HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 18

At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly

Our story begins at the end of Sharpes Challenge Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile

A group of Jewish American war pilots smuggle planes out of the U S and fly for Israel in its War of Independence

The city of Leningrad and the blockade during the Second World War No words No music Only sounds and black and white images of a dying city

During a strike strike breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers The military are sent in On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire

Based on the Bling Ring robberies that took place in LA rich suburbs between 2008 2009 Three part documentary with access to the gang that perpetuated the heist

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U S Civil Wars first all black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after breaking parole, agrees to care for a factory workers daughter The decision changes their lives forever

Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is given the task of learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change

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

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community

A chronicle of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi occupied Netherlands

The story behind Nass groundbreaking debut album Illmatic, and the early life of one of the most talented rappers of all time Featuring Pharrell Williams, Alicia Keys, Q Tip, and Busta Rhymes

Al Capones Valentines Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago

In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe On September 11 was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm 2002, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime ministers life and career at the end of WWII

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes

The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II

A drama set in New Mexico during WWII, centered on the relationship between a young man and an elderly medicine woman who helps him contend with the battle between good and evil that rages in his village

A film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the Austrian government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life

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

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as issues of the past emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founded the modern womens movement from 1966 to 1971

A young womans desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from

Set in the 1930s Arab states at the dawn of the oil boom, the story centers on a young Arab prince torn between allegiance to his conservative father and modern, liberal father in law

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

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

Making History follows three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present day lives

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