History movies

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Action | Adventure | Drama | History | War
Countries: Japan | USA
Actors: Balsam, Martin | Yamamura, S? | Cotten, Joseph | Mihashi, Tatsuya | Marshall, E.G. | Whitmore, James | Tamura, Takahiro | T?no, Eijir? | Robards, Jason | Addy, Wesley | Shimada, Shogo | Aletter, Frank | Senda, Koreya | Ames, Leon | Usami, Junya
Directors: Fleischer, Richard
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In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. “Tora! Tora! Tora!”, named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Copying Beethoven (2006)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Music | Romance
Countries: Germany | Hungary | USA
Actors: Kruger, Diane | Riach, Ralph | Gibbs, Matyelok | Harris, Ed | Stewart, Bill | Barnett, Angus | Dihen, Viktoria | Law, Phyllida | Goode, Matthew | Bohus, G?bor | Anderson, Joe | Kennedy, David | Jones, Nicholas | ?ron, L?szl? | Johnson, Karl
Directors: Holland, Agnieszka
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Vienna, 1824. In the days before the first performance of the Ninth Symphony, Beethoven needs help with copying out the charts, so a promising student of composition, Anna Holtz, 23, is sent to assist him. She not only aids the transcription of the notes, she provides guidance from the orchestra pit as Beethoven conducts the work’s debut. During the next two years, the final ones of Beethoven’s life, Anna provides assistance to the deaf, temperamental, ailing man. In return, he tutors her in composition and explains to her the ideas and principles of Romanticism. He tries to speak for God.

Hunger (2008)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Ireland | UK
Actors: Fassbender, Michael | Graham, Stuart | Cowan, Larry | Cunningham, Liam | Hogg, B.J. | McAleer, Des | McCambridge, Dennis | McMahon, Liam | Milligan, Brian | Mullen, Rory | Peel, Ben | Roddy, Lalor | Scott, Thomas James | Bereen, Helena | Madden, Helen
Directors: McQueen, Steve
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Hunger follows life in the Maze Prison, Northern Ireland with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike, led by Bobby Sands. With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit.

Katyn (2007)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Poland
Actors: Chyra, Andrzej | Ostaszewska, Maja | Zmijewski, Artur | Stenka, Danuta | Englert, Jan | Cielecka, Magdalena | Glinska, Agnieszka | Malaszynski, Pawel | Komorowska, Maja | Kowalski, Wladyslaw | Pawlicki, Antoni | Kawiorska, Agnieszka | Garmash, Sergey | Assb?ck, Joachim Paul | Barwinski, Waldemar
Directors: Wajda, Andrzej
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An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Max Manus (2008)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: Denmark | Germany | Norway
Actors: Broch, Nicolai Cleve | Donachie, Ron | Duken, Ken | D?well, Nils | Eld?en, Mats | Evjen, Eirik | G?ldenberg, Patrick | Hennie, Aksel | Hoff, Stig Henrik | Joner, Knut | Kvarving, Paul | Larsen, Sondre Krogtoft | N?ss, Petter | Oftebro, Jakob | Rubeck, Christian
Directors: R?nning, Joachim
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The true story about one of the most brilliant saboteurs during World War II and his battle to overcome his inner demons.

Miracle (2004)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | Family | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Russell, Kurt | Clarkson, Patricia | Emmerich, Noah | McCann, Sean | Welsh, Kenneth | Cahill, Eddie | Demsey, Patrick O'Brien | Mantenuto, Michael | West, Nathan | Mitchell, Kenneth | Peter-Kaiser, Eric | Hanson, Bobby | Cure, Joseph | Schneider, Billy | Miller, Nate
Directors: O'Connor, Gavin
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The inspiring story of the team that transcended its sport and united a nation with a new feeling of hope. Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the tale captures a time and place where differences could be settled by games and a cold war could be put on ice. In 1980, the United States Ice Hockey team’s coach, Herb Brooks, took a ragtag squad of college kids up against the legendary juggernaut from the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels’ now famous question, to the millions viewing at home: Do you believe in miracles? Yes!

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: USA
Actors: Paxton, James | Rack, Tom | Laroche, Armand | Hurley, Peter | Terlecki, Gregory | Higgins, Jonathan | Knight, Matthew | Askew, Luke | Tilson, Amanda | Koteas, Elias | Merling, Jamie | Esposito, Eugenio | McPhail, Marnie | Dillane, Stephen | Wilcock, Robin
Directors: Paxton, Bill
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Near the turn of the twentieth century, young Harry Vardon becomes a champion golfer but learns that his amazing skill is no match for the class boundaries that exclude him from “gentlemanly” English society. A dozen years later, a young American, Francis Ouimet, fights against the same prejudice, as well as his own father’s disdain, for a chance to participate in the U.S. Open against his idol — Harry Vardon. The struggles of both men for acceptance provides the background for an amazing contest of skills.

Baader Meinhof Complex, The (2008)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Action | Biography | Crime | Drama | History
Countries: Czech Republic | France | Germany
Actors: Gedeck, Martina | Bleibtreu, Moritz | Wokalek, Johanna | Uhl, Nadja | Liefers, Jan Josef | Erceg, Stipe | Schmidt, Niels-Bruno | Kiefer, Vinzenz | Licht, Simon | Lara, Alexandra Maria | Herzsprung, Hannah | Schilling, Tom | Lommatzsch, Daniel | Blomberg, Sebastian | Dilssner, Eckhard
Directors: Edel, Uli
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Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the German establishment, many of whom have a Nazi past. Their aim is to create a more human society but by employing inhuman means they not only spread terror and bloodshed, they also lose their own humanity. The man who understands them is also their hunter: the head of the German police force Horst Herold. And while he succeeds in his relentless pursuit of the young terrorists, he knows he’s only dealing with the tip of the iceberg.

Becket (1964)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Burton, Richard | O'Toole, Peter | Gielgud, John | Cervi, Gino | Stoppa, Paolo | Wolfit, Donald | Weston, David | Hunt, Martita | Brown, Pamela | Phillips, Si?n | Aylmer, Felix | Herbert, Percy | Jackson, Inigo | MacGinnis, Niall | Rhodes, Christopher
Directors: Glenville, Peter
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As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and saint.

Texas 46 aka The Good War (2002)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Genres: Drama | History | War
Countries: Italy | USA
Actors: Farrior, Robert | Scheider, Roy | Zingaretti, Luca | Riotta, Vincent | Cremin, Sue | Fathy, Charles | Judica, Giampiero | Miele, Luciano | Opinato, Mario | Jivkov, Christo | Loeb, Nicholas M. | Chakarova, Asya | Serafini, Laura
Directors: Serafini, Giorgio
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Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POW”S in Jan 1946. Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50,000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the U.S. Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner, the Commander of the camp. Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force, only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone. Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up. However, no one ever comes. The phone lines get cut, and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world.