HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 58

Tells the story of the last months of the 20 year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the masters death

Documentary on Marian Anderson an African American woman, an international singing star in the twentieth century, who succeeded over racial prejudice and became an inspiration for Americas civil rights movement

Young man, from now on you will only work for me These were Adolf Hitlers words to the young sculptor Arno Breker in 1936 What would he commission from his new Phidias

A story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syvari to the Karelian Ishtmus

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and nurtures him despite persecution and betrayal The film explores the eternal relations

When the British army looks set to defeat Mussolinis Italian forces, Hitler sends reinforcements the Afrika Korps led by General Rommel The Desert Fox is on winning form until Montgomery, the British commander, sets up a plan t

It follows a young man who dreams of becoming a general and Ying Zheng, whose goal is unification

The story of what happens in between where we are born and who we decide to be, the only place we can really call home

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the citys most notorious serial killer

A documentary on Jacques Verges, the controversial lawyer and former Free French Forces guerrilla who has defending unpopular figures such as Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie and Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy

Black baseball greats, Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson, vie to be the first afro American major leaguer, only to see the outspoken rookie, Jackie Robinson, be chosen

Exploring the archetype of the witch in Hollywood cinema from the 1930s to the present and how it is linked to the social history of female power

An American journalist who, during 13 months spent in France in 1940 41, managed to arrange safe passage out of France and on to the U S for more than 2,000 refugees who were in danger of losing their lives

In the beginning of 1500s, during the Portuguese conquests on Indian Ocean, Red Sea, and Arabian Gulf, a village on the edge of sea revolts against the Portuguese rule and conquer after years of oppression, In pursuit of freedom

Young Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but its far from a love match Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Konigsmark

Chronicles the trials and tribulations of Oribe, the successor to tea master Rikyu, Usu, his gardener, and Princess Goh, who attempt to balance artistic expression and duty amid political intrigue in feudal Japan

A few years after the events of Man of Marble 1977, a journalist investigates Mateusz Birkuts son Maciek Tomczyk, now an activist leading a shipyard strike

Michael Timar, captain of the St Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Timar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom

1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives

Relive an unspeakable tragedy detailed with unforgettable images, videos, and recordings only recently rediscovered

Tells the hard to believe story of the mythical basketball legend from Watts California who was blackballed from the NBA in the early 70s following an ugly contract dispute with the Philadelphia 76ers

A quick look at the slums of Nairobi, Guatemala City, and Manila

When lost footage from the 1920s depicting a corporate land grab in the early days of globalization arrives back in Liberia, it sparks inquiry into how Liberians lost sovereignty over the very land that sustains them

Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together to support their troubled host, and the metaphoric ghosts of their past become all too literal

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill fated love

Fifteen giant dinosaur skeletons have been found buried in the Wyoming badlands, and an international team of paleontologists has been sent to investigate them to determine why they were here and what killed them 150 million years

The definitive documentary about the iconic puppetry technique developed by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, Supermarionation was used in all their programmes throughout the 1960s including Stingray, Captain Scarlet and Thunderbirds

Intimate portrayal of the events captured by the ordinary people on September 11

A mans story parallels Hitlers rise Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr Emil Bettleheim Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that c

At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life

With unique access to locations across the country, viewers go on a journey through these magical realms, exploring five very different worlds high mountains, tropical jungles, bamboo forests, great plains and temperate forests

Psychedelia is an hour long documentary film about psychedelic drugs and their ability to induce mystical, or religious experiences The film explores this relationship by chronicling their use in controlled research studies pri

The story of legendary Kunjali Marakkar IV and his epic warfare against the Portuguese

Documentary looking predominantly at the plight of the poor in the East End of London during World War II air raids of 1940 How much of what is now seen as an example of British Bulldog bravado was actually acts of desperation an

A chronicle about how the Lakota Indians fight to reclaim control of the Black Hills Will investigate how the sacred land was stolen in violation of treaty agreements and feature interviews with Indigenous citizens