Archive for History

A Dry White Season (1989)

Director : Euzhan Palcy

Release Date : 20 September 1989 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History, Thriller

Cast : Donald Sutherland as Ben du Toit, Janet Suzman as Susan du Toit, Zakes Mokae as Stanley Makhaya, Jürgen Prochnow as Captain Stolz (as Jurgen Prochnow), Susan Sarandon as Melanie Bruwer, Marlon Brando as Ian McKenzie, Winston Ntshona as Gordon Ngubene, Thoko Ntshinga as Emily Ngubene, Leonard Maguire as Bruwer, Gerard Thoolen as Colonel Viljoen, Susannah Harker as Suzette du Toit, Andrew Whaley as Chris, Rowen Elmes as Johan du Toit, Stella Dickin as Susan’s Mother, David de Keyser as Susan’s Father (as David De Keyser)

Plot : Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who all the time has estimated himself a being of rude age of warm-heartedness plus justice, as a minimum on the distinctive level… more |

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Director : Robert Child

Release Date :

Genre : Documentary, History, War

Cast : (Credited cast) , Walter Cronkite, Hal Holbrook as Narrator, Andrew Rooney

Plot : From the early on race to fashion gliders to the D-Day invasion at Normandy also Nazi Germany’s preceding surrender… more |

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Director : Lewis Milestonemore

Release Date : 8 November 1962 (USA)

Genre : Adventure, Drama, History, Romance

Cast : Marlon Brando as 1st Lt. Fletcher Christian, Trevor Howard as Captain William Bligh, Richard Harris as Seaman John Mills, Hugh Griffith as Alexander Smith, Richard Haydn as William Brown, Tarita as Maimiti, Percy Herbert as Captain Matthew Quintal, Duncan Lamont as John Williams, Gordon Jackson as Seaman Edward Birkett, Chips Rafferty as Michael Byrne, Noel Purcell as Seaman William McCoy, Ashley Cowan as Samuel Mack, Eddie Byrne as John Fryer (Sailing Master), Frank Silvera as Minarii, Tim Seely as Midshipman Edward ‘Ned’ Young

Plot : The Bounty trees Portsmouth inside 1787. Its destination: to glide to Tahiti in addition to stack bread-fruit. Captain… more |

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Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

Director : Frank Lloyd

Release Date : 1936 (Germany)

Genre : Adventure, Drama, History

Cast : Charles Laughton as Bligh, Clark Gable as Christian, Franchot Tone as Byam, Herbert Mundin as Smith, Eddie Quillan as Ellison, Dudley Digges as Bacchus, Donald Crisp as Burkitt, Henry Stephenson as Sir Joseph Banks, Francis Lister as Captain Nelson, Spring Byington as Mrs. Byam, Movita as Tehani, Mamo Clark as Maimiti (as Mamo), Byron Russell as Quintal, Percy Waram as Coleman, David Torrence as Lord Hood

Plot : Fletcher Christian comfortably leads a rise up critical the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh proceeds lone per annum later, hell contorted on avenging his captors.

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Director : William Dieterle

Release Date : 31 December 1939 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History

Cast : Charles Laughton as Quasimodo, Cedric Hardwicke as Frollo (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke), Thomas Mitchell as Clopin, Maureen O’Hara as Esmeralda, Edmond O’Brien as Gringoire, Alan Marshal as Phoebus, Walter Hampden as Archdeacon, Harry Davenport as King Louis XI, Katharine Alexander as Madame de Lys, George Zucco as Procurator, Fritz Leiber as Old Nobleman, Etienne Girardot as Doctor, Helene Whitney as Fleur de Lys, Minna Gombell as Queen of Beggars (as Mina Gombell), Arthur Hohl as Olivier

Plot : In 15th century France, a gypsy damsel is framed because murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, with simply the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral may perhaps until her.

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Director : Wallace Worsley

Release Date : 6 September 1923 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History

Cast : Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, Norman Kerry as Phoebus de Chateaupers, Kate Lester as Madame de Condelaurier, Winifred Bryson as Fleur de Lys, Nigel De Brulier as Don Claudio (as Nigel de Brulier), Brandon Hurst as Jehan, Ernest Torrence as Clopin, Tully Marshall as El Rey Luis XI, Harry von Meter as Mons. Neufchatel (as Harry Van Meter), Raymond Hatton as Gringoire, Nick De Ruiz as Mons. le Torteru (as Nick de Ruiz), Eulalie Jensen as Marie, Roy Laidlaw as Charmolu, Ray Myers as Charmolu’s assistant (as W. Ray Meyers)

Plot : Clopin obtained Esmeralda enjoys the gypsies once she was young. Dancing inside the square at the festival, Esmeralda is analyzed by Jehan… more |

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Andrey Rublyov (1966)

Director : Andrei Tarkovsky

Release Date : 1973 (USA)

Genre : Biography, Drama, History, War

Cast : (Credited cast) , Anatoli Solonitsyn as Andrei Rublyov, Ivan Lapikov as Kirill, Nikolai Grinko as Danil Chorny, Nikolai Sergeyev as Theophanes the Greek, Irma Raush as Idiot girl (Durochka), Nikolay Burlyaev as Boriska, Yuri Nazarov as The Grand Prince / The Lesser Prince, Yuri Nikulin as Monk Patrikey, Rolan Bykov as The jester, Nikolai Grabbe as Stepan, Mikhail Kononov as Foma, Stepan Krylov as Head Bell-founder, Irina Miroshnichenko as Mary Magdalene, Bolot Bejshenaliyev as Tatar Khan rest of cast listed alphabetically: , K. Aleksandrov, S. Bardin, E. Borisovsky, I. Bykov, Igor Donskoy as Christ, Nikolai Glazkov as Efim, Vladimir Guskov (as Vova Guskov), Nikolai Kutuzov (as N. Kutuzov), I. Loskoy, B. Matysik, Anatoli Obukhov, Tamara Ogorodnikova as Mother of Jesus, Dmitri Orlovsky as Old Stonemason, G. Pokorsky, P. Radolitskaya, Muratbek Ryskulov (as M. Ryskulov), G. Sachevsko, Nelly Snegina as Marfa (as N. Snegina), Aleksandr Titov, Vladimir Titov (as Volodya Titov), Slava Tsarev, A. Umuraliyev, Vasili Vasilyev (as Vasya Vasilyev), Vladimir Volkov, Zinaida Vorkul, N. Vykov

Plot : Andreiv Rublev charts the continuation of the enormous figure painter prepared a turbulent time of 15th Century Russian history… more |

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Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

Director : Clint Eastwood

Release Date : 12 January 2007 (USA)

Genre : Drama, History, War

Cast : Ken Watanabe as General Kuribayashi, Kazunari Ninomiya as Saigo, Tsuyoshi Ihara as Baron Nishi, Ryo Kase as Shimizu, Shido Nakamura as Lieutenant Ito (as Shidou Nakamura), Hiroshi Watanabe as Lieutenant Fujita, Takumi Bando as Captain Tanida, Yuki Matsuzaki as Nozaki, Takashi Yamaguchi as Kashiwara, Eijiro Ozaki as Lieutenant Okubo, Nae as Hanako, Nobumasa Sakagami as Admiral Ohsugi, Luke Eberl as Sam (as Lucas Elliot), Sonny Saito as Medic Endo (as Sonny Seiichi Saito), Steve Santa Sekiyoshi as Kanda

Plot : The anecdote of the attempt of Iwo Jima between the United States furthermore Imperial Japan throughout World War II, because notified like the angle of the Japanese who fought it.

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Biruma no tategoto (1956)

Director : Kon Ichikawa

Release Date : 28 April 1967 (USA)

Genre : Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, War

Cast : Rentaro Mikuni as Captain Inouye, Shôji Yasui as Mizushima, Jun Hamamura as Ito, Taketoshi Naitô as Kobayashi (as Takeo Naito), Shunji Kasuga as Maki, Kô Nishimura as Baba (as Akira Nishimura), Keishichi Nakahara as Takagi, Toshiaki Ito as Hashimoto, Hiroshi Tsuchikata as Okada, Tomio Aoki as Oyama, Nobuteru Hanamura as Nakamura, Sanpei Mine as Abe, Takashi Koshiba as Shimizu, Tomoko Tonai, Tokuhei Miyahara as Nagai

Plot : In the War’s completing days, whilst a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to catch his countrymen to concede to formidable to force, he adopts the standard of living of a Buddhist monk.

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Talvisota (1989)

Director : Pekka Parikka

Release Date : 30 November 1989 (Finland)

Genre : Drama, History, War

Cast : Taneli Mäkelä as Private Martti Hakala, Vesa Vierikko as 2nd Lieutenant Jussi Kantola, Timo Torikka as Private Pentti Saari, Heikki Paavilainen as Private Vilho Erkkilä, Antti Raivio as Corporal Erkki Somppi, Esko Kovero as Medical Corporal Juho Pernaa, Martti Suosalo as Private Arvi Huhtala, Markku Huhtamo as Private Aatos Laitila, Matti Onnismaa as Corporal Veikko Korpela, Konsta Mäkelä as Private Paavo Hakala, Tomi Salmela as Private Matti Ylinen, Samuli Edelmann as Private Mauri Haapasalo, Vesa Mäkelä as Lieutenant Yrjö Haavisto, Aarno Sulkanen as Captain Sihvo – battalion commander, Kari Kihlström as Lieutenant Jorma Potila

Plot : Russia attacked Finland inside delayed November 1939. This movie tells the anecdote of a Finnish platoon of reservists… more |

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