Popular History Movies - Page 192
Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet
2016
star 7.8Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for participating in the Korean Independence Movement.Baloch
2023
Prince of Foxes
1949
Prince of Foxes
1949
star 6.3In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...Jeans: A Faded Blue Planet
2010
star 6A legendary garment, mass-produced, which witnessed the Industrial Revolution and clad cowboys on the western frontier, is now a fashion statement worldwide for men and women, young and old: an icon of modernity which has lasted for 150 years. With flying colors, the jeans have sailed through early marketing, the Internet, the world of collectors, the end of the Cold War, and now globalization. Their eternal popularity begs a question: Why?The Story of Liubao
1957
The Story of Liubao
1957
star 5Lin Jin, a solider of the New Fourth Army, stayed in Liubao village with his Army. During Lin Jin's stay, he fell in love with a local girl, Ermeizi. However, he had to leave Liubao with his troops for several years. Lin Jin and Ermeizi lost contact during the war after Lin Jin had left Liubao. Years later, Jin returns to Liubao where he finds Ermeizi again.Moonface: A Woman in the War
2019
star 7A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known as Moonface, one of the few female war reporters in the seventies, also a writer and surrealist painter, who worked in Chad, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iran, Iraq and other places where unfortunately war and death prevailed for years.良宵血案
1988
良宵血案
1988
São Bernardo
1984
São Bernardo
1984
Decade for Decision
1957
Decade for Decision
1957
star 6.3Short news featurette produced by Pathe-RKO after the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite, Sputnik. It is a patriotic 'call to arms' from the threat posed by this and the need for Americans to spend more on education in general and a college education in particular. A visit to the University of Buffalo highlights its science programs and the need for more graduates from all technical disciplines if America is to rise to the challenge. It bemoans the fact the PhDs earn less than a mechanic and the need to re-order priorities.Ruby and Oswald
1978
Ruby and Oswald
1978
star 8The most accurate portrait ever made of the events surrounding the Kennedy assassination and the subsequent assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.The Magnificent Adventurer
1963
star 7Benvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.Lights and Shadows
1988
Lights and Shadows
1988
star 6.1This film within a film is based on the painting Las Meninas by Diego de Velazquez. A young boy enters the canvas of the famous picture of the Spanish king and his court. In order to return to the real world, he must convince the artist to create his famous painting. The other plot involves a film director who is not sure how his film within a film will be created. He is distracted by his troubled marriage and has difficulty focusing on his project.Emilia
2017
Emilia
2017
star 7.2Soviet Lithuania in 1972. A young theatre actress is trying to make a difference and tell the forbidden story of repression in a play.Piotr Michałowski
1989
Piotr Michałowski
1989
A dramatized retelling of the life of the Romanticism painter Piotr Michałowski.Manonmani
1942
Baroque in Croatia
1942
A Story of Ulanfu
2019
A Story of Ulanfu
2019
Young People of Ireland
2024
A playful exploration of underground responses to social mores in 1970s Ireland, told through a day in the life of two young women.JK 1971
2022
JK 1971
2022
The plot follows a young Frenchman, Jean Kay, who hijacks a plane of Pakistan International Airlines in Paris and demands 20 tons of emergency medicine for children to help Bangladeshi refugees during the 1971 Liberation War.
