histories
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China
1942
The movie is based on Liu Zhenyun’s middle grade novel “WENHOU 1942”, which is based on the famine in Henan…
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HongKong and Taiwan
Yip Man (1893-1972), martial arts practitioner, master of Bruce Lee
The movie is set in Foshan, Guangdong Province in the 1930s. Wing Chun martial arts master Yip Man is not…
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Europe and America
the darkest hour
The movie begins with the stepping down of British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and the appointment of Churchill as the…
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Europe and America
Iron Mask
The story of the movie is adapted from The Vicomte de Bragelona, the final installment of French writer Alexandre Dumas’…
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Europe and America
Chariots of Fire
The movie is based on a true story of two British sprinters at the 1924 Paris Olympics, based on the…
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Europe and America
biography of Gandhi
The film tells the story of Mahatma Gandhi’s legendary life and deeply demonstrates Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolent noncooperation and its…
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Europe and America
Escape from Tehran
The movie is based on the true story of the 1979 Iranian Hostage Crisis, in which the U.S. Embassy in…
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Europe and America
The King’s Speech
Based on the true story of King George VI of England, the movie tells how George VI, who suffered from…
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Europe and America
lit. sun, moon and spirit of loyalty
Based on a true historical story, the film tells the story of King Henry VIII, a violent and lustful monarch…
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Europe and America
biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Austrian composer
The movie is adapted from Schaeffer’s 1979 stage play “Mozart’s Biography”, which describes the legendary life of the musical genius…
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