Top Rated History Movies on Pantaflix - Page 498

Russia, Land of the Tsars

2003

Russia, Land of the Tsars

2003
7
The history of the Russian Tsars.
Invitation

1986

Invitation

1986
5
The main character is Anna, an outstanding pediatrician. She survived the harsh years of war in a concentration camp and cannot accept the behavior of her daughter Natalia, who uses her connections and cares only about material goods. Anna is reminded of 1939, when Piotr, who had been missing for forty-five years, arrives in Poland. Together, they visit places that are important to them: Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbruck.
Taloompuk

2002

Taloompuk

2002
7
Set in 1962, idealistic healthcare officer Kulasatri has been assigned to work in the cape village of Taloompuk where she meets Jaa Chang, an idealistic navy sergeant who has suffered from his high-minded idealism. Together, the pair witness the natural beauty of their surroundings and the purity of the southern villagers' lifestyle. But a cross-religion love triangle starts to rage while a devastating storm approaches, threatening all life on Taloompuk cape. The movie recreates the scene of the natural disaster that killed more than ten thousand Muslim and Buddhist Thais.
Attack On The Secret Police

1976

Attack On The Secret Police

1976
7
Satan's Bite

2018

Satan's Bite

2018
8
Made for straight 8's 2018 competition on one cartridge of super 8mm film with only in-camera edits and no post-production. Premiered on may 14th 2018 at straight 8's Cannes film festival screening.
Antti Puuhaara

1976

Antti Puuhaara

1976
7
In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the tragedian and the comedian, who were banished from Tsarist Russia to Karelia, had predicted to the crooked merchant Markki Bohattov that Antti's fate would become intertwined with his own. When Antti falls in love with Bohattov's daughter Darja, the father has to arrange for her to marry the tar merchant Arho Mustahatu.
Reformation: Europe's Holy War

2017

Reformation: Europe's Holy War

2017
8
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the face of modern Europe, unleashing fundamentalism, terror and religious violence.
Eternal Melody

1940

Eternal Melody

1940
6
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bagrationi

1985

Bagrationi

1985
10
About the commander Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration. Mortally wounded in the Battle of Borodino, he slowly dies in the village, at the estate of his aunt. The hero recalls the past, his experiences. Each episode of Bagration's life is a page of Russian history: the military march across the Alps, the capture of the impregnable Devil's Bridge, meetings with Alexander I, the battle of Borodino.
Awka Liwen

2010

Awka Liwen

2010
10
This documentary exposes the untold story about the killing of native Southamerican people in Argentina in the late XIX century, with the aim of taking their lands for economical and political purposes.
The Thrill of Life

1979

The Thrill of Life

1979
8
Dream of the Red Chamber

1978

Dream of the Red Chamber

1978
3
Taiwanese huangmei opera film.
Code of Tumas

2018

Code of Tumas

2018
9
“Code of Tumas ” is an effort to show the well-known events and processes of history through the eyes of a direct person with a subjective and emotional look. Letters, publicism, all creations of Juozas Tumas Vaižgantas, also memories of his contemporaries make this reconstruction possible.
Executed at the Dawn

1965

Executed at the Dawn

1965
9
About Lenin's brother Alexander Ulyanov and his comrades' fight against the Russian autocracy.
Dawn of the Nazis

2017

Dawn of the Nazis

2017
6
How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)
1000 Marys

2001

1000 Marys

2001
6
An exploration of iconography of the Virgin Mary from Early Christian to Modern painting. The way your eye would travel over a single painting, the camera travels over hundreds of images of Mary, discovering the many ways artists have revered her smile, hands, eyes, and the baby Jesus himself.
Дети блокады

2008

Дети блокады

2008
10
Warrior Queen Boudica

2006

Warrior Queen Boudica

2006
6
When the cowardly bureaucrat Catus Decianus breaks a peace treaty with the Iceni by brutalizing and humiliating their queen Boudica and her daughters the Iceian and allies join the queen in a campaign of revenge against the Romans. They plunder Roman cities killing all the inhabitants and burning the cities to the ground until a vastly outnumbered Roman legion faces Boudica's furious hoard.
Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

2017

Tim Vine Travels Through Time Christmas Special

2017
6
To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll where Anne Boleyn (Emma again) asks jester Tim to send invitations to the guests for her Christmas party. However Cardinal Wolsey aims to steal them so that they will come to his own party and Tim must thwart him.
The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne

2015

The Fabulous History of Eau de Cologne

2015
4
The history of the eau of Cologne goes back to almost four centuries, a history formed by extraordinary myths, family feuds and treacherous acts of commercial plagiarism. Its gradual use is a reflection of the evolution of society and its morality, in relation to body and hygiene, a gesture of intimacy. First perfume of kings, then the most popular fragrance, within reach of all the pockets.