History movies

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.

Bible! (1974)

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

Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)

Friday, November 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: UK
Actors: Burton, Richard | Bujold, Geneviève | Papas, Irene | Quayle, Anthony | Colicos, John | Hordern, Michael | Blake, Katharine | Gearon, Valerie | Johnson, Michael | Jeffrey, Peter | O'Conor, Joseph | Squire, William | Knight, Esmond | Swinburne, Nora | Dobtcheff, Vernon
Directors: Jarrott, Charles
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Henry VIII of England discards one wife Katharine of Aragon, who has failed to produce a male heir, in favor of a young and beautiful woman, Anne Boleyn, whose one-thousand-day reign as Queen of England ends with the loss of her head on the block. Henry weds Ann and soon she gives him a child. The girl, Elizabeth, is a bitter disappointment to Henry, who desperately wants an heir. Anne promises Henry a son “next time,” but Henry is doubtful. Shortly thereafter, rumors begin that the King’s eye has already wandered. One Jane Seymour is at court for a moment. The Queen has her sent away, but, if Anne will bring Jane back to court, the King promises to sign the Act of Succession to insure that Elizabeth will be Queen.

Apollo 13 (1995)

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Paxton, Bill | Bacon, Kevin | Sinise, Gary | Harris, Ed | Quinlan, Kathleen | Schellhardt, Mary Kate | Lloyd, Emily Ann | Hughes, Miko | Slade, Max Elliott | Howard, Jean Speegle | Reiner, Tracy | Andrews, David | Little, Michele | Ellis, Chris
Directors: Howard, Ron
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It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another “routine” space flight—until these words pierced the immense void of space: “Houston, we have a problem.” Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive. Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time—and the odds—to bring them home.

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Friday, November 6th, 2009
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: USA
Actors: von Sydow, Max | Anderson Jr., Michael | Baker, Carroll | Balin, Ina | Buono, Victor | Conte, Richard | Dunham, Joanna | Ferrer, José | Heflin, Van | Heston, Charlton | Landau, Martin | Lansbury, Angela | Boone, Pat | Margolin, Janet | McCallum, David
Directors: Lean, David
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George Stevens’ epic production. “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?” It is towards this climactic crossroads that the story of Jesus of Nazareth leads, and to which, at the final moment, it again looks back in triumphant retrospect. It is the anguishing crossroads where the eternal questions of faith and doubt become resolved. Star-studded cast includes Max Von Sydow (as Jesus), Dorothy McGuire (as Mary), Robert Loggia (as Joseph), Charlton Heston (as John the Baptist), Michael Anderson, Jr., Robert Blake, Jamie Farr, David McCallum, Roddy McDowall, Ina Balin, Janet Margolin, Sidney Poitier, Carroll Baker, Pat Boone, Van Heflin, Sal Mineo, Shelley Winters, Ed Wynn, John Wayne, Telly Savalas, Angela Lansbury, Paul Stewart, Harold J. Stone, Martin Landau, Joseph Schildkraut, Victor Buono, Jose Ferrer, Claude Rains, Donald Pleasence, Richard Conte and Cyril Delevanti.

The Longest Day (1962)

Friday, November 6th, 2009
Genres: Action | Drama | History | War
Countries: USA
Actors: Albert, Eddie | Anka, Paul | Arletty | Barrault, Jean-Louis | Beymer, Richard | Blech, Hans Christian | Bourvil | Burton, Richard | Büttner, Wolfgang | Buttons, Red | Carton, Pauline | Connery, Sean | Danton, Ray | Demick, Irina | Dur, Fred
Directors: Annakin, Ken
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, the US, Britain, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich’s Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. “For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day. The longest day.”