Movie List for "history"

During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. Year 2006.

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity. Year 2021.

Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine. Year 2019.

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. Year 2016.

The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families. Year 2018.

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.

After the uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces a guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese and Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight for their dignity and honor so that they can truly be “Seediq Bale” or “real … Year 2011.

In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks. Year 2016.

The assassination of Indira Gandhi leads to a slow spread of brutal violence against Sikhs, leaving a Sikh man and his family trapped in endless danger. Year 2015.

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.

Former Major League Baseball player Moe Berg goes undercover in World War II Europe for the Office of Strategic Services. Year 2018.

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

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers. Year 2016.

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end. Year 2015.

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.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly and his gang flee from authorities during the 1870s. Year 2019.