HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 40

An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J M W Turners life

The life and work of photographer Sebastiao Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world

A miniseries chronicling the life of Jesus of Nazareth

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

Alive and Kicking gives the audience an intimate, insiders view into the culture of the current swing dance world while shedding light on issues facing modern society

On a college campus in modern America, ideas that have long been neglected as issues of the past emerge as racial tensions and frictions grow between different student groups

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

The State of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors

In 1947, following the U N decision to split British Palestine into separate Jewish and Palestinian states, a former U S Army officer is recruited by the Jews to reorganize the Haganah

A look at the life, work and political activism of one of the most successful television producers of all time, Norman Lear

A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field

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

Get Thrashed The Story of Thrash Metal is the story of how bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus and others pioneered a new form of heavy metal in the early 1980s

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

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

A dramatization of the British Expeditionary Forces 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from utter destruction by Nazi Germany

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

An in depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nations history of racial inequality

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

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

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

A disparate group of African American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March

Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our

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 rapid fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day This two hour CGI driven special delves into the key turning points the formation of earth,

A sweeping journey about an American returning a surrendered Japanese samurai sword from World War II

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

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

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

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall

Cultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator

The hit musical based on the life of Eva Peron Evita Duarte, a B picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Peron, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina

A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899 When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business

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

Based on a real life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution