Movie List for "history"

Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century. Year 1978.

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 hires Year 1974.

In a small North Korean village near the border of China, there are believers who get together in an underground church, away from the eyes of the persecuting government. When the missionary from China, their only support route, is c Year 2014.

A drama based on the true-life experiences of four combat photographers capturing the final days of apartheid in South Africa. Year 2010.

A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors. Year 2002.

In the spring of 2005, an old mother living in Hanoi receives a diary. The diary carries the notes of a young woman doctor who worked at a national liberation front hospital for two years starting in 1968 until her death. The diary w Year 2009.

The new member of a samurai militia unit causes disruption as several of his colleagues fall in love with him, threatening to disturb the rigid code of their squad. Year 1999.

A chronicle of Nelson Mandela’s life journey from his childhood in a rural village through to his inauguration as the first democratically elected president of South Africa. Year 2013.

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders Year 1935.

After a battle between Joseon and Qing forces in Manchuria only three soldiers from Joseon survive. They take refuge in an abandoned inn. Soon it is clear that they have as much to fear from each other as from the Qing forces. Year 2011.

The film begins when the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi is still named Shinmen Takezo. After being on the losing side of the Battle of Sekigahara, Takezo and his friend manage to escape and come across a young woman and her mot Year 1961.

This documentary tells the story of film director Aleksandr Medvedkin, throughout his life a sincere believer in communism, whose films were repeatedly banned in the Soviet Union. Modern Russian film students express their excitement Year 1993.

A German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count. Year 1976.

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.

A Catholic Priest and an English teacher get stranded in a school in Kigali during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Year 2005.

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886. Year 1973.