Popular History Movies on Apple iTunes - Page 75

Fried Fish, Chicken Soup & a Premiere Show

2012

Fried Fish, Chicken Soup & a Premiere Show

2012
Set in Manipur, a conflict region on the remote India- Burma border, this film journeys across a century to paint a portrait of a cinema and its citizens. The encounters - real, fake and surreal, are not for the fainthearted but there is good food and chatter on the go.
Wondrous Boccaccio

2015

Wondrous Boccaccio

2015
5.8
It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

2017

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

2017
5.2
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moments of cinema, from Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen.
Frantz

2016

Frantz

2016
7.3
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
Pollock

2000

Pollock

2000
6.7
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Amistad

1997

Amistad

1997
7
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
John, Paul, George and Ben

2007

John, Paul, George and Ben

2007
5
This humorous and factual history of five lads who grew up to become Founding Fathers brings the early days of American history to life with sass and substance, in Lane Smith's inimitable style.
Robin Hood: The Rebellion

2018

Robin Hood: The Rebellion

2018
5
With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her.
Hanau: Germany in Winter

2022

Hanau: Germany in Winter

2022
6.2
During a racially motivated rampage in Hanau, Hesse, Tobias R. kills nine citizens on February 19, 2020, his mother and then himself. The words of his manifesto indicate severe psychological problems. This psychogram of a mass murderer shows how withdrawn Tobias R. radicalized himself through fake news and delusion for years before it came to a catastrophe.
Beyond Utopia

2023

Beyond Utopia

2023
7.6
A courageous pastor uses his underground network to rescue and aid North Korean families as they risk their lives to embrace freedom.
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts

2017

Raphael: The Lord of the Arts

2017
7.7
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Raphael Sanzio.
Black Panthers of WWII

2025

Black Panthers of WWII

2025
7
As WWIl reaches its turning point, the 761st Tank Battalion, a majority-African American unit known as the Black Panthers, must fight to stop Germany's advance during the Battle of the Bulge. The fate of the free world is in their hands.
Mangoré

2015

Mangoré

2015
7.7
The life and times of famed Paraguayan musician Agustín Pío Barrios, from the years of his youth to his international success.
Tipping Point: The End of Oil

2011

Tipping Point: The End of Oil

2011
8
In an oil-scarce world, we know there are sacrifices to be made in the pursuit of energy. What no one expected was that a tiny Native community, living down the river from Canada's tar sands, would reach out to the world for help — and be heard.
A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley

2019

A Merry Tudor Christmas with Lucy Worsley

2019
9
Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties like it is 500 years ago - discovering long-lost traditions as well as familiar customs.
Legenda o lietajúcom Cypriánovi

2010

Legenda o lietajúcom Cypriánovi

2010
3.6
Historic adventurism movie inspirited by legend about mystery monk, alchemist and healer who made the flying machine according to lost book wrote by Leodardo DaVinci in 18th century.
The Cut

2014

The Cut

2014
5.9
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
The Forger

2022

The Forger

2022
6.1
Jewish aesthete Cioma, 21, does not let anyone take away his joy of life, especially not the Nazis. In 1942, he has to find new ways to make his living in Berlin and escape deportation. In the process he discovers his talent for forgery: not only with passports, but also his own identity.
The Magic of Flight

1996

The Magic of Flight

1996
6.7
Take a technological thrill ride The Magic of Flight takes you on a technological thrill ride faster, higher and wider than modern science or even your imagination! Relive the first flight of the Wright Brothers, then soar with the Blue Angels as they defy the laws of gravity. Narrated by Tom Selleck.
Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy

2019

Patterns of Evidence: The Moses Controversy

2019
6.3
This documentary reveals amazing evidence connected to Moses’s ability to write the first books of the Bible and why most mainstream scholars are blinded to that possibility today.