Movies123 - HISTORY Movies

Saraband 1948 Young Sophie Dorothea marries Prince George Louis but its far from a love match Then she falls for Swedish Count Philip Christoph von Konigsmark

The Essential Church 2023 When governments use Covid emergency act edicts to restrict the gathering and worship of the Church, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment take a courageous stand

In Between Songs 2014 Within the small Australian Aboriginal community of Nhulunbuy, Djalu Gurruwiwi, famed traditional didjeridu craftsman and player, alongside his sister, Dhanggal, strain to keep Galpu clan traditions safe from numerous internal and external forces When Djalus son, Larry, proves

Variola Vera 1982 One pilgrim, infected with an unknown illness, enter the country Relocated from place to place is dying, and disease spreads The moment they realize that they are responsible for the disease was considered eradicated, but it is too late An outbreak of smallpox begins to revive, lea

National Theatre Live King Lear 2018 Two aging fathers one a King, one his courtier reject the children who truly love them Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble Tender, violent, moving, and shocking, King Lear is considered by many to be th

Fish Men 2019 For centuries, cod has fed the world and built our nation Today, the iconic American Fisherman is caught in a perfect storm of foreign competition, erratic regulations and declining fish stocks all while scientists struggle to count fish, and conservationists struggle to save them In a

One Second 2020 A movie fan in a remote farmland strikes a relationship with a homeless female vagabond

The Holy Inquisition 1974 Gaspar de Carvajal, a Dominican, has not seen his family since the age of 10 when he was sent away to pursue the religious life He attends the funeral of his father, where he notices that the body was washed, then buried in a shroud and without a coffin Gaspar tells his con

Magnetic Beats 2021 A kid living in Brittany in the 1980s is called up for military service and drafted to West Berlin

Flood in the Desert 2022 Flood in the Desert tells the dramatic story of the March 1928 collapse of the St Francis Dam and its aftermath, which was the second deadliest disaster in California history The resulting flood killed over 400 people, destroyed

The Pioneer 2021 Set in April, 1927 The last days and hours of Dazhao Li, one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, before he is executed by a warlords team

Men and Banners 1965 A family struggle during the 1848 Hungarian revolution against the Habsburg Empire

The Source 1999 Traces the Beats from Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouacs meeting in 1944 at Columbia University to the deaths of Ginsberg and William S Burroughs in 1997 Three actors provide dramatic interpretations of the work of these three writers, and the film chronicles their friendships, their a

The Assault 1986 In January 1945, during the 2nd world war, the Dutch resistance kills a collaborator in the street where the 12 year old Anton Steenwijk lives The man was shot in front of his neighbors house, but is moved by them to the house of the family Steenwijk Because of this, his father, mot

Hitlers Hollywood 2017 In Nazi Germany, film was considered a major medium for the Nazi Party propaganda machine While pure propaganda material was not all that was produced by the domestic film industry, there still was a party line to be followed, especially with Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbel

Effigy Poison and the City 2019 1828 in the German port city of Bremen Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them One strives for a career in law, at a time when women arent even admitted to universities The other has lived life outside the law and may now have t

My Beautiful Dacia 2010 A humorous essay on the Romanian odyssey from Communism to capitalism as seen from the perspective of one of Romanias most charismatic symbols Dacia, a simple and discreet automobile, but also a mirror of Romanian society

H H Holmes Original Evil 2018 In the world of evil and deranged serial killers, there is no equal Meet the Dark Lord of a murder castle who killed roughly 200 people in a self made house of horrors who may have also been the notorious Jack the Ripper

The Life and Death of Owen Hart 1999 Documentary based on Owen Hart and his life outside of the ring, containing footage of his family after his sudden and tragic death

This Earth of Mankind 2019 A native Javanese boy and a mixed Dutch girl fall in love during the early 20th century colonial turbulence in Dutch East Indies now Indonesia

Across the Waters 2016 Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews escape to Sweden in October 1943

Badamasi Portrait of a General 2021 A flawed Army General attempts to guide an impossible African country through a viciously strained era in this first of its kind, authorised biopic, based on real events

Four Days in September 1997 Fernando, a journalist, and his friend Cesar join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up Fernando then decides to kidnap the American ambassador in Brazil an

Royal Shakespeare Company Henry IV Part I 2014 The second play in Shakespeares series of histories covering the reigns of Richard II, Henry IV and Henry V Shakespeare muses on the consequences of actions, the role of princes and the realities of wielding power

Miners Shot Down 2014 In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africas biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress it, killing 34 and injuring many more The police insisted that they shot in self def

Chiara 2022 A biography of St Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family to become a nun after hearing St Francis preach

Ezer Kenegdo (2015) Frictions develop when Yisroel "Izzy" Jonigkeyt, a Chassidic Jew from Crown Heights, travels to San Francisco to visit Polish-born Catholic friend Marek Wisniewski with the intent of discovering why a Bay Area art-world iconoclast named Harry Kierk seeks to destroy a li

The Plot to Assassinate Hitler 1955 A disillusioned Wehrmacht officer named Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and his co conspirators attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler on 20 July 1944

The Great Famine 2011 The American Experience looks at Hebert Hoovers American Relief Administration and its efforts to distribute food during the Great Russian Famine of 1921

Dan Dream 2017 A group of middle aged men from Denmark band together and attempt to make the first ever electric car

Platform 2000 Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers whose fate mirrors that of the general population in China as massive socio economic changes sweep across the mainland The film commences in 1979 with the troupe performing numbers idolizi

Pippin His Life and Times 1981 At the goading of the ominous and omnipresent Leading Player, Pippin, the eldest son of King Charlemagne, samples lifes pleasures to discover his place in the world and the meaning of his life

Rzhev 2019 After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses only a third of the personnel remain from the company Exhausted to the limit, the soldiers are waiting for reinforcements, but an order comes from the

The Last Command 1955 During the Texas War of Independence of 1836 American frontiersman and pioneer Jim Bowie pleads for caution with the rebellious Texicans They dont heed his advice since hes a Mexican citizen,married to the daughter of the Mexican vice governor of the province and a friend to Ge

Hercules 1958 In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the kings delectable, briefly clad daughter Iol

Brothel No 8 1974 A journalist interviews an old woman who was forced into prostitution, just like many other Japanese women working in Asia outside of Japan during the first half of the 20th century She worked in a Malaysian brothel called Sandakan 8

Pafnucio Santo 1977 The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortes and Emiliano Zapata as a beautiful woman

Stuck in the Groove A Vinyl Documentary 2021 A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records Featuring Interviews with the experts, musicians and fans alike, Stuck in the Groove takes you on a journey of vinyl mania, music and nostalgia

The Day Carl Sandburg Died 2011 The Day Carl Sandburg Died is a dynamic exploration into the life and work of the iconic American, Carl Sandburg From an impoverished youth on the prairie of Illinois to the halls of Congress and the Ed Sullivan Show, it was a tale of perseverance and success During h

Polycarp 2015 A young slave girl, Anna, is rescued and adopted by Christians in 2nd Century Smyrna and befriended by their aged bishop, Polycarp As Anna is taught by Polycarp and her new family, she struggles to reconcile her beliefs with those of the Christians When the Roman proconsul demands that

The Wobblies 1979 Investigates a nation torn by naked corporate greed and the red hot rift between the industrial masters and the rabble rousing workers in the field and factory

Filiberto 2017 The deeds of a professional musician who abandons his trumpet and family to live the clandestine life of an armed revolutionary for Puerto Rican independence

Remember Baghdad 2016 Remember Baghdad is the untold story of Iraq, an unmissable insight into how the country developed through the eyes of the Jews, Iraqs first wave of refugees From picnics on the Tigris and royal balls, to hangings, imprisonment

Plague City SARS in Toronto 2005 The once clean and healthy city of Toronto becomes the pariah of the western world when a deadly chain of infection lands in the city Panic spreads as the number of SARS cases increases as there are no effective treatments In HD

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga 1959 LUCKY ADVENTURER ODA NOBUNAGA 1959 is a lively samurai film dramatizing a pivotal turning point in the life and career of Nobunaga Oda, who figured prominently in efforts to unify the warring states of Japan under a central ruler in the late 16th century The first Tokugawa S

Tail Gunner Joe 1977 A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President

Saturday Fiction 2019 Yu Jin is working undercover gathering intelligence for the Allies

Laffaire Dominici 1973 This film explores the ins and outs of the Dominici Affair that made the headlines back in 1952 As a result of the case, a family man named Gaston Dominici was sentenced to death for the slaying of a family of English tourists alongside a road running past his property, despit