Top Rated History Movies - Page 298

Reportaje del movimiento revolucionario en Barcelona

1936

Reportaje del movimiento revolucionario en Barcelona

1936
8.3
A pro-Republican documentary filmed on the streets of Barcelona between July 19-24, 1936. It showcases the revolutionary fervor in the city at the onset of the Spanish Civil War.
Bespectacled

1969

Bespectacled

1969
5
The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
November Days

1991

November Days

1991
5.7
Marcel Ophüls interviews various important Eastern European figures for their thoughts on the reunification of Germany and the fall of Communism.
Contract of the Century

1985

Contract of the Century

1985
3
In order to negotiate with West German financiers about the construction of the gas pipeline between Siberia and Western Europe, a delegation of Soviet foreign trade collaborators flies to Germany, where they immediately come under CIA surveillance: U.S. intelligence agencies are interested in disrupting the 'contract of the century.' ”...
Germany Awakens - A Document of the Rebirth of Germany

1933

Germany Awakens - A Document of the Rebirth of Germany

1933
6.3
A propaganda film of the Nazi Party from the year of the “Machtergreifung” in 1933. The film is a contemporary interesting document that illustrates the self-perception of the party at the beginning of their importance in terms of power politics.
Maiden's Mountains

1919

Maiden's Mountains

1919
5.3
The film tells the story of Judas and Satan wandering the world in search of a virgin who could become the mother of the new Evil.
Black River

1992

Black River

1992
5.7
Río Negro is the struggle of two men, Osuna and Funes, hungry for power and wealth in a small town in Venezuela, during the dictatorship of Juan Vicente Gómez
As in Heaven

1992

As in Heaven

1992
5.3
Set on a remote farm on the west coast of Iceland in late summer 1936. Hrefna, encouraged by her grandmother’s stories, begins to mix past and future in her imagination, travelling back to the 14th century.
Treblinka's Last Witness

2012

Treblinka's Last Witness

2012
8
Samuel Willenberg and Kalman Taigman, the last two survivors of the Nazi extermination camp Treblinka, recount the horrors they experienced during the war and talk about their lives after their escape in a prisoner uprising in 1943. Willenberg would go on to become a hero of the 1944 Warsaw uprising while Taigman would be called as a witness during the infamous trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Sunday Pranks

1988

Sunday Pranks

1988
5.7
Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
L. Frank Baum: The Man Behind the Curtain

2005

L. Frank Baum: The Man Behind the Curtain

2005
6
A featurette on L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other children's books.
The House in the South

1976

The House in the South

1976
4.7
Indian village experiences forced relocation; their experience is paralleled by that of other groups dating back to the 18th century.
Ordered to Forget

2014

Ordered to Forget

2014
5.7
As the mass deportations of the Chechen and Ingush peoples begin in 1944, young Daud and Seda escape to the mountains. When they get back to their native village, however, they witness a horrifying war crime.
Touched by Auschwitz

2015

Touched by Auschwitz

2015
7
In Jerusalem and Chicago, London and Bavaria, Krakow and Tel Aviv live six people who survived the horror of the Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This is their story, that of their families and friends; the story of their problems, their failures, their triumphs; how with their lives they honor every day the memory of those who perished.
El cine libertario: cuando las películas hacen historia

2010

El cine libertario: cuando las películas hacen historia

2010
7.3
Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.
One Russian Summer

1973

One Russian Summer

1973
6.8
Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.
Playing Under The Moon

2000

Playing Under The Moon

2000
5.2
This is the story of two teenage women affected by violence and the painful journey to become full and liberated. One, Maruja is a young rape victim. The other Carmen Luisa is beaten by violence within her own family.
True Appaloosa

2015

True Appaloosa

2015
7.8
Horse breeder Scott Engstrom has been trying for years to prove that the Appaloosa, a rare American horse breed, came from Asia and not Spain. With only 109 true Appaloosas left in the world the question is vital. After spotting a horse uncannily like an Appaloosa on a TV show filmed in Kyrgyzstan, the fiery 69-year-old heads for central Asia.
Lermontov

1943

Lermontov

1943
6.3
Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to the fatal destiny of the poet himself.
Portrait of a Thief

2015

Portrait of a Thief

2015
8.3
A pickpocket assumes various identities to steal from the aristocracy in early-20th-century Rio de Janeiro.

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