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If you were moved by Selective Fire, you will appreciate how these films questions the purpose and weight of our choices while maintaining targets the intellect with complex, multi-layered ideas. Carefully balances character depth with narrative flow makes this a deeper look into what makes these stories stick.

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Runtime Cluster

Standard feature-length experiences.

Viewer Fit

Best for fans of who appreciate concise storytelling.

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The Sinking of the Lusitania
6.5

The Sinking of the Lusitania

1918

Winsor McCay recreates the sinking of the ocean liner Lusitania by a German U-boat in this propaganda piece designed to stir up anti-German sentiment during World War I.

Rambo: First Blood Part II
6.7

Rambo: First Blood Part II

1985

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

The Congress
6.4

The Congress

2013

An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.

The Clan
6.8

The Clan

2015

In Argentina, between 1982 and 1985, the Puccios, a well-established family of San Isidro, an upper-class suburb of Buenos Aires, kidnap several people and hold them as hostages for a ransom.

Night of the Animated Dead
6.0

Night of the Animated Dead

2021

An animated retelling of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, in which a group of people in a rural farmhouse struggle to survive the threat of bloodthirsty zombies.

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms
7.8

Game of Thrones - Conquest & Rebellion: An Animated History of the Seven Kingdoms

2017

HBO's animated history of Westeros brings to life all the events that shaped the Seven Kingdoms in the thousands of years before Game of Thrones' story begins.

Sahara
6.4

Sahara

1995

After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces and reach Allied lines. Along the way he picks up few Allied soldiers, but soon they are running out of water. They find water at the ancient well, but the well is a goal of an entire German battalion. Despite the impossible odds, Sergeant Gunn decides to defend the well.

Pork Chop Hill
6.6

Pork Chop Hill

1959

Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.

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The Last Rifleman
6.6

The Last Rifleman

2023

A WWII veteran escapes his care home in Northern Ireland and embarks on an arduous but inspirational journey to France to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings, finding the courage to face the ghosts of his past.

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
7.0

SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone

2023

GrandPat travels through alternate dimensions and timelines to get home.

Halo Legends
7.4

Halo Legends

2010

The universe of the Halo video game series is expanded in seven short animated films from Japan's greatest anime directors and studios.

Gunga Din
6.5

Gunga Din

1939

British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

In the Time of the Butterflies
6.3

In the Time of the Butterflies

2001

Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.

Argentina 1985
7.8

Argentina 1985

2022

In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.

Another Day of Life
7.4

Another Day of Life

2018

In 1975, Ryszard Kapuściński, a veteran Polish journalist, embarked on a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the Angola's civil war. There, he witnessed once again the dirty reality of war and discovered a sense of helplessness previously unknown to him. Angola changed him forever: it was a reporter who left Poland, but it was a writer who returned…

Putin
6.1

Putin

2025

A portrait of a formidable political figure, unraveling the contrasting facets of an iron-fisted tyrant and a man haunted by fear.

Ararat
6.1

Ararat

2002

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.

The Apocalypse of St John
8.3

The Apocalypse of St John

2024

Embark on an epic journey through time and faith with 'The Apocalypse of Saint John.' Join the Apostle John in a stunning visual narrative that unravels the visions of the End Times. Experience each vision like never before, with striking visual effects and epic scenes that immerse you in the apocalyptic narrative.

Emperor
7.6

Emperor

2020

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.

The Scarlet and the Black
7.0

The Scarlet and the Black

1983

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.

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