Category Archives: History

Eden

Poster for “Eden”
Genre Adventure, Drama, History
Director Ron Howard
Released 2024
Runtime 129 min.
Plot Based on a factual account of a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn't the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.

Truth

Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director James Vanderbilt
Released October 30, 2015
Runtime 125 min.
Plot Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS "60 Minutes" report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.

Ferrari

Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Michael Mann
Released December 25, 2023
Runtime 130 min.
Plot Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari's auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

Oppenheimer

Genre Biography, Drama, History
Director Christopher Nolan
Released July 21, 2023
Runtime 180 min.
Plot A dramatization of the life story of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who had a large hand in the development of the atomic bombs that brought an end to World War II.

The Great Escape

Genre Adventure, Drama, History
Director John Sturges
Released July 4, 1963
Runtime 172 min.
Plot Allied officers in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II make a daring plan for a mass escape by hundreds of POWs hoping to draw German personnel and resources away from combat operations.