HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 27

A samurai pursues a married lady in waiting

St Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles

Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as

Set in 1510 in Rome When the Cardinals brother, Giuliano is wrongfully accused of murder, the Cardinal is unable to use what has transpired during confession, information that would set his brother free Faced with a crisis of c

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The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection

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

Oscar winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Annas forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas

A British woman recalls coming of age during World War I a story of young love, the futility of war, and how to make sense of the darkest times

Winston Churchills wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then President George W Bushs military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers

The story leading up to the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing launch

Two Britons, Hengist and Horsa, are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Caesa

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990s onward Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strike in August 1994 The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball at

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder th

Against his countrys orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II

A drama about English settlers in America in 1617

The journey of a man who was instrumental in making India win its first Olympic gold medal as a free nation

In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U K

The final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Hugh Bonneville, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as diff

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant

The story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry

In 1854, during the Crimean War, poor planning leads to the British Light Brigade openly charging a Russian artillery position with tragic consequences

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his fathers family, and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved

Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan

A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label the one for Jews instead of pink the one for gays In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears

A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean

In 1943, a refugee doctor from Nazi Germany uses new methods to rehabilitate those with spinal injuries in Great Britain Based on actual events

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas Stonewall Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building containing, among others, more than 120 Vietnamese