Plot:
An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.
Tag: History
Occupied City 2023 • Movie
Plot:
The past collides with the present in this excavation of the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam: a journey from World War II to recent years of pandemic and protest and a provocative, life-affirming reflection on memory, time and what’s to come.
Scott of the Antarctic 1949 • Movie
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The story of British explorer Robert Falcon Scott’s 1912 expedition and his quest to be the first to reach the South Pole.
Keyboard Fantasies 2020 • Movie
Plot:
Beverly Glenn-Copeland, a Black transgender musician, becomes a cult icon three decades after the release of his album Keyboard Fantasies.
Sri Ayodhaya 2017 • TvSeries
Plot:
Through their past incarnations, present-day characters trace Thailand’s history from Ayutthaya’s prosperous period to the reign of King Taksin.
The Affair of the Necklace 2001 • Movie
Plot:
In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country must avenge her family’s fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.
War and Peace, Part III: The Year 1812 1967 • Movie
Plot:
Giant film epic based on novel of the great Russian writer Lev Tolstoy.
The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965 • Movie
Plot:
The biographical story of Michelangelo’s troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
The Last Queen 2023 • Movie
Plot:
Insipired in the legendary Princess Zaphira, wife of the last King of Algiers Salim Toumi, and his fight to defend her community from pirate Barbarossa.
The Far Horizons 1955 • Movie
Plot:
After purchasing Louisiana from France, the USA sends surveyors Lewis and Clark, assisted by a Shoshone guide, to chart the new territory.
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor 1970 • Movie
Plot:
Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the band against the forces of the Emperor in hopes of preventing his restoration to the throne.
Germany Pale Mother 1980 • Movie
Plot:
Germany 1939. Hans and Lene marry the day before the war breaks out, and Hans is sent to the Eastern front. During a bombing raid their daughter Anna is born. The house is destroyed and Lene and Anna moves in with relatives in Berlin. Hans survives the war but he is not the same person as in 1939, and he and Lene find it difficult to live together again.
Korengal 2015 • Movie
Plot:
Korengal picks up where Restrepo (2010) left off–with the same men, in the same valley, with the same commanders–but presents a very different look at the experience of war.
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler 2009 • TvMovie
Plot:
The story of Irena Sendler, a social worker who was part of the Polish underground during World War II and was arrested by the Nazis for saving the lives of nearly 2,500 Jewish children by smuggling them out of the Warsaw ghetto.
Hitler’s Hollywood 2018 • Movie
Plot:
Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945 when the Third Reich collapsed.
23rd March 1931: Shaheed 2002 • Movie
Plot:
When his mentor Lala Lajpat Rai is beaten to death by the Britishers, Bhagat Singh sets out to avenge his death. Upon killing the responsible British official, Bhagat Singh is sentenced to death for his actions.
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple 1955 • Movie
Plot:
Musashi Miyamoto returns to Kyoto after years of absence. After a series of fights against the Yoshioka School, he challenges its master to a duel.
The Great Buster 2018 • Movie
Plot:
Documentary on the life and works of comic genius Buster Keaton, directed by Peter Bogdanovich.
The Mill and the Cross 2011 • Movie
Plot:
This movie focuses on a dozen of the five hundred characters depicted in Bruegel’s painting. The theme of Christ’s suffering is set against religious persecution in Flanders in 1564.
Breaker Morant 1980 • Movie
Plot:
Three Australian lieutenants are court martialed for executing prisoners as a way of deflecting attention from war crimes committed by their superior officers.
The Dam Busters 1955 • Movie
Plot:
Drama based on the attempt by the RAF to destroy six dams in Germany during World War II.
Coup 53 2020 • Movie
Plot:
Theatrical feature documentary on the story of Operation Ajax, the CIA/MI6 staged coup in 1953 in Iran that overthrew Prime Minister Mossadegh.
Dance of the 41 2021 • Movie
Plot:
At the end of the 19th century, Ignacio de la Torre married the daughter of the president of Mexico, Porfirio Díaz. Ignacio leads a double life: he rises in the traditional world of politics while being a member of a clandestine society.
Start the Revolution Without Me 1970 • Movie
Plot:
Two mismatched sets of identical twins, one aristocrat, one peasant, mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.
The Brink’s Job 1978 • Movie
Plot:
A fictional retelling of the infamous Boston Brink’s Company robbery on January 17th, 1950, of $2.7M, and cost the American taxpayers $29M to apprehend the culprits with only $58,000 recovered.
Friedkin Uncut 2019 • Movie
Plot:
In this documentary, the hotshot director of The Exorcist (1973) and The French Connection (1971), now 83 years old, is interviewed about his career, and a number of his colleagues and admirers weigh in with reminiscences and tributes.
Iron Jawed Angels 2004 • TvMovie
Plot:
A little known, yet integral piece of American history: based on the lives of Alice Paul and Lucy Burns, two young radical women who were instrumental in getting women the right to vote in America.