Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-haile-selassie"

1. Bob Marley: One Love (2024)

PG-13 | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The story of how reggae icon Bob Marley overcame adversity, and the journey behind his revolutionary music.

Director: Reinaldo Marcus Green | Stars: Kingsley Ben-Adir, Lashana Lynch, James Norton, Tosin Cole

Votes: 23,772

2. Cool Runnings (1993)

PG | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

When a Jamaican sprinter is disqualified from the Olympic Games, he enlists the help of a dishonored coach to start the first Jamaican Bobsled Team.

Director: Jon Turteltaub | Stars: John Candy, Leon, Doug E. Doug, Rawle D. Lewis

Votes: 114,034 | Gross: $68.86M

3. Sweetness in the Belly (2019)

110 min | Drama

Based on the novel by Camilla Gibb, Lilly is an English child abandoned in Africa, forced to flee Ethiopia for England amid civil war. There she befriends Amina, an Ethiopian refugee, and they begin a mission to reunite scattered families.

Director: Zeresenay Mehari | Stars: Wunmi Mosaku, Rafael Goncalves, Dakota Fanning, Chris McHallem

Votes: 805

4. Mussolini: The Untold Story (1985)

Unrated | 410 min | Biography, Drama, History

The rise and fall of the Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini.

Stars: George C. Scott, Raul Julia, Virginia Madsen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio

Votes: 651

5. The Mouth Agape (1974)

TV-14 | 82 min | Drama

Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.

Director: Maurice Pialat | Stars: Nathalie Baye, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Monique Mélinand

Votes: 1,294

6. Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly

Votes: 1,682

7. Nosferasta: First Bite (2022)

33 min | Short, Comedy, History

Nosferasta: First Bite is a vampire movie like no other. Christopher Columbus uses his undead powers to create his "New World", where he sucks the blood out of his colonial project for ... See full summary »

Directors: Adam Khalil, Bayley Sweitzer | Stars: Jerry G. Angelo, Adam Rashad Glenn, Steve Holmgren, Sarah Kerr

Votes: 14

8. Wings Over Ethiopia (1934)

Approved | 52 min | Documentary

A photographic record of an Ethiopian journey by plane, automobile and mule, showing the lives, customs, and habits of the people, and the conditions of the country.

Directors: Walter Lesch, Walter Mittelholzer, L. Wenschler | Stars: Walter Mittelholzer, Gayne Whitman

9. Frasier (1993–2004)
Episode: A Lilith Thanksgiving (1996)

TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy

Niles' plans for a 'rustic' thanksgiving (complete with mints on the pillows) are scuppered when Lilith arranges a meeting with the headmaster of the Marbury Academy, an exclusive school, with the aim of getting Frederick in.

Director: Jeff Melman | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Jane Leeves, David Hyde Pierce, Peri Gilpin

Votes: 1,063

10. The Story of God with Morgan Freeman (2016–2019)
Episode: Gods Among Us (2019)

TV-PG | 47 min | Documentary, Adventure, History

Morgan Freeman travels around the globe to explore the divine mysteries of gods made human, and meets a 5-year-old living goddess in Nepal.

Stars: Morgan Freeman, Alli Hurley, Jared Svoboda

Votes: 73

11. The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode: The Desert: North Africa - 1940-1943 (1973)

TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History, War

The desert war, starting with Italy's invasion of Egypt and the attacks and counterattacks between Germany and Italy and the Commonwealth forces, the Axis defeat at El Alamein.

Stars: Laurence Olivier, Paola Colacicchi, David Belchem, Richard O'Connor

Votes: 425

12. The UnXplained (2019– )
Episode: The Search for the Ark of the Covenant (2021)

TV-PG | 42 min | Documentary

Throughout history many have sought the lost Ark of the Covenant. According to the Old Testament. God himself instructed Moses to build the Ark--and it is believed that it held the power of... See full summary »

Stars: William Shatner, Stephen Andrew Missick, Barry Leff, Robert Mullins

Votes: 68

13. Upstairs Downstairs (2010–2012)
Episode: The Ladybird (2010)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama

Persie becomes romantically involved with Spargo, who in turn involves her with the Facist movement much to the distress of the family's new Jewish maid.

Director: Euros Lyn | Stars: Keeley Hawes, Ed Stoppard, Jean Marsh, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 188

14. Secrets of War (1998– )
Episode: Mussolini's Henchmen

TV-PG | 45 min | Documentary, History, War

An inside look at fascist Italy. Starting with Mussolini's rise to power, the unknown stories of the shadowy figures who protected "Il Duce" and the tenuous Axis relationship with Nazi Germany.

Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Camp, Anthony Ghezzo, Philip Cannistrato

15. World War II in Colour (2009)
Episode: The Gathering Storm (2009)

TV-MA | 51 min | Documentary, History, War

The activities of nations after World War I that lead to World War II.

Stars: Robert Powell, Adolf Hitler, Paul von Hindenburg, Kai-Shek Chiang

Votes: 409

16. Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
Episode: Vavilov (2020)

TV-PG | Documentary, Animation, Family

Nikolai Vavilov risked his life for a discovery that would change the history of science.

Director: Ann Druyan | Stars: Neil deGrasse Tyson, Viggo Mortensen, Seth MacFarlane, Ken Lally

Votes: 1,018