History Movies

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Third Eye Spies

2019

Third Eye Spies

2019

star 4.7
Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the demands of secrecy. Yet, as both these 'remote viewers' and our audience learn, the 'more you hide something, the more it shines like a beacon in psychic space and this ancient truth can no longer be suppressed.' The true story of Russell Targ and America's cold war psychic spies, disclosed and declassified for the first time, with evidence presented by a Nobel Laureate, an Apollo Astronaut, and the military and scientific community that has been suppressed for nearly 30 years, now able to speak for the first time.
star 6.6

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

2012

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

2012

star 6.6
Destroyed in a dramatic and highly-publicized implosion, the Pruitt-Igoe public housing complex has become a widespread symbol of failure amongst architects, politicians and policy makers. The Pruitt-Igoe Myth explores the social, economic and legislative issues that led to the decline of conventional public housing in America, and the city centers in which they resided, while tracing the personal and poignant narratives of several of the project's residents. In the post-War years, the American city changed in ways that made it unrecognizable from a generation earlier, privileging some and leaving others in its wake. The next time the city changes, remember Pruitt-Igoe.

The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

2000

star 8
Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, after meeting him as a medical student in Edinburgh. This TV movie served as the pilot for the later released minisseries Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes produced by the BBC. The series then picks up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is still based in Edinburgh. The series name in the pilot was Mr Bell and Mr Doyle instead Murder Rooms. Some of the cast of the pilot was also changed in the series.
star 9

The Anonymous

2019

The Anonymous

2019

star 9
The film reveals the dramatic destiny of wonderful young women, journalists who in 1936 started the socially-engaged magazine "Woman Today". The editorial office is in today's Nušićeva Street in Belgrade. They are highly educated. They skillfully dealt with censorship until 1940. The magazine was then banned. What were they willing to do, how much were they willing to take risks, what were they sacrificing, what were they warning about, what were they writing about? What fate awaits them? Who are Olga Alkalaj, Fani Politeo Vučković, Mitra Mitrović, Milica Šuvaković, Jelisaveta Beška Bembas, Nataša Jeremić, Jojić Olga, Dušica Stefanović, Zora Sher, Paulina Sudarski? The script for the film was based on the texts and war memoirs of those who survived. The texts in the film are interpreted by actresses: Milica Stefanović, Aleksandra Janković, Mitra Mladenović, Marijana Dugalić and Mina Obradović.
star 6

Through Icy Haze

1965

Through Icy Haze

1965

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After the events of 1905, the proletariat slowly retreated with battle. The Lenin headquarters of the leadership of the revolution was moved to Finland. There Lenin and Krupskaya live illegally in safe houses. Vladimir Ilyich works on his articles, occasionally his associates visit him, sometimes he goes to the city for meetings with his party comrades — Gorky, Kalinin, Krasin, and others. By all possible means, Lenin directs the activities of the Bolsheviks in Russia...

The Crows

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The Crows

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In a context of action and suspense, the events take place in the 1940s, during World War II in Western Sahara on the eve of the Battle of El Alamein, where a strong conflict takes place between more than one side.
star 7.5

Queen of the Deuce

2023

Queen of the Deuce

2023

star 7.5
The unbelievable true story of Chelly Wilson, who escaped the Holocaust and built a porn cinema empire in New York City in the 1970s. Chelly was a Greek-born, Christmas-celebrating, Jewish grandma, who married men but was openly gay. This documentary charts her unlikely rise to wealth as a shrewd businesswoman on “The Deuce,” aka New York’s infamous 42nd Street.

Herod the Great: The Child Murderer of Bethlehem

2019

star 6.5
An account of the reign of Herod the Great, king of Judea under the rule of the Roman Empire, remembered for having ordered, according to the Gospel of Matthew, the murder of all male infants born in Bethlehem at the time of the birth of Jesus, an unproven event that is not mentioned by Titus Flavius Josephus, the main historian of that period.

Double Life. A Short History of Sex in the USSR

2017

When Lyudmila Ivanova made her infamous claim during a US-Soviet TV programme in 1986 that ‘There is no sex in the USSR!’, her comment – although roundly mocked at the time – revealed a certain truth about Soviet attitudes towards sex and the ways in which it was controlled by the regime, rendering it largely invisible. With this documentary, the director takes us through 70 years of Soviet history to highlight the interplay between sex, politics and society and the changing meanings attached to sex and sexuality under different General Secretaries.

Under the Chestnut Trees of Prague

1965

The last days of the Second World War in Prague.

Doctor Who: The Doctor's Meditation

2015

star 10
The Doctor contemplates a journey to see an old acquaintance and digs a well. Released in cinemas alongside the 3D double-bill of Dark Water and Death in Heaven.

Down in Dallas Town

2023

Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s, the film explores the impact of the November 22, 1963 assassination on issues in today’s world, from lingering conspiracy theories to the proliferation of gun violence, homelessness, and the scourge of K-2.

Nuclear Rescue 911: Broken Arrows & Incidents

2001

star 3.8
Since 1950, there have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents, known as "Broken Arrows." A Broken Arrow is defined as an unexpected event involving nuclear weapons that result in the accidental launching, firing, detonating, theft or loss of the weapon. To date, six nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered.Now, recently declassified documents reveal the history and secrecy surrounding the events known as "Broken Arrows". There have been 32 nuclear weapon accidents since 1950. Six of these nuclear weapons have been lost and never recovered. What does this say about our defense system? What does this mean to our threatened environment? What do we do to rectify these monumental "mistakes"? Using spectacular special effects, newly uncovered and recently declassified footage, filmmaker Peter Kuran explores the accidents, incidents and exercises in the secret world of nuclear weapons.
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Cuba

2002

Cuba

2002

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With a Single Sword Bale

1934

Period film from 1934.
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The Eunuch

1968

The Eunuch

1968

star 9
A nobleman sends his daughter to the king as a concubine in order to gain personal power and favors from the monarch. Her lover follows her into the palace disguised as a eunuch. They continue to meet in secret until discovered and sentenced to death.
star 5.6

The Lake of Sighs

1959

The Lake of Sighs

1959

star 5.6
Ioannina, in the beginning of the 19th century. The whole Greece is under Turks. Ioannina is governed by the fierce and vulgar Ali Pasas. Ali’s eldest son, Muchtar, falls in love with a young Greek widow, Frosyni. The problem is, he’s married to the vindictive and cruel Chanife. And the muslim penalty for having an affair with a married man is death…

Howard Zinn: A People's History of the United States

2015

star 6.8
Between 1900 and 1920 more than 14 million immigrants arrived in the US, like Howard Zinn's parents. They came fleeing poverty or war, or racism, or religious persecution. They dreamed of a promised land, of wealth, or simply of a better life.