son committed suicide due to her religious intolerance. Based on the book of the same title by Leroy Aarons.

Womb
HDA woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

There Be Dragons
HDArising out of the horror of the Spanish Civil War, a candidate for canonization is investigated by a journalist who discovers his own estranged father had a deep, dark and devastating connection to the saint's life.

The Man Nobody Knew: In Search of My Father, CIA Spymaster William Colby
HDA son's riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colby's son Carl, the story is at once a probing history of the CIA, a personal mem...

Exit Humanity
HDA young man's struggle to survive in the aftermath of a deadly undead outbreak during the American Civil War.

The Sleeping Voice
HDDuring the Spanish postwar, Pepita leaves her village for the capital to be near her sister, pregnant while in prison. There, she falls for a bourgeois who still keep the fight alive in the hills.

We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
HDA documentary on the workings and beliefs of the self-described "hacktivist" collective, Anonymous.

The Untouchables
HDDuring the era of Prohibition in the United States, Federal Agent Eliot Ness sets out to stop ruthless Chicago gangster Al Capone and, because of rampant corruption, assembles a small, hand-picked team to help him.

Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies
HDWhile the Civil War rages on, President Abraham Lincoln must undertake an even more daunting task - destroying the Confederate Undead.

Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
HDA Union soldier on his way home runs afoul of Jim Vance and his nephew Ellison Hatfield. Confederate sympathizers, they're furious with the idea of one of their neighbors fighting for the Union.

Dead Man's Burden
HDA western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.

Hemingway & Gellhorn
HDA drama centered on the romance between Ernest Hemingway and World War II correspondent Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway's inspiration for For Whom the Bell Tolls, and the only woman who ever asked for a divorce from the writer.

War Flowers
HDNorth Carolina 1863, the Civil War is raging. In this inspired story of tragedy and love we follow the lives of Melody, a precocious seven-year old, and her young mother Sarabeth as they struggle on their farm to survive the war.

The Rainbow
HDA young woman deals in her own personal way with the trials of adolescence and young adulthood in early 1900s England.

Glory
HDRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

The Woman in Black
HDA lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.

The Hunt for Red October
HDIn November 1984, the Soviet Union's best submarine captain, in a new undetectable sub, violates orders and heads for the U.S. The American CIA and military must quickly determine: Is he trying to defect, or to start a war?

Atlas Shrugged: Part II
HDRailroad owner Dagny Taggart and steel mogul Henry Rearden search desperately for the inventor of a revolutionary motor as the U.S. government continues to spread its control over the national economy.

Convicts
HDHorton Foote's story of a teen-aged boy in the Depression who finds work on an eccentric's sugar plantation and learns life's surprising lessons from the team of convicts who also work there.

Lincoln
HDAs the American Civil War continues to rage, America's president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves.