Movie List for "history"

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Most consider the NY Stonewall Riots of 1969 to be the birth of the Gay civil rights movement. But there have been activists, artists and innovators in L.A. since the turn of the 20th century. L.A. A Queer History is an educational, exciting and emotional epic saga spanning nearly a century featuring artists, scholars and first hand accounts from LGBTQ elders who lived it.

Against the history of Kerala, we see a young man grow up without a father, relate to the working class people employed in his feudal household, become an intellectual, land in prison, and find a cure for the stuttering that affli… Year 1996.

A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles’ early history. Year 1994.

John Grierson coined the word “documentary” and was a key figure in the history of the documentary film worldwide. His best-known accomplishments are starting the British documentary … Year 1974.

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce. Year 1996.

Set ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, it presents a dystopia in which the issues of many groups – minorities, liberals, gay rights organizations, feminists – are dealt with by the government. Year 1983.

Two rock-‘n-rolling teens, on the verge of failing their class, set out on a quest to make the ultimate school history report after being presented with a time machine. Year 1989.

Story of a love affair between a Yugoslav in Paris looking for a film footage about recent history on WWII, and a French girl sculptor. Year 1981.

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history profes… Year 1971.

Sex comedy about a seductive woman named Dominique, who tells her ex boyfriend Jean-Louis about the sexual history of her little round bed. Year 1973.

The turbulent love affair between a fuddy duddy history teacher and a free spirited hippie girl leads to drug abuse and domestic violence. Year 1973.

Jeanne Kern is a history teacher in a private mixed class. Passionately provocative, she does not ignore the effect she has on men. Year 1986.

This vast musical fresco covers hundreds of years of history from enslavement to 20th-century immigration. Set on an enormous slave ship and boasts a dazzling array of brilliant choreography, wide-ranging musical styles and sharp … Year 1979.

Set during the Philippine-American war, a short-tempered Filipino general faces an enemy more formidable than the American army: his own treacherous countrymen.

Bitcoin is the most disruptive invention since the Internet, and now an ideological battle is underway between fringe utopists and mainstream capitalism. The film shows the players who are defining how this technology will shape our lives.