Movie List for "history"

A morally-suspect and self-serving retainer rashly baits her high-ranking employer, a regional governor, with a salacious story of a former acquaintance and catastrophe ensues. Year 1965.

“Muoi” charts the path of a Korean writer who travels to Vietnam in search of stories for her second novel. There she learns about a mystery centered around a century-old vengeful spirit. Year 2007.

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis. Year 2001.

This Hong Kong martial-arts extravaganza tells of evil emperors and true love. The secret Red Lotus Flower Society is committed to the overthrow of the evil Manchu Emperor and his minions. One of his Governors is sent on a mission to Year 1993.

During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee. Year 2007.

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. Year 2002.

Bukit Kepong is an adaptation from Bukit Kepong incident that was an armed encounter which took place on 23 February 1950 between the Federation of Malaya Police and the gunmens of Malayan Communist Party during the Malayan Emergency Year 1981.

Set when the apartheid government was still in control, this powerful South African thriller is based on the true story of a policeman belonging to an elite government squad who was assigned to masquerade as a supporter and infiltrat Year 1995.

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory. Year 1963.

The story of Imam Hossein’s battle in Karbala, an unfair war which made one the most important effects in Islam history. Year 2014.

Two clowns living in Korea’s Chosun Dynasty get arrested for staging a play that satirizes the king. They are dragged to the palace and threatened with execution but are given a chance to save their lives if they can make the king la Year 2005.

So-ha, a deadly female warrior, is sent to find a exiled prince after the Killer Blade Army killed the royal family. Year 2005.

A look-alike commoner is secretly hired to take the place of a poisoned king to save his country from falling into chaos. Year 2012.

A German Jewish refugee family moves to and adjusts to a farm life in 1930s Kenya. Year 2001.

N/A Year 1973.

A samurai pursues a married lady-in-waiting. Year 1953.