HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 28

Zoo (2017)

IMDb: 6.5
2017

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

The Beginning or the End (1947)

IMDb: 6.7
1947

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama

Walt Disney Part 1 (2015)

IMDb: 8.1
2015

American Experience Walt Disney

For No Good Reason (2012)

IMDb: 7.0
2012

Johnny Depp pays a visit to Ralph Steadman, the renown artist and the last of the original Gonzo visionaries who worked alongside Hunter S Thompson

The Pillars of the Earth (2010)

IMDb: 8.1
2010

Set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles which tears lives and families apart

Robot Planet (2018)

IMDb: 4.5
2018

Sci fi writers once dreamed of computers and machines that would advance mankind, but now these dreams are our reality Artifical Intelligence is taking over and now the experts say that the end of our world as we know it is near

The HalfLife of Genius Physicist Raemer

IMDb: 6.8
2017

Schreiber was one of Oppenheimers brilliant young physicists recruited for the Manhattan Project during World War II He was entrusted to carry the Plutonium core to Tinian Island where hed assemble the atomic bomb known to history

Gentleman Jack (2019 )

IMDb: 8.2
2019–

A dramatization of the life of LGBTQ+ trailblazer, voracious learner, and cryptic diarist Anne Lister, who returns to Halifax, West Yorkshire in 1832, determined to transform the fate of her faded ancestral home Shibden Hall

Kingdom (2019 )

IMDb: 8.4
2019–

While strange rumors about their ill King grip a kingdom, the crown prince becomes their only hope against a mysterious plague overtaking the land

The Sorrow and the Pity (1969)

IMDb: 8.2
1969

An in depth exploration of the various reactions by the French people to the Vichy governments acceptance of Nazi invasion

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

Revival: The Sam Bush Story (2015)

IMDb: 8.3
2015

Heralded as one of the most influential musicians in the modern era, Sam Bush pioneered a new genre of music, inspired some of todays most successful commercial acts, yet he remains the music worlds best kept secret

Aoi Bungaku Series (2009 )

IMDb: 7.6
2009–

Aoi Bungaku is a 12 episode anime series that is comprised of adaptations of six Japanese literary classics The stories included are No Longer Human and Run, Melos by Osamu Dazai, In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Fu

Union Bound (2016)

IMDb: 4.3
2016

Sergeant Hoover went to war to preserve the Union After being captured and sent to a prisoner of war camp, he understood what it was to be kept against his will Together with a friend he escaped and, aided by slaves, made it to fre

The World Moves On (1934)

IMDb: 6.1
1934

Richard Girard is part of a New Orleans family working closely with the English Warburtons When Richard meets Mary Warburton she is engaged to Erik von Gerardt He does wed Mary but their time in America is financially difficult

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

Iris (2014)

IMDb: 7.2
2014

A documentary about fashion icon Iris Apfel, the 93 year old style maven who has had an out sized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades, from legendary late 88 year old documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles

The Presidents Last Bang (2005)

IMDb: 6.9
2005

A look at the life of President Park Chung hee and the events leading up to his assassination

Uncle Toms Cabin (1927)

IMDb: 6.8
1927

Slavery tears apart a black family in the South before the start of the Civil War

The Substance: Albert Hofmanns LSD (2011

IMDb: 7.1
2011

In 1943, the year in which the first A bomb was built, Albert Hofmann discovered LSD, a substance that was to become an A bomb of the mind Fractions of a milligram are enough to turn our framework of time and space upside down The

Why We Fight (2005)

IMDb: 8.0
2005

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy Has the military become too important in American life Jareckis shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questi

Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with

IMDb: 7.6
2016

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

I Am Cuba (1964)

IMDb: 8.2
1964

Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre revolutionary era

Princess Caraboo (1994)

IMDb: 6.0
1994

A mysterious young woman speaking a strange language shows up in an English village, where she is taken in by aristocrats who assume she is a foreign princess

The Four Musketeers: Miladys Revenge (19

IMDb: 7.0
1974

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter

The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)

IMDb: 5.8
1972

After having been forced to leave the Soviet Union 1929 Trotsky has ended up in Mexico 1940 He is still busy with politics, promoting socialism to the world Stalin has sent out an assassin, Frank Jackson Jackson befriends a young

The Assassination at Sarajevo (1975)

IMDb: 6.1
1975

Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would be emperor of the Austro Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914 A World War would start there, that some claim has not yet en

The FBI Story (1959)

IMDb: 6.5
1959

A dedicated FBI agent recalls the agencys battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies

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

The Hiding Place (1975)

IMDb: 7.5
1975

During WW2, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships

Love Comes Quietly (1973)

IMDb: 6.1
1973

An American returns to his native Dutch village in the nineteen thirties and causes a sensation there When his pregnant daughter starts an affair with the son of the local cheese factory

Zama (2017)

IMDb: 6.7
2017

Based on the novel by Antonio Di Benedetto written in 1956, on Don Diego de Zama, a Spanish officer of the seventeenth century settled in Asuncion, who awaits his transfer to Buenos Aires

1900 (1976)

IMDb: 7.7
1976

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004

IMDb: 7.7
2004

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey Debuting in 1974, the LA based channels eclectic slate of movies

The Edelweiss Pirates (2004)

IMDb: 6.1
2004

Cologne Ehrenfeld, November 1944 Theyre young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time But working class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates They oppose the Nazis, and are pursued

Shattered Glass (2003)

IMDb: 7.1
2003

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine