HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 24

An intricate tale of medicine, monopoly and malice, FIRE IN THE BLOOD tells the story of how Western pharmaceutical companies and governments blocked access to low cost AIDS drugs for the countries of the global south in the yea

The story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejovs Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two

Margaret Mountford investigates how and why the people of Pompeii became frozen at the moment of their deaths, and views the reconstruction process of life like wax recreations of two of its people

The Film explores Britain's port history: ancient coastal trading, Roman influence, Elizabethan expansion, tea trade boom, Industrial Revolution's impact on maritime commerce, and key events shaping prominent ports.

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold learn about living in the medieval world and help rebuild a castle

Sir Edmund Blackadder must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I from the Roundheads

Prince Naresuan is now the crown prince of Ayutthaya and the king of Burma is dead While the new Burmese king is waging war, the crown prince plots to assassinate Naresuan Hearing this, the prince decides to evacuate Thais out o

In the winter of 1862, during the Civil War, the U S Army sends a volunteer company to patrol the uncharted Western territories

This two hour special explore the mysterious and catastrophic collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bronze Age, from the Hittites to the Mycenaeans and the Egyptians, revealing the tumultuous events that brought an end

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

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

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

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

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

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

An all star, large scale epic movie that chronicles the life and ministry of Jesus Christ

Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level

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

An eight year old boy is willing to do whatever it takes to end World War II so he can bring his father home The story reveals the indescribable love a father has for his little boy and the love a son has for his father

In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority

An amazing look at the immense cultural impact of the Back to the Future trilogy 30 years after McFly and Brown went on an epic adventure

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 Philippine American war, a short tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army his own treacherous countrymen

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

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

Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60s

The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub

Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the governor of Nakhon Si Thammarat province in souther

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall

A musical retelling of the American Revolutions political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

UNDER AFRICAN SKIES is a really great film in which Joe Berlinger travels back to South Africa with Paul his first trip back in 25 years, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the historic Graceland album Paul reunites with the band to give a re

Based on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action thriller dramatizes a six day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn