Popular History Movies - Page 485
The devil rider
2013
The devil rider
2013
star 5.5Choi Moon Bok is the Devil Rider, a messenger that's so fast that no enemy can catch him as he rides through their camps. During the years of the Manchu War, lords of the court gather to try and call upon scattered soldiers to mount a counterattack against the Manchu army. In order to do this they need a messenger that can ride fast and escape enemy hands. The Devil Rider is just the man but his wife is due to give birth on the night of his departure. He sacrifices being there with her to do his duty for his country. He manages to ride through the enemy, but it's all in vain. His wife dies in labor and the king has already signed peace negotiations with the Manchus. This story takes place 14 years after these events as a cunning and powerful woman named Seoyeon tries to enact revenge for her father's death. She needs the Devil Rider to carry out..Šílený kankán
1983
Šílený kankán
1983
star 1During the First World War, the crooks Scholef and Krumka sell weapons on the black market. After the collapse of the monarchy they try their hand at speculation on a grand scale.Report to Kapodistrias
2021
The movie is about Count Ioannis Kapodistrias, one of the most important diplomats of the 18th century, who became the first governor of the independent Greek state (1827).Not 4 Sale
2013
Not 4 Sale
2013
Set during 50s during the Red Scare, about Canada Lee, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.السدرة
2001
السدرة
2001
The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
2014
star 6.4Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a parable about the search for paradise, set in the brutal yet alluring landscape of the Galapagos Islands, which interweaves an unsolved 1930s murder mystery with stories of present day Galapagos pioneers. A gripping tale of idealistic dreams gone awry, featuring voice-over performances by Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, and Gustaf Skarsgard.Jeevan Smriti
2013
Jeevan Smriti
2013
A cinematic journey that sees Rabindranath Tagore as an ever restless seeker. It brings Tagore alive as a flesh and blood person whom the average Indian can relate to as a man of all seasons, of all times.Another Me
2022
Another Me
2022
star 3.8After finding himself looking exactly the same as the crown prince, a constable decides to change his identity.Sogdiana
1995
Sogdiana
1995
The second film from the Call of the Ancestors dilogy. The film tells about a dramatic episode of the struggle of the Central Asian state of Sogdiana against the Arab troops camped at the walls of Samarkand at the beginning of the 8th century.Patrani
1956
Patrani
1956
The story is about King Karma Dev who gives a lot of importance to physical beauty. His mother, the Rajmata requests Mahamantri Munjal to find him a nice wife. Karma Dev often dreams of marrying an unknown beautiful woman he had once seen in the Somnath temple. Meanwhile, Mrinalla is the princess of Karnataka, who also dreams of marrying a king she had once seen in the Somnath temple. When Munjal happens to see the beautiful woman Mrinalla, he shows the King's portrait to her and she is happy to finally find the man of her dreams. So she runs away from the palace and searches for Karma Dev to marry him. Soon after, Munjal shows Mrinalla's painting to Karma Dev, who agrees to marry her. On the day of the marriage, the King finds out she is dark and refuses to marry her. After several incidents, Karma Dev realizes his mistake and at last he happily accepts Mrinalla as his Patrani.Chikkadu Dorakadu
1967
Chikkadu Dorakadu
1967
The adventures of Chikkadu and Dorakadu to find the hidden treasure and to eliminate the baddies from their kingdom.The Decembrists
1927
The Decembrists
1927
The film recreates episodes from the December Uprising of 1825. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a love story unfolds between the Decembrist Annenkov and Polina Gebl.Nonsense - Fireball Boy Thief
1953
The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.Engineer Graftio
1980
Engineer Graftio
1980
About one of the pioneers of the Russian hydropower industry, a hydroengineer, the author of daring, fantastic projects, a participant in drawing up the GOELRO plan, academician Henry Osipovich Graftio (1869-1949).Mort de Charles Ier
1897
Mort de Charles Ier
1897
Yaroslav the Wise
1982
Yaroslav the Wise
1982
star 5.4In the XIth century Kyivan Rus' (Ukraine-Rus') reached its zenith under the reign of Yaroslav. He established enduring ties with many of the ruling European dynasties, strengthened the borders of Rus' and tried to free it from the influence of the Byzantine Empire. Since 988 the church of Rus' had been autonomous, apart from the right of Constantinople to appoint the Metropolitan.To New Shores
1969
To New Shores
1969
On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. Petersburg. Delirium tremens had done its dirty work: there was no hope for recovery. And this “old man” had just turned 42 years old, and it was the great Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Who knows what visions, what memories swarmed in his fevered imagination in rare moments of enlightenment?12 September: Balance Sheet for 12 September
1998
Turkish democracy got over the 27th of May and the 12th of March and set off again, but the storm did not subside and the mutual reckoning was not over. On the contrary, new fronts were opened in the country and blood began to flow like a gutter. Finally, on September 12, there was a knock on the door again. Those who came that day changed everything, everything. Nothing would ever be the same again, nothing would be the same as before.
