Popular History Movies - Page 215
Jai Bolo Telangana
2011
Effi Briest
1974
Effi Briest
1974
star 6.6When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.Where the River Flows
2025
star 5A rebellious detective, distancing himself from his general father, teams up with a marginalized journalist to clear his father’s name after he’s framed for a brutal murder. As they investigate, they uncover a brutal truth hidden behind the era’s facade.Henry VIII
1979
Henry VIII
1979
star 6.6Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates with political intrigue and accusations of treachery.Mr. Miami Beach
1998
Mr. Miami Beach
1998
The story of Carl Graham Fisher, an Indiana entrepreneur who created Miami Beach out of the Florida swamps.Eneida
1991
Eneida
1991
star 7.8A mock-heroic 1798 poem Eneida is magnum opus of the first modern Ukrainian writer Ivan Kotliarevsky. It's a parody of Virgil's Aeneid, where Kotliarevsky transformed the Trojan heroes into Ukrainian Cossacks.Vive la bombe!
2007
Vive la bombe!
2007
star 1April 30, 1962. The Algerian War has been over for two months, but Charles de Gaulle negotiated with the FLN during the Évian Accords to continue nuclear testing in the Sahara Desert. Under the eyes of officials gathered in an observation post located 5 km from the blast site, the Taourirt fissures, releasing a radioactive cloud: this will be known as the Béryl accident.Today and Always
1982
Today and Always
1982
About the traveling actors of Tajikistan and its first theaters in the twenties.Bhuj: The Pride of India
2021
star 5.3Set in the backdrop of the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, the film tells the story of the IAF Squadron Leader Vijay Karnik, and his bravery, patriotism and determination.The Pulse Beneath the Steel
2025
Once the beating heart of Beijing’s steel industry, Shougang was a leviathan forged from iron and fire. Its blast furnaces once echoed with labour and ambition, embodying the raw force of China’s industrial might. Today, these same structures are repurposed into spaces of digital innovation and Olympic legacy, marking one of the most ambitious urban transformations in modern China. This documentary traces the metamorphosis of Shougang Park through three poetic chapters: its industrial past, the deliberate reinvention of its architecture, and its re-emergence as a tech-driven ecosystem. Through immersive visuals and the voices of those who once toiled within its furnaces and those now forging its future, The Pulse Beneath the Steel is more than a portrait of place. It is a meditation on memory and transformation at the heart of a city that bridges heritage and modernity.Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
star 7.1A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.All the Mornings of the World
1991
star 7.1Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.Mulan Joins the Army
1939
Mulan Joins the Army
1939
star 7.3This movie is based on the famous Chinese folklore that is more than one and a half millennium old. The same folklore was what the Disney animation Mulan is based on, and similarly, it was what many Chinese movies/operas/plays based on.The Passion of Saint Edmund Campion
2022
This original film follows the life of St. Edmund Campion, a 16th century Jesuit who enjoyed favor and influence with English royalty, until he rejected Anglicanism and was arrested, convicted of high treason and hanged.Dappled Mare
1953
Dappled Mare
1953
star 9Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.Odessa
2026
Odessa
2026
In the wake of WWII, a devoted father guides his fleeing family across the Dolomites. He is gentle with his son. And running for a reason.Monsieur
2004
Monsieur
2004
1920: Madame Blanche discovers, reading the newspaper, that one of her tenants has been arrested. The woman, with the maid Tedla, goes to the police station to try and get her money. The inquiry starts from here: Monsieur is accused of homicide. The police will find ten paintings portraying ten women: the maid begin to tell the story of those ten women that she knew. But, one by one disappeared. A sequence of women stories. Along series of homicides. And just one killer.Perceval
1978
Perceval
1978
star 7.2The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.一号档案守护者
2011
一号档案守护者
2011
