History movies

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Balsam, Martin | Yamamura, Sô | Cotten, Joseph | Mihashi, Tatsuya | Marshall, E.G. | Whitmore, James | Tamura, Takahiro | Tôno, Eijirô | Robards, Jason | Addy, Wesley | Shimada, Shogo | Aletter, Frank | Senda, Koreya | Ames, Leon | Usami, Junya
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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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.

Copying Beethoven (2006)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Music | Romance
Countries: Germany | Hungary | USA
Actors: Kruger, Diane | Riach, Ralph | Gibbs, Matyelok | Harris, Ed | Stewart, Bill | Barnett, Angus | Dihen, Viktoria | Law, Phyllida | Goode, Matthew | Bohus, Gábor | Anderson, Joe | Kennedy, David | Jones, Nicholas | Áron, László | Johnson, Karl
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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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.

Hunger (2008)

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Fassbender, Michael | Graham, Stuart | Cowan, Larry | Cunningham, Liam | Hogg, B.J. | McAleer, Des | McCambridge, Dennis | McMahon, Liam | Milligan, Brian | Mullen, Rory | Peel, Ben | Roddy, Lalor | Scott, Thomas James | Bereen, Helena | Madden, Helen
Directors: McQueen, Steve
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Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

Agora (2009)

Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History | Romance
Countries: Malta | Spain
Actors: Weisz, Rachel | Minghella, Max | Isaac, Oscar | Barhom, Ashraf | Lonsdale, Michael | Evans, Rupert | Durden, Richard | Samir, Sami | Cauchi, Manuel | Ershadi, Homayoun | Cohen, Oshri | Borg, Harry | Thake, Charles | Sweid, Yousef 'Joe' | Paris, Alan
Directors: Amenábar, Alejandro
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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: Hurt, William | Brühl, Daniel | Marinca, Anamaria | Gatjen, Andy | Berglund, Jack O. | Berglund, Lukas T. | Blomberg, Sebastian | Hennicke, André | Hübner, Charly | Inman, Jesse | Kammerer, Justus | Kanies, Rolf | Kinski, Nikolai | Koch, Wolfram
Directors: Delpy, Julie
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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: Rosales Romero, Byron | Dominguez, Juan J. | Miller, Duane | McKnight, Rick | Delorenzo, David | Romero, Mercedes Del Carmen
Directors: Gertten, Fredrik
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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.

The Four Musketeers (1974)

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | History | Romance
Countries: Panama | Spain
Actors: Reed, Oliver | Welch, Raquel | Chamberlain, Richard | York, Michael | Finlay, Frank | Lee, Christopher | Chaplin, Geraldine | Dunaway, Faye | Kinnear, Roy | Gothard, Michael | Calfan, Nicole | del Pozo, Ángel | Fajardo, Eduardo | Ward, Simon | Cassel, Jean-Pierre
Directors: Lester, Richard
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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: de Seversky, Alexander | Baker, Art | Mitchell, Billy
Directors: Algar, James
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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: Bush, George W. | Cheney, Dick | Gage, Richard | Hess, Michael | Jones, Stephen | Mineta, Norman | Sunjata, Daniel | Little, Michelle
Directors: Avery, Dylan
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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: Murphy, Cillian | Slater, Kelly | Fitzgerald, Richard | Davies, Gabe | Malloy, Chris | Malloy, Keith | Malloy, Dan | Kekai, Rabbit | Naughton, Kevin | Peterson, Craig | McCarthy, John | Britton, Easky | Smith, Fergal | Verge, Arthur | Kampion, Drew
Directors: Conroy, Joel
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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.