Popular History Movies on Amazon Video - Page 55

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

2017
6.3
An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s.
Far from the Madding Crowd

1967

Far from the Madding Crowd

1967
6.8
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely divergent men.
Recount

2008

Recount

2008
6.8
In 2000, the election of the U.S. Presidential boiled down to a few precious votes in the state of Florida — and a recount that would add "hanging chad" to every American's vocabulary.
Escape from Germany

2024

Escape from Germany

2024
6.4
1939, Hitler's army was closing borders, and 85 American missionaries were in Germany serving their church. The escape of these missionaries from Nazi Germany is one of the most dramatic events to occur in modern LDS history.
I, Olga Hepnarova

2016

I, Olga Hepnarova

2016
6.7
Olga is a complex young woman desperate to break free from her unfeeling family and social conventions. With her Louise Brooks-like tomboyish looks she drags herself, chain-smoking, from one job to another until she appears to find her niche as a truck driver. Although she has female lovers she does not form a bond with any of them; instead she clashes, time and again, venting herself in wordless emotional outbursts and other behavioural extremes.
Edward II

1991

Edward II

1991
6.1
England, 14th century. King Edward II falls in love with Piers Gaveston, a young man of humble origins, whom he honors with favors and titles of nobility. The cold and jealous Queen Isabella conspires with the evil Mortimer to get rid of Gaveston, overthrow her husband and take power…
The Man in the Iron Mask

1977

The Man in the Iron Mask

1977
6.3
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Good Ol' Freda

2013

Good Ol' Freda

2013
7.1
The story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: The Beatles. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda tells her tales for the first time in 50 years.
Savior

1998

Savior

1998
7.2
A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atrocities during the fighting in Bosnia.
Stand Up and Fight

1939

Stand Up and Fight

1939
5.8
A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.
High Road to China

1983

High Road to China

1983
5.9
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

2021

Onoda: 10,000 Nights in the Jungle

2021
7.1
Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide; stay alive whatever happens; the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, this role will be to wage a guerrilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after; Onoda, 10,000 days later.
Jack Strong

2014

Jack Strong

2014
6.5
Poland, 1970. Firmly determined to fight against Soviet tyranny and prevent the destruction of the world, the high-ranking officer of the Polish army Ryszard Kukliński makes a serious decision that will put his life, his family and the fate of an entire nation at risk.
Iceman: The Time Traveler

2018

Iceman: The Time Traveler

2018
6.6
The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later pass and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.
Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

2016

Egon Schiele: Death and the Maiden

2016
6.8
Vienna, Austria, 1910. The young painter Egon Schiele is a rising artist, provocative and free, whose work, characterized by eroticism, shocks as much as it fascinates art lovers.
Bent

1997

Bent

1997
6.8
Max is a handsome young man who, after a fateful tryst with a German soldier, is forced to run for his life. Eventually Max is placed in a concentration camp where he pretends to be Jewish because in the eyes of the Nazis, gays are the lowest form of human being. But it takes a relationship with an openly gay prisoner to teach Max that without the love of another, life is not worth living.
The Mystery of Dante

2014

The Mystery of Dante

2014
5.2
A journey in the footsteps of the most famous initiate of Italian Trecento, the author of the celebrated "Divine Comedy". A poet who has inspired some of the most outstanding minds in History.
Simone: Woman of the Century

2022

Simone: Woman of the Century

2022
7.9
Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently challenged and transformed her era defending a humanist message still keenly relevant today.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

1939
6.3
This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.
Holy Silence

2020

Holy Silence

2020
7
As World War II looms, Pope Pius XI calls on a humble American priest to help him challenge the evils of Nazism and anti-Semitism. But death intervenes, and Pope Pius XII now carries out a very different response to Hitler and the Holocaust.