Movie List for "history"

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the a… Year 1976.

The rise and fall of a beauteous actress. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favorite of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Year 1997.

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations. Year 1979.

N/A Year 1952.

An account of the gangster Mahindra Dolas and his gang, which terrorized Mumbai City, and a massive war between Mumbai Police and gangs during 16 November 1991. Year 2007.

Story of the emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire, Lord Krishnadevaraya who presided over the empire at its zenith. Year 1970.

N/A Year 1957.

A desperate alcoholic reaches a turning-point in his life when he meets a strange woman in a railway carriage: they make love, but then she leaves. Chasing after the girl, he clings to her as if she were his final chance. Year 1984.

N/A Year 1969.

N/A Year 1985.

In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415. Year 1989.

Based on the Alexander Pushkin’s play, epic story about Tsar Boris Godunov, who reigned over Russia between 1598 and 1605. Year 1986.

When Antoine Combalat ,a peasant,reads the papers,he knows everything is brainwashing.But the church bells have rung:WW1 which was bound to end all wars has begun. Year 1983.

Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving … Year 1973.

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be l… Year 1990.

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. Year 1999.