Category: History
Posted on June 5, 2014 |
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Da Vinci's Demons (TV Series 2013-2015)
Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | History | Mystery
Written by David S. Goyer, the series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Starring: Tom Riley, Laura Haddock, Gregg Chillin, Eros Vlahos, Blake Ritson, Elliot Cowan, Hera Hilmar, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, David Schofield, Ian Pirie, Alexander Siddig
Creator: David S. Goyer
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Tags: Alexander Siddig, Blake Ritson, David S. Goyer, David Schofield, Elliot Cowan, Eros Vlahos, Gregg Chillin, Hera Hilmar, Ian Pirie, James Faulkner, Lara Pulver, Laura Haddock, Tom Riley
Posted on May 28, 2014 |
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The Kiyosu Conference / Kiyosu kaigi (2013)
History
After the forced suicide of Nobunaga Oda at the Incident at Honnō-ji, powerful figures Katsuie Shibata (Koji Yakusho), Hideyoshi Toyotomi, Nagahide Niwa and Tsuneoki Ikeda meet to decide on a successor. The conference would become Japan's first group made political decision. The meeting was known as the Kiyosu Kaigi.
Starring: Fumiyo Kohinata, Kôji Yakusho, Yô Ôizumi, Kôichi Satô, Eisuke Shinoi, Kyôka Suzuki, Yûsuke Iseya, Miki Nakatani, Kankurô Nakamura, Ayame Gôriki
Director: Kôki Mitani
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Tags: Ayame Gôriki, Eisuke Shinoi, Fumiyo Kohinata, Kankurô Nakamura, Kôichi Satô, Koji Yakusho, Kôki Mitani, Kyôka Suzuki, Miki Nakatani, Yô Ôizumi, Yûsuke Iseya
Posted on May 23, 2014 |
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Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes / Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History
Gonzalo Pizarro orders a small Spanish expedition of forty men to search for El Dorado, leaving the mountains of Peru and going down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties and Don Aguirre, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to "the golden city", or to certain destruction?
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling
Director: Werner Herzog
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Posted on May 22, 2014 |
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Rang De Basanti / Paint it Saffron (2006)
Drama | History
A young woman from England comes to India to make a documentary about her grandfather's diary which was written in the 1920s about the Indian Independence with five young men.
Starring: Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor
Director: Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
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Posted on May 21, 2014 |
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No God, No Master (2012)
Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Inspired by true events of the 20s the film sets the stage for a timely thriller with resoundingly similar parallels to the contemporary war on terrorism and the role government plays to defeat it.
Starring: David Strathairn, Ray Wise, Sam Witwer, Alessandro Mario, Edoardo Ballerini, James Madio, Mariana Klaveno
Director: Terry Green
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Tags: Alessandro Mario, David Strathairn, Edoardo Ballerini, James Madio, Mariana Klaveno, Ray Wise, Sam Witwer, Terry Green
Posted on May 19, 2014 |
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The Last Samurai (2003)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Set in Japan during the 1870s, The Last Samurai tells the story of Capt. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise), a respected American military officer hired by the Emperor of Japan to train the country's first army in the art of modern warfare. As the Emperor attempts to eradicate the ancient Imperial Samurai warriors in preparation for more Westernized and trade-friendly government policies, Algren finds himself unexpectedly impressed and influenced by his encounters with the Samurai, which places him at the center of a struggle between two eras and two worlds, with only his own sense of honor to guide him.
Starring: Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada
Director: Edward Zwick
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Posted on May 10, 2014 |
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Destination Tokyo (1943)
Adventure | History | War
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
Starring: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson, Robert Hutton
Director: Delmer Daves
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Posted on May 8, 2014 |
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New France / Battle of the Brave / Nouvelle-France (2004)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls.
Starring: Noémie Godin-Vigneau, David La Haye, Gérard Depardieu, Irène Jacob, Tim Roth, Jason Isaacs, Colm Meaney
Director: Jean Beaudin
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Tags: Colm Meaney, David La Haye, Gérard Depardieu, Irène Jacob, Jason Isaacs, Jean Beaudin, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Tim Roth
Posted on May 6, 2014 |
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Brotherhood of the Wolf / Le pacte des loups (2001)
Action | Adventure | History | Horror | Mystery
Set in 1765, during the reign of Louis XV, an epic adventure based in part on a well-known French legend. In a rural province of France, a mysterious creature is leaving a trail of mutilated corpses across the countryside, savagely killing scores of women and children. Unseen, possessed of enormous strength and a seemingly near-human intelligence, the beast has eluded capture for years. Desperate to end the growing unrest of the populace, the King sends in a renowned scientist and his Haudenosaunee blood brother, an unconventional team whose combined methods and capabilities may finally bring the beast down. But what these men find, when finally confronted with the true nature of the beast, is more shocking than anyone could have anticipated
Starring: Samuel Le Bihan, Vincent Cassel, Émilie Dequenne, Monica Bellucci, Jérémie Renier, Mark Dacascos
Director: Christophe Gans
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Posted on May 4, 2014 |
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Pompeii (2014)
Action | Adventure | Drama | History | Romance
Set in the days leading up to the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, a slave on a ship heading for Naples works to get home to save the woman he loves and his best friend, a gladiator trapped inside the city's coliseum.
Starring: Kit Harington, Emily Browning, Jared Harris, Jessica Lucas, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Carrie-Anne Moss, Kiefer Sutherland
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Posted on May 3, 2014 |
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Vikings (TV Series 2013- )
Action | Drama | History | War
Vikings follows the adventures of Ragnar Lothbrok the greatest hero of his age. The series tells the sagas of Ragnar's band of Viking brothers and his family, as he rises to become King of the Viking tribes. As well as being a fearless warrior, Ragnar embodies the Norse traditions of devotion to the gods, legend has it that he was a direct descendant of Odin, the god of war and warriors.
Starring: Travis Fimmel, Clive Standen, Gustaf Skarsgård, Katheryn Winnick, George Blagden, Jessalyn Gilsig, Maude Hirst, Alyssa Sutherland, Jefferson Hall
Creator: Michael Hirst
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Posted on April 30, 2014 |
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Uma História de Amor e Fúria / Rio 2096: A Story of Love and Fury (2013)
Animation | Drama | History | Romance
In 1566, in Guanabara, the Tupinambá warrior Abeguar is in love with Janaína. When a jaguar attacks Abeguar and Janaína, he jumps off a cliff with her and he flies. The shaman advises Abeguar that he was the chosen one by the god Munhã to lead his tribe and fight against the evil Anhangá. When the tribe leader Piatã joins the French in the fight against the Portuguese, the entire Tupinambás are slaughtered and Abeguar turns into a bird that flies for more than two hundred years to find Janaina. In 1825, the warrior is Manuel Balaio that lives with Janaína and their two daughters in Maranhão. When one of his daughters is raped by the abusive police commander, Balaio leads the oppressed locals against the police and they take down the Caxias city. The government sends Duque de Caxias and his troops that vanquish the rebels and Balaio turns into a bird again that flies for more than one hundred and forty years to find Janaína again. In 1968, in Rio, the warrior is Cau, but Janaína is a revolutionary student that lives with another insurgent. When Cau and Janaína are arrested by the repressive police, Cau rats the insurgents to protect Janaína from the torture and he becomes an outcast by his former fellows. Only the jailer Feijão talks to him and Cau teaches him politics. With the amnesty, Cau moves to the slums with Feijão and becomes a teacher and member of the criminal group Falange Vermelha. When the police invade the slum, Cau turns into a bird again that flies for more than one hundred years to find Janaína again. In 2096, in Rio de Janeiro, very few people can afford water that is mostly used in the ethanol plantations by the governmental company Aquabrás. The warrior is now a journalist and Janaína a call-girl. When the president of Aquabrás is kidnapped by a group of insurgents, the warrior sees Janaína on television and heads to Aquabrás to save her.
Starring: Selton Mello, Camila Pitanga, Rodrigo Santoro
Director: Luiz Bolognesi
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Posted on April 30, 2014 |
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W. / Bush (2008)
Biography | Drama | History
'W.' takes viewers through George Walker Bush's eventful life — his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith, and of course the critical days leading up to Bush's decision to invade Iraq.
Starring: Josh Brolin, Elizabeth Banks, James Cromwell, Ellen Burstyn, Thandie Newton, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Oliver Stone
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Posted on April 22, 2014 |
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Dumas / L'autre Dumas (2010)
Comedy | Drama | History
When Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet, his ghostwriter, are at the summit of their collaboration, Auguste decides to pass himself off as Alexandre in order to seduce Charlotte, a fervent admirer of the great man.
Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Dominique Blanc, Mélanie Thierry, Catherine Mouchet
Director: Safy Nebbou
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Tags: Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Mouchet, Dominique Blanc, Gérard Depardieu, Mélanie Thierry, Safy Nebbou
Posted on April 19, 2014 |
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Recount (2008)
Drama | History
A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. presidential election and the subsequent recounts in Florida.
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Ed Begley Jr., Laura Dern, John Hurt, Denis Leary, Bruce McGill, Tom Wilkinson, Bruce Altman
Director: Jay Roach
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Tags: Bob Balaban, Bruce Altman, Bruce McGill, Denis Leary, Ed Begley Jr., Jay Roach, John Hurt, Kevin Spacey, Laura Dern, Tom Wilkinson
Posted on April 14, 2014 |
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Tsar (2009)
Drama | History
In the mid-16th century, Ivan IV is the Tsar of Russia, and rules the nation with an iron fist; obsessed with order and keeping his enemies down, Ivan and his equally despotic wife Maria Temryukovna have a elite team of secret police at their disposal known as "The Tsar's Dogs," but Ivan also believes the last days are near and that God will judge him harshly.
Starring: Pyotr Mamonov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Ramilya Iskander, Anastasiya Dontsova, Aleksandr Domogarov, Aleksandr Ilin, Ville Haapasalo
Director: Pavel Lungin
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Posted on April 14, 2014 |
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Tsareubiytsa / Assassin of the Tsar (1991)
Drama | History
A patient in a modern day mental institution believes that he is the man who assassinated Tsar Alexander in 1881 and Tsar Nicolas II in 1918. He and his doctor soon slip out of reality and are forced to relive the events of 1918 in order to break the spell.
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Oleg Yankovskiy, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Yuriy Sherstnyov, Anzhela Ptashuk, Viktor Seferov
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
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Posted on April 13, 2014 |
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The Return of Frank James (1940)
Crime | History | Western
Frank James, the brother of Jesse James, has been laying low, living as a farmer and taking care of Clem, the son of one of the members of the James gang. He gets word that Jesse was killed by Bob and Charlie Ford, he hoped that the law would deal with them but when he learns that the railroad man whom he and Jesse terrorized contracted them to kill Jesse and helped them get off, he goes after them. Clem whom he told to remain on the farm goes with him and when it's impossible for him to do so, Frank has no choice to let him tag along. Now in order to cover their tracks they start telling people that Frank James is dead and that they saw it. Eleanor Stone, a female reporter, who wants to write about it interviews them and they are both taken with each other. But eventually she learns who Frank is from the Pinkerton detective who is tracking them but doesn't turn them in. But eventually Frank learns that his farm hand, Pinky has been arrested as his accomplice and is about to be hung. Now short of knowing who Frank is, he has not done anything to help Frank, so Frank has to decide what is more important getting the Fords or helping Pinky.
Starring: Henry Fonda, Gene Tierney, Jackie Cooper, Henry Hull, John Carradine, J. Edward Bromberg
Director: Fritz Lang
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Posted on April 11, 2014 |
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Purge / Puhdistus (2012)
Drama | History
A tormented young woman is given a hiding place by an elderly lady and soon they are reminded of their mutual horrendous past.
Starring: Laura Birn, Liisi Tandefelt, Amanda Pilke, Peter Franzén, Krista Kosonen, Tommi Korpela
Director: Antti Jokinen
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Posted on April 2, 2014 |
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Les Miserables (1952)
Drama | History | Romance
After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years at hard labor as a galley slave. There he is taught to read and write by another prisoner and meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who was himself born to convict parents aboard a prison ship. After his release, Valjean is treated as a pariah but finally finds shelter in the home of a kindly bishop. Valjean repays the clergyman's generosity by stealing his silver plate. He is apprehended by the authorities and returned to the bishop but is amazed when the kindly old priest tells them that the valuable plates were a gift. This becomes a transforming experience for the ex-convict, who establishes himself under an assumed name in a small country village as factory manager and ultimately mayor. Unfortunately the newly-promoted Javert is assigned there as chief inspector. Although he doesn't recognize his old nemesis at first, the two clash over Javert's overzealous prosecution of the letter of the law. When a mentally challenged homeless man is arrested and accused of being Valjean, the conscience-ridden parole violator reveals his true identity to the court and the already suspicious Javert. Valjean is forced to abandon his property and with his adopted daughter again flee the relentless pursuit of Javert.
Starring: Michael Rennie, Robert Newton, Debra Paget, Edmund Gwenn, Sylvia Sidney
Director: Lewis Milestone
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