HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 19

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglords mistress

December of 1941, Northwestern Front A German tank column is moving towards Moscow During a mission to stop the enemy advance, Nikolai Komlevs IL 2 is shot down Komlev manages to crash land his plane in a remote forest clearing

December 30, 1941 In Vyazma Vyazemsky cauldron there is a small group of Soviet soldiers, who are trying to reach their own comrades after having escaped a Nazi encirclement In the movie they are suddenly caught in an unequal b

The story of Hitler and his penchant for barbarism and destruction, starting with his surprise Russian invasion and the anarchy that followed

Set in 1980s during the Gwangju Uprising, Youth of May tells the love story of a medical student Hwang Hee Tae and a nurse Kim Myung Hee

About a royal physician who got expelled from the royal court and now heals souls in a strange but beautiful village

This documentary film chronicles the process of renaming Ft James Island, which was a holding cell for slaves during the Trans Atlantic Slave trade, to Kunta Kinteh Island after one of The Gambias most well renowned sons It sh

France, 1914 The destinies of four women intersect Marguerite, a mysterious Parisian prostitute Caroline, propelled to the head of the family factory Agnes, Mother Superior of a requisitioned convent and Suzanne, a feminist n

Connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today

Die Vermessung der Welt follows two brilliant and eccentric scientists, Alexander von Humboldt and Carl Friedrich Gauss, on their life paths in early 19th century Germany

1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives

Tells the hard to believe story of the mythical basketball legend from Watts California who was blackballed from the NBA in the early 70s following an ugly contract dispute with the Philadelphia 76ers

The story of the Russian born, Wisconsin raised woman who rose to become Israels prime minister in the late 1960s and early 1970s

Explores the rise of fashion designer Christian Dior, as he dethrones Coco Chanel and helps return spirit and life to the world with his iconic imprint of beauty and influence

A love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer

Based on the real story during Kargil war fought between India and Pakistan in 1999

A flashback to earlier episodes in the life of Leon Trotsky, the Marxist revolutionary, framed by events during his asylum in Mexico City 1939 1940

When Sharpe is ordered to whip the King of Spains Irish Royal Brigade into shape, he faces dissent from the men who believe the British are slaughtering their relatives in Ireland and a spy from within

As the 1914 summer sun heats up mainland Europe, World War One crashes down across the fractured peninsula Living in Paris, Dutchman Arthur Knaap yearns to serve, protect and defend his beloved nation and joins the Foreign Legion

Meet Althea Gibson, the first African American to play and win at Wimbledon and the U S Nationals

The extraordinary tale of Dean Reed, the American pop star who packed out stadiums in the 70s and inspired a generation, until he was found drowned in a lake in East Berlin

A group of Indigenous women risks their lives to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, which jeopardizes their land, water and entire way of life

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

Armed only with their cameras, Peabody and Emmy Award winning conflict Journalist Mike Boettcher, and his son, Carlos, provide unprecedented access into the longest war in U S history

Near the end of World War II, American and British Special Forces must extract a resistance fighter behind Nazi lines

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese Robin Hood who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel

In 1971, twenty four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building

Set during the Cold War, American chess prodigy Bobby Fischer finds himself caught between two superpowers and his own struggles as he challenges the Soviet Empire

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

Based on the real life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one

A documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U S Governments subjugation of his people

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I

The 1680s bring a new king, Restoration and more tyranny In Massachusetts, a robbers son falls for an anti monarchist In England, young lady falls for an outlaw

Broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy