History Movies
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Weg aus der Hölle
1997Feature FilmA group of women who are imprisoned on the island of Sumatra by the Japanese during World War II use music as relieve their misery.
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Blame it on Fidel
2006Feature FilmA 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
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End of the Spear
2005Feature FilmTwo people come to the end of a spear in order to realize that the divisions between them are not real.
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Far from the Madding Crowd
1967Feature FilmBathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.
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Oranges and Sunshine
2010Feature FilmSet in 1980s Nottingham, social worker Margaret Humphreys holds the British government accountable for child migration schemes and reunites the children involved -- now adults living mostly in Australia -- with their parents in Britain.
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Holy Rollers
2010Feature FilmIn Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel.
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Assassination
2015Feature FilmWhile Korea is occupied by the Japanese Army in 1933, the resistance plans to kill the Japanese Commander. But their plan is threatened by a traitor within their group and also the enemies' forces are hunting them down.
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A Tale of Two Cities
1935Feature FilmA pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amongst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
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Get on the Bus
1996Feature FilmA disparate group of African-American men travel by bus to Washington, DC for the Million Man March.
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The Hindenburg
1975Feature FilmA film that chronicles the events of the Hindenburg disaster in which a zeppelin burst into flames.
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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
2005Feature FilmThe life and times of Albert Pierrepoint - Britain's most prolific hangman.
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The King and the Clown
2005Feature FilmTwo clowns living in Korea's Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king laugh.
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Golden Door
2006Feature FilmThe story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. ... See full summary »
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Caravaggio
1986Feature FilmA retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
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Tales from the Golden Age
2009Feature FilmSeveral urban legends of Communist Romania are dramatized.
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The Liberator
2013Feature FilmSimon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated.
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Als das Morden begann
2005TV MovieWhen the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000 people.
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The Tree of Wooden Clogs
1978Feature FilmThe life inside a farm in Italy at the end of the 19th century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever ... See full summary »
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The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939Feature FilmA depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.
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The Emigrants
1971Feature FilmIn the middle of the 19th century, Kristina and Karl-Oskar live in a small rural village in Smaaland (southern Sweden). They get married and try to make a living on a small spot of land. ... See full summary »
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Cheyenne Autumn
1964Feature FilmThe Cheyenne, tired of broken U.S. government promises, head for their ancestral lands but a sympathetic cavalry officer is tasked to bring them back to their reservation.
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Paul, Apostle of Christ
2018Feature FilmThe story covers Paul going from the most infamous persecutor of Christians to Jesus Christ's most influential apostle.
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