The Last Expedition

Retired farmer and widower Alvin Straight learns one day that his estranged brother Lyle has suffered a severe stroke. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and no driver's license. He then has the idea of making the trip on hi...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

David Lynch

Cast

Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Jane Galloway Heitz

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.

Runtime

3h 15m

Director

Steven Spielberg

Cast

Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.

Runtime

1h 49m

Director

Ernst Marischka

Cast

Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Park in Alaska were like in his attempt to protect the grizzly bears. The film is full of unique images and a look into the spirit of a man who sacrificed himself for nature.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Werner Herzog

Cast

Timothy Treadwell, Warren Queeney, Willy Fulton

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Lhasa, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whos...

Runtime

2h 16m

Director

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Cast

Brad Pitt, Jamyang Jamtsho Wangchuk, David Thewlis