Popular History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 217

The Star Hour

1973

The Star Hour

1973
Based on the play by Estonian playwright Hans Luik. The action takes place in Petrograd on the eve of the October Revolution.
The Princess of Huan Zhi

2000

The Princess of Huan Zhi

2000
3.5
A thief breaks into the bedroom of the three princesses and wakes them up. Her father thought she was raped. In order to preserve the royal family's reputation, her father quietly walked out of the palace to track down the thief. The king knew about it, so he sent a general to find the girls. A crazy and smelly ride begins.
Rebellion of the Hanged

1954

Rebellion of the Hanged

1954
6.8
A peasant who works in a mahogany camp in the Mexican jungles with his family is disgusted with the miserable living conditions imposed upon himself and his co-workers, the peasant finally spearheads a revolt against the sadistic bosses.
Prince Ehtejab

1975

Prince Ehtejab

1975
5.3
Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tuberculosis, which he knows is fatal. He spends his last days alone in the magnificent rooms of his wintry palace, from where he recollects the glory days of his ancestors as well as days of degradation. Among the latter are the gruesome manner in which his cruel grandfather murdered his mother and brother, and the way that he himself caused the death of his wife.
Gisèle

0000

Gisèle

0000
Follows the lawyer Gisèle Halimi and her historic defense of Basque individuals accused of crimes committed during the conflict in Basque Country.
渡江！渡江！

2012

渡江！渡江！

2012
On the eve of the PLA's launch of the cross-river campaign, Kuomintang battalion commander Huang Huai'en led his troops to retreat to the south of the Yangtze River at the Chu's Ferry where it was stationed. Before leaving, he told the landlord Chu boss that he would marry He Hua, the daughter of the Chu family, and left an ancestral jade bracelet as a token. During that evening, He Hua met with Liu ZhenShan, the leader of the People's Liberation Army who came to investigate, and fell in love at first sight.
Voice Over

2010

Voice Over

2010
The end of the 70s. Anton Krastev, a DOP and his wife Diana are separated by the Iron curtain - she fled with their son Antoan to Western Berlin while he stayed in Bulgaria. She believes that Antoan can only be cured in Germany. But Anton can't live without his job. He works with the best film director who is a high ranking Communist. The State Security Services are keeping a zealous eye on Anton. His phone calls are being taped, his letters are being read. His close relations to the power people of the day make him even more suspicious. The State Security Services put an end to Anton's relation with his wife. Thorn apart, Anton and Diana go through love, alienation and hate. There comes a time though when the powerful friends of Anton lose their power and he loses everything that he's ever loved - his work, his wife and son. Thirty years later Anton shoots the story of his own life. But those who now direct the movie are the very same people who once persecuted him.
Bogie

1980

Bogie

1980
5
The Humphrey Bogart story from the early '30s until his death, covering the period as a struggling young actor through movie stardom and his marriages to Mayo Methot and Lauren Bacall.
Бесстрашный атаман

1973

Бесстрашный атаман

1973
A biographical novella based on I. Vsevolzhsky's novel "Hutor's Team".
To New Shores

1969

To New Shores

1969
On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. Petersburg. Delirium tremens had done its dirty work: there was no hope for recovery. And this “old man” had just turned 42 years old, and it was the great Russian composer Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky. Who knows what visions, what memories swarmed in his fevered imagination in rare moments of enlightenment?
Twa-Tiu-Tiann

2014

Twa-Tiu-Tiann

2014
3.2
Through a famous painting "South Street Festival", a Taiwanese college boy unexpectedly travels 100 years back in time, back to the 1920's, when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. He is stuck, he panics, he wants to return to 2014 but soon changes his mind, not just because of the prettiest geisha girl in town...
A Man of Immortality

1981

A Man of Immortality

1981
After the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 by the Manchu government, people on the island staged a series of anti-Japanese revolts to oppose the tyrannical rule of the Japanese militarists.
The Ponzi Scheme

2014

The Ponzi Scheme

2014
7.8
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
A Midwife's Tale

1998

A Midwife's Tale

1998
7.8
To understand eighteenth-century America through a woman's eyes, historian and author Laurel Thatcher Ulrich spent eight years working through Martha Ballard's massive but cryptic diary. "A Midwife's Tale" chronicles the interwoven stories of two remarkable women: an eighteenth-century midwife and healer and the twentieth-century historian who brought her words to light.
The Mystic Warrior

1984

The Mystic Warrior

1984
2.5
Saga about a proud band of Sioux Indians, and the efforts of one brave to save his people from destruction through the use of mysterious powers handed down by ancestors.
Come Free

1985

Come Free

1985
1918. North Caucasus, civil war. After the revolutionary upsurge, during which the First Congress of the Peoples of the Terek Region was convened, there was a temporary decline. Denikin's troops were rampaging, and the party went underground, continuing its revolutionary activities. Denikin's troops notice the appearance of the Bolshevik Aslanbek in the city and begin to follow the liaison officer. Soon, the underground committee is arrested. But by this time, the Red Army, having received powerful support from the mountain dwellers and workers, goes on the offensive.
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

2003

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

2003
8.1
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.
Praise of Death

1991

Praise of Death

1991
The life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s.
Heretic

1986

Heretic

1986
The life of the author of the first-ever book written in the Slovene language, Primož Trubar, in the years 1562 to 1565, during his return to Ljubljana.
Kim's Video

2023

Kim's Video

2023
6.9
Since 1987, and for almost three decades, New York cinephiles had access to a vast treasure trove of rare films thanks to Kim's Video, a small empire run by Yongman Kim, an enigmatic character who amassed more than fifty thousand VHS tapes.