HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 17

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection

In the East Wing of the White House, many of historys most impactful and world changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by Americas charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies

A group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music to relieve their misery

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist

Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

Four Mexican high school students form a robotics club With no experience, 800 bucks, used car parts and a dream, this rag tag team goes up against the countrys reigning robotics champion, MIT

The true story of how a group of African American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest US fighter groups in World War II

In 1942, Britain sends a group of British trained Czech commandos to Prague to assassinate SS General Reinhard Heydrich, head of the Nazi security services

In 17th century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun

In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead

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

The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter culture

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom

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

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

Shakespeares powerful tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir

Based on a real life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution

The life story of Dutch painter Han van Meegeren, from his beginnings as a rebellious young artist in 1920s Amsterdam to his rise to infamy as one of the most ingenious art forgers of all time

A chronicle of a young mans rise to power in Paris via his manipulation of the citys wealthiest and most influential women

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

A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series

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

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Born poor in St Louis, Missouri, Josephine Baker achieved fame and fortune through her sizzlingly exotic, erotic performances Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit, success

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders

In ancient Egypt, a poor orphan becomes a genial physician and is eventually appointed at the Pharaohs court where he witnesses palace intrigues and learns dangerous royal secrets

On his deathbed, the reigning king bestows power to an unexpected heir who must find strength within himself to unite his people against the violent crusades which threaten their freedom

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

Late 1800s Foshan, Guangdong Wong Fei HungJet Li trains men in martial arts to help defend against foreign powers already holding Hong Kong and Macau He looks after cute 13th Aunt, whos just returned from England Lots of fight s

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War

An eighteenth century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive only, no one ever wi

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

George Armstrong Custers love of the heroic traditions of the Calvary and his distaste with the coming of industrialization leads him to his destiny at the Little Big Horn