HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 31

Across the Universe (2007)

IMDb: 7.3
2007

The music of The Beatles and the Vietnam War form the backdrop for the romance between an upper class American girl and a poor Liverpudlian artist

The Diary Of Anne Frank 2009

IMDb: 7.5
2009

During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi occupied Netherlands

Invictus (2009)

IMDb: 7.3
2009

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid torn land enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup

Seabiscuit (2003)

IMDb: 7.3
2003

True story of the undersized Depression era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation

Northmen A Viking Saga (2014)

IMDb: 5.4
2014

A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins The losers will pay with their lives

The Water Diviner (2014)

IMDb: 7.0
2014

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons

The St. Valentines Day Massacre (1967)

IMDb: 6.7
1967

Al Capones Valentines Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago

Small Sacrifices (TV Movie 1989)

IMDb: 7.6
1989

A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospitals emergency room

The Black Panthers Vanguard of the Revol

IMDb: 7.3
2015

This documentary tells the rise and fall of the Black Panther Party, one of the 20th centurys most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the worlds attention for nearly 50 years

Sergeant York (1941)

IMDb: 7.7
1941

A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes

One Night with the King (2006)

IMDb: 6.1
2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects

Last Hero in China (1993) Jet Li

IMDb: 6.7
1993

Jet Li stars in this comic spectacle as a Chinese Robin Hood who stumbles upon a kidnapping scheme after unwittingly opening a martial arts school next to a brothel

The Girl King (2015)

IMDb: 5.9
2015

THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexua

Truth (2015)

IMDb: 6.8
2015

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

Macbeth (2015)

IMDb: 6.6
2015

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself

The 33 (2015)

IMDb: 6.9
2015

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

A Bridge Too Far (1977)

IMDb: 7.4
1977

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

The Birth of a Nation (2016)

IMDb: 6.4
2016

Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher in the antebellum South, orchestrates an uprising

Guernica (2016)

IMDb: 5.8
2016

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

Matewan (1987)

IMDb: 7.9
1987

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

To Kill a King (2003)

IMDb: 6.2
2003

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I

Beneath Hill 60 (2010)

IMDb: 7.1
2010

In 1916, the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company is tunneling beneath German fortifications and bunkers to detonate massive explosive charges

The Knick (TV Series 2014)

IMDb: 8.5
2014–2015

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New Yorks Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century

Zulu (1964)

IMDb: 7.7
1964

Outnumbered British soldiers do battle with Zulu warriors at Rorkes Drift

Macbeth (1971)

IMDb: 7.4
1971

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches

The Medieval Trip (2013)

IMDb: 3.4
2013

A young actor in modern day Hungary gets sent back to feudal times for a week, and tries to make the best of being a serf, while a wry reporter comments on the action, finally becoming more involved in it than he could have ever wished

MacArthur (1977)

IMDb: 6.6
1977

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

Jefferson in Paris (1995)

IMDb: 5.7
1995

Widower Thomas Jefferson 3rd US president 1801 09 lives in Paris 1785 90 with his daughter He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France He has an alleged affair with her resulting in kids

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

IMDb: 6.8
2016

Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the right attitude toward the events in war torn Europe, and his search for a new home

Blood on the Mountain (2014)

IMDb: 7.2
2016

Blood on the Mountain focuses on the environmental and economic injustice and corporate control in West Virginia and its rippling effect on all American workers This film will tell the story of a hard working people who have histo

The Bounty (1984)

IMDb: 7.0
1984

Fed up with their Captains harsh discipline, a sailing ships crew decides to take action

Silkwood (1983)

IMDb: 7.2
1983

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 Flowers of War 2011

IMDb: 7.6
2011

An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety

King of the Hill (1993)

IMDb: 7.4
1993

A young boy struggles on his own in a run down hotel after his parents and younger brother are separated from him in 1930s Depression era Midwest

The Universe (2007)

IMDb: 8.7
2007–2015

This educational show explores many scientific questions and topics about the universe Big Bang, the Sun, the planets, black holes, other galaxies, astrobiology etc through latest CGI, data and interviews with scientists

Maze (2017)

IMDb: 5.9
2017

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II