HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 49

A future archivist looks at old footage from the year 2008 to understand why humankind failed to address climate change

In Colombia, a young surfer meets the woman of his dreams and then meets her uncle, Pablo Escobar

In White Like Me, anti racist educator Tim Wise explores race and racism in the US through the lens of whiteness and white privilege

When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup detat in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him

A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself

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

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

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963

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

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

The story of Milada Horakova, democratic pre WW2 Czech politician first arrested and tried by the Nazis during the War and then the post war Communist government for her refusal to cease her opposition activity and leave the country

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil

A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history

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

Photographer Jim Marshall captures the heights of the Rock and Roll music era, from the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, to the civil rights movements and some of the most iconic moments of the 60s

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books

Once a vibrant part of American culture, drive ins reached their peak in the late 50s with almost 5,000 dotting the nation Although drive ins are experiencing a resurgence, today less than 400 remain In a nation that loves cars and

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

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

Two British former soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great

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

A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitlers final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun

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

The passion of the riders and the soul of their machines

A band of soldiers must battle their way through Nazi territory to rescue a scientist that could help turn the tide of WWII

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

The career of Shakespeares Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400 1413

An unscrupulous agent for the Borgias suffers a change of heart when asked to betray a noble count and his much younger, very beautiful wife

Based on The New York Times best selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U S President Abraham Lincoln

During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch

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

Risttuules is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna It all started 14th of June 1941 when trucks came for the innocent families with their children where they headed to train s

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

A dramatized recreation of the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD