A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
CCTV-10 Lecture Room series: Pin San Guo (品三国; Analysis of the Three Kingdoms). "Yi Zhongtian's Analysis of the Three Kingdoms" is a CCTV-10 historical broadcast program and one of the "Hundred Forums" series. The main speaker, Yi Zhongtian, restored the real Cao Cao, defended Zhou Yu's false accusations, spoke up about Zhuge Liang, and re-evaluated Sima Yi. When talking about the world, there are only three points of gossip. Discuss the merits and demerits carefully, and summarize the gains and losses of successes and failures. Professor Yi Zhongtian of Xiamen University will use stories to tell characters, characters to tell history, history to tell culture, and culture to tell human nature. Discuss the major events of the Three Kingdoms and carefully analyze the success and failure of the heroes. Professor Yi Zhongtian will explain it from a civilian perspective.
The decline of Hitler’s empire from the inside out by exploring the decline of the Nazis through the perspective of Hitler's bumbling generals and a paranoid Fuhrer.
Seventy years after the liberation of Auschwitz, we have not finished accounting for the destruction of Europe's Jewish population. One question remains today: not why, but how was the Shoah possible?
Filmed over 18 months, this documentary series goes into the heart of the British Army. Through the eyes of the rank and file and the leaders, it shows the challenges of fighting wars when we are not at war.
Inside the minds of the heartless, corrupt, and cruel individuals who've seized control of their country through the infliction of appalling pain on their fellow man. From Kim Jong-il, to Osama Bin Laden, to Hitler, uncover the madness behind the merciless dictators responsible for unimaginable human atrocities that still haunt the world.
Angling Dharma is Indonesian historical-drama TV series, produced by Genta Buana Pitaloka (now Genta Buana Paramita). It was aired on Indosiar in May 10,2000.
The story is based on the history of Ukraine through the eyes of a long-lived Volyn peasant, Yakiv Mekh. Since childhood, he has been in love with Ulyana, but despite the reciprocity of feelings, her parents married her off to a boy from a wealthy family. Unable to change anything, Yakiv leaves the village. He joins the Polish army and meets a Polish noblewoman, Zosia... His fate includes wars, captivity, and the loss of loved ones, but its main outcome is the preservation of humanity and the ability to love.
This is a story about the soldiers of a cannon battery in the First World War that, like hundreds of thousands of others, made the glory of the Serbian army become immortal.
Sandokan is a Malaysian pirate who, along with his friend Yanez and their crew, attacks the British forces from his island of Mompracem. During his adventures, he falls in love with Lady Marianna Guillonk, an English-Italian aristocrat.
In June 1941, Hitler decides to break the German-Soviet pact and set the German army in motion toward Moscow. From summer to winter, and from Kiev to Leningrad, previously unseen archival footage, some recolored, retraces the bloodiest military operation of World War II. Testimonies from soldiers and civilians recount these endless months of battles and sieges.