Videos: Historical

Cyril and Fiona are a long-married couple who travel to an unnamed tropical coastal town to follow their sexual fantasies. There they meet another couple, Catherine, Hugh and their three children. Hugh is a photographer who specializes in nude photographs of peasant women. The Cyril/Catherine and Hugh/Fiona relationships start.

Documentary on the civil rights activist, Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered in 1965 as she campaigned for black suffrage in Selma, Alabama, and its effect on her family.

In BABY, IT'S YOU, filmmaker Anne Makepeace takes us on an intimate journey, from the Kafkaesque world of fertility clinics, to Christmas among Utah polygamists and New England Puritans, as well as on a time trip back to the dark age of illegal abortion.

In hard-as-nails East End London, Nicola Collins explores the lives of her real-life gangster father and his infamous criminal friends. Brutal, uncompromising and featuring some of the UK's most notorious underworld characters, these men have lived their lives defined by a unique code of honor as they were brought together by the common bonds of birth, poverty, ambition and crime.

Veteran actor and two-time Oscar(r) winner Michael Caine stars with Tilda Swinton and Jeremy Northam in THE STATEMENT, a shocking and provoking thriller that delves into a fascinating chapter in modernevents! An ambitious Judge (Swinton) and an exacting Colonel (Jeremy Northam) re-open the sixty-year-old case of Pierre Brossard (Michael Caine), an escaped Nazi collaborator accused of murdering seven Jews.

Unforgettable, chilling and emotional, The Imposter tells the gripping true story of a Texan boy who went missing in 1994 and was miraculously found three and a half years later thousands of miles away in southern Spain. Despite glaring inconsistencies in his physical appearance, the boy's family brought their long- lost "son" home to restart his life in Texas. Questions soon arise: how could the Barclay's blonde, blue-eyed son have returned with darker skin and eyes? How could his personality and even accent have changed so dramatically? Truth soon proves stranger than fiction as the real story emerges.

Mary J. Blige and Angela Bassett star in this Lifetime Original Movie that tells the dual real-life stories of Coretta Scott King (Bassett) and Dr. Betty Shabazz (Blige), wives of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, respectively, as they carry on as single mothers after their husbands' tragic assassinations. When their husbands were assassinated, these two women not only inherited the mantle of the civil rights movement in America.

Guitar wizard, inventor, architect of rock n' roll, the legendary Les Paul tells his own rags-to-riches story in this documentary shot in HD. From his hometown in Waukesha to Chicago, Nashville, Hollywood and the National Inventors Hall of Fame, follow the life and times of this superstar. Featuring a wall-to-wall soundtrack of greatest hits, Les Paul: Chasing Sound! also includes interviews with B. B. King, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Jeff Beck, Merle Haggard, Steve Miller and many more.

Star-studded movie about the famous artist! Celebrated photographer and art impresario Alfred Steiglitz (Jeremy Irons) is shocked to learn that the extraordinary drawings he has recently discovered were rendered by a woman. Deciding to display the work of then-unknown artist Georgia O'Keeffe (Joan Allen) in his gallery without her knowledge, the fiercely private artist orders him to remove the collection. Once Alfred convinces her to allow him to become her benefactor and to champion her artistry, their relationship evolves as they fall deeply in love. Alfred leaves his wife for Georgia, but soon finds her rising star is poised to eclipse his light. As their relationship suffers, Alfred finds twisted ways to emotionally wound her, including taking a younger lover. Georgia's search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings - and ultimately her own voice - in the New Mexico landscape.

Personal and social conflicts are examined in the early days of Britain's strict class consciousness in this critically acclaimed adaptation. An audacious and independent young woman is seduced by a successful man whose intentions are not what they seem.

Witness the birth of "Grameen America" and the compelling stories of the first women borrowers as they learn to rise from poverty by starting and growing their own sustainable businesses.

In 1995, Director Steve James (Hoop Dream) returned to rural Southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie Fielding, a troubled young boy he had been an Advocate Big Brother to ten years earlier. He began a film to discover the forces that had shaped Stevie's entire life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested and charged with a serious crime that tears his family apart. What was to be a modest profile turns into an intimate four and a half year chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the criminal justice system and the filmmaker himself, as they all struggle with what Stevie has done and who he has become.

Sixteen years have passed since David Balding adopted Flora, the orphaned baby African elephant he lovingly raised as part of his family and made the star of his show. As Flora approaches adulthood, he realizes that she is not happy performing. Ultimately, David must face the difficult truth that she is not "a dog or a daughter" and needs to be with other elephants. Ten years in the making, One Lucky Elephant explores the human-animal bond through one man's love for his elephant.

The unutterably charming "Cinevardaphoto" brings together three short works by the filmmaker Agnes Varda, one shot in digital video, the others on celluloid.

Seventeen-year-old Griet becomes a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer, where she attracts the master painter's attention. A jealous acquaintance contrives a commission; the result will be one of the greatest paintings ever created, but at what cost?