Movies: Historical

  • 1955
    Yangsan Province

    Yangsan Province (1955)

    Yangsan Province

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    The film is a historical melodrama about a high government official who wants to marry a woman who is engaged to marry another man....

    Yangsan Province
  • 1986
    Meier

    Meier (1986)

    Meier

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    Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgari...

    Meier
  • 2007
    Defenders of Riga

    Defenders of Riga (2007)

    Defenders of Riga

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    The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops remain outside the Latvian capital. Latvian riflemen, most of ...

    Defenders of Riga
  • 2015
    Tadaima

    Tadaima (2015)

    Tadaima

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    After the closure of US Japanese Internment Camps at the end of World War II, a Japanese American family returns home and must find the strength to rebuild both their house and family amidst the emotional and physical destruction....

    Tadaima
  • 1984
    Beaten by Black Rain

    Beaten by Black Rain (1984)

    Beaten by Black Rain

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    Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the event. Kuroi Ame ni Utarete tells the interlocking stories of a group of survivors who frequent Stan...

    Beaten by Black Rain
  • 2015
    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance (2015)

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance

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    The conflict over forestry operations on Lyell Island in 1985 was a major milestone in the history of the re-emergence of the Haida Nation. It was a turning point for the Haida and management of their natural resources....

    Haida Gwaii: Restoring the Balance
  • 2005
    Looking for Angelina

    Looking for Angelina (2005)

    Looking for Angelina

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    Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolitano murdered her husband with an axe and was sentenced to be executed......

    Looking for Angelina
  • 1988
    Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

    Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945 (1988)

    Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945

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    In 1945, the second- and third-year students of a Hiroshima girls' school are taken away to work in war factories. The remaining 220 girls of the first year try to make the best of their new-found status as the only teenagers in an almost deserted to...

    Girls in Summer Dresses: Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
  • 1991
    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III

    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III (1991)

    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III

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    The third and final specially edited memorial episode featuring Jean’s narration. This is a breath-taking sea adventure action animation. The story centers on a series of critical battles by the indestructible submarine, Nautilus and the conflict bet...

    Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - Nautilus Story III
  • 1913
    Quo Vadis?

    Quo Vadis? (1913)

    Quo Vadis?

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    During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian named Lygia, attempting to enslave her. Lygia's protector, the noble and burly Ursus, works to s...

    Quo Vadis?
  • 1962
    Taras Bulba

    Taras Bulba (1962)

    Taras Bulba

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    Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol....

    Taras Bulba
  • 1944
    Knickerbocker Holiday

    Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)

    Knickerbocker Holiday

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    The wild and woolly early days of New York -- when it was still known as New Amsterdam -- provide the backdrop for this period musical-comedy. In 1650, Peter Stuyvesant (Charles Coburn) arrives in New Amsterdam to assume his duties as governor. Stuyv...

    Knickerbocker Holiday
  • 2021
    Awakened Demon

    Awakened Demon (2021)

    Awakened Demon

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    It tells the story of Hong Hai Er, who was already adopted by Guanyin Bodhisattva as the Fortune Kid. He followed the mentor’s order to practice at the Test of Fate. Hong Hai Er wanted to become a hero but was excluded by others due to his mixed heri...

    Awakened Demon
  • 2015
    Mozart! The Musical

    Mozart! The Musical (2015)

    Mozart! The Musical

    6.62015HD

    Based on the biography of world-renowned Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, this hit production by VBW shines a new light on a legend: far from the established cliché, MOZART! presents the brilliant artist as a complex and ambiguous character...

    Mozart! The Musical
  • 1986
    A Girl from Hunan

    A Girl from Hunan (1986)

    A Girl from Hunan

    5.71986HD

    Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are concerned, but the young gir...

    A Girl from Hunan
  • 2013
    JFK: The Private President

    JFK: The Private President (2013)

    JFK: The Private President

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    In January 1961, a new generation in the guise of John F. Kennedy moved into the White House. All of a sudden politics were youthful, dynamic and sexy. During the brief period in which he was in office, the first pop star of politics accompanied Amer...

    JFK: The Private President
  • 2023
    In Another Life

    In Another Life (2023)

    In Another Life

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    A servant-turned-assassin/bodyguard and a dispossessed heiress seize control of the latter's freedom (and if at first you don't succeed, try again in your next life)....

    In Another Life
  • 2022
    Little Tornadoes

    Little Tornadoes (2022)

    Little Tornadoes

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    A poignant drama set in 1970s Australia about a newly-single father’s efforts to weather the turbulence of change – in his life and in the world around him – while a new immigrant endeavours to find her place in a foreign land....

    Little Tornadoes
  • 1978
    New World

    New World (1978)

    New World

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    Towards the end of the 16th century, the Spanish conquerors living in the New World faced a serious problem: the evangelization of the indigenous people, who did not understand or accept Christianity due to their unshakable faith in their own religio...

    New World
  • 1968
    The Chivalrous Whip

    The Chivalrous Whip (1968)

    The Chivalrous Whip

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    Doctor and whip-wielding Hero Chai Tin-sum travels to an isolated village where he finds the population dying of the plague while being oppressed by the Ku family and their fortress. The family has cutoff the supply of fresh water to the village caus...

    The Chivalrous Whip