History Movies

The Life of Buddha

2007-12-05

Over 2,500 years ago, one man showed the world a way to enlightenment. This beautifully produced Buddhist film by the BBC meticulously reveals the fas...

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Iron Mountain

2013-12-13

The third part of the epic "The Way of the Leader" tell about the student years of Nursultan Nazarbayev, about the most important stages of his person...

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The Visual Bible: Matthew

1993-10-01

The only dramatization using the actual scriptures...word for word from the New International Version (NIV). In Israel, then known as Judea of the Rom...

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Thunder of Battle

1964-08-19

Coriolanus leads the plebians in a revolt against Roman oppression.

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Łódź Ghetto

1989-03-22

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation of the Jewish population into the ghetto, and the s...

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Tesla: Master of Lightning

2000-12-01

This program recounts the life of scientist, inventor, and visionary Nikola Tesla, often remembered as more of an eccentric cult figure than an electr...

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The Lighthouse

2016-07-08

Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a ...

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Kojiki Taishô

1952-04-03

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and le...

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Julián odpadlík

1970-01-01

In 363, somewhere in Mesopotamia, on a campaign against the Persians, the emperor Julian, who had succeeded Constantine after his victory over Gaul, w...

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Who's Stronger Than Him

1984-11-01

Follows the events of August 1918 in Tsarevokokshaisk (Yoshkar-Ola), when the White Guards, led by local princes, were preparing a coup.

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Messalina

1924-01-12

In ancient Rome, tyrannical Emperor Caligula is assassinated through the machinations of Messalina. She then makes a conquest of Marcus, who forces th...

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The Dunera Boys

1985-10-03

At the start of WWII the British Government decided to arrest all Germans in the UK no matter how long they had been there. Among those arrested were ...

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Charles Dickens's England

2009-07-24

The film looks at the places Charles Dickens lived and worked and how he used them in his novels and stories.

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Hammer

2024-08-02

Cartagena, Colombia – 1666. An enslaved woman accused of witchcraft comes face to face with evil incarnate and a Faustian bargain for her freedom whil...

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