HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 14

A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history

A disparate group of African American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II Catherine the Great, a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once she came into power, transformed the Russian

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company

The invasion of Mexico by Cortez, as seen by a young Spanish officer fleeing the Inquisition

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitlers final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun

Foreign mercenary Guido Fawkes, and a group of English Catholic traitors plan to blow up the Palace Of Westminster and kill King James I in the early 17th century

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain

The story of the most notorious Confederate prisoner of war camp in the American Civil War

A small Army of Greeks spearheaded by three hundred Spartans do battle with the whole invading Persian Army

Following an ambush in his visit to America, Wong Fei hung becomes separated from his fellow travelers and suffers memory loss

Egon Schiele is one of the most provocative artists in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th Century His life and work are driven by beautiful women and an era that is coming to an end Two women will have a lasting impact on him hi

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine

In 1667, 28 year old all powerful king of France, Louis XIV, decides to build the greatest palace in the world Versailles But drained budget, affairs and political intrigues complicate things

As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work He and his brother both fall for Mary G

A look at the life of President Park Chung hee and the events leading up to his assassination

In 1943, the year in which the first A bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A bomb of the mind Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down The

On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz musician Lee Morgan was shot dead by his common law wife Helen during a gig at a club in New York City The murder sent shockwaves through the jazz community, and the memory of the event still haunts

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to take up arms against the invaders, leading

In the 19th century, a black woman from Africa is on display throughout Europe as an exotic curiosity

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished

A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwins investigation

Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II wages an epic campaign to take the Byzantine capital of Constantinople and shapes the course of history for centuries

Focuses on the people, their stories and architecture spanning from the mid 1800s, when Shanghai was opened as a trading port, to the present day

An in depth making of documentary about the original Star Wars trilogy, covering the productions of the three films and their impact on popular culture

The trials of a weary nurse, her friends and colleagues in a Vietnam War field hospital

It is the story of the all black Twenty Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917

The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time Indiana Jones Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history

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Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians

Three different swordsmen a swordsman who is going blind, the best swordsman in Joseon Dynasty, and the best swordsman in Qing Dynasty who aspires to be the best even in the Joseon Dynasty meet each other for their own reasons

He miraculously escaped death to return to the house where lives the love of his life But the hope of happiness turns into a terrible discovery His beloved is the daughter of his enemy

An examination of the prisoner abuse scandal involving U S soldiers and detainees at Iraqs Abu Ghraib prison in the fall of 2003