Popular History Movies - Page 27
Red Tails
2012
Red Tails
2012
star 6.6The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African-American pilots to fly in a combat squadron during World War II.July 14
2017
July 14
2017
star 3.8Turkey, after the 1980 military coup. In the notorious Diyarbakır prison, the prisoners decide to resist the torture. 14 July 1982 is the day when the biggest resistance starts.Ottantanove
2021
Ottantanove
2021
1789. The French Revolution swept across and transformed the whole of Europe, shaping the world in which we live. But what remains of it 230 years on? Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano, joined on stage for the first time by Marco Cavalcoli, return with their sharp and ruthlessly ironic writing.Empire of Lust
2015
Empire of Lust
2015
star 6.8In the turbulent Joseon dynasty, army commander Min-jae watches ambitious Prince Yi Bang-won while becoming entwined with Ga-hee, a vengeful gisaeng. Fate collides as power shifts.Once Upon a Time in China IV
1993
star 5.8Wong Fei Hung must win another Lion Dance contest in order to defeat the eight foreign concessions in Shanghai.Glory Road
2006
Glory Road
2006
star 7.4In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.Katyn
2007
Katyn
2007
star 6.7On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the Soviet Red Army crosses the border. The Polish army, unable to fight on two fronts, is defeated. Thousands of Polish men, both military and government officials, are captured by the invaders. Their fate will only be known several years later.Escape from Pretoria
2020
Escape from Pretoria
2020
star 7.2South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African National Congress imprisoned by the apartheid regime, put a plan in motion to escape from the infamous Pretoria Prison.Sade
2000
Sade
2000
star 5.6A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.Lost Flower: Eo Woo-dong
2015
star 5.1A triangular relationship between Eo Woo-dong, her husband Lee Dong, and fantasy character Moo-gong, highlights on the first half of the Joseon Dynasty and portrays the contradicted life of the high class people, criticizing the modern day Korean society.Guerra do Paraguai
2025
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen
2010
star 6.8The Japanese forces occupy Shanghai and slowly start spreading terror in the city. Chen Zhen, who was presumed dead, returns to fight against the Japanese and put an end to their tyrannical rule.Rudy
1993
Rudy
1993
star 7.3Rudy grew up in a steel mill town where most people ended up working, but wanted to play football at Notre Dame instead. There were only a couple of problems. His grades were a little low, his athletic skills were poor, and he was only half the size of the other players. But he had the drive and the spirit of 5 people and has set his sights upon joining the team.Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody
2022
star 7The joyous, emotional, heartbreaking celebration of the life and music of Whitney Houston, the greatest female R&B pop vocalist of all time. Tracking her journey from obscurity to musical superstardom.Samson and Delilah
1949
Samson and Delilah
1949
star 6.6When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.The 300 Spartans
1962
The 300 Spartans
1962
star 6.5The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkably small number of Greek Sparta to victory over an invading Persian army led by evil King Xerxes that was thought to number over 25,000. This spectacular conflict gave the Grecians enough time to organize a force to ultimately repel the Persians, and thus change the course of Western civilization.Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005
star 7.1The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.The Money Maker
2026
The Money Maker
2026
star 7.1In post-war France, Jan Bojarski, a young Polish refugee, became the greatest counterfeiter of all time, the "Cézanne of counterfeit money". For more than fifteen years, this man led a double life, unbeknownst to his family, making counterfeits in a garden shed that were "truer" than the bills issued by the Banque de France... All these years, this peerless counterfeiter managed to avoid being caught by the police, and became the bête noire of Commissaire Mattei in a hunt that, for these two obsessives, turned into a duel.The Age of Shadows
2016
The Age of Shadows
2016
star 7.2Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and Japanese agents trying to stop them.In the Valley of Elah
2007
star 6.8A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
