An Unforgettable Grudge

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.

Runtime

3h 27m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and t...

Runtime

2h 34m

Director

Edward Zwick

Cast

Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, Timothy Spall

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin revolt against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Runtime

1h 15m

Director

Sergei Eisenstein

Cast

Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov

As the Russian monarchy crumbles, conflicts at Petrograd intensify, with Soviet hero V.I. Lenin leading the rebellion that overthrows the tsar's Winter Palace.

Runtime

1h 55m

Director

Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast

Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opt...

Runtime

1h 21m

Director

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast

Maria Falconetti, Eugène Silvain, André Berley