HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 28

In 19th century Wallachia war bands of Ottoman Turks from across the Danube river raid Wallachia with impunity while Wallachias Phanariote rulers dont oppose them

Nayika Devi, the Warrior Queen is a Historical drama set in the 12th century The film is about Indias first female warrior

Focuses on the intensely dramatic and high stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the Iron Lady of Israel, faced during the Yom Kippur War

The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

A desperate cat and mouse hunt ensues when Yorkshire is being haunted by a serial killer

A small group must defend an airfield for three days against the Japanese assault during the fight for Malay in World War 2

The life story of the highly influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius

The story of Marie Laure, a blind French teenager, and Werner, a German soldier, whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II

An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle ranch in Australia Following death of her husband, a barons plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her ranch

A demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt

Captain Hale takes over command of a U S Naval vessel as it prepares to take part in the invasion of Okinawa in the Second World War His crew includes a rowdy gun crew who punctuate fire missions with banter and antics

This is about the execution of 21 carmelite nuns in the latter stages of the terror during the French Revolution

After living 250 years in this world, Augusto Pinochet, who is not dead but an aged vampire, decides to die once and for all

Swashbuckling tale of romance, betrayal, jealousy, banditry, murder, and court intrigue set in the 1660s, during the Restoration to the English throne of King Charles II

After a Union soldier flees from battle, rescue comes from a free black man operating a section of the Underground Railroad But when a ruthless slave catcher discovers the secret network, he conspires to bring it burning to the g

The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film The historical facts are portrayed accurately

Ivan sets off on a dangerous mission into Syria to save his ex commander Grey after his capture by ISIS With the help of U S military patrols, he succeeds in freeing Grey and attempts to escape the country while being hunted by

Biographical film about Shirley Chisholm, Americas first Black congresswoman

In 1955, five young Mexican American caddies, out of the love for the game, were determined to learn how to play, so they created their own golf course in the middle of the South Texas desert

The reputation of Thomas Cromwell is as a notorious thug who became Henry VIIIs Chief Minister yet this documentary reveals another side to him as a principled statesman and pioneering law maker who laid the foundations of the mo

In a bid a bid to support the Battle of the Bulge, Himmler launches a surprise offensive into France against nearly arrived, green US troops

Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions

She Said Boom The Story Of Fifth Column is the story of a group of young female artists from Toronto in the early eighties They united to use music, film, and self publication to defy conventions of art practice, gender ideas, a

In the days leading up to the 1936 Olympics, the fate of high jumper Gretel Bergmann hangs in the balance as it is decided whether or not a Jewish athlete can be a part of the German Olympic team

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The story of how the Texas Rangers were created

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake

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

Set in 1348 during the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, explores the timely themes of class systems, power struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic

The remarkable true life survival story of a Jewish boy hiding and being hunted in the forests of Nazi occupied Eastern Europe

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At a New Millennium Eve party, Blackadder and Baldrick test their new time machine and ping pong through history encountering famous characters and changing events rather alarmingly

A group of Jewish American war pilots smuggle planes out of the U S and fly for Israel in its War of Independence

This made for television film chronicles the illustrious life of French philosopher Rene Descartes 1596 1650

Farah and Issa, two streetwise children living in Beiruts Palestinian Shatila refugee camp, use their imaginations and creativity to come to terms with the realities of growing up in a refugee camp that has survived massacre, sie

Lowell Thomas searches the world for natural and man made wonders and invites the audience to try to update the ancient Greek list of Seven Wonders of the World