Popular History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 393

Allegro Barbaro

1979

Allegro Barbaro

1979
6.6
Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The film then skips ahead thirty-fold years: Zsadány and Mari are now lovers, with the sound of war in the background halting their romance. The old friends of Zsadányi have joined with the Nazis, and the landowner living with his peasants in a socialist community grows distant from them. Zsadányi is held responsible for political problems in the country, and will pay with his life.
The Xi'an Incident

1981

The Xi'an Incident

1981
8
Marshal Zhang Xueliang, Commander of the North Eastern Army, grows progressively disillusioned by Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek's policy to engage the Chinese Communist Party rather than fight the Japanese invaders which are occupying Manchuria. Despite numerous pleas, Chiang does not budge. After discussing with fellow general Yang Hucheng, the two take events into their own hands and place Chiang Kai-shek under arrest on December 12, 1936, forcing Chiang into a coalition with the CCP.
People Without A Country

2011

People Without A Country

2011
A documentary about the life of Vera Foteva, a hero partisan from Macedonia. Picturing her life story during the civil war in Greece, terrible interrogation in Soviet Russia, and agony in Siberia gulags after the war reflects the destiny of a whole nation. This is a story about people which ideals were betrayed because of the bargaining of the big nations. At the end those people lost everything, including their homeland.
The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936

The Prisoner of Shark Island

1936
6.8
After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford's Theatre in Washington; Dr. Samuel A. Mudd, considered part of the atrocious conspiracy, is sentenced to life imprisonment and sent to the sinister Shark Island Prison.
Tehdy spolu

2017

Tehdy spolu

2017
A young Jewish girl, Terezka Zágorová, hides in Wallachia from the threat of deportation during World War II.
Son Darbe: 28 Şubat

2012

Son Darbe: 28 Şubat

2012
10
12 episodes documentary about Turkish political history focused on period between 1993 and 2002.
Nomoto: A BC Tragedy

2022

Nomoto: A BC Tragedy

2022
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese Canadians to graduate from UBC, who suffered a breakdown deep in the BC Interior.
My son

2012

My son

2012
9
True Story, A Secret to Freedom and Success
The Story of the Kinks

1985

The Story of the Kinks

1985
Discover the inside story of the most influential English rock band of the '60s. Inspired by a mix of genres including rhythm and blues, folk and country, their music created a British Invasion around the world. Their third single "You Really Got Me" became an international hit and went straight to the top of the charts in the UK. With seventeen top 20 singles and five top ten albums in the UK, the Kinks had an incredibly successful career spanning over 30 years. Featuring interviews with key members of the group, this is their story.
Nero and Agrippina

1914

Nero and Agrippina

1914
7
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
The Praying Mantis

1988

The Praying Mantis

1988
8
A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis, bending over and arching up its front leg, is going to catch the cicada but does not know that there is an oriole beside it. The bird has stretched out its neck, ready to peck at the mantis. Again the oriole is unaware that a weasel is sneaking up to it. The three creatures all covet gains ahead without being aware of an imminent danger behind.
KD – The Devil

2025

KD – The Devil

2025
In the early 1970s, a petty criminal Kaali unwittingly involves himself with underworld thugs, catalyzing events beyond his control.
The Human Factor

2021

The Human Factor

2021
6.8
How US politicians and diplomats, over the past 25 years, have come close to achieving something almost impossible: securing peace between the State of Israel and its Arab and like-minded neighbors, mired in a struggle both dialectical and violent since the early 20th century, due to historical and religious reasons, entrenched offenses and prejudices, and the invisible and tyrannical hand of third countries' geopolitical interests in the area.
Mangi Meli Remains

2020

Mangi Meli Remains

2020
In Old Moshi, Tanzania, a head is missing : the skull of Chief Meli, who fought the German colonial occupation of his territory and was executed in response to his resistance in 1900. This animated film, based on archival sources and oral accounts provided by Chief Meli's grandson, sheds light on the racist roots of physical anthropology and ethnological museums.
8

2012

8

2012
4
Live chronicle of the landmark federal trial of California's Prop. 8 using the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
Je vais tuer Hitler

2023

Je vais tuer Hitler

2023
9
One day, in Savigny, an 18-year-old boy left his house in the middle of the war, saying: "I'm leaving, I'm going to kill Hitler." His name was Joseph, he was Jewish, he was my great-uncle. He disappeared during the night of the Occupation, and his existence became a family secret. He disappeared from history, the small as well as the big: he is not on any deportation list, and the only archive where he appears is a family photo of him as a child. It disappeared like a stone at the bottom of the water, instead of going up in smoke in the sky of Poland. What did he become? And why didn't anyone mention his name anymore?
Castle Ghosts of Wales

1997

Castle Ghosts of Wales

1997
6
Wales is an edge of magnificent landscape and majestic medieval locks. On every square kilometer here are more locks, than somewhere in the world: from romantic ruins to the majestic fortresses. The familial locks of Wales remember time of bloody murders, cruel intestine war.
Thais

1918

Thais

1918
Auschwitz, la machine de mort nazie

2021

Auschwitz, la machine de mort nazie

2021
7
Le Pain du diable

2010

Le Pain du diable

2010