Popular History Movies - Page 267
The Kingmaker Connection
1983
star 8The reconstruction of a Dutch political scandal from the 1960s when a PR specialist managed to gain unhealthy influence in government circles. Eventually he became the biggest victim.Träumerei
1944
Träumerei
1944
star 10A musical film based on biographical facts about Clara Wieck's love for composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856), her marriage against her will, Schumann's triumph, and his tragic end due to mental illness. The film is beautiful and entertaining, full of noble spirit and beautiful words about art and love, which only conflict in a theoretical context; not least thanks to its solid cast, this film is quite serious and far from kitsch. Completed in 1944, during World War II, the film was rejected by the Nazi leadership, but was eventually released and enjoyed success with an audience already weary of war.Charge
2016
Charge
2016
A documentary about the 1566 siege of the Hungarian city of Szigetvár by Ottoman forces who were fiercly stood up against by a small squadron of Croatian soldiers led by Nikola Šubić Zrinski, who had since remained one of the most praised figures in Croatian history.Come see the bioscope
1994
Sol Plaatje was a politician, novelist, historian, musician, translator of Shakespeare into vernacular language, and founder member of what was to become the African National Congress. In 1924, a visionary South African, Sol Plaatje, set out to bring the wonders of cinema to the community. Brandishing a few educational 16mm films under his arm, Plaatje arrives in a dusty, Blacks-only township in the Western Transvaal. He is looking for a venue which can be set up as a bioscope. Things do not seem promising, but Plaatje is first befriended by a helpful young boy. And then, despite prevailing apartheid obstacles, a room is found. The township community is excited and set to be overawed by the new celluloid world about to unfold before them.The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
The Loyal 47 Ronin
1958
star 6.2Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.The Most Dangerous Man in Europe: Otto Skorzeny's After War
2020
star 6.7Waffen-SS officer Otto Skorzeny (1908-75) became famous for his participation in daring military actions during World War II. In 1947 he was judged and imprisoned, but he escaped less than a year later and found a safe haven in Spain, ruled with an iron hand by General Francisco Franco. What did he do during the many years he spent there?Дети блокады
2008
Overlord
1975
Overlord
1975
star 6.8During World War II, a young man is called up and, with an increasing sense of foreboding, undertakes his army training ready for D-Day, June 6th, 1944.De Sade
1969
De Sade
1969
star 3.4The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.Chheen Lay Azadi
1968
Chheen Lay Azadi
1968
Generation of Victors
1936
star 6.3The film covers the events of 1896-1905 - from the first revolutionary gatherings to the armed Moscow uprising of workers at Krasnaya Presnya, later called Bloody Sunday. St. Petersburg students Alexander Mikhailov and Yevgeny Svetlov and a peasant girl Varvara Postnikova arrive in Moscow and follow the complicated path of underground revolutionaries.Not 4 Sale
2013
Not 4 Sale
2013
Set during 50s during the Red Scare, about Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.Mata Hari
1959
Mata Hari
1959
'Mata Hari', the daughter of a kampong headman is captured by the Japanese. She witnesses the atrocities committed by the invaders, who tortured her father to death and round up innocent women to become prostitutes and mistresses for their commanders. Not wanting to cower to the enemy, Mata Hari decides to form and lead a guerilla force to fight the Japanese.Soaring Aspirations
1936
The Siege of Calais
1911
A Jewish Girl in Shanghai
2010
Based upon the popular graphic novel by Wu Lin, this is the first Chinese animated film to portray the Holocaust. The film centers around the warm friendship between Rina, a wide-eyed European Jewish schoolgirl and A-Gen, a Chinese pancake seller, who teach each other about their distant worlds as Shanghai struggles beneath its own cruelly portrayed Japanese occupation.Becoming Colette
1991
Becoming Colette
1991
star 4.3French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.Martyr or Murderer
2023
Martyr or Murderer
2023
star 2A sequel to Maid in Malacañang. The film explores the assassination of Ninoy Aquino on August 21, 1983, three years before the events of Maid in Malacañang, and how the Marcoses were accused of as those responsible for killing him.Era Of Dance
2017
Era Of Dance
2017
star 8The film tells a story about the latest musical revolution in recent history – the early days of the rave scene and the golden age of techno culture. International political changes in the mid-80s and early 90s, including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, in a short period of time allowed this cultural phenomenon to become a mass movement which was almost completely independent from the global corporations and which did not fight with the system but created its own system.
