Type: Movies
Genre: History
807 content found
The Watsons Go to Birmingham 2013

Set in the Summer of 1963, Flint, Michigan is home to the Watsons, a close knit "All American Family" made up of Daniel and Wilona Watson, (Harris and Rose) and their three kids, 15 year-old juvenile delinquent Byron (Knight), nerdy 11 year-old Kenny (Jenkins) and eight year-old adorable sister Joetta (Jackson). When Byron's antics go over the top, his parents realize enough is enough and they decide the family needs a dose of Grandma Sands (Richardson) no nonsense approach in Birmingham, Alabama. So the Watsons load up the 1948 Plymouth Brown Bomber outfitted with a true tone Ultra-Glide turntable and head South with plenty of comedy en route. When they finally make it to Birmingham, they meet Grandma Sands and her friend, Mr. Robert (Grier), who show them around town and the Watsons discover that life is very different there than in Flint - and not necessarily for the better. During that historic summer, the Watsons find themselves caught up in something far bigger than Byron's antics. Something that will change their lives and country forever.

Category: Family, History, Kids

Stars: Bryce Clyde Jenkins,Harrison Knight,Skai Jackson,Anika Noni Rose

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,704 Views
Memories of the Sword 2015

While the Goryo Dynasty in the medieval Korea, three warriors named Deok-ki, Poong-chun and Seol-rang have led a riot against the king and his foreign allies from Kitan, China. But Deok-ki betrays them, which results in the death of Poong-chun. But Seol-rang is able to escape with Seol-hee, Poong-chun's little daughter, and her sword. 18 years later, Seol-rang got blind but she raised and taught Seol-hee very well. Both feel that the time for revenge is right, but Deok-ki is now one of the most powerful men in the country. All of them know, that spilling blood is the only way of redemption.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Byung-hun Lee,Soo-an Kim,Go-eun Kim,Do-yeon Jeon

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,966 Views
Son of God 2014

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Diogo Morgado,Greg Hicks,Adrian Schiller,Darwin Shaw

5.7 IMDB Rating 6,318 Views
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records 2015

Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with two hundred stores, in thirty countries, on five continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a powerful force in the music industry. In 1999, Tower Records made $1 billion. In 2006, the company filed for bankruptcy. What went wrong? Everyone thinks they know what killed Tower Records: The Internet. But that's not the story. "All Things Must Pass" is a feature documentary film examining this iconic company's explosive trajectory, tragic demise, and legacy forged by its rebellious founder Russ Solomon.

Category: Documentary, History, Music

Stars: Chuck D.,Chris Cornell,Heidi Cotler,Rudy Danzinger

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,893 Views
Lambert & Stamp 2014

Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the High Numbers a rebellious restlessness that was just what they were looking for. Abandoning their plans to make a film, they instead decided to mentor and manage this group, which evolved into the iconic band known as the Who. The result was rock 'n' roll history.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Richard Barnes,Ritchie Blackmore,Heather Daltrey,Roger Daltrey

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,374 Views
Last Days in the Desert 2015

Ewan McGregor is Jesus - and the Devil - in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Ewan McGregor,Ciarán Hinds,Ayelet Zurer,Tye Sheridan

5.6 IMDB Rating 3,802 Views
The Last Valley 1971

During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Michael Caine,Omar Sharif,Florinda Bolkan,Nigel Davenport

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,130 Views
Wild River 1960

A young field administrator for the TVA comes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam on the Tennessee River. He encounters opposition from the local people, in particular a farmer who objects to his employment (with pay) of local black laborers. Much of the plot revolves around the eviction of an elderly woman from her home on an island in the River, and the young man's love affair with that woman's widowed granddaughter.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Montgomery Clift,Lee Remick,Jo Van Fleet,Albert Salmi

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,641 Views
Full of Grace 2015

Follows Mary of Nazareth in her last earthly days as she helps the fractious early Church regain their original encounter with The Lord.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Noam Jenkins,Bahia Haifi,Kelsey Asbille,Merik Tadros

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,782 Views
Operation Chromite 2016

American General Douglas MacArthur (Liam Neeson) sends eight members of the Korean Liaison Office, led by a South Korean Navy Lieutenant (Lee Jung-Jae) on a secret mission far behind North Korean lines to carry out Operation "X-ray". This covert operation must succeed so that MacArthur can launch the daring Incheon Landing Operation.This is a fictionalized version of the historical CIA/military intelligence operation "Trudy Jackson", part of Operation Chromite.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Jung-jae Lee,Liam Neeson,Beom-su Lee,Mathew Darcy

6.2 IMDB Rating 4,563 Views
Heneral Luna 2015

Set during the Philippine-American war, Heneral Luna follows the life of one of Philippine History's most brilliant soldier, General Antonio Luna, as he tries to lead his countrymen against colonial masters new and old, and to rise above their own raging disputes to fulfill the promise of the Philippine Revolution.

Category: Action, History

Stars: John Arcilla,Mon Confiado,Arron Villaflor,Jeffrey Quizon

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,094 Views
The Cokeville Miracle 2015

On May 16, 1986, in the small, ranching community of Cokeville, Wy, David and Doris Young took an elementary school hostage for several hours before detonating a bomb inside a single classroom that held every teacher and student in the school. In the wake of the madness, Ron Hartley, whose children were inside the classroom, must fight his skepticism and unbelief as he hears eye witness accounts from the students of miraculous, heavenly intervention during the crisis. When tragedy strikes... what do you see?

Category: Drama, Family, History, Kids

Stars: Jasen Wade,Sarah Kent,Kimball Stinger,Alexa Rae

5.0 IMDB Rating 4,462 Views
Nazi Concentration and Prison Camps 1945

This film is the official documentary report compiled from over 80,000 feet of film shot by Allied military photographers in the German concentration camps immediately after liberation. The footage is a camp-by-camp record taken in order to provide lasting objective proof of the horrors the liberators witnessed. Some emphasis is also placed on the humanitarian work done in the camps by the liberators. Remarkably, the narration refers to the camp victims according to their country of origin only, and no mention of Jews is made.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Dwight D. Eisenhower,Omar N. Bradley,George S. Patton,Hayden Sears

7.9 IMDB Rating 3,944 Views
Houston: The Legend of Texas 1986

"From personal heartbreak to the epic fight for liberation, the glory of the Old West is captured in this grand life story of Sam Houston, the man whose bravery and vision led to the creation of Texas." -- from back of box

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Elliott,Claudia Christian,Devon Ericson,Michael C. Gwynne

6.8 IMDB Rating 3,812 Views
Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas 2013

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Mads Mikkelsen,Mélusine Mayance,Delphine Chuillot,David Kross

6.1 IMDB Rating 4,290 Views
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 2015

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Peggy Guggenheim,Marina Abramovic,Dore Ashton,Stephanie Barron

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,237 Views
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus 2014

What is the validity of history found in the Bible? Is it fact or fiction? What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the Old Testament: the Exodus out of Egypt? An in-depth investigation by documentary filmmaker Tim Mahoney searches for answers to these questions amid startling new finds that may change traditional views of history and the Bible.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Charles Aling,Manfred Bietak,John Bimson,Mansour Boraik

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,874 Views
Blackadder Back & Forth 1999

It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth, Viscount George, Archbishop Melchett and Archbishop Darling. Baldrick devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a "time machine" from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?

Category: Comedy, History, Short

Stars: Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson,Stephen Fry,Hugh Laurie

7.7 IMDB Rating 5,233 Views
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John 2003

The story of Jesus' life as told by the apostle John, narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Christopher Plummer,Henry Ian Cusick,Stuart Bunce,Daniel Kash

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,697 Views
Come See the Paradise 1990

Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again. But together they escape to Seattle. When the war breaks out, the authorities decide that the Japanese immigrants must live in camps like war prisoners.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Dennis Quaid,Tamlyn Tomita,Sab Shimono,Shizuko Hoshi

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,780 Views