HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 26

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

An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife

When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history

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

During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch

During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island Hashima Island to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape

During the Tang Dynastys during the era of Zhen Guan era name during rule of Emperor Taizong, the young Xuan Zang monk, in his quest for the knowledge in Buddhism, embarked on a journey to India, that is fraught with perils and

On April 9, 1940 Germany invaded Denmark Based on real events in Southern Jutland a military unit on bicycles was sent south to help hold back the Germans until reinforcement

Bringing to life the everyday details of the ancients Egyptians bizarre, hilarious or shocking this wonderfully entertaining and factually revealing film is packed full of surprises

Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, the story focuses on Cao Cao in his old age, exploring the areas of military tactics, love, and the relationship between father and son

A documentary feature chronicling the history of two New York icons and the journey that brought them together for the last musical performance at Shea Stadium

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague

A look at John Hinkleys 1981 assassination attempt against U S President Ronald Reagan

Dying to Know is an intimate portrait celebrating two very complex controversial characters in an epic friendship that shaped a generation In the early 1960s Harvard psychology professors Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert began probi

At the end of the 1930s, Hitler ordered the construction of a special train that could transport him around safely and appease his growing paranoia A veritable fortress on rails, this armored fifteen carriage convoy served as his mo

Young Tom Hall Art Parkinson and his misfit friends fight to save Buster the baby elephant during the German air raid bombings of Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1941

Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska becomes Senator John McCains running mate in the 2008 Presidential election

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army

Since the end of WWII, the United States has acted as the worlds policeman Does it have to be, forever

After two years as a Czarist British agent posing as a Russian Commissar, he rescues a Russian countess from her Bolshevik captors

Claude Lanzmanns epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses perpetrators as well as survivors

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of President Porfirio Diaz in the early 20th century

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

A documentary of the notorious racial terrorist bombing of an African American church during the Civil Rights Movement

The History of American Punk Rock 1980 1986

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916

War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975

A look at the events leading up to the 1973 tennis match between retired mens champ Bobby Riggs and the current womens Wimbledon winner Billie Jean King

British historian Lucy Worsley travels to Russia to investigate the 300 year reign of the Romanov dynasty

True story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking

A documentary about the American Civil Rights Movement from 1952 to 1965

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Swedens ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochets 1973 coup detat

The story of Fok Yun Gap also know as Hou Yuan Chia one of Chinas greatest martial artists

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale Anna Neagle, the young 19th century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing Travel

Two men of faith, one a traveling Christian preacher, the other the ruler of a Muslim Empire, bucked a century of war, distrust, and insidious propaganda in a search for mutual respect and common ground It is the story of Francis of

A three part story of Norways worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norways political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case