HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 49

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder th

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 black comedy about two nineteenth century grave robbers, who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school

First hand witness to the infamous World War II fire bombing and destruction of his hometown, Dresden, Germany, 15 year old Diether Warneck lost his girlfriend and bicycled to the

In the early 1960s, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari went to war on the battlefield of Le MansTM This epic battle saw drivers lose their lives, family dynasties nearly collapse and the development of a new race car that changed raci

Writer James Baldwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House

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

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation

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

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

Freelance female war reporter Alex Quade covers U S Special Operations Forces SOF on highly classified combat missions Since 2001, she has embedded with elite SOF, including the U S Army Special Forces or Green Berets, Army Rang

A terrorist cell takes three Americans hostage and threatens to expose a secret that will shatter Americas soul

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

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer

Mary Surratt is the lone female charged as a co conspirator in the assassination trial of Abraham Lincoln As the whole nation turns against her, she is forced to rely on her reluctant lawyer to uncover the truth and save her life

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

UNDER AFRICAN SKIES is a really great film in which Joe Berlinger travels back to South Africa with Paul his first trip back in 25 years, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the historic Graceland album Paul reunites with the band to give a re

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 final Viceroy of India, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma Hugh Bonneville, is tasked with overseeing the transition of British India to independence, but meets with conflict as diff

Ultra independent a one person production start to finish this movie looks at the passion and dedication of American athletes and coaches in the Olympic sport of weightlifting The sport is extremely popular internationally, but

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

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 worlds greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays

Do you shape the world or does it shape you Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free

A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles legendary 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U S was being invaded by Martians

During the World War 2, a young lads called up and, with increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D day

A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it

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

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family

King Henry VIII of England discards one wife, Catharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of the young and beautiful Anne Boleyn

A documentary about the disastrous 1968 round the world yacht race

A drama based on the true life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa

When a realtor shows an old New York factory building to a group of would be investors, they are unwittingly caught in its tragic and sinister history

A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princess of Spain

Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls