Top Rated History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 483

Crucifixion

2008

Crucifixion

2008
8
L'eretico - Un gesto di coraggio

2004

L'eretico - Un gesto di coraggio

2004
4.5
Seitsemän veljestä

1939

Seitsemän veljestä

1939
6
Based on a novel by Aleksis Kivi. Follows the story of seven brothers of Jukola in 19th century Finland.
Thyagayya

1981

Thyagayya

1981
8
Thyagaraja was a famous composer in South India. This is his story.
Para Sempre Nunca Mais

2014

Para Sempre Nunca Mais

2014
6
Last Paradise

2015

Last Paradise

2015
6
A global quest for adventure, 45 years in the making all in stunning, original footage
Gorchlach: The legend of Cordelia

2015

Gorchlach: The legend of Cordelia

2015
Ancient esoteric artefact of Celtic origin, witnessed of the passing of the ages between the mountains and fulcrum of the articulated plot, the Gorchlach will lead the two protagonists Guglielmo Corsaris (Federico Mariotti) and Rachel Blackwood (Alice Lussiana Parente) into a journey that will take them to discover secrets hidden for centuries and only considered as legends.
Marooned

2015

Marooned

2015
10
Richard Parker is the lone remaining member of a Royal Observer Corps team, stationed deep underground, during an unidentified cataclysm. He spends his days battling with isolation, loneliness, fear of what waits above and his own memories.
Karaoglan: Baybora's Son

1966

Karaoglan: Baybora's Son

1966
4
In this follow-up to "Karaoğlan – Altay’dan Gelen Yiğit", Kartal Tibet reprises the role that launched his career. The film is set in Byzantine Constantinople and features Emel Turgut, Engin Inal and Reha Yurdakul.
Miracle in the Land of Oblivion

1991

Miracle in the Land of Oblivion

1991
8
In a small Ukrainian village Rudivka, where a rumor begins to circulate that the Second Coming is nigh and that the Messiah is already somewhere in the region, lived the twins. Local people were considering them being one person. The people had got scared, when one of the brothers was killed. They thought that supernatural forces took the law into their own hands. The thought pushed people to committing the terrible deeds. The guesswork brings serious consequences.
Babe Ruth

1991

Babe Ruth

1991
6
A film based on the home-run legend's life.
Chavín de Huantar: el teatro del Más Allá

2015

Chavín de Huantar: el teatro del Más Allá

2015
8
The Pope from the End of the World

2013

The Pope from the End of the World

2013
8
37

2013

37

2013
1
March 27th, 1964. The New York Times published an article headlined '37 Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police.' For more than half an hour, 37 law abiding citizens in Queens watched their neighbor, Kitty Genovese, being brutally killed outside their apartment building. Florel and Jack Bernstein were among those bystanders. A shirt film.
The Fallen of World War II

2015

The Fallen of World War II

2015
8
This interactive infographic short documentary examines the human losses of the Second World War between 1939 and 1945 and the decline in battle deaths in the years since that most terrible war of human history. The 19-minute data visualization uses cinematic storytelling techniques to provide viewers with a fresh and dramatic perspective of a pivotal moment in history. The film follows a linear narration, but it allows viewers to pause during key moments to interact with the charts and dig deeper into the numbers.
Zéfiro

1993

Zéfiro

1993
9
Zephyrus is a film-voyage, a fresco about Southern Portugal. A movie dealing metaphorically with the South of Portugal, singling it out as a place where various cultures came together and mix, giving birth to a singular identity, as unique as this movie itself, a mixture of fiction and documentary
Banquet at Hongmen

2005

Banquet at Hongmen

2005
4
A retelling of the fateful Feast at Swan Goose Gate, a historical event that involved two rebel leaders opposing the Qin dynasty.
The Third Blow

1948

The Third Blow

1948
2
On April 1944, Joseph Stalin orders the Red Army to liberate the Crimea from the German occupiers. The Wehrmacht's local commanders beg Hitler to allow them to retreat from the vulnerable position, but he refuses. After a fierce battle, the Soviet forces destroy the German and Romanian units defending the peninsula and retake Sevastopol.
Las Marthas

2014

Las Marthas

2014
7
Marthas is a PBS documentary about an extraordinary rite of passage in Laredo, Texas where teenage Mexican-American girls debut in a grand Colonial Ball dressed as American revolutionaries - a tradition that goes back 114 years.
The Violin

2015

The Violin

2015
7
Circa late 1930s, Boat Quay, Singapore. A young boy receives an old violin as a gift out of kindness from a foreign trader. From then on, it becomes a treasured possession as he teaches himself to play the instrument over several years, until it was lost during the Japanese Occupation of Singapore. After the war, the violin was found by a man working for the British Military Administration and given to his young daughter. The girl learns to play it and becomes a renowned violinist over the decades. She eventually passes the instrument on to her grandson, an accomplished violinist himself, who restores it and performs in a concert by the Singapore River, where the violin started its unexpected journey nearly 80 years ago.