HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 54

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Arc

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one

The great chateaux of Bordeaux struggle to accommodate the voracious appetite for their rare, expensive wines, which have become a powerful status symbol in booming China

North Carolina 1863, the civil war is raging In this heart felt story of love and spirituality we follow the lives of Melody and her mother Sara Beth Ellis as they struggle on their farm during the war Melody has created a fantasy world around her as

The story leading up to the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing launch

Proposes a minute by minute chronology of the Chicxulub impact and its effect on the dinosaurs and other animals around the world

A drama that chronicles the life of Winnie Mandela from her childhood through her marriage and her husbands incarceration

Deep in Malaya, as World War II is rapidly coming to an end, men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp Knowing that Yamamitsu, the sadistic commandant, will murder th

The story of Amos Ozs youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel The film details the young mans relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a

A black comedy about two nineteenth century grave robbers, who find a lucrative business providing cadavers for an Edinburgh medical school

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom

Broadcast journalist Edward R Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy

Against his countrys orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II

Nostradamus prophecies are interpreted alongside messages from ancient cultures about galactic alignment and the end of the world

Amantha Starr grows up as a privileged southern Belle in the ante bellum South, but after her father dies broke, her world is destroyed when she discovers her mother was black

A musical based on the New York City newsboy strike of 1899 When young newspaper sellers are exploited beyond reason by their bosses they set out to enact change and are met by the ruthlessness of big business

A profile of the noted and extraordinarily cheerful veteran New York City fashion photographer

The life of Madelyn Murray OHair, the outspoken activist and founder of American Atheists

Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom She must now rescue her fathers home from foreclosure a consequence of the loan she advised him to take

Blood on the Mountain focuses on the environmental and economic injustice and corporate control in West Virginia and its rippling effect on all American workers This film will tell the story of a hard working people who have histo

Ninety six hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort

A comedy about a small New Jersey town on the night of Orson Welles legendary 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast, which led millions of listeners to believe the U S was being invaded by Martians

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic, and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it

Based on the Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, this action thriller dramatizes a six day standoff between armed Iranian Arabs and SAS soldiers ready for a counterattack

At the heart of the Apollo program was the special team in Mission Control who put a man on the moon and helped create the future

The zombified leaders of the free world rise from the dead to hunt down a group of ill fated teens and give them a lethal lesson in American history Their only hope for survival is to summon the demonic spirit of John Wilkes Booth

A true story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937 38

Twenty five years after the verdict in the Rodney King trial sparked several days of protests, violence and looting in Los Angeles, filmmakers examine that tumultuous period through rarely seen archival footage

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972

Mariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan

During World War II, a hand picked group of American GIs undertook a bizarre mission create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience The 23rd Headquarters Special Tro

This film describes the events surrounding a 1975 shootout at the Pine Ridge reservation in S Dakota where two FBI agents were killed

Delving into our collective nightmares, this horror documentary investigates the origins of our most terrifying urban legends and the true stories that may have inspired them

A chronicle of the life of Lena Baker, the first woman to be sent to the electric chair in Georgia for the murder of her employer, who forced her into sexual slavery

Based on the true story of the Attica Prison uprising of 1971

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime He tries to deny he is gay and gets a yellow label the one for Jews instead of pink the one for gays In camp he falls in love with his fellow prisoner Horst, who wears