Popular History Movies - Page 102
Excellent Cadavers
1999
Excellent Cadavers
1999
star 6.3Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.Land of Hope
2018
Land of Hope
2018
star 6.9Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.Topsy-Turvy
1999
Topsy-Turvy
1999
star 6.6For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. But in 1884, as a London heat wave cuts into the theater trade, their latest work, "Princess Ida", receives lukewarm press. In an effort to reconcile their creative differences and drawing inspiration from Japanese culture, they went on to create the hit opera "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.Ding Jun Shan
2005
Ding Jun Shan
2005
star 10Detailing the creation of the first Chinese film ever made, this film was made to celebrate 100 years of Chinese cinema.Dark Matter
2008
Dark Matter
2008
star 5.6Liu Xing a brilliant Chinese student, arrives at University and makes the transition into American life with the help of Joanna Silver. Xing joins a cosmology group working to create a model of the origins of the universe. He is obsessed with the study of dark matter and a theory that conflicts with the group's model. When he begins to make breakthroughs of his own, he encounters obstructions.The Last Night
1937
The Last Night
1937
star 5On one of the October nights at the ball, gymnasium pupils and officers scoff at the love of Kuzma Zakharkin, the “cook's son”, to Lena, the daughter of the manufacturer. Cannon volley interrupts the fun. In the city begins the Moscow armed uprising of workers. At the center of the fate of two families is the capitalist Leontyev and the worker Zakharkin, whose sons became the organizers and participants of this uprising.Defiant Requiem
2012
Defiant Requiem
2012
star 10A memorial concert reawakens the story of an artistic uprising in the Nazi concentration camp, Terezin, where a chorus of 150 inmates confronts the Nazis face-to-face - and sings to them what they dare not say.Bharat
2019
Bharat
2019
star 6.1At the cusp of India's birth as an Independent nation, a family makes an arduous journey to freedom at a cost. A young boy Bharat, makes a promise to his Father that he will keep his family together no matter what.Salvador (Puig Antich)
2006
star 6.9The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.Max Manus: Man of War
2008
star 7.1Max Manus is a Norwegian 2008 biographic war film based on the real events of the life of resistance fighter Max Manus (1914–96), after his contribution in the Winter War against the Soviet Union. The story follows Manus through the outbreak of World War II in Norway until peacetime in 1945.Prem Pinda
1993
Prem Pinda
1993
Set against the backdrop of a cruel Rana’s regime, a headstrong village-girl-turned-palace-maid risks everything for a forbidden love, ultimately choosing a tragic death alongside her lover over a life of captive torment.The Young Karl Marx
2017
The Young Karl Marx
2017
star 6.826 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 in Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who has been investigating the sordid birth of the British working class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.The Match
2021
The Match
2021
star 6.1Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler's birthday. A match the prisoners are determined to win, no matter what happens.A House Divided: Denmark Vesey's Rebellion
1982
star 7Story of Denmark Vesey, who was raised as a slave but bought his freedom. He organized a plot to seize the city and free the black slaves, but this failed and he and others were hanged. Set in Charleston in 1822.Victoria Regina
1961
Victoria Regina
1961
star 8Julie Harris portrays the famed Queen Victoria over a 60 year span, from the age of 18 through her romance with Prince Albert through her diamond jubilee in 1897.The Atomic Cafe
1982
The Atomic Cafe
1982
star 7.3A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.The Glassblower
2016
The Glassblower
2016
star 6.5Marie violates tradition in a small German town of Lauscha, to become the first female glassblower in in 1890. Her glass ball decorations find a new market in America.Ulysses' Gaze
1995
Ulysses' Gaze
1995
star 7.4An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.The Windmill
1986
The Windmill
1986
star 7.1In the last years of the Ottoman Empire, a poor little Anatolian town named Saripinar is hit by a minor earthquake which has neither destroyed nor left it with many casualties. However, a telegraph sent to the central government exaggerates the situation and mentions that the governor of the town has been severely wounded, making the event a nationwide matter.Muallim
2021
Muallim
2021
star 3.1After completing his studies in France, young Ali gets exiled to an Anatolian town, where he becomes a teacher and begins to question his own beliefs.
