World War II is one of the great period drama subjects; there are classics like The Longest Day, Schindler’s List, and The Dirty Dozen, and more contemporary titles like Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, and A ...

This is an intense one. It’s a historical drama about real world atrocities. However, it puts an emotional face on something you may only read about in history books, so that is worthwhile. Gareth ...

James Norton as Gareth Jones in MR JONES. Photo courtesy of Samuel Goldwyn Films In the early ’30s, a young Welsh journalist named Jones uncovers a secret famine in Stalin’s Soviet Union, a revelation ...

Polish director Agnieszka Holland is best known for epic films that explore the inhumanity of World War II, the Oscar-nominated “Europa, Europa” and “In Darkness,” both set in German-controlled areas ...

A good idea for a biopic doesn’t always find its ideal reflection on screen. Look what happened to Leonardo DiCaprio’s J. Edgar (as in Hoover), Hilary Swank’s Amelia (as in Earhart) and Colin ...