Type: Movies
Genre: History
Year: 2016
49 content found
Jerry Lewis, clown rebelle 2016

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Jerry Lewis, Frank Krutnik, Tony Lewis Comedian

7.5 IMDB Rating 78 Views
A United Kingdom 2016

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton

6.9 IMDB Rating 960 Views
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America 2016

Daryl Davis is an accomplished musician who was played all over the world. He also has an unusual hobby, particularly for a middle aged black man. When not displaying his musical chops, Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan. When many of these people eventually leave the Klan with Daryl's support, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods; building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person, in hopes of one day opening a museum of the Klan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Daryl D. Davis, Kenneth Nwadike, Jeff Schoep

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,206 Views
1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines 2016

In 1898, Spain sends a military squad to the town of Baler, the Philippines, to protect one of the last colonies of the Spanish Empire, to prevent rebellious natives from recovering their ancient territories. Lead by Captain Enrique de las Morenas and Lieutenant Cerezo, proud military men, the soldiers are stalked at night by the rebels, and are forced to seek refuge in the church run by Fray Carmelo, Baler's priest. Turning the church into a military fort, the unrelenting heat and malaria starts to sweep across the men.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Cervantes

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,253 Views
The Innocents 2016

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza

7.3 IMDB Rating 738 Views
Diamond Sword 2016

Diamond Sword is a large-scale historical drama of first Kazakh Khans, which BBC called "Kazakh Game Of Thrones". The action takes place in the XV century, and the plot demonstrates the key events in formation of Kazakh statehood ...

Category: Action, Drama, History, War

Stars: Kairat Kemalov, Yerkebulan Daiyrov, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov

6.1 IMDB Rating 802 Views
Drain the Ocean: WWII 2016

World War II left the greatest-ever number of ships and submarines hidden beneath the waves. Now, as the oceans drain, each vessel reveals its secrets through new data-based 3D reconstructions. From the Arizona in Pearl Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Russell Boulter, James Delgado, Herbert Weatherwax

6.8 IMDB Rating 782 Views
Confirmation 2016

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,357 Views
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War 2016

In February 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and Martha Sharp, a trained social worker, boldly commit to a life-threatening mission in Europe to assist refugees.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, War

Stars: Marina Goldman, Tom Hanks

7.1 IMDB Rating 970 Views
I Called Him Morgan 2016

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,477 Views
After Hitler 2016

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Will Johnson, Vincent Lindon, Georgi Zhukov

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,867 Views
The Kings Choice 2016

April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics

7.1 IMDB Rating 6,250 Views
Alone In Berlin 2016

After a Nazi German working class couple loses their son in World War II, they decide to retaliate by secretly leafletting handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Louis Hofmann, Emil von Schönfels, Katrin Pollitt

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,980 Views
Deepwater Horizon 2016

A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin

7,1 IMDB Rating 5,937 Views
On Wings of Eagles 2016

Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Bruce Locke, Jesse Kove

5.6 IMDB Rating 6,739 Views
Risen 2016

In 33 AD, a Roman Tribune in Judea is tasked to find the missing body of Jesus Christ, who rose from the dead.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Tom Felton, Peter Firth

6.3 IMDB Rating 7,602 Views
China’s Megatomb Revealed 2016

Unearthing the terrible secrets hidden in the tomb of China's first emperor. The Terracotta warriors are just the tip of the iceberg in a mausoleum the size of Manhattan, which has gone largely unexcavated.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Dong Chunguang, Liming Geng, Albert Yu-Min Lin

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,730 Views
Southside with You 2016

Chronicles the 1989 summer afternoon when the future President of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady, Michelle Obama, on a first date across Chicago's South Side.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tika Sumpter, Parker Sawyers, Vanessa Bell Calloway

6.3 IMDB Rating 4,577 Views
The Siege of Jadotville 2016

Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Richard Lukunku, Danny Sapani, Andrew Stock

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,762 Views
Fuglene over sundet 2016

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: David Dencik, Danica Curcic, Jakob Cedergren

6.3 IMDB Rating 2,190 Views