Greatest 17 History Movies Hits from 1995

NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy. Check out Apollo 13 / IMDB / YouTube

An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska. Details on Balto / IMDB / YouTube

In 1713 Scotland, Rob Roy MacGregor is wronged by a nobleman and his nephew, becomes an outlaw in search of revenge while fleeing the Redcoats, and faces charges of being a Jacobite. Explore Rob Roy / IMDB / YouTube

During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods. Find out about Citizen X / IMDB / YouTube

The early career of legendary lawman Wild Bill Hickock is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane. Explore Wild Bill / IMDB / YouTube

The story of castrato opera singer Carlo Broschi, who enthralled 18th-century European audiences under his stage name Farinelli. Get info on Farinelli / IMDB / YouTube

The true story of how a group of African-American pilots overcame racist opposition to become one of the finest United States fighter groups in World War II. Get info on The Tuskegee Airmen / IMDB / YouTube

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband. Look into The Horseman on the Roof / IMDB / YouTube

A provincial boy related to a Shanghai crime family is recruited by his uncle into cosmopolitan Shanghai in the 1930s to be a servant to a ganglord's mistress. Find out about Shanghai Triad / IMDB / YouTube

The platonic relationship between artist Dora Carrington and writer Lytton Strachey in the early twentieth century. Read about Carrington / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the bandit queen Phoolan Devi who was sent to prison in 1983 and got free in 1994. Details on Bandit Queen / IMDB / YouTube

A variation on Victor Hugo's classic novel by means of the story of a man whose life is affected by and somewhat duplicated by the Hugo story of the beleaguered Jean Valjean. See more about Les Misérables / IMDB / YouTube

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963. Read about Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie / IMDB / YouTube

Widower Thomas Jefferson (3rd US president 1801-09) lives in Paris 1785-90 with his daughter. He has a pretty slave girl accompany his other daughter to France. He has an alleged affair with her resulting in children. Details on Jefferson in Paris / IMDB / YouTube

A dramatized account of the story of The Black Panther Party of Self-Defense. Find out about Panther / IMDB / YouTube

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Find out about One Hundred and One Nights / IMDB / YouTube

Intended as the concluding film in the trilogy on the modern history of Taiwan began with Beiqing Chengshi (1989), this film reveals the story through three levels: a film within a film as well as the past and present as linked by a young woman, Liang Ching. She is being persecuted by an anonymous man who calls her repeatedly but does not speak. He has stolen her diar. Details on Good Men, Good Women / IMDB / YouTube