Top Rated History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 376

The Kleist File

2011

The Kleist File

2011
6
Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this day. The German poet is found shot - what does that mean? What exactly happened on the afternoon of November 21, 1811 at Kleiner Wannsee? What do you know about the woman who died with him?
Christmas in Vigala

1981

Christmas in Vigala

1981
5.5
The Christmas of 1905 in Vigala is not a peaceful holiday. The manor house has just been pillaged during the peasant's revolt; the air is full of smoke of fire and there is the premonition of inevitable punishment. Bernhard Laipmann is a tenant farmer whose wife is asking him to leave home since her husband keeps drawing the attention of the authorities. Having doubts about leaving, Laipmann is inspired by endeavouring towards freedom and equality and alarmed by the violence of the revolution.
Hungarian Fragment

1998

Hungarian Fragment

1998
2
Peter falls in love with Lena, a Bulgarian female student in the days of the 1956 revolution. They were both involved in the events of the Revolution, enthusiastically recount their experiences of an American journalist. The boy's parents leave the country, but he did not go with them.
Sufi Paranja Katha

2010

Sufi Paranja Katha

2010
6.5
Karthy (Sharbani Mukherjee) belongs to a prestigious Hindu tharavadu. She falls in love with a Muslim trader named Maamootty (Prakash Bare) and starts living in Maamootty's house after converting to Islam. But she doesn't give up her original beliefs of her original religion Hinduism. To save Karthy from the need to go to the temple, Maamootty builds one inside his house. When the local Muslim people came to know about this, they create problems and this forces the couple to move apart.
Espionage

1955

Espionage

1955
5.5
Oberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Frequent letters from the Russian Empire, however, make him suspect of sharing his knowledge with unauthorized authorities.
Siri Parakum

2013

Siri Parakum

2013
8
The 1st queen of the king dies in child birth, the prince survives. After the 2nd queen, gives birth to a new prince, she plots to kill the 1st prince, so that her son would get the crown after the king. A soldier senses this danger and ousts the prince to a rural village for survival. The village headman adopts the child without knowing the origin of the child. The prince gradually forgets his royalty, and grows up as a skillful and handsome farmer. After the death of the king, the soldier and religious leaders plan to bring the real prince to the crown.
De la ley a la ley

2017

De la ley a la ley

2017
8
Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells

2005

Nagasaki 1945 ~ The Angelus Bells

2005
3
August 1945. In a converted theological seminary on the outskirts of Nagasaki, a young doctor works to help his patients, as unsettling news comes of a new weapon used by the Americans on the city of Hiroshima. When the second nuclear weapon is dropped on Nagasaki, the hospital staff must work to save lives in the midst of the concentric circles of death that their city has become.
Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

2015

Hitler's War on Oil: Objective Baku

2015
7.2
This film tells the story of World War II as experienced by the inhabitants of Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, at the time a satellite of Moscow. The very rich oil deposits of the region aroused the covetousness of Hitler who needed the oil from Baku to carry out his program of world domination. His entire campaign of 1942-1943 was aimed at seizing them. But the Soviets and the Allies were determined to prevent him from doing so, by all means, including the most radical, even if it meant wiping the city off the map.
1066: A Year to Conquer England

2017

1066: A Year to Conquer England

2017
7.5
Drama-Documentary in which historian Dan Snow explores the political intrigues and family betrayals between Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans that led to the Battle of Hastings.
Hua Mulan Joins the Army

1927

Hua Mulan Joins the Army

1927
6.2
A silent film based on the legend of Hua Mulan, released by Tianyi Film Company and directed by Li Pingqian. This silent film holds the distinction of being the first ever full-length feature film about Hua Mulan. Mulan is betrothed to a young man when war arrives and their wedding ceremony has to be put on hold. As her fiancé enlists in the army, so too does the filial Mulan, disguised as a man in place of her ailing father. These new plot twists lead to comedic moments when Mulan encounters her fiancé during training and he does not recognize her.
Shui Hwu Legend

1999

Shui Hwu Legend

1999
4.8
A fantastic film depicting the exploits of the Black Whirlwind knight, Li Kwai: the legendary double axe fighter from the Water Margin.
State Border: Vol. 3. Eastern Frontier

1982

State Border: Vol. 3. Eastern Frontier

1982
8
Chekist Olga Anisimova, who infiltrated the White Guard center in Harbin, and border guard Aleksei Mogilov prevent a number of provocations on the Chinese Eastern Railway, uncovering a conspiracy between the White Chinese and the White Guard center in Harbin.
Teotihuacan: Curse of the Blood Pyramids

2017

Teotihuacan: Curse of the Blood Pyramids

2017
7
A Restoration

2016

A Restoration

2016
7
The fifteen-minute, two-screen digital video installation employs the museums’ photographic and graphic archives. It is a fiction, set to melody and percussion, which is narrated by a ‘chorus’ of museum administrators who are organising the records of Arthur Evans’s excavation of the Cretan city of Knossos. The administrators use Evans’s extraordinary documents and photographs to figuratively reconstruct the Knossos Labyrinth within the museum’s computer server. They then imagine its involuted space as a virtual chamber through which museum objects digitally flow, clatter and cascade.
Community Action Center

2011

Community Action Center

2011
1
Community Action Center is a 69-minute sociosexual video by A.K. Burns and A.L. Steiner which incorporates the erotics of a community where the personal is not only political, but sexual. This project was heavily inspired by porn-romance-liberation films, such as works by Fred Halsted, Jack Smith, James Bidgood, Joe Gage and Wakefield Poole, which served as distinct portraits of the urban inhabitants, landscapes and the body politic of a particular time and place. Community Action Center is a unique contemporary womyn-centric composition that serves as both an ode and a hole-filler.
The Man Who Laughs

1971

The Man Who Laughs

1971
8
A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of two children, a blind girl and a badly scared boy, who are rescued and looked after by a vagabond.
Sardar Mohammad

2017

Sardar Mohammad

2017
10
Set during the India-Pakistan partition, the story of Sardar Mohammad revolves around an infant who is saved by an Indian Sikh police officer.
Désobéir (Aristides de Sousa Mendes)

2009

Désobéir (Aristides de Sousa Mendes)

2009
6
Vitti Dandu

2014

Vitti Dandu

2014
8
In a remote village in colonial India, an old man and his grandson display strong differences in their attitudes towards the country’s British rulers.