History movies

Agora (2009)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | Spain
Actors: Rachel Weisz | Max Minghella | Oscar Isaac | Ashraf Barhom | Michael Lonsdale | Rupert Evans | Richard Durden | Sami Samir | Manuel Cauchi | Homayoun Ershadi | Oshri Cohen | Harry Borg | Charles Thake | Yousef 'Joe' Sweid | Alan Paris
Directors: Alejandro Amenábar
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A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while also falling in love with his master, the famous female philosophy professor and atheist Hypatia of Alexandria.

The Countess (2009)

Friday, February 5th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany
Actors: William Hurt | Daniel Brühl | Anamaria Marinca | Andy Gatjen | Jack O. Berglund | Lukas T. Berglund | Sebastian Blomberg | André Hennicke | Charly Hübner | Jesse Inman | Justus Kammerer | Rolf Kanies | Nikolai Kinski | Wolfram Koch
Directors: Julie Delpy
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A 17th century Hungarian countess embarks on a murderous undertaking, with the belief that bathing in the blood of virgins will preserve her beauty.

Bananas!* (2009)

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Genres: Crime | Documentary | Drama | History
Countries: Sweden
Actors: Byron Rosales Romero | Juan J. Dominguez | Duane Miller | Rick McKnight | David Delorenzo | Mercedes Del Carmen Romero
Directors: Fredrik Gertten
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Juan “Accidentes” Dominguez is on his biggest case ever. On behalf of twelve Nicaraguan banana workers he is tackling Dole Food in a ground-breaking legal battle for their use of a banned pesticide that was known by the company to cause sterility.

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Monday, January 11th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Martin Balsam | Sô Yamamura | Joseph Cotten | Tatsuya Mihashi | E.G. Marshall | James Whitmore | Takahiro Tamura | Eijirô Tôno | Jason Robards | Wesley Addy | Shogo Shimada | Frank Aletter | Koreya Senda | Leon Ames | Junya Usami
Directors: Richard Fleischer
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | History | Romance
Countries: Panama | Spain
Actors: Oliver Reed | Raquel Welch | Richard Chamberlain | Michael York | Frank Finlay | Christopher Lee | Geraldine Chaplin | Faye Dunaway | Roy Kinnear | Michael Gothard | Nicole Calfan | Ángel del Pozo | Eduardo Fajardo | Simon Ward | Jean-Pierre Cassel
Directors: Richard Lester
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D’Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who’ll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen’s go-between and D’Artagnan’s love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral Milady de Winter to distract D’Artagnan. But soon, she is D’Artagnan’s sworn enemy, and she has an unfortunate history with Athos as well. Milady goes to England to dispatch Buckingham; the Musketeers fight the rebels. Milady, with Rochefort’s help, then turns to her personal agenda. Can D’Artagnan save Constance, defeat Rochefort, slip de Winter’s ire, and stay free of the Cardinal? All for one, one for all.

Victory Through Air Power (1943)

Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Genres: Animation | Documentary | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Alexander de Seversky | Art Baker | Billy Mitchell
Directors: James Algar
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This is a unique film in Disney Production’s history. This film is essentially a propaganda film selling Major Alexander de Seversky’s theories about the practical uses of long range strategic bombing. Using a combination of animation humorously telling about the development of air warfare, the film switches to the Major illustrating his ideas could win the war for the allies.

Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009)

Friday, December 25th, 2009
Genres: Documentary | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: George W. Bush | Dick Cheney | Richard Gage | Michael Hess | Stephen Jones | Norman Mineta | Daniel Sunjata | Michelle Little
Directors: Dylan Avery
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With the departure of the Bush Administration and the arrival of an era of transparency, opportunities are arising for the disclosure of new information that may shed more light on the events that took place before and after 9/11/2001. Dramatically narrated by Daniel Sunjata of FX s Rescue Me, and an outspoken advocate for the First Responders, Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup first examines mysterious and infamous events that reshaped world history from the Reichstag Fire in 1933 that catapulted Hitler to dictatorship - to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident in 1964 that led to the Vietnam War, and then takes viewers on a turbulent journey through several pivotal moments in history before delving into the most significant catastrophe in recent memory, 9/11.

Waveriders (2008)

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Documentary | History | Sport
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Cillian Murphy | Kelly Slater | Richard Fitzgerald | Gabe Davies | Chris Malloy | Keith Malloy | Dan Malloy | Rabbit Kekai | Kevin Naughton | Craig Peterson | John McCarthy | Easky Britton | Fergal Smith | Arthur Verge | Drew Kampion
Directors: Joel Conroy
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WAVERIDERS is the previously untold story of the unlikely Irish roots of the worldwide surfing phenomenon and today’s pioneers of Irish big wave surfing. The story unfolds via the inspirational and ultimately tragic history of Irish/Hawaiian legendary waterman, George Freeth. Freeth, son of an Irishman, was responsible for the rebirth of this sport of Hawaiian kings in the early twentieth century. With its distinguished cast of world-renowned Irish, British and Irish/American surfers WAVERIDERS then journeys full-circle from Hawaii to California and back to Irish shores following Freeth’s wave of influence. This journey reaches a spectacular climax when the surfers conquer the biggest swell ever to have been ridden in Ireland catching monster waves of over fifty feet.

Copying Beethoven (2006)

Friday, December 11th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History | Music | Romance
Countries: Germany | Hungary | USA
Actors: Diane Kruger | Ralph Riach | Matyelok Gibbs | Ed Harris | Bill Stewart | Angus Barnett | Viktoria Dihen | Phyllida Law | Matthew Goode | Gábor Bohus | Joe Anderson | David Kennedy | Nicholas Jones | László Áron | Karl Johnson
Directors: Agnieszka Holland
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Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work’s debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven’s life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.

Bible! (1974)

Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Genres: Fantasy | History | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Bo White | Caprice Couselle | Georgina Spelvin | John Horn | Robert Benes | Nancy Wachter | Brahm van Zetten | Gloria Grant | Bonnie Mathis | Dennis Wayne | Alison Fields | Dan Johnson | Patti Perkins | Oscar Schulman | Jane Sobel
Directors: Wakefield Poole
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A softcore, adult-oriented version of the tales from the Bible.