Movie List for "history 5"

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider’s Web Castle. Year 1957.

Ishun is a wealthy, but unsympathetic, master printer who has wrongly accused his wife and best employee of being lovers. To escape punishment, the accused run away together, but Ishun is certain to be ruined if word gets out. Year 1954.

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Year 2005.

A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever. Year 1935.

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England. Year 1995.

Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival. Year 2005.

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians. Year 2005.

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women’s Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917. Year 2015.

A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core in this action thriller. Year 2005.

In the first of a trilogy of movies about Elisabeth “Sissi” of Austria, the young vibrant princess catches the eye of her sister’s fiancé, Emperor Franz Josef. Year 1955.

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord’s mistress. Year 1995.

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over a local school, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. Year 2015.

The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany. Year 1935.

The story of where, why and how fantasy sports began, how its growth was fostered and how it metamorphosed into a culture-altering force.

The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong.

Documents the rise of the professional wrestling body which would go on to become the largest league of independent wrestling promotions in the world.