HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 13

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

Nine part series telling the story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day, for the first time on a global scale It is now nearly half a century since Kenneth Clarks series Civilisation thrilled audiences with its

The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952

Australian journalist Michael Wares experiences in Iraq during the 2003 war and after

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex lovers wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall

Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers U S Special Operations Forces SOF on highly classified combat missions Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the U S Army Special Forces or Green Berets, Army Rang

The hit musical based on the life of Eva Peron Evita Duarte, a B picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Peron, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina

Fact based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds

The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom

A biographical story of former U S President Richard Nixon, from his days as a young boy, to his eventual Presidency, which ended in shame

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

True story set in the Roaring Twenties Sydney about the rise of Berlei, a popular Australian brand of womens lingerie, famous for its bras and girdles

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century

Pasolinis artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucers most erotic tales

A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral grey zone

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victorias rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert

In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre that took the lives of 20 first graders and their teachers, local clergymen Father Bob Weiss receives a letter from a fellow priest in Dunblane, Scotland, whose community

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother

During the Spanish Civil War, an American allied with the Republicans finds romance during a desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge

Iconoclastic Adam Conover from CollegeHumor turns life as we know it on its ear by showing us how unnecessary, and sometimes horrible, things we think we know to be real and true really are

Television adaptation of Victor Hugos classic novel, which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert Set against a backdrop of post Napoleonic France as unrest begins to grip the city of Paris onc

After declassified FBI files about Hitler have been released, a group of specialists work together to try and find the truth of Hitlers supposed death Did he really die in the bunker

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld

A female assassin receives a dangerous mission to kill a political leader in eighth century China

In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent They clashed with blood and iron on the battlefields but the real wars were complex, personal power struggl

A documentary spanning over 30 years of the California Bay Areas punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeleys inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich exposes the darkest chapter in history, from Adolf Hitlers rise to power as a Nazi demagogue to his ultimate fatal mistakes Researchers spent

Itzhak Rabins murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder

A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments