Popular History Movies - Page 216
Henry VI Part 1
1983
One Day I Saw 10,000 Elephants
2015
star 6.8The octogenarian Angono Mba recalls the expedition in which he worked as porter for the Spanish filmmaker Manuel Hernández Sanjuán who, between 1944 and 1946, traveled through Spanish Guinea documenting life in the colony as he obsessively searched for a mysterious lake.Radio Freedom
2021
Radio Freedom
2021
An idealistic ham radio operator is trapped in a besieged town and struggles to survive the madness around him.Udon and Choonhyang
2019
The Mover
2018
The Mover
2018
star 7.5Žanis Lipke, an ordinary blue-collar worker in Latvia, embarks on a covert operation. Despite his family’s hardship under successive Soviet and German occupations, Lipke tries to save local Jews from Nazi persecution and certain death, moving them from the Riga ghetto to an underground bunker hidden on his property.The Lullaby
1986
The Lullaby
1986
star 8The movie consists of three novellas, the events of which take place during World War II. The first, "White Daisies", tells how a Polish priest saves a Jewish boy who survived a mass shooting. Another movie story, "Desolation," is about a ghetto boy in love who must, by all means, bring wildflowers to his beloved. The third novel, "The Cuckoo's Prediction," is about a prisoner who escapes from a POW camp. He escapes after his bunkmate tells him that he heard him speaking Yiddish in his sleep.Vanda
1991
Vanda
1991
Upon This Rock
1970
Upon This Rock
1970
star 9Drama describing the story of the building of Saint Peter's Cathedral, Vatican, Rome.La Terreur
2024
La Terreur
2024
A new member of the Cheka receives his first assignment, holding in his hands a warrant to evict a peasant from his hut. The young man, at nineteen years old, must dare to commit murder, and not just one.The Long Way Home
2013
The Long Way Home
2013
star 6.7Inhospitable at the best of times, the snow-covered mountainscapes of Eastern Anatolia constituted a fatal frontier for many war exiles after the battle of Sarikamish in 1915, and provides a canvas laced with beauty and threat for this bone-chilling survival yarn, the superb debut feature of Alphan Eşeli. Starting out with three characters – a refugee mother and daughter and their grizzled guide – the film traces their daunting trek across this barren terrain to safety, with the Russians encroaching and other stragglers, including a pair of wounded, frostbitten Ottoman soldiers, all orbiting the same burnt-out village they find in their path. Puncturing its aura of ghostly impasse with some shocking narrative reversals, and constantly prickling with the mutual dread of strangers in gruelling extremes, the movie stakes out hugely credible ground next to established Eastern Front war classics (In the Fog, Come and See) while remaining thoroughly its own beast. (Source: LFF programme)Orders
1974
Orders
1974
star 7.4A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.Hanbando
2006
Hanbando
2006
star 6.3The President of South Korea races against time to prove the seal on documents from long dead King Gojong is fake by charging outspoken historian Choi Min-jae, and a descendant of the royal bloodline Kim Yu-shik, to find the long lost seal in order to prove that the Japanese claim to railroads is false, a claim that will stop the reunification of the two Koreas.Castle Ghosts of England
1995
star 6.5Throughout history, Britain's castles have witnessed murders, executions, and countless acts of cruelty that spawned a parade of spirits. This program presents spine tingling stories in a riveting tour of England's ghostly heritage.Reversed Destiny
2016
Reversed Destiny
2016
An African-American boy and an old Caucasian man meet by chance, and the boy feels a strong relationship with him from a past life because they have 'Reversed Destiny.'Vincent
1987
Vincent
1987
star 6.5A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.Coup 53
2019
Coup 53
2019
star 8Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.Character
1997
Character
1997
star 7.3In pre-WWII Holland, the penniless, illegitimate son of a powerful bailiff sets out to become a lawyer as he spends a lifetime struggling to prove his worth to his relentlessly spiteful father.The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai
2022
star 7.4In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.A Noite do Meu Bem
1968
The Poet
1991
The Poet
1991
star 7.5The film is dedicated to the memory of the great Azerbaijani poet Muhammad Fuzuli by the relic-gazalakh, and the lyric poet Aliaga Vahid. The poet's life is presented in chronological order. The authors do not clearly indicate the names of the people who covered Vahid. They tried to create a generalized artistic image using some of the master poet's masterpieces from his difficult life.
