Movie List for "history"

‘The Role’ is about a brilliant actor in revolutionary Russia who takes on the greatest role of his life – the role of another man. Influenced by the ideas of symbolism and the Silver Age, … Year 2013.

Prince Kasatsky is a just and proud youth, shock and disappointment with the world bring him to church, he becomes father Sergius. It is a story of his piety and temptation. Year 1918.

This is the story about the son of one of the greatest tyrants of the Twentieth Century- Joseph Stalin’s flesh and blood, Vasily. Year 2013.

After the overthrowing of Duke Senior by his tyrannical brother, Senior’s daughter Rosalind disguises herself as a man and sets out to find her banished father while also counseling her clumsy suitor Orlando in the art of wooing. Year 1994.

This short documentary film explores the life and social struggle of a subgroup of the lowest caste, called Dom, considered untouchable, who work in the morgue. The documentary explores the… Year 2014.

N/A Year 2016.

A daring English reporter speaks to an old freedom fighter, who reveals his past and involvement during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation struggle. Shongram is a romantic drama set during the 1971 Bangladesh liberation war. Year 2014.

Academy Award-winning screenwriter Robert Riskin headed up a secret film unit that sought to redefine America in the eyes of the world during the darkest days of World War II. The … Year 2014.

The film is about the language movement during 1952 in East Pakistan. Year 2019.

The life of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II (Catherine the Great), a German born princess who came to Russia as bride for the young Peter III, chosen by his aunt Elisabeth, and who, once … Year 2014–.

N/A Year 2001.

Bilkis Banu, lost her husband Hasan on the bloody night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, … Year 2011.

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world. Year 2002.

A film about loving the other. This film critiques certain pitfalls of nationalism that create conditions to justify war, killing and violence. ‘Meherjaan’ attempts to offer an aesthetic solution to war and violence. Year 2011.

N/A Year 2018.

Risking being denounced as an ‘enemy of the people,’ Igor Savitsky rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artists’ works and creates in a far desert of Soviet Uzbekistan a museum now worth millions. Year 2010.