HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 19

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 thirteenth century England, a Knights Templar and a few of the Barons men fight to defend Rochester Castle against the tyrannical King John

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

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

In the 1980s, ruthless Colombian cocaine barons invaded Miami with a brand of violence unseen in this country since Prohibition era Chicago Cocaine Cowboys is the true story of how Miami became the drug, murder and cash capital of t

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

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

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

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects

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

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

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

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husbands incarceration

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

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

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

Keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, must save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion in WWII Poland

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

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

April 1940 Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace Ultimately, the decision on Norways future will rest with the Kin

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

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

Young and wide eyed, Kathie falls in love with charming yet quirky real estate scion Robert Durst, only to find their marriage turning stranger, darker and more disturbing as time passes

Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa

A woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim in the ninth century disguises herself as a man and rises through the Vatican ranks

True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944

The story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective

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

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captains uniform Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators hes escaping from

The story of John Wilmot, a k a the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his lifes work

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

A surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railroad must fight fur trappers who oppose the building of the railroad by stirring up Indian rebellion

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