HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 47

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

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

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

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution

With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her

A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty

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

Broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy

Nostradamus prophecies are interpreted alongside messages from ancient cultures about galactic alignment and the end of the world

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 soldiers trapped inside a church as last refugee A fight that no one couldnt win A war that no one wanted to lose

A queen who lost three kingdoms A wife who lost three husbands A woman who lost her head

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

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiance in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiances grave to lay flowers

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

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago

Eric Liddell Chinas first gold medalist and one of Scotlands greatest athletes returns to war torn China

A computer programmer becomes fascinated with the digital currency Bitcoin, and through his involvement in the Bitcoin community, we learn about the impending global impact of this amazing new technology

A look at Vietnam from the perspectives of a U S Marine adviser, and a Vietnamese Marine who was left behind

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name Deep Throat helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972

In 1944, an Allied spy must find and execute a Berlin scientist who discovered the way to build an atomic bomb Things get complicated when memories of love and quantum mechanics get intertwined in the chase

Phillipe Charboneau is the illegitimate son of an English duke When he travels from France to England to claim his inheritance, he incurs the wrath of his fathers family, and is forced to flee to America, where he becomes involved

In the early 1810s, Poles, part of Russias client state of Lithuania, think independence will come if they join forces with Napoleon when he invades Russia This unity of purpose, in one district, is undermined by two families, feud

The myth of Giacomo Casanova, the notorious womanizer is presented as a pitiable and terrifying figure A sex scandal lands him in prison, but an escape to Paris provides him a new lease of life

A story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa

How the brilliant Canadian munitions engineer, Dr Gerald Bull, agreed to build a super gun for Saddam Hussein in 1988, when the U S cut his funding for the experiment, and how it attracted the attention of several intelligence agencies

Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, the story focuses on Cao Cao in his old age, exploring the areas of military tactics, love, and the relationship between father and son

Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them

Simon Armitage presents the extraordinary story of the most disturbing witch trial in British history and the key role played in it by one nine year old girl Jennet Device, a beggar girl

The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burmas democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris

A documentary feature chronicling the history of two New York icons and the journey that brought them together for the last musical performance at Shea Stadium

Propelled from society by tragic turns, the isolated community of Darwin, Death Valley population 35 must now find ways to coexist in a place without a government, a church, jobs, or children

A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague

1945 Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun In her convent, several nuns are pregnant