Den klassiske historie om den danske prins Hamlet, som bliver kaldt hjem til sin fars begravelse og finder ud af, at tingene ikke er, som de burde være i kongeriget Danmark. I en drømmevision opdager Hamlet, at hans onkel myrdede faderen - og Hamlets mor skal gifte sig med onklen. Dette må forhindres med alle midler.
Sommeren 1863. Sydstatshærens tropper rykker nordpå og ind i Pennsylvania. Unionens divisioner samles for at møde dem. To store hære gør klar til et slag ved Gettysburg, som er hjemsted for et teologisk fakultet. Gennem tre dage er legendariske krigshandlinger som Little Round Top og Pickett's Charge med til at afgøre "en samlet og udelelig nations skæbne".
I starten af 1800-tallet beslutter Bartholomew Hunt og Leslie Edwards sig for at være blive de første opdagelsesrejsende, der rejser tværs over USA til vestkysten. De to eventyrer udmærker sig ved at være ekstraordinært talentløse, og da de oven i købet får selskab af en hel rækker mærkværdige eksistenser, så er chancen for succes minimal. Men det afholder dem ikke fra at gøre et ihærdigt forsøg.
Angus is a large, pathetic 14-year-old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of only one girl, Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised (along with the rest of the school) that he is chosen to dance with her at the Winter Ball. The only one not surprised is the cool kid who set him up to fail, but Angus' best friend is going to help him win the heart of Melissa by developing a new look for him
Conn Conagher (Sam Elliott) beundrer en kvinde med styrke, og det har Evie Teale (Katherine Ross) masser af. Hun har på mange måder været tvunget til at vise, hvad hun dur til efter at være blevet enke ude i det vilde Vesten. Conagher kommer og går i hendes liv ind imellem sin jagt på kvægtyve. Han mener ikke, han er klar til at slå sig ned med en kone, men et eller andet driver ham hele tiden tilbage til denne kvinde. Kan hun mon få ham til at blive?
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner-of-war camp. The drama unfolds through the eyes of a company of Union soldiers captured at the Battle of Cold Harbor, VA, in June 1864, and shipped to the camp in southern Georgia. A private, Josiah Day, and his sergeant try to hold their company together in the face of squalid living conditions, inhumane punishments, and a gang of predatory fellow prisoners called the Raiders.
Jack London's brutal Wolf Larson brings a shipwrecked aristocrat and a con woman aboard his doomed ship, the Ghost.
They've ridden dusty miles without end and fought fierce battles. Yet when these brave African-American cavalrymen enter a scraggly frontier town, they must walk through it instead of ride. The town dishonors them but the soldiers' Native-American foes do not. Apache leader Victoria and other warriors give the horsemen a name of honor and strength: "Buffalo Soldiers". The troopers' daring hunt for Victorio frames this stirring tribute to the former slaves and other African-Americans of the 9th and 10th U.S. Calvary Regiments. Danny Glover, Mykelti Williamson, Glynn Turman, Carl Lumbly and Michael Warren star in an adventure bringing to light that largely unknown story and the unique moral dilemma the men faced. Atten-hut! "Buffalo Soldiers are riding" through town.
Mel and Jane Mermelstein are a true-life California couple, thrown into the spotlight of judicial history in the 1980s. Mel is a Hungarian-born Jew, sole-survivor of his family's extermination at Auschwitz, and Jane, a Southern Baptist from Tennessee. Their four children are good kids, typical Americans, with just enough orneriness to irritate each other, but enough love and class to pull together when it counts.
In the early 19th century, Dr. Frankenstein discovers the secret of life – how to create a perfect man – powerful, intelligent and immune to disease. But something goes wrong in the laboratory and the doctor’s hideous creation disappears into the night. At first, Frankenstein hoped that the horrible monster would perish in the wilderness, but now he senses that it’s alive and sets out for him. Dr. Frankenstein tracks the creature to the Arctic, where the two must battle to decide who will become the master of the other’s life…or death.
Ruthless elephant killers are confronted by determined conservationists.
Set in 1960, the story follows the efforts of the Mossad, the Israeli Secret Service, to find former SS Colonel Adolf Eichmann, who ran from Germany to Argentina and took the name Ricardo Clement. He was wanted for the murders of both Europeans and Jews during the Holocaust. Learning of Eichmann's living in Argentina, the Mossad sends a team to capture him, led by agent Peter Malkin. The standing order: bring Eichmann back alive to Israel for trial.
A nosy reporter wants to find out all she can about Dr. Seuss, aka Ted Geisel, and gets told the real facts by several of his characters, with large snippets of his stories and songs interspersed.
A factory foreman with 36 years experience becomes despondent after being laid off by his company which has just been taken over by a Japanese conglomerate and is unable to find any other work. Meanwhile, his son uses his father's unemployment as an excuse to drop out of the pre-med program his father pressured him to enter.
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
A trial lawyer risks losing his family and career when he defends a client who he knows to be guilty as charged.
A beautiful young woman asks Holmes to help her father, a former army captain and hopeless opium addict break free of the curse surrounding a stolen treasure.
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.
This documentary, filmed clandestinely, is based on several interviews with the executioners who worked in Spain during the early 1970s, as well as families of people executed by them.
An actress is persuaded by a charming man to join him in a scheme of revenge against his cousin.