New History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 282

Sur la piste du Grand Prix de France

2018

Sur la piste du Grand Prix de France

2018
The Last Gallows: John Morgan's Farewell

2018

The Last Gallows: John Morgan's Farewell

2018
In 1897, a hired hand named John F. Morgan commits a vicious triple murder at the Pfost-Greene farm in West Virginia, leaving only one survivor. This story forever changes the surviving victim and the legal system in the state.
Assassins of Brotherhood

2018

Assassins of Brotherhood

2018
4.3
The film mainly describes the Ming Dynasty ancestors, Zhu Xi, established a secret military intelligence organization - nine gates (九门), to monitor the government officials and to control the people in the capital. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the minister of Military Affairs was attempting to rebel. As being the strongest assassin organization in the capital, nine gates (九门) were ordered to investigate the case. However, this case was intricately rooted, and things far exceeded everyone’s imagination. Even the nine internal forces were deeply involved...
The Catcher Was a Spy

2018

The Catcher Was a Spy

2018
6.2
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
No Goodbyes

2018

No Goodbyes

2018
5
October 1941. Thousands of fascists troops are advancing on Kalinin to capture the city and therefore open a direct route to Moscow. There are two thousand people able to defend the city and they are without tanks or artillery. The only hope of holding the enemy off is in the fifth infantry division convoy, who are about to pass through Kalinin station. But saboteurs intend to do everything to keep this from happening. The head of the Kalinin garrison, Major Sysoyev, struggles to keep order and calm in the city, and himself falls under suspicion of involvement with the subversive enemy group.
Secrets of McDonald's: 50 Years of the Big Mac

2018

Secrets of McDonald's: 50 Years of the Big Mac

2018
7
The documentary traced the fast food company's journey from Route 66 diner to planet-conquering giant.
Nothing Like The Sun

2018

Nothing Like The Sun

2018
2.2
In 1949, Alice Mitchell works as a prostitute on the street. After her situation worsens, she unsuccessfully attempts to reconcile with her estranged family over her homosexuality. She grows infatuated the daughter of a Christian household, Annabel. But she ultimately decides to give up the relationship in order to make peace with her parents.
Lo posible y lo necesario

2018

Lo posible y lo necesario

2018
The life of Marcelino Camacho (1918-2010), a biography intertwined with the Spanish Civil War, the exile in Algeria, the return to Spain, the birth of CCOO, the communist militancy, the fight against the Franco's regime, the struggle for freedom: a walk through the history of the 20th century. The life of a man of his time who, in order to face adversity, always had to choose between what was possible and what was necessary…
Fleshback: Queer Raving in Manchester’s Twilight Zone

2018

Fleshback: Queer Raving in Manchester’s Twilight Zone

2018
From Boiler Room: In the 1980s-1990s, Manchester’s queer clubbing scenes was localised around The Hacienda’s seminal queer party, Flesh and a club called Number 1. Aided by hit TV show, Queer as Folk, the city’s gay scene entered the mainstream in the late 90s. The film explores this history while revealing all about those carrying the torch of alternative rave culture, featuring collectives such as Homo Electric, Meat Free, Body Horror, and High Hoops... The release of the film marks the 30 years anniversary since Section 28 was enacted. Section 28 was the last piece of homophobic law in the UK, and stated that councils should not "intentionally promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality" in its schools or other areas of their work. Section 28 was enforced in 1988 before it was repealed in Scotland in 2000 and then 2003 in the rest of the UK.
Henry IV

2018

Henry IV

2018
Harriet Walter takes the lead in the second installment of the Donmar Shakespeare Trilogy directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Featuring a diverse company of women, this unique interpretation combines both parts of Shakespeare’s history plays about King Henry IV and his son Prince Hal.
The Manifesto

2018

The Manifesto

2018
"We tortured some folks." - Barack Obama
Julius Caesar

2018

Julius Caesar

2018
8.5
The first installment of Phyllida Lloyd’s groundbreaking all-female Shakespeare Trilogy sees Harriet Walter take on the role of Brutus, who wrestles with his moral conscience over the murder of Julius Caesar.
Ned Kelly's Revenge

2018

Ned Kelly's Revenge

2018
10
The infamous Kelly Gang is at it again spreading mischief and death throughout bush. However, their gunfire has attracted unwanted attention from the local police. When shots are let loose, which side will come out on top...
Shelley's Blaze

2018

Shelley's Blaze

2018
8
A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.
The Last Party ~S. Fitzgerald's Last Day~

2018

The Last Party ~S. Fitzgerald's Last Day~

2018
10
A musical about the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. We begin on Dec. 21st, 1940, just moments before Scott dies. The main actor speaks to the audience, asking them what they think he was thinking of, what he was planning. Then he takes us back, for one last party before the end.
The Knight in the White Night

2018

The Knight in the White Night

2018
10
During the Ming dynasty, Japan invaded China with an army equipped with guns. The union chief of the martial arts clans revealed in his deathbed that there is a rare book containing secrets that will make a person immune to gunfire. His last words sparked the clans to contend with each other to find it. Also in search of the book were the Japanese who dispatched a team of ninjas to go after the book. The imperial court also secretly intervened in this dispute. The emperor secretly dispatched a Kung fu Master and ordered him to find the book within seven days.
Gotti

2018

Gotti

2018
5.3
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
A Man is Dead

2018

A Man is Dead

2018
6.4
Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and intense fighting lasting more than a month turned the city, its docks, its arsenal, into ashes. Thousands of workers will build it up again, brick by brick. But with awful work conditions protests quickly arise and a strike begins. Violent confrontations happen during manifestations. Until one man falls. The next day René Vautier lands at Brest clandestinely to make a movie about the movement.
Le Brasier, Le Louvre incendié par la Commune

2018

Le Brasier, Le Louvre incendié par la Commune

2018
Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

2018

Lenin and the Other Story of the Russian Revolution

2018
8
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time and forever, but perhaps the actual events happened in a way different from that narrated in the history books…