The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Grand Illusion (1937), The Cranes Are Flying (1957), Promises (2001), Fighter (2000), The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987), The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993), Watermarks (2004) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best History movies.
Storyline: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
Plot Keywords: war, documentary, vietnam war, grief, memories, female perspective, history ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This documentary, directed by a survivor of the genocide, chronicles the systematized murder perpetuated by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, specifically the torture and killing of the educated classes in the notorious S-21 prison, which is now a museum. But this film is not about statistics and generalized history. Instead, it focuses on two survivors who return to the prison, coming face-to-face with some of the guards who insist that they were only following bureaucratic orders.
Plot Keywords: documentary, genocide, history, war crimes, survivors, prison, torture ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An unflinching documentary shot in black and white, this film focuses on the heated topic of abortion. Directed by British-born filmmaker Tony Kaye, the production depicts the heated ongoing abortion debate in America, and features graphic footage of actual medical procedures. Presenting people on both pro-choice and pro-life sides of the issue, the documentary includes interviews with philosopher and political activist Noam Chomsky, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry and numerous others.
Plot Keywords: controversy, documentary, morality, religion, politics, social issue, ethics ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Anna must deal with losing her privileges when her well-off parents become leftist activists.
Plot Keywords: politics, family, coming of age, revolution, france, child's perspective, ideology ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Problems early in life fuel the actor's (James Franco) rapid ascent to legend status in spite of the brevity of his career.
Plot Keywords: biography, drama, history, usa, hollywood, actor, legend ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Orson Welles (Liev Schreiber), all charisma and stubborn vision, is signed to direct films for RKO Pictures with a startling amount of creative freedom. Welles decides to make production number 281 a disguised biopic of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell), a film which would come to be known as "Citizen Kane." But Welles doesn't understand just how much clout Hearst yields. When he gets word of the unflattering production, Hearst does everything in his power to stop it.
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, hollywood, film production, media, power struggle ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An order of Trappist monks whose members include Christian (Lambert Wilson) and Luc (Michael Lonsdale) live among the Muslim population in a quiet corner of Algeria. As the country is plunged into civil war in the mid-1990s, the men of God must decide whether to stay among the impoverished residents who have been their neighbors, or flee the encroaching fundamentalist terrorists. The situation that unfolds, based on actual events, has tragic consequences.
Plot Keywords: faith, terrorism, christianity, islam, civil war, sacrifice, peace ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In this minimalist anti-war film, a faction of Hungarian soldiers on the side of the Russian Red army, led by a determined commander (Jozsef Madaras), fight against the pro-Czar white army in a remote Russian field near a dense wood along the Volga River. As the tide of battle ebbs and flows, a small group of compassionate nurses, including Olga (Krystyna Mikolajevska), do not differentiate between the sides, transporting all wounded soldiers to the nearby wood and treating their injuries.
Plot Keywords: war, history, soviet union, civil war, black and white, 1960s, war film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: During the 1956 Olympic games the Hungarian and Russian water-polo teams face off.
Plot Keywords: history, war, revolution, political, romance, drama, sports ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A thief and a dynamite-tossing Irish revolutionary inadvertently become embroiled in the Mexican Revolution.
Plot Keywords: western, spaghetti western, action, adventure, revolution, mexico, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Spain is overrun by the Moors and the country's only hope rests in a heroic knight known as El Cid (Charlton Heston). He knows a divided Spain cannot stand and implores his countrymen to unify in order to repel the invaders. But a hitch develops in El Cid's campaign: He gets exiled from his homeland of Castile by the region's power-hungry ruler. In the meantime, he attempts to reunite with his estranged wife, Jimena (Sophia Loren) -- who's still upset by the fact that he killed her father.
Plot Keywords: history, war, epic, hero, biography, knight, christianity ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Filmmakers Pippa Scott and Oreet Rees document the exploitation of the Congo by Belgium's King Leopold II.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, colonialism, belgium, human rights, exploitation, imperialism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Physicist Richard Feynman (William Hurt) investigates the cause of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.
Plot Keywords: history, disaster, true story, space exploration, nasa, investigation, docudrama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the Beatles land in America in the early 1960s, young men wearing their hair long strike the nation as an abomination. But within a few years, youthful rebellion grows more severe: Witness the Weathermen, the radical antiwar activists who mobilize (unsuccessfully) to overthrow the U.S. government. With contemporary interviews and archival footage, this documentary elucidates the Weather Underground's controversial history and continuing significance.
Plot Keywords: documentary, history, politics, radicalism, anti-war, social movement, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Two brothers (Richard Ian Cox, David Kaye) set aside their differences to stop the destructive power of an evil sword.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, adventure, action, japanese, movie, feature film ...
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