Movie List for "history"

In Eastern Finland, in Liperi to be exact, Anna-Liisa Ihalainen asks her husband Antti to get some matches from the Ihalainen household. Unfortunately that trip takes a little longer than expected. Year 1980.

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Year 2002.

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII. Year 2004.

The village of Schabbach experiences the shifting fortunes of Germany from 1919 to 1982. Year 1984–.

Yip Man’s resistance against invading foreigners, along with his romantic relations while under the tutelage of three Wing Chun masters. Year 2010.

A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin. Year 2011.

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. Year 1987.

N/A Year 1988.

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha. Year 2008.

At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. Year 1998.

Second and final part of epic tale about a legendary battle that changed the course of China history. Year 2009.

A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War. Year 2007.

An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord. Year 2017.

An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety. Year 2011.

The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him. Year 1984.

When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. Year 1988.