HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 68

In 1905, Polish horse thieves living near the Russian border find their livelihoods threatened by the new Russo Japanese conflict because the Russian army requisitions all horses and forcibly conscripts all men for the war

Playwright Oscar Wildes homosexuality is exposed when he brings a libel action against his lovers father, leading to his own prosecution

In 1949, former concentration camp inmate and Berlin native Hans Muller, immigrates to Israel where, due to psychological problems, he cant adjust to peacetime life

World war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba

Belle Melina Mercouri is a tempestuous gypsy girl who is after Sir Paul Deverill Keith Michell Her plan is to marry him and take him for every cent he has before moving on to other lovers

As the slave trade is dwindling in East Africa in the late 19th century, two competing slave traders start a brutal violent conflict between each other for the monopoly on the remaining profits

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessels officers The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre

The true story of an Argentine family who lived with Josef Mengele without knowing his true identity, and of a girl who fell in love with one of the biggest criminals of all time

N/A

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villas head and hes gonna get it The Punitive Expedition proved to be the last major campaign of the U S Cavalry Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century

When Warren Jeffs rose to Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, he took control of a religion with a history of polygamous and underage marriage In a short time, Warren managed to expand these practices and the

The assuming of responsibility by individuals, the use of science for man and not against him, the duty of truth to increase the stature of people, all together these are the important themes this movie debates in allegorical form

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938

Story about Ji Gong, a Chan Buddhist monk that has a supernatural powers, which he used to help the poor and stand up to injustice This movie tell one of his adventures

In 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U S after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty

This film examines the mechanisms of Nazi extortion during World War II, and is interspersed with current issues surrounding restitutions It retraces the incredible stories of 3 major works having belonged to Jewish collectors From

George Washington is central to understanding Americas founding He was the crucial figure in winning the American Revolution, in creating the Constitution, and in establishing the precedents for effective self government as our fir

The lives and battles of soldiers leading up to the 1904 siege of Port Arthur during the Russo Japanese War

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska, Alaska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers When word arrived of an impending attack by an overwhelming force of Americans, the Japanese Navy attempted one of the most darin

A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution

The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes

October 24, 1944, Japans navy gambles on a decisive victory against the United States to turn the tide of World War II Instead, Musashi, its top secret super battleship, ends up at the bottom of the ocean

Blending drama with the explanations of passionate historians and specialists, this enriched historical reconstruction traces 60 years in the life a man who transformed the Middle Ages and

Echoes That Remain paints a rich portrait of Eastern European Jewry before the Holocaust Folk stories, parables, and anecdotes come together in a complex tapestry woven from archival research and oral histories

One Man and His Shoes tells the story of the phenomenon of Air Jordan sneakers showing their social, cultural and racial significance and how ground breaking marketing strategies created a multi billion dollar business

Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno 1548 1600 has found some protection in Venice But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to b

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 18 year old son after he goes missing during World War I

A kung fu thriller set during the Ming Dynasty and centered on a secret service agent Donnie Yen in the emperors court who is betrayed and then hunted by his colleagues

A documentary that chronicles how a generation of artists, thinkers, and activists used their creativity as a response to the reactionary politics that came to define our culture in the 1980s

Set in early 20th Century Japan, the movie follows the adventures of a young man who wants to get into the movie business but in a job unique to his country a dramatic narrator for silent movies known as Katsubenshi or just be

A fictionalized account of the early life of the American president as a young lawyer facing his greatest court case

The morning of September 11, 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City, from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers collapse

A masterful work accurately details the current consensus of what exactly occurred to prompt the colonial witch trials