El Cid

In the 11th century, Spanish nobleman Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (Charlton Heston) shows mercy to two captured Moorish emirs, something that will both hurt and help him in future…

Watership Down

When a young rabbit has an apocalyptic vision of the future, he talks his brother and six other rabbits into escaping their warren and look for a new place to…

Passport to Pimlico 

When a document dating back to the 15th century is found in Pimlico, it is read as evidence that the London neighborhood is legally still part of Burgundy, France. One…

Where Eagles Dare: The Nazi Nest

Clint Eastwood and Richard Burton. Photo: MGM Whoever wrote director Brian G. Hutton's Wikipedia entry listed Kelly's Heroes (1970) as his most notable work, which seems odd. That movie has…

Gandhi: The Smiling Revolution

Ben Kingsley. Photo: Columbia Richard Attenborough knows his epics and I bet he's watched Lawrence of Arabia (1962) more than once. In similar fashion, this film opens with Mahatma Gandhi's…