Popular History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 278

Berlanga!!

2021

Berlanga!!

2021
8
How does the vision of the brilliant Spanish filmmaker Luis García Berlanga (1921-2010) remain relevant in a time whose popular culture has little to do with his own? Since to understand the secrets of an artist it is essential to know the person behind, his family, his friends, his collaborators, as well as prestigious filmmakers and actors trace a collective portrait of a creator as singular as he is universal.
The Tortures of Hope

1969

The Tortures of Hope

1969
A young doctor, accused of desecrating a body, is brought to the presence of the Inquisition.
Running Start

1983

Running Start

1983
7
The film is dedicated to Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, whose name is associated with the first stage of space exploration.
Wrath

1974

Wrath

1974
10
Historical drama about the Tatarbunar uprising in southern Bessarabia in September 1924. The plot is based on the complicated relationship between two brothers standing on opposite sides of the barricades. The betrayal of one of the brothers led to a spontaneous uprising of the poor, which swept the entire south of Bessarabia and was brutally suppressed by the punitive occupation forces.
Sergey Lazo

1968

Sergey Lazo

1968
5.8
A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.
Bhatti Vikramarka

1960

Bhatti Vikramarka

1960
Bhatti Vikramarka (transl. Bhatti and Vikramarka) is a 1960 Indian Telugu-language swashbuckling adventure film based on the life of King Vikramaditya.
The Darling of the CSA

1912

The Darling of the CSA

1912
4
Anna Q. Nilsson is the title character, Agnes Lane, a daring spy for the South during the Civil War. She delivers an important message regarding an attack on a Yankee fort, then infiltrates the fort and turns herself in, only to change into a Union soldier’s clothes and escape with more confidential information. The Confederate soldiers love her, and treat her with respect, despite her un-ladylike profession. During the attack, morale appears to flag, but she sneaks out a message that she has been captured by the Yankees and is due to be executed, urging the boys to greater heroism. As they capture the fort, she again infiltrates and pretends to be grateful to her “rescuers.”
Rabiha

1943

Rabiha

1943
(Rabha) is a Bedouin girl from a fanatical tribe. She meets by chance a young man from the city while he is on a hunting trip. Love grows between them and they agree to marry. However, her tribe does not approve of their daughter’s marriage to a non-Bedouin young man, and they decide to marry her to her cousin, so Rabha escapes from the tribe to her lover. On her wedding day, her lover, Nabil, decides to kidnap her and let her live with him despite the social difference.
Ian Dury: On My Life!

1999

Ian Dury: On My Life!

1999
7
Autobiographical documentary in which Ian Dury, fighting a battle with cancer to which he would later succumb, recalls his life and career. With contributions from painter Peter Blake and members of Dury's band, the Blockheads.
Narthanasala

1963

Narthanasala

1963
7
This film deals with the Virata Parvam (Book of Virata) of the epic Mahabharatam dictated by Vyasa Maharshi.
Spitfire Over Berlin

2022

Spitfire Over Berlin

2022
5.4
August 1944. With the American Eighth Air Force poised to strike over Nazi Germany, British Intelligence learns that they could be flying into a deadly trap. With only hours to spare, Flight Lieutenant Edward Barnes must fly a life and death mission over Berlin in his unarmed Spitfire to obtain photographic evidence and save the lives of 1200 men.
Sultan Beybars

1989

Sultan Beybars

1989
The second part of a historical film dilogy based on the story “Emshan” by Maurice Simashko. XIII century. Equal to God, Sultan Beybars — the ruler of Egypt, who has the largest fleet in the Mediterranean, crushed the Crusader troops and countless hordes of Genghis Khan's descendant – recalls the life path he passed before ascending to the throne of the ruler.
Vera

2022

Vera

2022
8
Vera is a young woman in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia who gets entangled in the WW2 spy network and also in the patriarchal society full of powerful, arrogant men with whom she deals bravely and arrogantly.
Phoenix: "Dougo Onsen" Chapter

2019

Phoenix: "Dougo Onsen" Chapter

2019
A collaborative anime between Hi no Tori and the Dougo Onsen hot spring bath house. The anime is part of a revitalization project for the Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture bath house that began on January 15. The Dougo Onsen building is 125 years old and certain areas were due for a facelift.
The Lion in Winter

1968

The Lion in Winter

1968
7.4
Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.
Mad Love

2001

Mad Love

2001
6.1
The tragic fate of Juana I of Castille, Queen of Spain, madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe el Hermoso, Archduke of Austria.
The Bloody Lilly of the Valley

2015

The Bloody Lilly of the Valley

2015
Unknown Serbian author creates one of the most popular Serbian folk songs "Djurdjevdan" (St. George Day) in the 'Train of Death' on it's way to Croatian concentration camp Jasenovac, during World War 2.
The Woman Disputed

1928

The Woman Disputed

1928
6.2
An adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
Moto Is Missing

2007

Moto Is Missing

2007
7
Featurette about the demise, during the early 1940s, of the once-popular Mr. Moto B-films series that starred Peter Lorre.
February Wind

1982

February Wind

1982
1917, the eve of the February Revolution. Kirill Astakhov, a Bolshevik, one of the organizers of the suppressed riot, is transferred from the Siberian Archinsk prison to the Kutuisky stockade. He is accompanied by the warden Stepan Filimonov, who has his own scores to settle with politicians.