M4ufree - HISTORY Movies

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations

France, 1719 Four years after Louis XIVs death, Philippe dOrleans is the regent for the nine year old Louis XV Philippe is a liberal and a libertine His right hand man, Dubois, an atheistic and cupid priest, as libertine as Phil

French civilization in the desert Saganne is of peasant stock, with courage and a forceful will In 1911, he volunteers and is posted to the Sahara under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh He catches the eye of Madeline, the daught

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938

Under threat by fundamentalist terrorists, a group of Trappist monks stationed with an impoverished Algerian community must decide whether to leave or stay

How Italys historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi led a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquered Sicily and Naples

Seven years in the making and filmed on three continents, The Millionaires Unit documentary tells the dramatic story of a group of Yale students who were the first to fly for America in WW1, some of them making the ultimate sacrific

A filmmaker from Moldova tries to discover the truth about Soviet experiments in atomic gardening

A slave and a Viking prince fight for the love of a captive princess

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey Debuting in 1974, the LA based channels eclectic slate of movies

It is the story of the all black Twenty Fourth United States Infantry Regiment, and the Houston Riot of 1917

A retelling of the events leading to the use of the Trojan Horse, to bring down the great city of Troy

Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle race to break Babe Ruths single season home run record

Mongol chief Temujin battles against Tartar armies and for the love of the Tartar princess Bortai Temujin becomes the emperor Genghis Khan

Bob Ford murders his best friend Jesse James in order to obtain a pardon that will free him to marry his girlfriend but is plagued by guilt and self disgust

The plot follows the birth, preaching, teaching and miracles of Jesus He preached and lived a radical message of Gods Love and was able to heal people of lifelong disabilities and illnesses and was able to command natural phenomena

An escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with Frederick Douglass and John Brown Based on the life story of Shields Green

In 1787, British ship Bounty leaves Portsmouth to bring a cargo of bread fruit from Tahiti but the savage on board conditions imposed by Captain Bligh trigger a mutiny led by officer Fletcher Christian

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides

Martin Lawrence plays Jamal, an employee in Medieval World amusement park After sustaining a blow to the head, he awakens to find himself in 14th century England

During the power struggle between Caesar and Crassus, a Roman centurion, who is the lost son of Spartacus, is dispatched to Crassus camp to observe his movements and keep Caesar informed

Docudrama about the life of St Francis of Assisi

In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II

In league with the Saxon invaders, Edmund of Cornwall plans to slay King Arthur, marry his daughter and usurp the throne of England but wizard Merlin and outlaw Robert Marshall stand in the way

In 1820 Louisiana, river pirates tangle with plantation owners while gambling ship pirate queen Lili Scarlet falls in love with planter Andre Tulane to the dismay of rival Hugo Marat, leader of the river pirates

In late nineteenth century America, Rising Free portrays the story of a young woman living in the aftermath of racial prejudice Surrounded by danger of being sold and further stripped of freedom, she discovers hope through a graciou

Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot

Several months after the U S entry into World War II, an inexperienced U S Navy commander must lead an Allied convoy being stalked by a German submarine wolf pack

It is based on five women who did survive the Holocaust but shared her same fate of deportation, suffering and being denied their childhood and adolescence, according to promotional materials

When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England

The real life of one of Americas foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast

Sir Walter Raleigh Richard Todd overcomes court intrigue to win favor with Queen Elizabeth I Bette Davis in order to get financing for a proposed voyage to the New World

Two noble Scottish brothers deliberately take opposite sides when Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to claim the throne of Scotland in order to preserve the family fortune

Young George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelsons stature and notes his feet of clay And yet, Nelson is a hero, a great man How can this be resolved

In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King

In 1803 France, Napoleon Bonaparte Robert Cornthwaite orders the capture of notorious highwayman Purple Mask Tony Curtis, who routinely rescues imprisoned nobles and harasses the Revolutionary officials

After an actor finds a treasure map detailing the location of ancient gold hidden near a town in the Misiones province named after the 19th century politician Leandro N Alem, he persuades the producers to change the project, as a po

The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known Its armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion This colorful movie depicts DeSades life from childhood to manhood A life infamous for erotic

Story of an ancient Assyrian queen that supposedly took place around 810 B C

During the height of World War II, commander Stan and a courageous group of resistance fighters are given a suicide mission to deliver a stolen Nazi submarine filled with atomic uranium Hunted down by Hitlers army, the motley crew

The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Ear

An 11th century noblewoman opens her Saxon husbands eyes by riding bareback through town

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s

In the summer of 1944, the Finnish Forces must defend Finland from the invading Soviet Red Army

Based on a play, the story details the dramatic negotiations between the UK, France, Poland, Nazi Germany, and the U S S R from the day Czechoslovakia fell, until Britains declaration of war on Germany, caused by Hitlers invasion of Poland

Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great

Over a 4 day period, a fierce battle takes place between Korean independence militias and imperialist Japanese forces in Manchuria, China The militia includes a master swordsman and an expert marksman