Popular History Movies - Page 260
El vals sin fin
1972
The Queen's Sister
2005
The Queen's Sister
2005
star 5.3An in-depth biopic of Princess Margaret from the days following her father's death in 1952 until the 1970s. She was known to be a flamboyant royal but she remained a stickler for protocol. She had many controversial romances and also infamously kissed the daughter of the US ambassador. Also the film gives some focus on what others thought of Margaret, from normal people of the era to a backbench MP opposed to her 1961 wedding. Written by Reece LloydThe Lost Ship
2024
The Lost Ship
2024
A decades spanning mystery commencing in 1945 after the mysterious deaths of Adolf Hitler and Subhash Chandra Bose, and culminating in 2022 at the height of the Russo-Ukrainian War.The Samurai I Loved
2005
The Samurai I Loved
2005
star 7.3A young samurai stuck at the bottom of the hierarchical order attempts to rescue his childhood sweetheart from an evil clan lord after learning of a plot to kill her and her infant child. Bunshiro Maki is a skilled swordfighter who's lethal with a blade, yet still can't rise through the ranks of the system. After his father is accused of plotting against his clan and forced to commit ritual suicide, his longtime love Fuku is sent to Edo to become the clan lord's concubine. A few years later, Fuku has bore the clan lord a son. When Maki learns that the clan has hatched a plan to kill Fuku and her son to secure succession to the throne, he recruits two childhood friends to help thwart the diabolical plot.Footsteps
2022
Footsteps
2022
In Footsteps, Fiona Tan creates connections between personal stories and the world around us. The footage shows children at play and Dutch windmills, but above all people engaged in heavy physical labour in the countryside and in factories. In a fascinating juxtaposition, she combines these images with excerpts from letters she received from her father just after she moved to the Netherlands in the late 1980s. Through his education in Indonesia, Tan’s father knew a lot about the Netherlands without ever having visited the country. In the letters, he meanders seamlessly between personal news and world events, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing.German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
2017
star 7.3On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five months, Sidney Bernstein had led a small team – which included Stewart McAllister, Richard Crossman and Alfred Hitchcock – to complete the film from hours of shocking footage. Unfortunately, this ambitious Allied project to create a feature-length visual report that would damn the Nazi regime and shame the German people into acceptance of Allied occupation had missed its moment. Even in its incomplete form (available since 1984) the film was immensely powerful, generating an awed hush among audiences. But now, complete to six reels, this faithfully restored and definitive version produced by IWM, is being compared with Alain Resnais’ Night and Fog (1955).Jean-Pierre Léaud: The Child of Cinema
2024
star 7.7A portrait of the legendary actor Jean-Pierre Léaud, icon of the French New Wave and closely linked to the work of François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Goddard.A Birth
2022
A Birth
2022
star 6.2The great adventures of Kim Dae-gun, a young man dreaming of a New Joseon. He is full of curiosity and takes action rather than words. He willingly accepts the fate of becoming Joseon’s first priest and sets out to study in Macau with his seminary classmates. And finally opens the way of the modern Joseon Dynasty by traversing the sea and land!Steel and America
1965
Steel and America
1965
star 5.5A short film by Disney in which Donald Duck is involved in showing the history of Steel and America.Za ranních červánků
1970
Splashback
2023
Splashback
2023
star 10In the midst of one of the most significant moments in human history - the Moon landing - a guy working at a NASA warehouse has his own little passion project: the invention of the first urinal net.Revúcki discipuli
2020
Revúcki discipuli
2020
A semi-dramatized documentary about the first Slovak grammar school in Revúca.Matija Gubec
1919
Matija Gubec
1919
Movie adaptation of the history novel by August Senoa, about Matija Gubec, the leader of peasant revolt of 1573.Children of the Open Road
1992
star 5In 1939, after barely escaping the Nazis, a Gypsy family returns to Switzerland only to be torn apart by racial persecution in the benign guise of children's welfare. This fictionalized story of Jana, an eight-year-old Gypsy girl snatched from her parents and consigned to a life of orphanages and bleak foster homes, is based on a little-known chapter of Swiss history: From 1926 to 1972, the state-supported Pro Juventute, a children's aid foundation, forcibly removed some 700 Gypsy children from their families, in order to sever the ties with their culture and assimilate them to a "better way of life." The underlying aim was to preempt a new generation's caravans from following their nomadic traditions along Switzerland's country lanes.Všechny krásy života
1990
Všechny krásy života
1990
Let the Lion Roar
2014
Let the Lion Roar
2014
star 1.7Uncover one of the greatest and darkest deceptions of our time - the conspiracy to cover up the Church's true identity.Under the Bombs
2007
Under the Bombs
2007
star 6.6In the wake of Israel's 2006 bombardment of Lebanon, a determined woman finds her way into the country convincing a taxi driver to take a risky journey around the scarred region in search of her sister and her son.The Princess Sen
1954
The Princess Sen
1954
star 5During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a rival force led by her grandfather.Defenders
2017
Defenders
2017
star 8.5Kuomintang Commander Yao Ziqing is ordered to protect Baoshan County from the Japanese army, which launches a relentless attack using land, sea, and air forces. Determined to defend the county, Yao must overcome immense challenges to stop the enemy at all costs.
