HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 19

A recounting of the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas Parkland Hospital on the day U S President John F Kennedy was assassinated

In 1700s Austria, a witch hunters apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job

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

Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight year old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences

A documentary featuring interviews with all surviving former heads of Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency whose activities and membership are closely held state secrets

Based on the book by Toni Morrison, in which a slave is visited by the spirit of a mysterious young woman

Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot

During World War II, an American navy ship is sunk by a Japanese submarine leaving 890 crewmen stranded in shark infested waters

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years ear

A look alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos

The events of D Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view

Jewish brothers in Nazi occupied Eastern Europe escape into the Belarussian forests, where they join Russian resistance fighters, and endeavor to build a village, in order to protect themselves and about one thousand Jewish non comba

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

Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9 11 terrorist attack

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

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re open the dance hall that led to his depor

Two sisters contend for the affection of King Henry VIII

A young man transforms into a brutal warrior as he travels the unforgiving landscape in search of his long lost brother, Hakan the Ferocious, whose people are relying on him to restore order to their kingdom

Danny Says is a documentary on the life and times of Danny Fields Since 1966, Danny Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture of the late 20th century working for the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins and man

In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally

The sequel follows cocaine dealer Charles Crosby beginning in 1991 on the inner city streets of Oakland, California The story of Griselda Blanco is presented in greater depth

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

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy

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

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

160 elite U S soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid torn land enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup

As the American Civil War continues to rage, Americas president struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on the decision to emancipate the slaves

New York, 2010 Jeff Harris, a music journalist, sets out to uncover the truth about Francisco Tenorio Junior, a young Brazilian samba jazz pianist who disappeared in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U S entered World War I, and became the countrys first fighter pilots

Jumping continents and crossing cultures, Planet B Boy looks at the history of breakdancing and its vibrant resurgence in urban cultures around the world

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news

U S Olympic wrestling champions and brothers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz join Team Foxcatcher, led by eccentric multi millionaire John du Pont, as they train for the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, but Johns self dest

True story of the undersized Depression era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation