Movie List for "history"

What We Started (2017)

DJs, producers, and promoters discuss the history and state of electronic dance music. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi
Writer: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi
Actors: Steve Angello, Carl Cox, Chip Eberhart, Martin Garrix

And Then They Came for Us (2017)

Demonstrates the importance of speaking up against any efforts to register or ban Muslims today. Knowing our history is the first step in making sure we do not repeat it. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, History
Director: Abby Ginzberg, Abby Ginzberg, Ken Schneider
Writer: Abby Ginzberg
Actors: Mary Street Alinder, Satsuki Ina, Paul Kitagaki, Gary Okihiro

The Last Ice Hunters (2017)

The movie The Last Ice Hunters tells a story of the present generation of hunters in the Inuit community of Eastern Greenland, the final chapter in their 4000-year-old history. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Jure Breceljnik, Rozle Bregar
Writer: Breceljnik Jure (story)
Actors: Bendt Bendtsen, Harald Bianco, Iddimianngiiu Jensen Bianco, Charlotte Boassen

Arg Stairs (2017)

A comedy adventure about a resourceful cavemen who conceives one of the most over looked creations in human history, the stairs. Year 2017.

Generes: Adventure, Comedy
Director: Kyle Romanek
Writer: Sean Morse-Barry
Actors: Douglas Cathro, Gaby Dunn, Christopher Hollobaugh, Alex Hrivnak

Give (2017)

After decades of building an alternative visual narrative for the black community, a senior Reverend seeks to preserve its monumental legacy before his impending retirement. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, History
Director: David de Rozas
Writer: N/A
Actors: Roland Gordon

Something Like That (2017)

Mari discovers that she is pregnant from her best friend, Caio. Through flashbacks and flash-forwards, we discover the history of their friendship since they were teenagers, while we follow their decision to have this child or not. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama
Director: Mariana Bastos, Esmir Filho
Writer: Mariana Bastos, Esmir Filho
Actors: Clemens Schick, Juliane Elting, Knut Berger, Vera Holtz

Budapest Noir (2017)

A murder mystery set in Budapest 1936, just as Hungary was preparing to allign itself with Hitler. A young beautiful girl is found dead and noone wants to investigate – except Gordon a … Year 2017.

Generes: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Director: Éva Gárdos
Writer: Vilmos Kondor, András Szekér (screenplay), András Szekér
Actors: Franciska Töröcsik, Kata Dobó, Zsolt Anger, Szabolcs Thuróczy

The Jade Pendant (2017)

A tragic love story set against the lynching of 18 Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, in 1871. Filmed in Utah. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History, Western
Director: Po-Chih Leong
Writer: David Assael (screenplay by), Scott M. Rosenfelt (screenplay by), L.P. Leung (based on the novel The Jade Pendant by)
Actors: Godfrey Gao, Clara Lee, Tzi Ma, Mark Boone Junior

The Shoe (2017)

This anthology film traces one pair of silver shoes from present day back to the 1930s, when they were made. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Dan Steadman
Writer: Rajeev Sigamoney, Dan Steadman
Actors: Cody Heuer, Chris Murphy, Tammy Duensing, Meg Davis

Struggle & Hope (2017)

Among the wealth of untold stories in American history is the rise and slow disappearance of all-black towns that sprung up in the American West following the end of the Civil War. Founded … Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, History, Music, Western
Director: Kari Barber
Writer: Kari Barber, Nicole Jackson
Actors: N/A

Maze (2017)

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II. Year 2017.

Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Stephen Burke
Writer: Stephen Burke
Actors: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann, Eileen Walsh

Mystery Stone (2017)

Explores possible explanations for artifacts found in the New World that suggests the possibility of Pre-Columbian migration to what is now commonly referred to as the Americas. Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, History, Mystery
Director: David Coatney
Writer: David Coatney
Actors: Steven Collins, David Coatney, Stephen Jett, Donald Yates

Do You Want to Win? (2017)

One morning in October 1988, Howard Wilkinson walked into history. History was Elland Road; the great football stadium in Leeds, built by the efforts of Don Revie; home to one of the … Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary
Director: Daniel Chapman, Lee Hicken
Writer: Daniel Chapman
Actors: Hayden Evans, Bill Fotherby, Vinnie Jones, Dylan Kerr

Curmudgeon (2017)

An aging documentary filmmaker suddenly loses his wife, making him deal with the difficult history with his children (partly created by his alcoholism) and the prospect of a return to filmmaking. Year 2017.

Generes: N/A
Director: David Cox
Writer: David Cox
Actors: Richard Sobek, Katie Trent, David Webster, Eric Willis

Oklahoma City (2017)

The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in April 1995 is the worst act of domestic terrorism in American history; this documentary explores how a series of … Year 2017.

Generes: Documentary, Crime, History
Director: Barak Goodman
Writer: Barak Goodman
Actors: Janet Beck, Alan Berg, Jim Botting, Bill Buford