Popular History Movies - Page 225

Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

2017

Hong Kong: Retrocession Generation

2017
7.5
In 2017, twenty years after the British handed over Hong Kong to China in 1997, young people, more politicized than any previous generation and proud of their land, do not feel Chinese and actively fight against the oligarchs who want to subdue them to China's authoritarian power.
Familiar Phantoms

2023

Familiar Phantoms

2023
Familiar Phantoms is an experimental documentary short film about memory, history and trauma.
L'Affaire Seznec

1993

L'Affaire Seznec

1993
6.8
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.
Le Retour

1979

Le Retour

1979
10
In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family for France, but immigration weighs on him and he dreams of returning. This day arrives, he walks in Paris, events decide otherwise.
School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape

1987

School of Fine Arts. Juniper Landscape

1987
6
Blending drawings, paintings, filmed interviews, and recorded testimony, this animation-documentary hybrid tells of the tragic fate of the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster.
Bob Marley: One Love

2024

Bob Marley: One Love

2024
6.6
Jamaican singer-songwriter Bob Marley overcomes adversity to become the most famous reggae musician in the world.
Mahakabi Kalidas

1942

Mahakabi Kalidas

1942
A naive Sanskrit poet, shunned for falling in love with a low-caste Indian woman, faces challenges after entering into a competition with a princess.
信仰者

2018

信仰者

2018
Revenge of the Sword

1971

Revenge of the Sword

1971
Stavisky, l'escroc du siècle

2016

Stavisky, l'escroc du siècle

2016
6.2
The story of the rise of Alexander Stravisky, a brilliant and seductive crook, in Paris of the roaring twenties. But unchecked greed and corruption does not go unpunished. The political decadence he feeds off will also cause his downfall.
Rákóczi's Lieutenant

1954

Rákóczi's Lieutenant

1954
8.2
1708 János Bornemissza became the master of stras of Blind Bottyán from a raiding Kuruk. His weapon is driven by patriotism and love for Anna Bíró, the most beautiful girl in réthe. The captured Count Starhemberg takes the Labanc general to the Prince himself, and thus becomes Rákóczi's lieutenant. In the meantime, Réthe falls into the hands of a Laban for treason, and Anna is sent to the stocks. Suhajda, the lecherous hajdú, now thinks he can get the girl for himself. Anna sends a message to John with her brother, and at the call of the prisoners, Rákóczi's army marches. They encounter the enemy along the Váh. The Kuruks celebrate their victory with the wedding of Anna and János.
Toloka

2020

Toloka

2020
6.2
There is a ballad written by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko called “That Catherine's hut is on the hill...". It is about a rescue of Catherine's lover, whom she saves by posing him as her brother. This story, as a parable, flies throughout Ukraine's history and reconstructs its dramatic and heroic episodes. Every challenge, including the Chernobyl accident, leaves Catherine without her home. But she is stubborn, as many generations of Ukrainians, in rebuilding her house out of pieces. The story is not only about Catherine's redemption, but also about Ukraine's survival throughout the centuries that is reflected in a folk tradition called Toloka.
Faraar

1955

Faraar

1955
A group of freedom-fighters face betrayal and go on the run from police in British-occupied Hindustan.
Wild Bill Hickok

1923

Wild Bill Hickok

1923
The former gambler turned upholder of law and order after a run-in with a gang of stage robbers.
Dawn of Humanity

2015

Dawn of Humanity

2015
7.5
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors.
Telekinesis

2023

Telekinesis

2023
3
Moscow, 1977. Scientists are studying paranormal phenomena in a full secrecy. A professor-physicist, an expert in telekinesis and hypnosis, encounters an inexplicable force, the existence of which is impossible to believe in. Сonsequently, his daughter Anna finds out she is gifted with a horrifying deathful power.
The Whirlwind Knight

1969

The Whirlwind Knight

1969
Two halves of a treasure map owned by two brothers is the one thing that the Golden Dragon Gang wants to get, and they'll kill anyone who gets in their way. When the gang quickly dispenses with the two brothers in a blitz home invasion, their third brother, returning from ten years of wandering, arrives and teaches the gang a lesson they'll never forget--that is, if they survive at all! Henchman after henchman gets filleted like a brook trout as our hero literally cuts his way through a jungle of sword-wielding thugs, a trio of fancy-weapon gang leaders, and a masked ninja assassin that's killing people on both sides. Who will be left alive to claim the treasure? Find out in this high body-count wuxia classic.
Tiananmen

2009

Tiananmen

2009
It's 1949 and Tiananmen Square is a mess. Overgrown with weeds and thoroughly dilapidated it looks like hell, but it's where Chairman Mao wants to hold the Founding Ceremony for the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. And so TIAN AN MEN recounts the heroism, the struggle and the sacrifices of a People's Liberation Army unit as they...clean up and re-decorate the Tiananmen Gate? (Description by Subway Cinema)
Kind People

2009

Kind People

2009
The action takes place in a small Ural village beginning the War. The protagonist returns to his native place several years after the war and finds out that he is considered missed in action. The story about people whose quiet life was ruined by the War. The film reveals the tragedy of the whole nation.
Drawing Sword：Fighting Ghost Cry

2022

Drawing Sword：Fighting Ghost Cry

2022
At the beginning of 1942, the Japanese army swept the base area in northwest Shanxi. In order to combat the arrogance of the Japanese army, Li Yunlong led an independent regiment to attack Ping'an County. Japanese troops from all walks of life came to the rescue one after another, and all the troops of our army blocked them. Li Zhenghu was instructed to lead a cavalry company to defend. Relying on the unique terrain, he fought hard with the Japanese army and made huge sacrifices to help Li Yunlong's main attacking force successfully capture the county town of Ping'an, causing heavy damage to the enemy...

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