This film tells the story of the Red River settlement, now the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pioneer venture of Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, to establish a colony brought opposition from the North West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company’s powerful rival. A fine cast of actors portrays the ensuing dispute.
Robert Eddison
Lord Selkirk
Marigold Charlesworth
Lady Selkirk
Charles Palmer
William McGillivray
Jean Scheler
J. B. Lagimodière
John Horton
Samuel Gale
Gary Files
Dr. Allen
This film tells the story of the Red River settlement, now the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba. The pioneer venture of Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, to establish a colony brought opposition from the North West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company’s powerful rival. A fine cast of actors portrays the ensuing dispute.
An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown. Based on the life story of Shields Green.
Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.
Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis falls in love with a fishmonger while working for him as a live-in housekeeper.
At the turn of the 19th century, Pugilism was the sport of kings and a gifted young boxer fought his way to becoming champion of England.
Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.
A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.
In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle, Newt returns home to Jones County to safeguard his family but is soon branded an outlaw deserter. Forced to flee, he finds refuge with a group of runaway slaves hiding out in the swamps. Forging an alliance with the slaves and other farmers, Knight leads a rebellion that would forever change history.
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.