Keyword: historical event

Roman Empire

8

2016

TV

HD

This stylish mix of documentary and historical epic chronicles the reign of Commodus, the emperor whose rule marked the beginning of Romes fall.

The American West

7.4

2016

TV

HD

A large-scale review of the American frontier stories.

Hostages

8

2022

TV

HD

November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. A 48-hour sit-in to protest imperialism, turned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days.

A Taxi Driver

8.2

2017

Movie

HD

A widowed father and taxi driver who drives a German reporter from Seoul to Gwangju to cover the 1980 uprising, soon finds himself regretting his decision after being caught in the violence around him.

Katyn

7.1

2007

Movie

HD

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

1987: When the Day Comes

7.8

2017

Movie

HD

In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice.

One Against the Wind

7.6

1991

Movie

HD

Mary Linden works for the French Red Cross in Occupied France during World War II and helps allied soldiers who have been shot down to escape to the unoccupied side. Her activities are complicated by her high profile and her daughter's love affair with a German officer. Based on the true story.

The Scarlett O'Hara War

6

1980

Movie

HD

This is the story of how one of the famous movie roles was cast. The role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind.

Chisum

6.9

1970

Movie

HD

Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.

Medium Cool

7.4

1969

Movie

HD

A TV news reporter finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Who Is the Black Dahlia?

6.9

1975

Movie

HD

Dramatization of an actual homicide investigation. In 1947 Los Angeles, a police detective tries to solve the shocking and grisly murder of 22-year-old aspiring actress Elizabeth Short...

United

7.7

2011

Movie

HD

Based on the true story of Manchester Uniteds legendary Busby Babes, the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number.

Machuca

7.8

2004

Movie

HD

Two 12-year-old Chilean children from different social classes become friends in 1973. They both discover each others world as political tensions in their country increase.

The Chosen

6.6

2016

Movie

HD

A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotskys secretaries. But nobody knows that in reality this conventional and cheerful young man is in fact an agent of the GPU (Soviet Secret Service) and has been sent to assassinate Trotsky.

11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate

6.1

2012

Movie

HD

In 1970, famed Japanese writer Yukio Mishima commits suicide after leading a failed coup.