HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 30

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

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end

Based on the real life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days

A vagabond Viking adventurer and a Moor both compete to find The Mother of All Voices, a legendary golden bell near the Pillars of Hercules

A look at the history of the American comedy publication and production company, National Lampoon, from its beginning in the 1970s to 2010, featuring rare and never before seen footage

Operation Market Garden, September 1944 The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines

What really happened during Shakespeares Lost Years Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream

Lyndon B Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of John F Kennedys assassination and spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act

This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegels painting The theme of Christs suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564

On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York This film follows the untold, actual story of those who were part of his attempted rescue and witnesses to the human cost of tragedy

Set in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved now adults living mostly in Australia with their parents in Brita

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D Day They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasi

A story set in nineteenth century China and focusing on the life long friendship between two girls who develop their own secret code as a way to contend with the rigid social norms imposed on women

Factual drama exploring the truth behind the space shuttle Challengers 1986 disintegration

A documentary in which Freda Kelly looks back at her career as lifelong secretary for The Beatles

The story of the Apache chief and his armed resistance to the U S Governments subjugation of his people

Proposes a minute by minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world

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

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness

In 1985, a gay dance understudy hopes for his on stage chance while fearing the growing AIDS epidemic

The fates of Henry a cynical American correspondent who has lost his soul and Teresa, one of the Republics censors and in charge of overseeing the news that journalists can send abroad, cross in Gernika

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

Following the assassination of President John F Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husbands historic legacy

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II Catherine the Great, a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once she came into power, transformed the Russian

This epic historical drama chronicles the life and times of Prophet Muhammad and serves as an introduction to early Islamic history

Set in 1930s Ukraine, as Stalin advances the ambitions of communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yuri battles to save his lover Natalka from the Holodomor, the death by starvation program that ultimately killed millions of Ukrainian

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive

The story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counter culture

The 1680s bring a new king, Restoration and more tyranny In Massachusetts, a robbers son falls for an anti monarchist In England, young lady falls for an outlaw

Apocalypse The Second World War2009 is a six part French documentary about the Second World War The documentary is composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers, resistance fighters a

The story of the notorious 1970s New York City nightclub

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black

A historical epic set in 18th century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the countrys three warring tribes

A group of U S soldiers defy their country when they release mistreated prisoners

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War