History Movies of 1985
What Happened to Kerouac?
This biographical documentary tackles the legend of Jack Kerouac, one of the foremost writers of the Beat Generation. Kerouac started a beat that goes ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Battle for Dien Bien Phu
This war documentary chronicles the Vietminh's 1954 siege at Dien Bien Phuh from beginning to end. ~ All Movie Guide [ History movie - 1985 ]
Battle for Warsaw
This documentary release from Shanachie retells the harrowing story of the Polish uprising against the Germans in World War II. Bringing ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Matter of Heart
In this stimulating biographical documentary, interviews with famed psychologist and philosopher Carl Jung help illuminate the nature of his personal presence as well as some of the underpinnings of his philosophy. Along with ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Operation Barbarossa
Hitler's last offensive in the Soviet Union is profiled in this video along with submissions by Albert Speer and Dr. Paul Schmidt. ~ ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Partisans of Vilna
Over forty different holocaust survivors are interviewed in this informative ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Shoah
The creators of the brilliant French documentary Shoah courageously assume that their audience is willing to sit through 570 minutes' worth of interviews and little else. As unpromising as ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Ken Burns' America: The Statue of Liberty
This excellent documentary on one of America's most well-known national symbols was ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Broken Rainbow
In 1983, Interior Secretary James Watt sold coal leases at unusually low prices to developers in New Mexico, and hundreds of Navajo families were torn from their homes and displaced to other areas. The tragedy of this occurrence and the ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Unfinished Business
Director Steven Okazaki has made less than a handful of documentaries but has received awards or nominations for all of them. This look at the internment of ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Leonard Bernstein: The Little Drummer Boy
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We Were So Beloved
This is a surprisingly honest but overly long dialogue with survivors of the Jewish Holocaust living in the Washington Heights area of New York City. Director Manfred Kirchheimer belongs to that community, a useful inroad that ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Ken Burns' America: The Shakers
Under the official title of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, the Shakers ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
Hollywood Couples: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
Hollywood Couples: Marilyn Monroe and Joe Dimaggio documents one of the most famous relationships in celebrity gossip history. He was the most famous athlete in the country and she was the biggest sex symbol when they met in the early ... [ History movie - 1985 ]
