Popular History Movies - Page 108
Southern Gospel
2023
Southern Gospel
2023
star 6.6Samuel Allen's life collapses, but he wants to pursue his childhood goals and become a preacher. To do this, the rock n roll star has to fight against his past demons.Auschwitz
2011
Auschwitz
2011
star 3.5Auschwitz is a hard-hitting war film which shows life as it really was at the death camp.Liberté
2021
Liberté
2021
Britain's first Muslim war heroine is tested to the limit as she faces her brutal captors in Nazi-occupied Paris for the last time.Ponniyin Selvan: Part II
2023
star 6.2968 AD. The Pandyan assassins gather once again to destroy the Chola dynasty. Now the mighty Chola princes must fight the Pandyas, the Rashtrakutas and other Chola enemies who have joined forces. Also, at play are the rumours of Ponniyin Selvan’s death at sea, the powerful Pazhuvettarayar’s betrayal, and the tragic destiny of Aditha Karikalan, whose heart was long lost to the vengeful Nandini.Vlci
1990
Vlci
1990
André Malraux: Writer, Politician, Adventurer
2019
star 6Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plot twist. Politician. General De Gaulle's shadow. Overwhelmed by the weight of power. The numerous exploits of André Malraux (1901-1976).The Dybbuk
1960
The Dybbuk
1960
The Dybbuk is a made for TV film adaptation of a classic Jewish folktale. The story is about a young Jewish man, Sender (Theodore Bikel) who loves a young Jewish woman, Leah (Carol Lawrence) but her father arranges her marriage with another man. The grief of this causes Sender to die, but his spirit passes into the body of his beloved on her wedding day. Rabbi Azrael (Ludwig Donath), who serves as our narrator through the beginning of the film, is charged with the task of exercising Sender’s Dybbuk (sometimes defined as a malicious spirit or demon who possesses the living) from Leah’s body.I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
2005
star 5.4January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.City of Life and Death
2009
star 7.4In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just captured Nanjing, then-capital of the Republic of China. What followed was known as the Nanking Massacre, or the Rape of Nanking, a six week period wherein tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians were killed.Gods and Generals
2003
Gods and Generals
2003
star 6.3The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point.Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
1994
star 6.9Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.Dastaar
2016
Dastaar
2016
star 6.2An interracial couple faces social tensions in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. The film follows the perspective of Harpreet, a young Sikh-American man, as he cautiously navigates a sudden climate of fear and dangerous assumptions.Leave No Traces
2021
Leave No Traces
2021
star 6.9In 1983, communist Poland is shaken by the case of high school student Grzegorz Przemyk, who is beaten to death by police. The only witness of the beating becomes the number one enemy of the state.Gowok: Javanese Kamasutra
2025
star 8.7Set in 1960s Java, a young Javanese woman betrays her teacher, falls in love and must face dire consequences.Pane e libertà
2009
Soul of the Game
1996
Soul of the Game
1996
star 4.6In 1945, the world of baseball is divided between the Majors and the Negro Leagues - but the time has come for change. One team will be the first to sign a black player and only one player will be the first to take the field. The Brooklyn Dodgers want to make the deal that will make history. But the man they choose will have to be more than a great player - he has to have the charisma of a star. It soon comes down to three powerful and extraordinary players: legendary pitcher Satchel Paige; the greatest hitter in baseball Josh Gibson; and a rookie by the name of Jackie Robinson. Three player - three friends - three champions. Together they are unbeatable - but only one will cross the home plate into history.A Scandal in Paris
1946
A Scandal in Paris
1946
star 6.4A smooth-talking French thief wangles his way into an important position as prefect of police.The Spirit of St. Louis
1957
star 6.6Charles Lindbergh struggles to finance and design an airplane that will make his 1927 New York to Paris flight the first solo trans-Atlantic crossing.Madame DuBarry
1919
Madame DuBarry
1919
star 6.4The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
