Winds And Clouds In 1927

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the local Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party.

Runtime

1h 13m

Director

Krzysztof Kieślowski, Hanna Krall

Cast

Wacław Ulewicz, Mirosław Siedler, Paweł Nowisz

Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed, but never interacting with them. When one falls in love with lonely trapeze artist, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world and finds that it might be possible for him to take human form.

Runtime

2h 8m

Director

Wim Wenders

Cast

Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Otto Sander

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years younger and the heavyweight champion of the world. Promoter Don King wants to make a name for himself and offers both fighters five million dollars apiece to fight one another, and when they accept, King has only to come up with the mone...

Runtime

1h 29m

Director

Leon Gast

Cast

Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the discovery by the Americans of missile bases established on the Soviet-allied island of Cuba.

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

Roger Donaldson

Cast

Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu an...

Runtime

2h 25m

Director

John Woo

Cast

Chang Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro