RAREFILMS - Peplum - History films on DVD
IL conquistatore del Messico DVD (1939)
Also known as: Juarez DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History, Biography
Director: William Dieterle
Cast: Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp, Joseph Calleia, Gale Sondergaard, Gilbert Roland, Henry O'Neill, Harry Davenport, Louis Calhern, Walter Kingsford, Georgia Caine, Montagu Love
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Spanish
Plot: The newly named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carolotta arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment favoring Benito Juraez and democracy. He tries to appease the Mexicans but fails. Abraham Lincoln is supporting Juarez and asks the French to withdraw support for Maximilian. Carlotta goes to France to plead with Napoleon, to no avail.
Il conquistatore dell'India DVD (1935)
Also known as: Clive of India DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, War, History, Biography
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, Colin Clive, Francis Lister, C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, Montagu Love, Lumsden Hare, Ferdinand Munier, Gilbert Emery, Leo G. Carroll, Etienne Girardot, Robert Greig, Mischa Auer, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Spanish
Plot: In the mid-1700's the East India Company has power over commerce on the sub-continent, with the blessings of the British government. A clerk in the company, Robert Clive, is frustrated by his lack of advancement, and transfers to the military arm of the company, where he excels. Clive's leadership and gift for manipulation strengthen England's hold over India and lead to personal wealth, which is often threatened by the enemies he makes along the way.
Il conquistatore di Corinto DVD (1961)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, History
Director: Mario Costa
Cast: Jacques Sernas, John Drew Barrymore, Geneviève Grad, Gianna Maria Canale, Gordon Mitchell, Gianni Santuccio, Nando Tamberlani, Ivano Staccioli, Andrea Fantasia, Gianni Solaro, José Jaspe, Vassili Karis, Dina De Santis, Milena Vukotic, Adriana Vianello
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Protests break out in Corinth against Roman domination, injuring Caius Vinicius, a Roman centurion. He's rescued by Hebe -- daughter of the anti-Roman governor, Critolaus -- who's being unsuccessfully wooed by the governor's second-in-command, the villainous Diaeus. Smitten, Hebe sends the handsome Roman to recuperate at the home of Callicrates, a political moderate. Artemide, wife of Callicrates, also falls for Caius Vinicus...
I conquistatori della Sirte DVD (1950)
Also known as: Tripoli DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, War, Romance, History
Director: Will Price
Cast: John Payne, Maureen O'Hara, Howard Da Silva, Phillip Reed, Grant Withers, Lowell Gilmore, Connie Gilchrist, Alan Napier, Herbert Heyes, Alberto Morin, Emil Hanna, Grandon Rhodes, Frank Fenton, Rosa Turich, Ray Hyke
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The U. S. Marine Corps hymn starts with"From the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli", and this film's story purports to be the reason why, and is give or take a few incidents in this movie: It is 1805 and the Tripoli pirates have challenged America's right to freedom of the seas---all of them, anywhere---so United Stares warships were sent to that port...
Il conte di Essex DVD (1939)
Also known as: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Romance, History, Biography
Director: Michael Curtiz
Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale, Vincent Price, Henry Stephenson, Henry Daniell, James Stephenson, Nanette Fabray, Ralph Forbes, Robert Warwick, Leo G. Carroll
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il conte di Matera DVD (1957)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Luigi Capuano
Cast: Otello Toso, Virna Lisi, Paul Muller, Giacomo Rossi-Stuart, Wandisa Guida, Guido Celano, Emilio Petacci, Armando Migliari, Renato Chiantoni, Ugo Sasso, Erminio Spalla, Carlo Tamberlani, Edoardo Toniolo, Amedeo Trilli, Nietta Zocchi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il conte di Montecristo DVD (1934)
Also known as: The Count of Monte Cristo DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Rowland V. Lee
Cast: Robert Donat, Elissa Landi, Louis Calhern, Sidney Blackmer, Raymond Walburn, O.P. Heggie, Irene Hervey, Georgia Caine, Walter Walker, Lawrence Grant, Luis Alberni, Douglas Walton, Juliette Compton, Clarence Wilson, Eleanor Phelps
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Edmond Dantes is imprisoned in the Chateau d'If without trial, for carrying a message from Napoleon in exile on Elba. After being told that he died in prison, his fiancé Mercedes is forced to marry his rival Count Mondego. Twenty years later, Dantes escapes with the help of the Abbe Faria, who leaves him the treasure of Monte Cristo. Dantes, now called the Count of Monte Cristo, plans his revenge on the three who framed him.
IL conte di Montecristo DVD (1943)
Also known as: Le comte de Monte Cristo DVD (original title)
Country: France
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, History
Director: Robert Vernay
Cast: Pierre Richard-Willm, Michèle Alfa, Aimé Clariond, Marcel Herrand, Ermete Zacconi, Alexandre Rignault, Henri Bosc, Jacques Baumer, André Fouché, René Bergeron, Marie-Hélène Dasté, Yves Deniaud, Fred Pasquali, Joffre, Paul Faivre
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body...
IL conte di Montecristo DVD (1961)
Also known as: Le comte de Monte Cristo DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: French
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, History
Director: Claude Autant-Lara
Cast: Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, Bernard Dhéran, Franco Silva, Claudine Coster, Jean-Claude Michel, Yves Rénier, Marie Mergey, Jean Martinelli, Henri Guisol, Alain Ferral, Roldano Lupi, Henri Vilbert, Jean-Jacques Delbo
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad...
Il conte di Montecristo DVD (1975)
Also known as: The Count of Monte-Cristo DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, History
Director: David Greene
Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan, Angelo Infanti, Harold Bromley, George Willing, Alessio Orano, Ralph Michael, Dominic Barto, Harry Baird, Isabelle De Valvert, Taryn Power
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of...
Il conte di Sant'Elmo DVD (1953)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Guido Brignone
Cast: Nelly Corradi, Massimo Serato, Anna Maria Ferrero, Tino Buazzelli, Carlo Croccolo, Tina Lattanzi, Luigi Pavese, Alfredo Varelli, Franco Pesce
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Set in Sicily in 1860, Massimo Serato, a patriot in disguise complete with tights, mask and trimmings and known as the Count of St. Elmo, is fighting an oppressive government. He holds up a stagecoach in order to obtain money to fund his quest and among his captives is Bianca, a famous opera singer, whom he releases after she sings for the bandits and she, naturally, loses her heart to him...
Il conte Ugolino DVD (1949)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Carlo Ninchi, Gianna Maria Canale, Peter Trent, Piero Palermini, Carla Calò, Luigi Pavese, Ugo Sasso, Ciro Berardi, Armando Guarnieri
Medium: DVD R/RW
La contessa Alessandra DVD (1937)
Also known as: Knight Without Armour DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Thriller, Drama, Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Jacques Feyder
Cast: Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor, Basil Gill, David Tree, John Clements, Frederick Culley, Laurence Hanray, Dorice Fordred, Franklin Kelsey, Laurence Baskcomb, Hay Petrie, Miles Malleson
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Because he can pass as a Russian, A.J. Fothergill is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in Russia in 1913. He becomes imprisoned in Siberia, as a revolutionary, until the 1917 uprisings. Amid the turmoil of the civil war between the red and white armies, he tries to flee Russia along with the beautiful Countess Alexandra.
La contessa di Castiglione DVD (1954)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): History
Director: Georges Combret
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Georges Marchal, Paul Meurisse, Rossano Brazzi, Lucienne Legrand, Lea Padovani, Georges Lannes, Michel Etcheverry, Tamara Lees, Claude Boissol, Lisette Lebon, Gil Delamare, Guy Cosson, Pierre Flourens, Charles Bouillaud
Medium: DVD R/RW
La contessa di Montecristo DVD (1946)
Also known as: The Wife of Monte Cristo DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Romance
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer
Cast: John Loder, Lenore Aubert, Charles Dingle, Fritz Kortner, Eduardo Ciannelli, Martin Kosleck, Fritz Feld, Eva Gabor, Clancy Cooper, John Bleifer, Anthony Warde, Colin Campbell, Crane Whitley
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Edmund Dantes, The Count of Monte Cristo, rides again in 1832, this time accompanied by (or stood in for) his countess wife, Haydee. He is out for vengeance (using a mask and working as "The Avenger") against those who responsible for his imprisonment in the Chateau DIf, and justice for the people of Paris who are being mistreated by the crooked Prefect of Police and his henchmen associates, which leads Dantes engaging if a skirmish with the Gendarmerie, that leaves him incapacitated for a while, and Haydee takes his place as "The Avenger."
Coriolano eroe senza patria DVD (1964)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, History
Director: Giorgio Ferroni
Cast: Gordon Scott, Alberto Lupo, Lilla Brignone, Philippe Hersent, Rosalba Neri, Aldo Bufi Landi, Angela Minervini, Pierre Cressoy, Gaetano Quartararo, Nerio Bernardi, Valerio Tordi, Piero Pastore, Tullio Altamura, Nello Pazzafini
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Coriolanus leads the plebians in a revolt against Roman oppression.
Correva l'anno di grazia 1870 DVD (1971)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, History
Director: Alfredo Giannetti
Cast: Anna Magnani, Marcello Mastroianni, Mario Carotenuto, Osvaldo Ruggeri, Duilio Cruciani, Aldo Cecconi, Dino Mele, Giulio Paradisi, Silla Bettini, Luciano Bonanni, Ermelinda De Felice, Winni Riva, Fiona Florence, Eugenio Cappabianca, Alberto Hammermann
Medium: DVD R/RW
La corsara DVD (1950)
Also known as: Buccaneer's Girl DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: English
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Director: Frederick De Cordova
Cast: Yvonne De Carlo, Philip Friend, Robert Douglas, Elsa Lanchester, Andrea King, Norman Lloyd, Jay C. Flippen, Henry Daniell, Douglass Dumbrille, Verna Felton, John Qualen, Connie Gilchrist, Ben Welden, Dewey Robinson, Peggie Castle
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Robin Hood-like pirate Baptiste takes only the ships of rich but wicked trader Narbonne. Fun loving Debbie, a passenger from his latest prize, stows away on the pirate ship and falls for the pirate; later, having become a New Orleans entertainer, she meets his alter ego, who's engaged to the governor's daughter. Sea battles and land rescues follow in lighthearted style.
I corsari dell'isola degli squali DVD (1972)
Also known as: La rebelión de los bucaneros DVD (original title)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure
Director: José Luis Merino
Cast: Carlos Quiney, Stelvio Rosi, Maria Pia Conte, María Dolores Tovar, Isarco Ravaioli, Pasquale Basile, José Marco, Antonio Mayans
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il corsaro DVD (1952)
Also known as: Captain Pirate DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Romance
Director: Ralph Murphy
Cast: Louis Hayward, Patricia Medina, John Sutton, Charles Irwin, Ted de Corsia, Rex Evans, Malú Gatica, George Givot, Robert McNeeley, Nina Koshetz, Lester Matthews, Sven Hugo Borg, Sandro Giglio, Ian Wolfe, Jay Novello
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge...
Il corsaro DVD (1970)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure
Director: Antonio Mollica
Cast: Robert Woods, Tania Alvarado, Armando Calvo, Cris Huerta, Miguel Del Castillo, Ángel del Pozo, Ana María Mendoza, Luis Induni, Juan Amigo, Marina Brengola, Tito García, Giuliano Giunti, Pasquale Nigro, Anna Zinnemann, Fernando Caro
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: An English buccaneer loses his ship in a cards game, and tries to pass for a priest, to restart a new life. Eventually, he is found out, arrested, and sent in a ship headed to the colony of Canada, with a mix of prisoners - pirates, robbers, and prostitutes. In the high seas, he starts a mutiny and ends up acclaimed as the new captain. Fortunate this time, he wins a battle against a Spanish ship, and helps an English Governor retake possession of his colony...
IL corsaro dell'isola verde DVD (1952)
Also known as: The Crimson Pirate DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Nick Cravat, Eva Bartok, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter, Leslie Bradley, Margot Grahame, Noel Purcell, Frederick Leister, Eliot Makeham, Frank Pettingell, Dana Wynter, Christopher Lee, Ewan Roberts, John Chandos
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball Scientist, sailing ships, naval fights, and tons of swordplay.
Il corsaro della Giamaica DVD (1976)
Also known as: Swashbuckler DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian, English
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Director: James Goldstone
Cast: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold, Beau Bridges, Geoffrey Holder, Avery Schreiber, Tom Clancy, Anjelica Huston, Bernard Behrens, Dorothy Tristan, Mark Baker, Kip Niven, Tom Fitzsimmons, Louisa Horton
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Il corsaro della Mezzaluna DVD (1959)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Giuseppe Maria Scotese
Cast: John Derek, Ingeborg Schöner, Gianna Maria Canale, Alberto Farnese, Camillo Pilotto, Raf Mattioli, Gianni Rizzo, Alberto Sorrentino, Paul Muller, Yvette Masson, Raf Baldassarre, Furio Meniconi, Carol Carter
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il corsaro nero DVD (1944)
Also known as: El corsario negro DVD (original title)
Country: Mexico
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure
Director: Chano Urueta
Cast: Pedro Armendáriz, María Luisa Zea, June Marlowe, Antonio Díaz, José Baviera, Paco Fuentes, José Elías Moreno, Alejandro Cobo, Ángel T. Sala, Rafael Icardo, Antonio Haro Oliva, Gina Agustino, José Díaz Morales
Medium: DVD R/RW
Il corsaro nero DVD (1971)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Comedy, Adventure
Director: Lorenzo Gicca Palli
Cast: Terence Hill, Silvia Monti, George Martin, Diana Lorys, Mónica Randall, Salvatore Borghese, Pasquale Basile, Fernando Bilbao, Bud Spencer, Aldo Cecconi, Paolo Magalotti, Gustavo Re, Luciano Pigozzi, Carlo Reali, Edmund Purdom
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there...
IL corsaro nero DVD (1976)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Adventure
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Kabir Bedi, Carole André, Mel Ferrer, Angelo Infanti, Sonja Jeannine, Salvatore Borghese, Franco Fantasia, Edoardo Faieta, Jackie Basehart, Nicolò Piccolomini, Guido Alberti, Pietro Torrisi, Lionello Pio Di Savoia, Mariano Rigillo, Tony Renis
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot O: Emilio di Roccabruna count of Ventimiglia is fighting Van Gould who ten years before had killed his father and stolen his family properties. He is known as "Il Corsaro Nero" (The Black Corsair) and his two brothers as Il Corsaro Verde (The Green Corsair) and as Il Corsaro Rosso (The Red Corsair). But the Green Corsair and the Red Corsair are killed treacherously by Van Gould's men...
Il corsaro nero nell'isola del tesoro DVD (1965)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Adventure, Action
Director: Vertunnio De Angelis
Cast: George Hilton, Tony Kendall, Claude Dantes, Josè Torres, Giovanni Vari, Gina Rovere
Medium: DVD R/RW
La cortigiana di Babilonia DVD (1954)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Cast: Rhonda Fleming, Ricardo Montalban, Roldano Lupi, Carlo Ninchi, Anna Maria Mori, Tamara Lees, Armando Annuale, Alberto Anselmi, Gianna Antonini, Gildo Bocci, Leonardo Bragaglia, Livia Cordaro, Rosanna Fabrizi, Ileana Flores, Patrizia Lari
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: In 600 BC, Babylon is conquered by the army of King Assur. When the Chaldean people refuse to submit to his rule, their leader Ahmal (Montalban) flees into the country and is hidden by a beautiful goatherd named Semiramis (Fleming). She is later captured, becomes the King's favorite and is soon made queen. When Ahmal himself is made a prisoner, he believes she has betrayed him...
I Cosacchi DVD (1959)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Action, Drama, Adventure, War
Director: Viktor Tourjansky
Cast: Edmund Purdom, John Drew Barrymore, Giorgia Moll, Pierre Brice, Elena Zareschi, Erno Crisa, Massimo Girotti, Maria Grazia Spina, Mario Pisu, Laura Carli, Louis Seigner, María Badmajew, Nerio Bernardi, Mara Berni, Liana Del Balzo
Medium: DVD R/RW
I Cosacchi del Kuban DVD (1950)
Also known as: Kubanskie kazaki DVD (original title)
Country: Soviet Union
Spoken Languages: Russian
Genre(s): Comedy, Adventure, Musical
Director: Ivan Pyryev
Cast: Sergei Lukyanov, Marina Ladynina, Aleksandr Khvylya, Vladlen Davydov, Vladimir Volodin, Yekaterina Savinova, Andrei Petrov, Vladimir Dorofeyev, Yelena Savitskaya, Valentina Telegina, Sergei Blinnikov, Boris Andreyev, Aleksei Bakhar, V. Bubnov, V. Galaktionov
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Il Cosacco nero DVD (1940)
Also known as: Der Postmeister DVD (original title)
Country: Austria
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure
Director: Gustav Ucicky
Cast: Heinrich George, Hilde Krahl, Siegfried Breuer, Hans Holt, Ruth Hellberg, Margit Symo, Erik Frey, Alfred Neugebauer, Franz Pfaudler, Leo Peukert, Reinhold Häussermann, Auguste Pünkösdy, Oskar Wegrostek, Hugo Gottschlich, Anton Pointner
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: When two russian captains of cavalry came to a German post station one of them recalls what happened long time ago. He begins to tell the story: Ten years ago a comrade of them made a resting at the post station and fell in love with the station master's daughter. He promised everything to her and finally convinced her to come with him to St. Petersburg. When both arrived there she had to realize that her captain never had the intention to marry her.
Così finì un amore DVD (1934)
Also known as: So endete eine Liebe DVD (original title)
Country: Germany
Spoken Languages: German
Genre(s): Romance, History
Director: Karl Hartl
Cast: Paula Wessely, Willi Forst, Gustaf Gründgens, Franz Herterich, Erna Morena, Edwin Juergenssen, Rose Stradner, Gustav Waldau, Maria Koppenhöfer, Erich Dunskus, Olga Engl, Rudolf Essek, Angelo Ferrari, Hugo Flink, Alfred Gerasch
Medium: DVD R/RW
I cospiratori DVD (1970)
Also known as: The Molly Maguires DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, History
Director: Martin Ritt
Cast: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe, Bethel Leslie, Art Lund, Philip Bourneuf, Anthony Costello, Brendan Dillon, Frances Heflin, John Alderson, Malachy McCourt, Susan Goodman
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie?
Costantino il grande DVD (1962)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, Romance, History
Director: Lionello De Felice
Cast: Cornel Wilde, Belinda Lee, Massimo Serato, Christine Kaufmann, Fausto Tozzi, Tino Carraro, Carlo Ninchi, Vittorio Sanipoli, Elisa Cegani, Lia Angeleri, Franco Fantasia, Lauro Gazzolo, Nando Gazzolo, Veriano Ginesi, Loris Gizzi
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Somewhat fictionalized dramatic account of Late Roman Emperor Constantine, his rise to power, and his establishment of religious tolerance among Roman subjects. Constantine's adoption of Christianity allowed this small persecuted religion to sweep throughout Europe as the empire's power waned.
El crimen de Cuenca DVD (1980)
Country: Spain
Spoken Languages: Spanish
Genre(s): Drama, History
Director: Pilar Miró
Cast: Amparo Soler Leal, Héctor Alterio, Daniel Dicenta, José Manuel Cervino, Mary Carrillo, Francisco Casares, Eduardo Calvo, José Vivó, Félix Rotaeta, Guillermo Montesinos, Pedro del Río, Mercedes Sampietro, Nicolás Dueñas, Antonio Canal, Juan Jesús Valverde
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cristus DVD (1916)
Also known as: Christus DVD (original title)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages:
Genre(s): Drama, History
Director: Giulio Antamoro
Cast: Alberto Pasquali, Amleto Novelli, Leda Gys, Augusto Mastripietri, Amalia Cataneo, Maria Caserini, Aurelia Cattaneo, Lina De Chiesa, Ignazio Lupi, Augusto Poggioli, Ermanno Roveri, Renato Visca
Medium: DVD R/RW
Subtitles: Italian
Plot: The story of the life of Christ.
I Crociati DVD (1935)
Also known as: The Crusades DVD (original title)
Country: USA
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Adventure, War, History
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Cast: Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, C. Henry Gordon, George Barbier, Montagu Love, Ramsay Hill, Lumsden Hare, Maurice Murphy, William Farnum, Hobart Bosworth
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: The Third Crusade as it didn't happen. King Richard Coeur de Lion goes on the crusade to avoid marrying Princess Alice of France; en route, he marries Berengaria to get food for his men. Berengaria.is captured by Saladin, spurring Richard to attack and capture Acre. But Saladin, attracted to her, takes her on to Jerusalem, and Richard is in danger of assassination.
Il crollo di Roma DVD (1963)
Country: Italy
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, Peplum
Director: Antonio Margheriti
Cast: Carl Möhner, Loredana Nusciak, Ida Galli, Andrea Aureli, Piero Palermini, Giancarlo Sbragia, Nando Tamberlani, Maria Grazia Buccella, Jim Dolen, Richard Ricci, Mimmo Maggio, Robert Bettoni, Ferdinando Poggi, Claudio Scarchilli, Renato Terra
Medium: DVD R/RW
Cromwell DVD (1970)
Also known as: Cromwell DVD (original title)
Country: UK
Spoken Languages: Italian
Genre(s): Drama, War, History, Biography
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin, Frank Finlay, Timothy Dalton, Patrick Wymark, Patrick Magee, Nigel Stock, Charles Gray, Michael Jayston, Richard Cornish, Anna Cropper, Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim
Medium: DVD R/RW
Plot: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
