History Movies
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Fontane Effi Briest
1974Feature FilmIn the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town.... See full summary »
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Kerala Varma Pazhassi Raja
2009Feature FilmKerala Varma Pazhassi Raja is a 2009 Malayalam historical drama film based on the life of Pazhassi Raja, a Hindu king who fought against the British in the 18th century.
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Triumph of the Spirit
1989Feature FilmFact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ... See full summary »
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The Sullivans
1944Feature FilmThe lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are ... See full summary »
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The Time that Remains
2009Feature FilmAn examination of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948 through to the present day.
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Killing Lincoln
2013TV MovieBased on The New York Times best-selling novel, Killing Lincoln is the suspenseful, eye-opening story of the events surrounding the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
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The Lion in Winter
2003TV MovieKing Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor.
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Finding Altamira
2016Feature FilmLife and events of the man who realized one of the most important discoveries of the 19th century: Altamira's caves.
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Sharpe's Waterloo
1997TV MovieBased on the novel by Bernard Cornwell, "Sharpe's Waterloo" brings maverick British officer Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe to his last fight against the French, in June of 1815. Sharpe is assigned... See full summary »
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Das Haus der Lerchen
2007Feature FilmA stirring and stunning story of an aristocratic family who is unexpectedly swept into the ravages of World War I and a forbidden passion that may be the family's only hope.
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The Thirty Nine Steps
1978Feature FilmIn March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.
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Sharpe's Honour
1994TV Movie1813. Major Sharpe's old enemy, Major Ducos manipulates a beautiful young marquesa into falsely accusing Sharpe of rape. Her husband calls Sharpe out in a duel. But when the husband is ... See full summary »
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The Colditz Story
1955Feature FilmAllied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German POW camp housed in a Medieval castle.
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Jaatishwar
2014Feature FilmThe life and notable works of Anthony Firingee a 19th century Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin.The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different time periods-19th century and the present day.
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True Women
1997TV MovieCovering nearly fifty years of mid-19th-century turmoil, from the tumultuous Texas Revolution to the early women's suffrage movement, "True Women" is a gripping tale of endurance, love, and above all, gritty female determination.
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The Story of Louis Pasteur
1936Feature FilmThe biography of the pioneering French microbiologist who helped revolutionize agriculture and medicine.
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The Marquise of O
1976Feature FilmA German Marquise has to deal with a pregnancy she cannot explain and an infatuated Russian Count.
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