Movies: European history

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A portrait of Pope Pius XII (1876-1958), head of the Catholic Church from 1939 until his death, who, during World War II, and while European Jews were being exterminated by the Nazis, was accused of keeping a disconcerting and shameful silence....

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full de...

Nigel, a famished peasant in 18th century England, takes revenge on the aristocrat that deprived him of his livelihood....

The coronation of King Håkon (Haakon VII) of Norway in 1905....