Type: Movies
Genre: History
741 content found
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale I 2011

During the Japanese rule of Taiwan, the Seediq were forced to lose their own culture and give up their faith. Men were subject to harsh labor and kept from traditional hunting; whereas women had to serve the Japanese policemen and their families by doing the household work and giving up their traditional weaving work. Above all, they were forbidden to tattoo their faces. And these tattoos were seen as the Seediq's traditional belief to transform themselves into Seediq Bale ("true humans"). Mona Rudao, the protagonist, witnessed the repression by the Japanese over a period of 30 years. Sometime between autumn and winter 1930, when the slave labor is at its harshest, a young Seediq couple are married and a joyful party is thrown. At the same time, a newly appointed Japanese policeman goes on his inspection tour to this tribe. Mona Rudao's first son, Tado Mona, offers wine to the policeman with gusto, but is in return beaten up because his hands were considered not clean enough. With anger, Tado Mona and his brother Baso Mona attack the policeman. And from that day onward, their tribe is living in the shadow of being the object of revenge by the Japanese. In a few days, a group of youth surround Mona Rudao. They strongly request him to lead the retaliation against the Japanese. Mona Rudao struggles for a long time between extending his fellow's lives and fighting back for dignity, until he sees these youngster's faces - clear without Seediq's tattoos - that he made up his mind. He tells the youngsters, "Japanese troops out-number the stones in Dakusui River, more intensive than the leaves in the forest, but my determination fighting them is ever stronger than Mt. Kire." "Children! On the tip of the Rainbow Bridge led to home of our ancestor's spirits, there is another beautiful hunting range. Our ancestors are all there! Remember, only brave spirits can enter this place, and we can never lose it. My fellows, let us hunt the heads of our enemies, and we wash our spirits with blood so that we walk the Rainbow Bridge to be always with our ancestors." The film Seediq Bale depicts the Wushe Incident, which occurred in central Taiwan during the Japanese rule. When the Seediq Bale, believing in the Rainbow, and the Japanese, believing in the Sun, met one another, they fought. The leader of Seediq Bale, Mona Rudao, led 300 warriors fighting against 3000 Japanese troopers. The only thing they forgot was whether it was the Rainbow or the Sun they believed in; they actually believed in the same sky.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Nolay Piho,Chih-Hsiang Ma,Masanobu Andô,Sabu Kawahara

7.5 IMDB Rating 6,497 Views
Gallipoli 1981

The story of a group of young Australian men who leave their various backgrounds behind and sign up to join the ANZACs in World War I. They are sent to Gallipoli, where they encounter the resolute Turkish army.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Lee,Bill Kerr,Harold Hopkins,Charles Lathalu Yunipingu,Heath Harris,Ron Graham,Gerda Nicolson,Mel Gibson,Robert Grubb,Tim McKenzie,David Argue,Brian Anderson,Reg Evans,Jack Giddy,Dane Peterson

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,584 Views
Tove 2020

The movie centres on the life of Tove Jansson, showing both her personal relationships, and the creation of the popular Moomin books.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alma Pöysti, Krista Kosonen, Shanti Roney

7.0 IMDB Rating 1,402 Views
Beyond Valkyrie: Dawn of the 4th Reich 2016

Near the end of World War II, American and British Special Forces must extract a resistance fighter behind Nazi lines.

Category: Action, History, War

Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Tom Sizemore, Kip Pardue

5.0 IMDB Rating 5,214 Views
The Tragedy of Macbeth 2021

A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,561 Views
Quo vadis, Aida? 2020

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler

8.0 IMDB Rating 1,589 Views
The Outpost 2020

A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson

6.6 IMDB Rating 7,280 Views
The Last Duel 2021

King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer

7.7 IMDB Rating 8,711 Views
Margrete – Queen of the North 2021

1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Trine Dyrholm, Søren Malling, Morten Hee Andersen

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,107 Views
La noche de 12 años 2018

1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad."

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,977 Views
Colonia 2015

A young woman's desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,821 Views
Malcolm X 1992

Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,153 Views
The Chosen 2016

A man named Jacques Mornard arrives in Mexico in 1940, claiming to be a Belgian who is fleeing the war in Europe to join his girlfriend, one of refugee Leon Trotsky's secretaries. But nobody knows that in reality this conventional an

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Alfonso Herrera, Hannah Murray, Henry Goodman

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,699 Views
Mother! 2017

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Category: Drama, History, Mystery

Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris

6.6 IMDB Rating 10,755 Views
Legionnaire’s Trail 2020

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Lee Partridge, Mickey Rourke, Joaquim de Almeida

3.1 IMDB Rating 5,221 Views
In Dubious Battle 2016

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Nat Wolff, James Franco, Vincent D'Onofrio

6.1 IMDB Rating 1,592 Views
Mrs Lowry & Son 2019

A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, Stephen Lord

6,6 IMDB Rating 3,328 Views
The War Below 2021

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Sam Hazeldine, Tom Goodman-Hill, Kris Hitchen

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,742 Views
United 2011

Based on the true story of Manchester United's legendary "Busby Babes", the youngest side ever to win the Football League and the 1958 Munich Air Crash that claimed eight of their number.

Category: Drama, History, Sport

Stars: Dean Andrews, Kate Ashfield, Natalie Burt

7.4 IMDB Rating 1,347 Views
Apollo 13 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.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon

7.6 IMDB Rating 1,787 Views