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1. Shogun (1980)
TV-MA | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan.
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 15,807
2. The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
R | 112 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Three trappers protect the daughters of a British Colonel in the midst of the French and Indian War.
Director: Michael Mann | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Russell Means, Eric Schweig
Votes: 187,963 | Gross: $75.51M
3. Shogun (1980 TV Movie)
159 min | Adventure, Drama, History
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Director: Jerry London | Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Shimada, Furankî Sakai
Votes: 5,067
4. The Cotton Club (1984)
R | 129 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Meet the jazz musicians, dancers, owner, and guests (like gangster Dutch Schultz) of The Cotton Club in 1928-1930s Harlem.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane, Lonette McKee
Votes: 19,566 | Gross: $25.93M
5. Mississippi Masala (1991)
R | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Denzel Washington, Sarita Choudhury, Roshan Seth, Sharmila Tagore
Votes: 6,213 | Gross: $7.31M
6. Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
94 min | Drama, Romance
Francesco inherits an old palace from a Turkish aunt and moves to Istanbul to renovate it.
Director: Ferzan Özpetek | Stars: Alessandro Gassmann, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi, Halil Ergün
Votes: 7,221 | Gross: $0.66M
7. A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
Approved | 128 min | Drama
A substantial insurance payment could mean either financial salvation or personal ruin for a poor black family.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeil, Ruby Dee, Diana Sands
Votes: 9,583
8. Heaven & Earth (1993)
R | 140 min | Action, Biography, Drama
During the Vietnam War, a Vietnamese woman struggles hustling on the streets, where she comes face to face with those involved in the conflict around her.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Hiep Thi Le, Tommy Lee Jones, Haing S. Ngor, Bussaro Sanruck
Votes: 15,128 | Gross: $5.86M
9. Black & White (I) (1999)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Music
A group of white high school teens become involved with Harlem's black hip-hop crowd.
Director: James Toback | Stars: Ben Stiller, Allan Houston, Claudia Schiffer, Scott Caan
Votes: 6,056 | Gross: $5.24M
10. Super Dimension Fortress Macross (1982–2002)
TV-PG | 25 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
An alien spaceship crash lands on Earth and her secrets lead to a desperate war against an alien enemy sent to retrieve the ship.
Stars: Arihiro Hase, Mari Iijima, Vic Mignogna, Monica Rial
Votes: 2,307
11. Games of Love and Chance (2003)
123 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Krimo a 15 years old shy boy falls in love for Lídia who is his classmate.To be able to assume his love for her he decides to take a part in the play that was to be one of his friends.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche | Stars: Osman Elkharraz, Sara Forestier, Sabrina Ouazani, Nanou Benhamou
Votes: 3,253 | Gross: $0.01M
12. Street Scene (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Twenty-four hours elapse on the stoop of a Hell's Kitchen tenement as a microcosm of the American melting pot interconnects during a summer heatwave.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, William Collier Jr., Estelle Taylor, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,055
13. Calendar (1993)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A woman stays in Armenia after her photographer husband completes his assignment and returns home to Canada.
Director: Atom Egoyan | Stars: Arsinée Khanjian, Ashot Adamyan, Atom Egoyan, Michelle Bellerose
Votes: 2,363
14. Je'vida (2023)
100 min | Drama, History
Iida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.
Director: Katja Gauriloff | Stars: Agafia Niemenmaa, Heidi Gauriloff, Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Seidi Haarla
Votes: 148
15. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (2002)
Unrated | 104 min | Documentary, History
A film about the state of Chinese occupied Tibet and its history of oppression and resistance.
Director: Tom Piozet | Stars: Edward Edwards, Ed Harris, Shirley Knight, Tim Robbins
Votes: 688 | Gross: $0.58M
16. The Chinese Exclusion Act (2017)
TV-PG | 114 min | Documentary, Biography, History
The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
Directors: Ric Burns, Li-Shin Yu | Stars: Hoon Lee, Mae Ngai, Jean Pfaelzer, David Lei
Votes: 104
17. Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)
51 min | Drama, History, Music
The amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas.
Director: Larry Weinstein | Stars: Larry Weinstein, Ben Sidran, Jennifer 8. Lee, Ophira Eisenberg
Votes: 134
18. Lights (1984 TV Movie)
24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
A family-friendly version of the story of Hanukkah, a Jewish holiday also known as The Festival of Lights. Playful lights (letters) arrive from the sky one day for people to enjoy, but invading Greeks try to impose their alphabet instead.
Director: Yehuda Wurtzel | Stars: Judd Hirsch, Paul Michael Glaser, Leonard Nimoy, Nannette Zussman
Votes: 47
19. The Mongols (1973)
92 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenplay of his first feature film, receives an assignment to oversee the installation of a ... See full summary »
Director: Parviz Kimiavi | Stars: Fahimeh Rastkar, Parviz Kimiavi, Agha Seyed ali Mirza Sajadi, Ali Mirza
Votes: 220
20. A River of Skulls (2010)
R | 100 min | Drama, Western
After her mother's death, Eula is forced to leave home and travel with a stranger into a world far more dangerous than she ever imagined.
Director: Suza Lambert Bowser | Stars: Trent Anderson, Aleph Ayin, Bruce D. Cole, Donald Forrest
Votes: 39
21. Talk for Life: English as an Additional Language (2020)
62 min | Documentary
This captivating documentary delves deep into the realm of language and its profound impact on the lives of recently arrived refugees in Australia.
Director: Amel Tresnjic
Votes: 18
22. One Story (2013)
85 min | Drama
Third-generation Mexican teenagers Angie and Josh Navarro from Laguna Beach's upper class estates, are forced to move into their grandparent's house in the barrio. It is there they will ... See full summary »
Director: Clint Nitkiewicz Hernandez | Stars: Jessie Nickson, Tadie Acosta, Manny Alvarez Jr., Martin J. Ayala
23. Integreren kun je leren! (2002)
6 min | Comedy, Short
A dark and humorous way of teaching foreign immigrants, how to integrate "to its fullest" in their host country!
Director: Silvain Hooglander | Stars: Rogier Bisschop, Teun Hoogendoorn, Ruben Van Eijl
Votes: 11
24. Vij's in Essence (2006)
8 min | Short
Documentary examines how Vancouver restaurateur Vikram Vij and his wife Meeru are changing Canadian culture one curry at a time.
Director: Phillip Giarratano | Stars: Meeru Dhalwala, Jamie Maw, Vikram Vij
25. In the Beginning was Water and Sky (2017)
13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A haunting and visually stunning fairy tale that blends fantasy and real life events. Two Native American children struggle to find their way back to a home that may be lost forever.
Director: Ryan Ward | Stars: Norma-Sue Hill, Shohnáhose Davin Bomberry, Carter Simon, Jenna Clause
Votes: 15
26. Gulpilil: Man of Two Worlds (1979 TV Movie)
48 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Director: Rod Kinnear | Stars: Stuart Jay, David Gulpilil, Tommy Lewis, Fred Schepisi
27. From the Bush to the City (2011 Video)
18 min | Documentary, Short
Director: Nicholas Cleary | Stars: Nicholas Cleary, Desmond Dodd, Audrey Hull, Carah Laube
28. Dry Fish (2017)
15 min | Short, Drama
A New York writer born of Nigerian parentage living in London deals with the complexities of a bi-cultural identity.
Director: Latheleene Bosé | Stars: Anastasia Aidoo, Funlola Aofiyebi, Zuri Eshun, Sandra Falase
29. Children of the Musgraves (1947)
10 min | Documentary, Short, Adventure
Director: Edmée Campbell Dobbie | Stars: Jack Hume, Ron Trudinger
30. Operação Estupefacientes - Macau (1966)
55 min | Crime, Drama, Musical
Three docudramas put together, around the theme of police repression of drug trafficking.
Director: Miguel Spiguel | Stars: Sin Hoi, Au-Tak, Y. Poi, Hok Tong
31.
Race: The Power of an Illusion (2003– )
Episode:
The House We Live In
(2003)
57 min | Documentary
Director: Llewellyn M. Smith | Stars: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Bernice Burnett, Eugene Burnett, Dalton Conley
Votes: 12
32.
Message Stick (1997–2012)
Episode:
Silent Legacy
(1998)
30 min | Documentary
Director: Debbie Gittens | Star: Harry Carmody
33.
Just Beyond (2021)
Episode:
Which Witch?
(2021)
TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A teen witch struggles to blend in at school after her "fresh-off-the-broomstick" cousin arrives.
Director: Ryan Zaragoza | Stars: Rachel Marsh, Jy Prishkulnik, Sarah Borne, Will Kindrachuk
Votes: 242
34.
Dark Winds (2022– )
Episode:
Hooghandi
(2022)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Leaphorn suspects all of the crimes on the reservation are related; there is a big break in the case; Leaphorn invites Chee over for dinner; Manuelito makes a discovery of her own.
Director: Sanford Bookstaver | Stars: Zahn McClarnon, Kiowa Gordon, Jessica Matten, Deanna Allison
Votes: 678
35.
The Armchair Historian (2017– )
Episode:
Vietnam War from the North Vietnamese Perspective
(2020)
20 min | Documentary, Animation
The Vietnam War is a highly controversial topic at the best of times. But during their many debates on the subject, Western historians rarely pause to consider how the conflict was seen ... See full summary »
Director: Griffin Johnsen | Stars: Griffin Johnsen, Ho Chí Minh
36.
BumbleBee (2021– )
Episode:
Top 10 Extinct Civilizations You've Never Heard of
(2021)
13 min | Documentary, History
Here's what we know about ten lesser known civilizations with honorable mentions of some of their neighbors you probably heard of, like ancient Egypt. They are lesser known because they are... See full summary »
Stars: Taylor McWatters, Brie Roome
37.
Coffee with Scott Adams (2018– )
Talking about the News. Grab Some Coffee and a Pet
(2023 Podcast Episode)
News
Star: Scott Adams
38.
Fresh Off the Boat (2015–2020)
Episode:
So Chineez
(2015)
TV-PG | 22 min | Comedy
Jessica is worried that their family is not Chinese enough.
Director: Chris Koch | Stars: Randall Park, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Forrest Wheeler
Votes: 426