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AUSTRALIA (2008) - Baz Luhrmann's Australia is all spectacle, screaming "epic movie" from frantic opening montage to soaring, melodramatic finale. Overstuffed? Hokey? Sure. But never a dull moment even in this, the most restrained of the down under director's oeuvre (which is like saying it's the least garish neon shade). - Posted: May 12th, 2009

GAUMONT TREASURES 1897-1913 (1897-1913) - Although the Gaumont studio is not a household word in America, it was at the very forefront of motion pictures in the early years. This amazing set from Kino brings to home video over 100 seldom-seen movies from the dawn of cinema by three of the leading creators at Gaumont. One DVD each is devoted to the directors Alice Guy, Louis Feuillade and the little-remembered LÈonce Perret, giving the viewer a fascinating cross-section of these early silents, with some amazing treasuresówould you believe color and sound movies in 1905? - Posted: October 27th, 2009

TEMPEST (1928) - The fall of the Tsars has proven to be fertile ground for filmic drama, but one of the earlier of these efforts was John Barrymore's Tempest, produced only a decade after the events depicted. With a story written by a Russian, and a screenplay co-written by an uncredited Erich von Stroheim, it certainly promises to be interesting. - Posted: July 5th, 2009

1612 (2007) - Pytor Kislov, Artur Smolyaninov, Mikhail Zhebrovskiy - Posted: March 30th, 2009

21 Hours at Munich (1976) - William Holden, Shirley Knight, Franco Nero - Posted: December 19th, 2005

Alexander the Great (1956) - Richard Burton - Posted: October 18th, 2004

And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003) - Antonio Banderas, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent - Posted: May 27th, 2004

Benedict Arnold: A Question of Honor (2003) - Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery - Posted: February 10th, 2003

The Bounty: SE (UK Version) (1984) - Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins - Posted: March 11th, 2002

Buffalo Soldiers (1997) - Danny Glover, Bob Gunton, Carl Lumbly, Glynn Turman, Mykelti Williamson - Posted: January 31st, 2006

Cleopatra (1999) (1999) - Leonor Varela, Timothy Dalton - Posted: April 23rd, 2000

Damn the Defiant! (1962) - Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde - Posted: November 1st, 2000

Dickens of London (1976) - Simon Bell, Roy Dotrice, - Posted: February 22nd, 2008

Dracula: The Dark Prince (2000) - Rudolf Martin, Jane March - Posted: April 22nd, 2002

The Duchess (Blu-ray) (2008) - Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes - Posted: January 5th, 2009

Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007) - Cate Blanchett - Posted: February 26th, 2008

Fidel (2002) - Victor Huggo Martin, Gael Garcia Pernal - Posted: May 20th, 2002

The Gathering Storm (2002) - Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave - Posted: March 23rd, 2003

Gone With the Wind: CE (1939) - Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel - Posted: December 22nd, 2004

Heat and Dust (1983) - Julie Christie, Shashi Kapoor, Greta Scacchi, Christopher Cazenove, Julian Glover, Nickolas Grace, Madhur Jaffrey, Jennifer Kendal - Posted: December 14th, 2003

C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower (1999) - Ioan Gruffud, Robert Lindsay - Posted: May 6th, 2001

C.S. Forester's Horatio Hornblower: The Adventure Continues (2001) - Ioan Gruffud, David Warner - Posted: May 4th, 2001

The Horsemen (1970) - Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance - Posted: January 14th, 2004

The Howards of Virginia (1940) - Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson - Posted: April 7th, 2003

Ivanhoe (1952) - Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders - Posted: January 14th, 2005

Joan of Arc (1948) - Ingrid Bergman, Jose Ferrer, Francis L. Sullivan, J. Carrol Naish, Ward Bond, Shepperd Strudwick, Hurd Hatfield, Gene Lockhart, John Emery - Posted: May 19th, 2004

Joan of Arc (TV) (1999) - Leelee Sobieski, Powers Boothe, Neil Patrick Harris, Robert Loggia, Peter Strauss, Peter O'Toole - Posted: May 9th, 2000

The King of Kings (1927) - H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Jacqueline Logan, Joseph Schildkraut - Posted: December 6th, 2004

Lady Jane (1986) - Helena Bonham-Carter, Cary Elwes - Posted: February 16th, 2003

The Last Emperor (Blu-ray) (1987) - John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole - Posted: January 30th, 2009

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Daniel Day Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means - Posted: May 6th, 2000

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) - Daniel Day Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means - Posted: January 11th, 2001

Longitude (2000) - Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons - Posted: August 28th, 2000

Luther (2003) - Joseph Fiennes, Alfred Molina, Jonathan Firth, Claire Cox, Sir Peter Ustinov - Posted: November 28th, 2004

Marie Antoinette (1938) - Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power - Posted: February 16th, 2007

The Mark of Zorro: SE (1940) - Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, J. Edward Bromberg, Eugene Pallette, Montagu Love - Posted: October 19th, 2005

Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) - Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins - Posted: April 19th, 2006

On Guard (1997) - Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain - Posted: April 22nd, 2005

Rossellini's History Films: Renaissance and Enlightenment (1972-1974) - Marcello Di Falco, Virginio Gazzolo, Ugo Cardea, Pierre Arditi - Posted: January 19th, 2009

The Sea Hawk (1940) - Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Henry Daniell - Posted: April 18th, 2005

Separate But Equal (1991) - Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster, Richard Kiley, Cleavon Little - Posted: July 2nd, 2003

Shaka Zulu (1983) - Robert Powell, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard, Fiona Fillerton, Christopher Lee, Henry Cele Dudu Mikhize - Posted: May 15th, 2003

Shogun (1980) - Richard Chamberlain, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Shimada, Frankie Sakai, Allen Badel - Posted: February 12th, 2004

The Film Crew: The Giant of Marathon (2007) - Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy, Bill Corbett - Posted: October 30th, 2007

The 300 Spartans (1962) - Richard Egan, Ralph Richardson, Diane Baker, Barry Coe, David Farrar - Posted: May 17th, 2004

Tristan and Isolde (2006) - James Franco, Sophia Myles, Rufus Sewell - Posted: July 6th, 2006

Walker (1987) - Ed Harris - Posted: February 18th, 2008

Zulu (1964) - Michael Caine, Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins - Posted: January 22nd, 2004