Douglas Quaid er en fabriksarbejder, som henvender sig til det revolutionerende firma "Rekall", der kan forvandle hans spionfantasier til realistiske erindringer, men proceduren går gruelig galt, så skellet mellem fantasi og virkelighed udviskes. Det ender med, at Quaid må tage flugten, mens hans verden ramler ned om ørerne på ham.
I 1883 sender den engelske premierminister William Gladstone, general Charles 'Chinese' Gordon i spidsen for sin hær til byen Khartoum i Sudan. Her trues tusinder af civile af den muslimske Mahdi og hans tusinder af hellige krigere. Det lykkes indledningsvis Gordon at vinde Mahdiens respekt, men det lykkes ham ikke at forhindre, at Mahdiens hær lægger sig i en jernring omkring byen. Hele magtbalancen i området står nu på spil, og Gordon står over for sit livs vigtigste udfordringer: Slaget om Khartoum kan begynde.
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are threatened by the sinister sound of drums that announce dark times of revolution and war.
In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances whose greatest prize is the domination of India and the border territories, Major Geoffrey Vickers must endure several betrayals and misfortunes before he can achieve his revenge at the Balaclava Heights, on October 25, 1854, the most glorious day of the Crimean War.
Abby Hale er en engelsk fange dømt til slaveri i USA, som bliver købt og sat fri af militsmanden Chris Holden. Men Martin Garth, en forræderisk leverandør af ulovlige våben til indianerne, har andre planer for Abby og formår at genkøbe hende med de værste hensigter. Abby bliver ansat på kontrakt for Garth, og hun må nu knokle hårdt for hendes grusomme ejer. Men Chris er ikke langt fra Abby og opdager hurtigt, at han er blevet bedraget af den farlige mand. Chris redder galant Abby og tager hende til sig. Imens ophidser Garth den magtfulde høvding for Seneca-stammen, Guyasuta, til at angribe kolonisterne. Pludselig må den ellers fredelige Chris slås med de krigsførende indianere, med Garth og med hans egne følelser for Abby.
Gwalior Fort, during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. In a moment of despair, Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, encourages her men by telling them the heroic story of Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy, a brave Telugu chieftain who took up arms in 1846 to protest against the numerous arbitrariness and crimes perpetrated by the leaders and military forces of the East India Company.
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
Havet indeholder historien om hele menneskeheden, og indeholder alle stemmer fra både jorden og fra det ydre rum. Havet får sin kraft fra stjernerne og forvandler den til levende væsener. Havet besidder også hemmeligheden om to mystiske knapper, som blev fundet på dets bund. Chile, med dens kystlinje på 2,670 mil og den største øgruppe i verden, præsenterer et overnaturligt landskab med både vulkaner, bjerge og gletsjere. I landskabet findes stemmer fra det oprindelige patagonske folk, de første engelske sømænd samt stemmerne fra deres politiske fanger. Man siger, at havet har en hukommelse. I denne film får den også har en stemme.
A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable diamond and gem necklace in Bombay and as the Japanese Army invades China.
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Fort St. David, Cuddalore, southern India, 1748. While colonial empires battle to seize an enormous territory, rich in spices and precious metals beyond the wildest dreams, and try to gain the favor of the local kings, Robert Clive (1725-1774), a frustrated but talented clerk who works for the East Indian Company and struggles to earn his fortune, makes a bold decision that will change his life forever.
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire; an epic tale of poverty, hunger, despair, violence and unyielding courage.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has been abandoned on the coast of Aotearoa NZ by the East India Company, alongside his sealing gang. When Dasa finds himself in the middle of a conflict between his abusive British superior and two Māori traders, he is faced with a choice: bend the knee or take a stand.
In 1971, Bahrain, Qatar and the UAE ceased to be part of Britain’s empire in the Middle East and became fully independent states. BBC News Persia and BBC Arabic collaborate in this gripping film, to uncover the secrets and shady deals that underpinned the decolonization process. From eye-witness accounts of a British-organised coup to Iran being left in control of disputed islands, it's a fascinating insight to a murky history.
The history of Europeans in North America, from the arrival of Columbus in 1492 to the business success of German immigrants such as Heinz, Strauss or Friedrich Trumpf, Donald Trump's grandfather. During the 19th century, thirty million people — Germans, Irish, Scots, Russians, Hungarians, Italians and many others — left the old continent, fleeing poverty, racism or political repression, hoping to make a fortune and realize the American dream.
At the beginning of the 1960s, in Salisbury (now Harare), in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), the government of Ian Smith hanged three black revolutionaries who had nevertheless been pardoned by the Queen of England. René Vautier, with ZAPU (Zimbabwe African Party for Unity), denounces this killing. Expelled by the Rhodesian police (informed by the French secret services), the filmmaker shoots a film in Algeria in the form of an indictment against colonial savagery. The film was first banned in France, then authorized in 1965.
In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vortrekkers, and her older brother's romance of Katie Snee.