drama

Traces Caesar's rise to prominence as a brilliant military tactician. Includes his complex relationships with his mentor General Pompey and his second wife Calpurnia. His ideological tiltings with Senator Cato, who advocates democracy over Caesar's dictatorial ambitions. Explains Caesar's violent epileptic seizures, his megalomania, his casually calculated cruelties, and his bigamous relationship with Egyptian queen Cleopatra. His nephew, Brutus, finally kills Caesar at March 15, 44. B.C. (the Ides of March) at the age of 55, starting an era of civil wars.

With exacting detail, the film re-creates the American siege of the Somalian city of Mogadishu in October 1993, when a 45-minute mission turned into a 16-hour ordeal of bloody urban warfare. Helicopter-borne U.S. Rangers were assigned to capture key lieutenants of Somali warlord Muhammad Farrah Aidid, but when two Black Hawk choppers were felled by rocket-propelled grenades, the U.S. soldiers were forced to fend for themselves in the battle-torn streets of Mogadishu, attacked from all sides by armed Aidid supporters.

Cinematic account of the life of T.E. Lawrence, best known as Lawrence of Arabia.

Western drama about Wyatt Earp and the showdown at the O.K. Corral.

Presents a full cast performance of Shakespeare's "Macbeth, " the story of a man who kills the King of Scotland in order to claim the throne for himself.

Portrayal of the life and times of China's last emperor, Pu Yi-- crowned at age 3, and destined to live as a prisoner in his own country in one way or another for his entire life.

A shy postman gets help from the exiled poet Pablo Neruda to win the heart of the most beautiful woman on the isle of Capri.

Shakespeare's tragedy of prophecy and royal murder in medieval Scotland.

Estranged spouses King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine battle over which of their sons should ascend the English throne, while King Philip of France plots to make their arguments moot.

Tells the rags-to-riches story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colors.