Movie List for "history 2"

One of 5 early documentaries Sokurov made that were suppressed: Musical montage and newsreel footage are manipulated to show WWII’s allied leaders, not just to commemorate them 4 decades later but to interrogate the nature of auth… Year 1987.

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town. She soon bears a daughter, Annie, and hi… Year 1974.

The film offers an alternative version of the fight between two legendary Chekavars from Chanthu’s perspective. Year 1989.

The defeat of the “White Army” in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called “White Russians”. Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and Paris. The Russian Civil War and emigration Year 1971.

The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history. Year 2017.

An entitled Basketball star is forced during suspension to tour with a dismal charity league. In the process he has the most bizarre on the road experiences in the history of the game, in the end discovers what is truly important … Year 2020.

An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future. Year 2020.

In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin for a political plot, but as the king’s cruelty mounts she finds her loyalty faltering. Year 1998.

Based on a real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a Tennessee science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. Year 1960.

A young man named Kaspar Hauser suddenly appears in Nuremberg in 1828, barely able to talk or walk, and bearing a strange note. Year 1974.

Brooklyn, 1973. Shu’aib Raheem tried to steal guns for self-defense, starting the longest hostage siege in NYPD history. NYPD psychologist Harvey Schlossberg fought to reform police use of violence and save lives by using words, n… Year 2021.

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. Year 1998.

Vienna glove-sales-lady Christl falls in love to Czar Alexander. Metternich tries to use this to keep him out of the conferences of the Vienna Congress from 1815. Year 1931.

After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long-buried secrets and lies within his family history, his parent… Year 2016.

When a young woman investigates her town’s Nazi past, the community turns against her. Year 1990.

‘Yellow Earth’ focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns that the happy songs he was sent to coll… Year 1984.