Historical Film

1992

R

Plot: Two years before director Derek Jarman died of AIDS, he directed this extremely ambitious variation on Christopher Marlowes 16th-century play. While Marlowe is the root of this film, Jarman has taken ...

Fantasy

1990

PG13

Plot: Tim Burtons Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients fo ...

Adventure

1999

PG

Plot: James Keach and Jane Seymour, husband and wife in real life, are teamed in this direct-to-cable update of Johann David Wyss classic adventure tale The Swiss Family Robinson. While on a boat boun ...

Drama

1950

NR

Plot: Despite its lack of production values and box-office names, The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed. Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman ...

Music [nf]

1998

Plot: Smokey Robinson was not only one of the greatest singers to come out of the Motown Records stable in the 1960s, he was an astute businessman (he was also a vice president at Motown) and a superb songwr ...

2004

Plot: Despite its lack of production values and box-office names, The Jackie Robinson Story is one of the best and most convincing baseball biopics ever filmed. Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman ...

History [nf]

NR

Plot: This is the third in a series of five documentary videos on the Titanic, the legendary unsinkable ship that sank to its doom on its maiden voyage. This episode looks at the life and career of Edward J. ...