HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 51

Luther (2003)

IMDb: 6.6
2003

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation

American Umpire (2015)

IMDb: 6.0
2016

Since the end of WWII, the United States has acted as the worlds policeman Does it have to be, forever

The Color of Freedom (2007)

IMDb: 7.1
2007

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years The prisoners name was Nelson Mandela

Unbroken: Path to Redemption (2018)

IMDb: 5.8
2018

The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperinis powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace

Dreaming of a Jewish Christmas (2017)

IMDb: 7.2
2017

The amazing story of a group of Jewish songwriters who wrote the soundtrack to Christmas

The Sea Hawk (1940)

IMDb: 7.7
1940

Geoffrey Thorpe, a buccaneer, is hired by Queen Elizabeth I to nag the Spanish Armada The Armada is waiting for the attack on England and Thorpe surprises them with attacks on their galleons where he shows his skills on the sword

Wild River (1960)

IMDb: 7.6
1960

A TVA bureaucrat comes to the river to do what none of his predecessors have been able to do evict a stubborn octogenarian from her island before the rising waters engulf her

Cromwell (1970)

IMDb: 6.9
1970

Oliver Cromwell can no longer tolerate King Charles policies, and the self interest of the ruling class, and leads a civil war to install Parliament as the ultimate ruler of England

Adolf Eichmann (2007)

IMDb: 5.9
2007

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli police officer, of his past as the architect of Hitlers plan for the fFnal Solution Captur

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (20

IMDb: 6.3
2017

An African American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s

Stonewall (2015)

IMDb: 5.3
2015

A young mans political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots

Caesar (2002)

IMDb: 6.6
2002–

Twenty year old Julius Caeser flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla, but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Romes supreme dictator

The Colditz Story (1955)

IMDb: 7.0
1955

Allied prisoners British, Dutch, French and Polish pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the escape proof German P O W camp housed in a Medieval castle known as Colditz

Robot Planet (2018)

IMDb: 4.5
2018

Sci fi writers once dreamed of computers and machines that would advance mankind, but now these dreams are our reality Artifical Intelligence is taking over and now the experts say that the end of our world as we know it is near

Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)

IMDb: 7.0
2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day

The Golden Coach (1952)

IMDb: 7.0
1952

Three men of varying social standing a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier vie for the affections of an actress in 18th century Peru

The Captain (2017)

IMDb: 7.4
2017

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captains uniform Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators hes escaping from

Despair (1978)

IMDb: 7.1
1978

In early 1930s Berlin, an elegant Russian emigre and eccentric chocolatier convinces himself that he has seen his doppelganger, and hatches a murderous plan to trade his existence for an entirely new one Will he get over the deep de

The Maestro (2018)

IMDb: 5.8
2018

After the Second World War, budding film composer Jerry Herst moves to Hollywood to study with infamous master teacher Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

Tom Jones (1963)

IMDb: 6.5
1963

The romantic and chivalrous adventures of adopted bastard Tom Jones in 18th century England

Battle Hymn (1957)

IMDb: 6.3
1957

A remorseful bomber pilot turned minister rejoins for the Korean War

Caravaggio (1986)

IMDb: 6.6
1986

A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld

The Lost Legion (2014)

IMDb: 3.1
2014

Following the fall of the Roman Empire, a Roman woman plots to make her son the new Emperor and to fulfill the former glory of the city

Buffalo Boys (2018)

IMDb: 5.8
2018

Two brothers named Jamar and Suwo came back to the land of Java to avenge their father, who was a Sultan, after years of exile in America

A Tale of Two Cities (1980)

IMDb: 6.6
1980

An ex aristocrat from France and an alcoholic English lawyer find themselves crossing paths and in love with the same woman during the French Revolution

Captain Lightfoot (1955)

IMDb: 6.2
1955

A pair of Irish rebels have swashbuckling adventures in 1815

Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps (194

IMDb: 8.3
1945

Produced and presented as evidence at the Nuremberg war crimes trial of Hermann Goring and twenty other Nazi leaders

The Look of Silence (2014)

IMDb: 8.3
2014

A family that survived the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers

Apostle Peter and the Last Supper (2012)

IMDb: 7.0
2012

Three days before his execution, the elderly Apostle Peter tells his jailer about his time with Jesus

Shoah (1985)

IMDb: 8.7
1985

Claude Lanzmanns epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses perpetrators as well as survivors

The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

IMDb: 7.9
1978

Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century

Saving General Yang (2013)

IMDb: 6.4
2013

In ancient China, the seven heirs of the Yang family face a horde of enemies to rescue their father

Alleged (2010)

IMDb: 4.4
2010

When a teacher is arrested in Tennessee for trying to teach evolution in 1925, a young ambitious reporter must choose whether to take advice from his sweetheart or the notorious columnist when it comes to his approach to the story

Castles in the Sky (2014)

IMDb: 6.9
2014

Eddie Izzard stars in this funny, moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little known team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War

The Stranglers of Bombay (1959)

IMDb: 6.2
1959

In the 1830s, a captain in the East India Company lobbies to investigate the criminal Thugee Cult of Kali, an organized crime group of stranglers and thieves

The Secret Disco Revolution (2012)

IMDb: 5.8
2012

A documentary on the disco era featuring interview with its key musicians