The Washington Collection

Ike: Countdown To D-Day (2004)

Category: Historical & War | Rated: PG | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Tom Selleck, Gerald McRaney, James Remar

Tom Selleck is superb as Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the man charged with overseeing the largest invasion force in military history, in this acclaimed historical drama that chronicles the final weeks ... more

Breach (2007)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Billy Ray | Rated: PG13 | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Chris Cooper, Ryan Phillippe, Laura Linney

Inspired by actual events, this involving thriller follows young FBI recruit Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) as he's tapped to spy on fellow agent Robert Hanssen (Chris Cooper). Told that Hanssen is under ... more

George Washington (1984)

Category: Historical & War | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Patty Duke, Barry Bostwick, Jaclyn Smith

This epic look at the life of "The Father of His Country" follows Washington from his Virginia boyhood to his military heroics in the French and Indian Wars and his command of the colonial forces during ... more

The Crossing (2000)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Robert Harmon | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Shaun Austin-Olsen, Nigel Bennett, Paul Brogren

With his ragtag army on the verge of surrender, the last chance for him and his young nation lay with a desperate Christmas night attack. The true story behind George Washington's 1776 crossing of the ... more

Benedict Arnold: A Question Of Honor (2002)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Mikael Salomon | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Aidan Quinn, Kelsey Grammer, Flora Montgomery

He was one of the young United States' first military leaders, but pride and ambition led him to betray the country, and his name became synonymous with traitor. Aidan Quinn is Benedict Arnold and Kelsey ... more

Young Bess (1953)

Category: Historical & War | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: No

Format: | Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr

Lavish historical drama about the incredible early life of Queen Elizabeth I (Jean Simmons), chronicling her relationship with her father, Henry VIII (Charles Laughton); her half-brother Edward VI's ... more

Elizabeth I (2005)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Tom Hooper | Rated: NR | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Helen Mirren, Jeremy Irons, Hugh Dancy

Helen Mirren delivers an outstanding performance as Queen Elizabeth I in this spectacular HBO miniseries. Focusing on her advancing years, the film finds the queen pressured to marry a French duke in ... more

Hotel Rwanda (2004)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Terry George | Rated: PG13 | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix

Don Cheadle stars in the true-life story of Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager devastated by the genocide that ripped apart Rwanda in 1994. Disgusted by the bloodshed caused by his own people, the Hutus, ... more

Beyond The Gates (2005)

Category: Historical & War | Director: Michael Caton-Jones | Rated: R | Color: Color | Closed Captioned: Yes

Format: | Starring: Hugh Dancy, John Hurt, Clare-Hope Ashitey

Based on actual events, this powerful--and disturbing--drama examines the 1994 genocide in Rwanda that shocked the world. At the Ecole Technique Officielle secondary school in the country's capital city ... more