HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 21

The Civil War (1990)

IMDb: 9.0
1990

A comprehensive survey of the American Civil War

The Dish (2000)

IMDb: 7.2
2000

A remote Australian community, populated by quirky characters, plays a key role in the first Apollo moon landing

20 Feet from Stardom (2013)

IMDb: 7.4
2013

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but weve had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now

VHS Massacre (2016)

IMDb: 5.7
2016

This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media and its effect on Independent and cult films Ranging from the origin of home movies through the video store era, its sure to entertain With icons like Joe Bob Br

Bhowani Junction (1956)

IMDb: 6.4
1956

Anglo Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India

Destination Tokyo (1943)

IMDb: 7.1
1943

In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U S submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore

The Conspiracy of Torture (1969)

IMDb: 6.6
1969

In 16th century Italy, a young noblewoman plots with her lover and her family to murder her abusive father, leading to an uproar in the community and the Catholic Church

Karl Marx City (2016)

IMDb: 6.4
2016

A filmmaker journey through the former East Germany looking into her fathers 1999 suicide

The Tale of Genji (1987)

IMDb: 6.6
1987

An animated film based on the novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago Genji, the son of the emperor, is the talk of the Kyoto nobility for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing an unobtain

American Ripper (2017)

IMDb: 6.3
2017

H H Holmes was Americas first serial killer believed to have killed nearly 200 people in the late 19th century

Kagemusha (1980)

IMDb: 8.0
1980

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lords double When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place

Jodhaa Akbar (2008)

IMDb: 7.6
2008

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha

Zeitgeist: Addendum (2008)

IMDb: 8.2
2008

Zeitgeist Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of the pervasive social corruption, while also offering a solution

The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (2

IMDb: 7.5
2002–2008

The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time Indiana Jones Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of the early 20th century, and participating in the events that helped shape history

Paradise in Service (2014)

IMDb: 6.7
2014

Follows the adventures of a boy who serves his military service in Unit 831 from 1969 to 1972 in preparation for a war that could erupt at anytime

Ulysses (1954)

IMDb: 6.7
1954

A movie adaptation of Homers second epic, that depicts Ulysses efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war

The Long Walk Home (1990)

IMDb: 7.3
1990

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott led by Martin Luther King

Shiraz (1928)

IMDb: 7.0
1928

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire Selima Enakshi is a princess foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz Rai She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan Roy,

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

IMDb: 7.1
1939

A depiction of the lovehate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex

Nanjing! Nanjing! (2009)

IMDb: 7.7
2009

In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone

The Sea Wolves (1980)

IMDb: 6.3
1980

During World War II, the British must attack a German ship, but its safe in neutral Goa As a result, they send civilians former soldiers who are about sixty years old

The Mover (2018)

IMDb: 7.0
2018

Zanis Lipkes familys efforts to save the Jews during World War II and the rise of the child in a tragic historical situation

Brave: Gunjyo Senki (2021)

IMDb: 6.0
2021

Like most students Aoi is a member of an extracurricular club at school and practices archery Due to ample practice, Aoi is good at it The members are mostly good friends All is well until blitz and thunder hit the premises and th

Polytechnique (2009)

IMDb: 7.2
2009

A dramatization of the 1989 Montreal Massacre, during which several female engineering students were murdered by an unstable misogynist

1945: The Year That Changed the World (2

IMDb: 6.2
2004–

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The Watchmakers Apprentice (2015)

IMDb: 7.4
2015

A compelling new film about two of the worlds greatest watchmakers their extraordinary craft, their touching relationship and their unique personalities

Pope The Most Powerful Man in History (2

IMDb: 7.0
2018

Pope The Most Powerful Man in History, from Glass Entertainment Group and Rearrange TV, is a six part CNN Original Series that goes inside the Vatican to reveal the true power held by popes throughout the ages The docuseries explor

Anne Boleyn (2021)

IMDb: 5.4
2021–

The final months of Boleyns life, her struggle with Tudor Englands patriarchal society, her desire to secure a future for her daughter, Elizabeth, and the brutal reality of her failure to provide Henry with a male heir

Ausencia (2017)

IMDb: 6.9
2017

A love triangle between a pioneer female writer her husband a retired military official and the love of her life, the painter Moritz Rugendas, with whom she maintains an epistolary relationship for 10 years, with few personal encou

American Epic (2015-)

IMDb: 8.0
2015–

At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts set out across America to capture the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world

Danton (1983)

IMDb: 7.5
1983

In 1793, as the Terror begins in France, Georges Danton, a champion of the people, returns to clash against Maximilien Robespierre and his extremist party

Dirty Lines (2022-)

IMDb: 7.3
2022–

In 1980s Amsterdam, a family starts the first ever phone sex line but being in the business of sexual desires leads them to question their own

The Sixties (2014)

IMDb: 8.4
2014

Interviews and archival footage focusing on the politics, music, technical advancements, drugs and the free love movement of the 1960s

Resistance (2014)

IMDb: 7.4
2014

Paris 1940 Lili is 17 years old In occupied France, she encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any

Youth of May (2021-)

IMDb: 8.4
2021–

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

Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)

IMDb: 5.8
2015

10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s