Als dem Physiker Julius Robert Oppenheimer während des Zweiten Weltkriegs die wissenschaftliche Leitung des Manhattan-Projekts übertragen wird, können er und seine Ehefrau Kitty sich nicht vorstellen, welche Auswirkungen Oppenheimers Arbeit nicht nur auf ihr Leben, sondern auf die ganze Welt haben wird. Im Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico sollen er und sein Team unter der Aufsicht von Lt. Leslie Groves eine Nuklearwaffe entwickeln – was ihnen auch gelingt. Oppenheimer wird zum „Vater der Atombombe“ ausgerufen, doch dass seine tödliche Erfindung bald folgenschwer in Hiroshima und Nagasaki eingesetzt wird, lässt Oppenheimer Abstand von dem Projekt nehmen. Als der Krieg zu Ende geht, setzt sich Robert Oppenheimer als Berater der US-amerikanischen Atomenergiebehörde, die von Lewis Strauss mitbegründet wurde, für eine internationale Kontrolle von Kernenergie und gegen ein nukleares Wettrüsten ein – und gerät ins Visier des FBI.
Atlantischer Ozean, 1912: Auf der Jungfernfahrt der Titanic trifft der mittellose Maler Jack Dawson auf die schöne, aber unglückliche Erste-Klasse-Passagierin Rose DeWitt Bukater. Rose reist gemeinsam mit ihrer Mutter und ihrem versnobten Verlobten Cal, den sie aus finanziellen Gründen heiraten soll, aber nicht liebt. Als Jack beobachtet, wie Rose über die Reling klettert, um sich ins Meer zu stürzen, und ihren sicheren Tod abwenden kann, beginnt für beide eine Liebesgeschichte über Klassengrenzen hinweg. Gemeinsam mit Jack entdeckt Rose das ausgelassene Leben der einfachen Passagiere unter Deck der Titanic und das wahre Wesen der Liebe. Währenddessen steuert die als unsinkbar geltende Titanic geradewegs auf einen Eisberg zu.
Seasoned adventurer and treasure hunter Dirk Pitt, a former Navy SEAL, sets out for the African desert with his wisecracking buddy Al in search of a confederate ironclad battleship rumored to have vanished long ago, the main draw being the treasure supposedly hidden within the lost vessel. When the daring duo come across Dr. Eva Rojas, a beautiful scientist who is juggling an escape from a warlord and a mission to stop the spread of a powerful plague, their desert expedition begins to heat up.
Der Ingenieur Neil Armstrong arbeitet Anfang der 60er Jahre als Testpilot für Jets und Raketenflugzeuge und hat mit seiner Frau Janet und den beiden Kindern Rick und Karen eine liebende Familie hinter sich, die ihm den Rücken stärkt. Sein ganzes Leben ändert sich jedoch, als seine Tochter an einem Gehirntumor stirbt und die Familie nach einer Veränderung sucht. Diese bietet sich, als die NASA für ein Mondprogramm auf der Suche nach Piloten mit Ingenieurswissen ist. Neil nutzt die Chance und zieht mit seiner Familie nach Houston, wo er eine Ausbildung zum Astronauten beginnt. Nach etlichen Strapazen und Testflügen kämpft sich der professionelle Ingenieur bis an die Spitze und wird bald gemeinsam mit Buzz Aldrin und Mike Collins mit der Apollo-11-Mission zum Mond geschickt.
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epic voyage of human passion, courage and betrayal aboard an ill-fated ocean liner bound for a shattering demise. With the world at war, an undercover British agent (Amanda Ryan), embarks the Britannic in search of a German spy believed to be on board to sabotage the ship. Posing as a governess, the undercover agent finds herself falling in love with the ship's chaplain (Edward Atterton). In a stunning discovery, the lovers suddenly find themselves enemies of war. And when a massive explosion deals a deathblow to the ship, their battle becomes one for their own survival. With a dynamic, international cast and a story line that hosts a chilling tale of espionage, politics and romance, Britannic brings one of history's most devastating events to riveting, new life.
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowing that he’s a German journalist with a hidden agenda, Man-seob takes the job.
On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of officials are quick to cover up the death and order the body to be cremated. A prosecutor who is supposed to sign the cremation release, raises questions about a 21-year-old kid dying of a heart attack, and he begins looking into the case for truth. Despite a systematic attempt to silence everyone involved in the case, the truth gets out, causing an eruption of public outrage.
Spain, 1937. Ramón Mercader, a young communist combatant, is recruited and trained by the Soviet intelligence service to participate in a top secret mission ordered by the ruthless dictator Joseph Stalin: the assassination of his former political rival, Leon Trotsky, who is living in exile in Mexico.
United is based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of the their number. The film draws on first-hand interviews with the survivors and their families to tell the inspirational story of a team and community overcoming terrible tragedy.
John Cassellis is the toughest TV news reporter around. After extensively reporting about violence and racial tensions in poor communities, he discovers that his network is helping the FBI by granting them access to his footage to find suspects.
The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the island is largely uninhabited and the terrain unfriendly, it has a large port that both the British government and various trading companies believe will be useful for the import of merchandise to be traded on mainland China, a highly lucrative market.
Santiago, capital of Chile during the Marxist government of elected, highly controversial president Salvador Allende. Father McEnroe supports his leftist views by introducing a program at the prestigious "collegio" (Catholic prep school) St. Patrick to allow free admission of some proletarian kids. One of them is Pedro Machuca, slum-raised son of the cleaning lady in Gonzalo Infante's liberal-bourgeois home. Yet the new classmates become buddies, paradoxically protesting together as Gonzalo gets adopted by Pedro's slum family and gang. But the adults spoil that too, not in the least when general Pinochet's coup ousts Allende, and supporters such as McEnroe.
In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.
Two historical incidents that deepened the friendship between Japan and Turkey are connected in this story of friendship and compassion: In the night of 16 September 1890 the Turkish frigate Ertuğrul is caught up in a typhoon and sinks off the Japanese coast. Risking their own lives, local villagers are able to rescue 69 Turkish sailors. Although being very poor and having hardly to eat, the villagers share what little they have with strangers from a country 9,000 kilometers away. 95 years later, during the Iran-Iraq War, more than 300 Japanese are stranded in Tehran. In the morning of 19 March 1985 a Turkish Airlines aircraft takes off for Tehran to evacuate the Japanese. But the remaining Turks at Tehran Mehrabad Airport still need to be convinced that they won't be able to board their own country's rescue flight.
The trials and tribulations of David O. Selznick as he attempts to find an actress to play the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939).
The citizens of Gwangju lead a relatively peaceful life, until one day the military takes over the city, accusing the residents of conspiracy and claiming that they are communist sympathisers preparing a revolution against the current government. Seeing as the soldiers beat defenceless people, mainly students, to death, the citizens are in for retaliation and form a militia.
Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.
The son of a ruthless meatpacking king goes through a number of changes in ideals and motivations as he reluctantly inherits the mantle and falls in love.