History Movies

Escaping History

Ostensibly embarking upon a portrait of a "modern-day Abraham Lincoln", Escaping History traces the development of a relationship between the videomaker and his subject. As the story unfolds, it veers from the objective to the highly personal. The tape relates the story of Mel Glasser, a recovering schizophrenic who, having adopted the persona of Abraham Lincoln, has made considerable progress in the last twenty years. The tape refuses to romanticize Mel's condition; he speaks frankly with intelligence and humour, and takes Applegath on a special journey.

Satisfaction

Georgian England. Two aristocratic women take up pistols, risking their lives to duel over a petty insult.

Zouzounias: Holy Night

Christmas is here again, and the Zouzounias have prepared the most beautiful story for you. See what happened on the night Christ was born. Follow the three wise men with their gifts and see the manger where the Divine Infant sleeps. The reenactment of the birth of Christ is complemented by Christmas songs sung by your favorite Zouzounias, who wish you a Merry Christmas in the most original way!

A halálügyész

The Death Prosecutor (...) [focuses] on a significant court case in the period of the post-1956 retaliations, through the true story of a newly graduated prosecutor, Endre Grátz. https://english.nmhh.hu/article/195551/Online_media_has_gained_ground_as_a_source_of_information_on_the_Hungarian_parliamentary_elections

Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther

The portrait of Eldridge Cleaver, the "Minister of Information" for the Black Panthers movement, in exile in Algiers.

Ľudia, ktorí nevedia kričať

The documentary film about the academic painter Ester M. Šimerová and her husband, the art photographer Martin Martinček, is based on personal correspondence with the painter's mother. Against the backdrop of tragic events, it shows the life of people who found happiness in absolute misfortune. He re-finds, shows places in the mountainous landscape of Liptov and lets the story of people who were almost forgotten come to life.

Quando i tedeschi non sapevano nuotare

Richard III: The Princes in the Tower

It's one of the darkest murder mysteries in British history: did Richard III really kill his nephews in order to make himself king? Is he the greatest villain in English history, or the victim of centuries of grotesquely unfair Tudor propaganda? On the eve of Richard's reburial at Leicester Cathedral, this drama documentary assembles a stellar cast of experts, including David Starkey and Philippa Gregory, to examine all the available evidence. As it plays out the possibilities and tests the competing theories, it endeavors to get to the bottom, once and for all, of what really happened to the princes in the Tower. Is this a tale of naked ambition, cold pragmatism and bloody murder?

Antar: The Black Prince

Based on the life and legend of Antarah ibn Shaddad, a 6th century poet and hero whose poetic works are considered among the greatest in the Arab language.

The Malay Regiment

Based on the real-life events of Ops Kota Gubir I and II, where security teams from the 17 RAMD unit have ambushed several communist camps at the border of Thai-Malaysia, near Gubir, Kedah.

Hospital of the Transfiguration

The beginning of the occupation. A closed mental world for the sick. Dr. Kauters values ​​only methods of resolution, Dr. Rygier is a believer in strong authority, Dr. Marglewski considers psychic property a form of haunting, Dr. Nosilewska left Austria after the Nazi occupation. The writer Sekułowski seeks shelter. The young, newly arrived doctor, Stefan, refuses to remain passive in the face of the situation and events...

A Tale of Two Cities

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Maestras Voluntarias

Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille were among the first young teachers who started pilot programs around the island of Cuba in 1960, laying foundation for the massive National Literacy Campaign that would take place the following year.

Sylvia Plath: Inside The Bell Jar

The story of the making of The Bell Jar, the unique, semi-autobiographical novel written by American writer Sylvia Plath (1932-63), published in February 1963, shortly before her death.

El Invierno Más Frío

The cold streets of Warsaw, the Ghetto where thousands of Jews lived during the Second World War and the deportation square where the train left for the Nazi concentration camps are living witnesses of one of the darkest times of humanity. This film travels to the chilling corners of the Auschwitz, Bkernau and Majdanek concentration camps where nearly 2 million Jews were murdered. Along with never-before-seen images, the renowned Argentine writer Marcelo Birmajer seeks to understand part of what happened in that dark chapter in the history of humanity and in turn decipher not only how humans could commit such an atrocity, but what they must do to prevent it from happening. happen again.

Egaro: The Eleven

Egaro celebrates the centenary of the historical football match between Mohun Bagan and East Yorkshire Regiment for the IFA Shield where Bagan snatched the shield on 29 July 1911 during a time when India was under British rule.

Die Tochter Napoleons

El conde de Maravillas

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.

Lisowczycy

Alexander Joseph Lisowski was born around 1575, and served as a common soldier under Jan Potocki in the campaign against the Wallachian hospodar. Later, as the leader of a confederation of rebellious soldiers, he became famous for plunder and arbitrariness. He was sentenced to banishment for this. He then enlisted in the service of Dmitri Samozwaniec. He was already a commander shrouded in legend when the stigma of infamy was lifted from him. He returned to Poland and created his famous cavalry, later known in Europe as the Polish cavalry or Lisowczycy, after its creator.

Li Bai's Adventure in Chang An

Meng Haoran was about to attend the imperial exam in Chang'an and Li Bai accompanied him there. On their way to Chang’an, Li Bai incidentally saved Liu Moxuan, the daughter of a general who was guarding the frontier and the two became inseparable.