Movie List for "history"

Two clowns living in Korea’s Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king la Year 2005.

So-ha, a deadly female warrior, is sent to find a exiled prince after the Killer Blade Army killed the royal family. Year 2005.

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos. Year 2012.

A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya. Year 2001.

N/A Year 1973.

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. Year 1953.

A freestyle, imagined telling of the life of shaman queen Himiko, who falls in love with her half-brother, making her powers weaken thus putting her position to risk. Year 1974.

Claude Lanzmann’s epic documentary recounts the story of the Holocaust through interviews with witnesses – perpetrators as well as survivors. Year 1985.

A historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan, where a young man is destined to unite the country’s three warring tribes. Year 2005.

St. Petersburg, mid 19th century: the indolent, middle-aged Oblomov. He sleeps much of the day. His boyhood companion, Stoltz, now an energetic and successful businessman, adds Oblomov to his circle and introduces him to Olga. Year 1980.

A prison is about to be evacuated to make room for an airport expansion project. Major Jahed and his officers are busy transferring all inmates to the new facility, but one inmate is missing. Year 2019.

A dramatization of the Battle of Isandlwana, where the British Army met its match against the Zulu nation. Year 1979.

Western frontiers of the USSR, 1942. The region is under German occupation. A man is wrongly accused of collaboration. Desperate to save his dignity, he faces impossible moral choice. Year 2012.

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings. Year 1984.

Trying to keep lead in the Space Race, the Soviet Union is preparing two cosmonauts for the first spacewalk. Year 2017.

The tragic story of a Tang Dynasty imperial consort who was the favorite of the Emperor Xuanzong. Year 2015.