History Movies

Piaf

1984-06-10

Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of French chanteuse Édith Piaf. This recording presents the Tony Award-winning stage pl...

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Paracelsus

1943-03-12

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to th...

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I Accuse!

1958-03-05

Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...

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Lenin in Paris

1981-11-01

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associ...

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Many Beautiful Things

2015-10-17

In an age when women were incapable of joining the artistic dialogue, Lilias Trotter managed to win the favour of celebrated critics.

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1915

2015-04-17

Exactly 100 years after the Armenian Genocide, a theatre director stages a play to bring the ghosts of the past back to life.

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The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat

1957-01-29

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun fami...

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Ladies in Torture II

1995-11-22

This story is based on the historical record of tortures in the Samurai era of Japan.

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Beaten by Black Rain

1984-08-12

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the ...

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Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding

2011-09-30

Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signat...

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Njaan

2014-10-19

Ravi, a critic, comes across the writings of K T N Kottoor. Highly inspired by what he reads, he travels to a village in Kerala in search of the autho...

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Frenemies: Putin and Trump

2020-03-17

Russian President Vladimir Putin was one of the first politicians to congratulate Donald Trump on his election as president of the United States in 20...

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Born a King

2019-04-25

A coming-of-age story set in 1919 about 14 year old Faisal, an Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior fathe...

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Homicide

1964-06-20

This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26 an...

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Secret of the Midwife

2016-03-25

Marthe is a girl with a special gift: she can cure illnesses. But the time she lives in is marked by superstition and godliness. When Marthe can not h...

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Roanoak

1986-05-26

The story chronicles the first recorded meeting in the late 16th Century between British explorers-settlers and Native Americans in what is now North ...

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The Devil Is a Woman

1935-05-03

In the carnival in Spain in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, the exiled republican Antonio Galvan comes from Paris masquerade to enjoy the part...

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O Jerusalem

2006-10-17

A tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the state of Israel is being created.

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Sanctuary

2015-01-21

In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the sanct...

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Mangal Pandey - The Rising

2005-08-12

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a sepoy, a soldier of Indian origin, in the army of ...

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