Movie List for "history"

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster’s (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century assassination plot. Year 1987.

The journey of an Indonesian national hero named K.H. Ahmad Dahlan striving for Muhammadiyah, an Islamic organization in Indonesia, and how he was rejected by the society as he was trying to fix up their perspective. Year 2010.

The legendary true-story of Capt. Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke’s tumultuous expedition to find the source of the Nile river. Year 1990.

Documentary about African political leader Patrice Lumumba, who was Prime Minister of Zaire (now Congo) when he was assassinated in 1961. Year 1991.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio’s “Decameron”. Year 1971.

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the ’40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano. Year 1962.

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.

In the twilight of Imperial Russia, prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of three Grand Dukes. Year 2017.

Lee Chung is a Prince of Joseon, but he has been taken hostage to the Qing Dynasty. Year 2018.

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husband’s incarceration. Year 2011.

In 1929, Italian Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini appoints General Rodolfo Graziani as colonial governor to Italian Libya with orders to stamp-out all resistance from Libyan nationalists led by rebel guerrilla leader Omar Mukhtar. Year 1980.

During the Chosun period, a court lady is found dead, hanging by the rafters of the palace. After examining the dead body, place physician Chun-ryung discovers that the dead maid was probably murdered and carries out investigation ev Year 2007.

The story of British slave trader John Newton’s voyage to West Africa and the events that inspired him to write the world’s most popular hymn, Amazing Grace. Year 2006.

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago. Year 1951.

The epic story of a family separated as a result of the Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976. Year 2010.

A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century. She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan Year 1974.