Early Modern Period

A Place Out of Time: The Bordentown School
HDFor a seventy-year period, when America cared little about the education of African-Americans, and discrimination was law and custom, The Bordentown School was an educational utopia. An incubator for black pride and intellect, it ...

Bright Star
HDThe three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life.

Exquisite Corpse
HDIn this chilling modern-day Frankenstein tale, a brilliant young neuroscientist's world comes crashing down when his fiancée tragically drowns. After discovering a serum that can bring dead tissue back to life, he devises a plan t...

Leonie
HDA film about the life and relationships of the early 20th century American educator, editor, and journalist Leonie Gilmour, the mother of the acclaimed artist and architect Isamu Noguchi.

The King's Speech
HDThe story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

All.I.Can.
HDAll.I.Can is a stunning exploratory essay that compares the challenges of big mountain skiing to the challenges of global climate change. Shot on 6 continents over 2 years, the world's best skiers deliver inspirational performance...

Private Romeo
HDA modern take on Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. Set at an isolated all-boys military academy, it follows the forbidden relationship between two cadets.

Samsara
HDFilmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied worlds of sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial complexes, and natural wonders.

Three Kingdoms: Resurrection of the Dragon
HDBased on "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guangzhong. It ranks as one of China's four most important pieces of literature.

The Dead Pool
HDInspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan must stop a sick secret contest to murder local celebrities, which includes himself as a target.

The Moderns
HDA struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.

The Modern Way
HDThis gritty drama is set within 1980's England against the backdrop of the Mod, Skinhead and Biker subcultures. Danni is a young skinhead struggling with her home life and has fallen in with the wrong crowd. It's up to Terry Harri...

Pascali's Island
HDA secret agent in Turkey is persuaded by his superiors to assist a couple of English cons in the theft of a priceless Greek statue.

Twister's Revenge!
HDThree bumbling criminals have been trying to get their hands on the computerized control system of Mr. Twister, a talking monster truck with a mind of its own.

Next of Kin
HDTruman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Blancanieves
HDA twist on the Snow White fairy tale that is set in 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

Thunderheart
HDA young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

Ethan Frome
HDA new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.

Germinal
HDIn mid-nineteenth-century northern France, a coal mining town's workers are exploited by the mine's owner. One day, they decide to go on strike, and the authorities repress them.

Tom & Viv
HDIn 1915, Tom and Viv elope, but her gynecological and emotional problems disrupt their honeymoon. Her father is angry because Tom's poetry doesn't bring in enough to live, but her mother is happy Viv has found a tender and discree...

Test
HDIn 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on-stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic.

Dead Beat
HDIn 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely and friendless, he's attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the ladies; plus, he's a...

Jefferson in Paris
HDWidower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children.

A True Story
HDMike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.

A Month by the Lake
HDAt a Lake Como resort, Miss Bentley, an attractive older guest, meets a handsome, well-to-do bachelor. But when he's more interested in a beautiful young flirt, the mischievous Miss Bentley goes to outrageous lengths to reel in he...

The Horseman on the Roof
HDIn a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.

I'm Charlie Walker
HDThe true story of how one desperate man, armed with only his charm and wits, takes on a racist San Francisco corporation in 1971.

The Phantom
HDThe Phantom, descendent of a line of African superheroes, travels to New York City to thwart a wealthy criminal genius from obtaining three magic skulls which would give him the secret to ultimate power.

The Portrait of a Lady
HDAn American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.

The Wings of the Dove
HDAn impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying...

Washington Square
HDIn this adaptation of the Henry James novel set in 19th-century New York City, a wealthy spinster with an overbearing father is pursued by a handsome fortune hunter who may be only after her money.

Swept from the Sea
HDThe story of Russian emigrant Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of nineteenth century. When Yanko enters a farm, sick and hungry after a shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for Amy.