Movie List for "history 2"

A surreal biopic of Armenian poet Sayat Nova, told via non-narrative amalgamations of images, hailed as revolutionary by Mikhail Vartanov. Year 1969.

An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant. Year 1954.

The History of dispersed families. ‘Finding Dispersed Families”-Find my family – Looking for long lost father, mother, brother and sister. The Korean War broke out on June 25, 1950. … Year 2016.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan’s military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival. Year 1961.

The career of Shakespeare’s Sir John Falstaff as a roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400 to 1413. Year 1965.

The Russian aristocracy prepares for the French invasion on the eve of 1812. Year 1965.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy’s 1930s. Year 1970.

Soe Hok Gie is an activist who lived in the sixties. Set in the darkest era of Indonesian modern history, “Gie” is an interpretation of what happened based on his journal. Year 2005.

The slightly fictionalized story of an art forger, a journalist desperate for a big story, and the biggest press scandal in German history: the Hitler Diaries. Year 1992.

After his father is not rewarded for his military achievements, Taira Kiyomori rebels against the court and the monks who rule the country. He also falls in love with Tokiko and discovers unsettling revelations about his parentage. Year 1955.

As Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate their Tsar. Year 1958.

A fifth-grade classroom takes on a political structure which reflects Korea’s history of coups and dictatorial regimes. Year 1992.

A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome. Year 1969.

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief. Year 1966.

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. Year 1988.

A young girl is caught up in the 1980 Gwangju massacre, where Korean soldiers killed hundreds, if not thousands, of protesters who opposed the country’s takeover by the military the year before. Flashbacks show the girl seeing her mo Year 1996.