Department of History

Directed by Academy Award winner Martin Scorsese (2006, Best Director, The Departed), this epic tale of vengeance and survival stares two-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis (1989, Best Actor, My Left Foot; 2007, Best Actor, There will be Blood), Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz. After years of incarceration, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon (DiCaprio) returns to lower Manhattan's lawless, corrupt Five Points section seeking revenge against the rival gang leader (Day-Lewis) who killed his father. But before long, Amsterdam's personal vendetta becomes part of an erupting wave of full-blown gang warfare. Feel your heart pound while weapons and cultures clash in chaotic symphony of life and death, and surrender to the tumultuous atmosphere of 1860s New York.