Type: Movies
Genre: History
741 content found
Akelarre 2020

Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea and Amaia takes part for the first time in the nightly dances in the woods with the other villager girls. She is only 20. At dawn, they are all arrested.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Amaia Aberasturi, Alex Brendemühl, Daniel Fanego, Garazi Urkola

6,2 IMDB Rating 2,572 Views
The Swordsman 2020

Three different swordsmen -- a swordsman who is going blind, the best swordsman in Joseon Dynasty, and the best swordsman in Qing Dynasty who aspires to be the best even in the Joseon Dynasty -- meet each other for their own reasons.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Jang Hyuk, Man-sik Jeong, Angelina Danilova, Hyun-Sung Jang

6,6 IMDB Rating 2,936 Views
Beck Den förlorade sonen 2021

A jawbone is found in the middle of the forest. When the rest of the body is found, it turns out that it has just recently been moved and belongs to Viktor Eklund, who has been missing for five years.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Peter Haber, Kristofer Hivju, Jennie Silfverhjelm

7,547 Views
De Gaulle 2020

Paris, June 1940. The de Gaulle couple is confronted with the military and political collapse of France. Charles de Gaulle joins London while Yvonne, his wife, finds herself with her three children on the road of the exodus.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Lambert Wilson, Isabelle Carré, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet

5,9 IMDB Rating 2,783 Views
The Dig 2021

An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James

7,1 IMDB Rating 3,123 Views
The Furnace 2020

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: David Wenham, Jay Ryan, Mahesh Jadu

4,7 IMDB Rating 2,324 Views
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 2021

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Stanley Nelson

7,4 IMDB Rating 2,674 Views
Bridge of Spies 2015

In the cold war, a lawyer, James B. Donovan is recruited by the CIA and involved in an intense negotiation mission to release and exchange a CIA U-2 spy-plane pilot, Francis G. Powers. The pilot was arrested alive after his plane was shot down by the Soviet Union during a mission and stays in the company of a KGB intelligence officer, Rudolf Abel, who was arrested for espionage in the US.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Mark Rylance,Domenick Lombardozzi,Victor Verhaeghe,Mark Fichera

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,766 Views
Invictus 2009

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Morgan Freeman,Matt Damon,Tony Kgoroge,Patrick Mofokeng

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,701 Views
The Glorias 2020

The story of feminist icon Gloria Steinem's itinerant childhood's influence on her life as a writer, activist and organizer for women's rights worldwide.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Julianne Moore, Janelle Monáe, Bette Midler

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,004 Views
Hamilton 2020

The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Captured live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theater with the original Broadway cast.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson

8.6 IMDB Rating 6,387 Views
The Trial of the Chicago 7 2020

The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,054 Views
Red Cliff II 2009

In this sequel to Red Cliff, Chancellor Cao Cao convinces Emperor Xian of the Han to initiate a battle against the two Kingdoms of Shu and Wu, who have become allied forces, against all expectations. Red Cliff will be the site for the gigantic battle.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,415 Views
The Young Victoria 2009

A dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,985 Views
Silence 2016

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson, Tadanobu Asano

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,262 Views
There Will Be Blood 2007

The intersecting life stories of Daniel Plainview and Eli Sunday in early twentieth century California presents miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview, a driven man who will do whatever it takes to achieve his goals. He works hard but also takes advantage of those around him at their expense if need be. His business partner/son (H.W.) is, in reality, an "acquired" child whose true biological single-parent father (working on one of Daniel's rigs) died in a workplace accident. Daniel is deeply protective of H.W. if only for what H.W. brings to the partnership. Eli Sunday is one in a pair of twins whose family farm Daniel purchases for the major oil deposit located on it. Eli, a local preacher and a self-proclaimed faith healer, wants the money from the sale of the property to finance his own church. The lives of the two competitive men often clash as Daniel pumps oil off the property and tries to acquire all the surrounding land at bargain prices to be able to build a pipeline to the coast, and as Eli tries to build his own religious empire.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin Stringer, Matthew Braden Stringer, Jacob Stringer

8.2 IMDB Rating 9,094 Views
Airlift 2016

It is in this scenario that Ranjit Katyal (played by Akshay Kumar), a wealthy and powerful Indian businessman, who has always seen himself as a Kuwaiti, rather than an Indian, realizes that he no longer wields any influence on the Iraqis, and that he and his family are in as much danger as anyone else. Ranjit unknowingly becomes the man who all 170,000 Indians look up to for getting them out safely from Kuwait. Airlift is the story of Indians stranded in Kuwait during this traumatic time. A story of how they, with the help of Ranjit Katyal, managed to survive the Iraqi invasion, and against all odds traveled a thousand kilometers across the border into Amman, Jordan. From Amman, 170,000 Indians were brought home by the largest and the most successful evacuation ever attempted by any country, in the history of the world. Over 59 days, the Indian government systematically flew over 488 Air India commercial flights into a war zone to evacuate all 170,000 Indians and safely bring them back home. Airlift is an uplifting and entertaining edge-of-the-seat thriller and is the story of the biggest ever human evacuation in the history of mankind.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Akshay Kumar, Nimrat Kaur, Kumud Mishra, Prakash Belawadi

8.0 IMDB Rating 6,374 Views
We Go in at Dawn 2020

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him out. Trouble is, he doesn't want to be rescued.

Category: History, Thriller, War

Stars: Samantha Coughlan, Christos Lawton, Kelvin Fletcher, Audrey L'Ebrellec

3.8 IMDB Rating 3,460 Views
Baltu Ciltis 2018

These are religious rituals, magical and true, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles, our ancestors fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe?

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Lauma Balode, Kaspars Anins, Kristaps Bedritis, Arnis Hagendorfs

8.2 IMDB Rating 4,055 Views
Fanny Lye Deliver’d 2017

Set on an isolated farm in Shropshire in 1657. The story of Fanny Lye, a woman who learns to transcend her oppressive marriage and discover a new world of possibility - albeit at great personal cost. Living a life of Puritan stricture with husband John and young son Arthur, Fanny Lye's world is shaken to its core by the unexpected arrival of two strangers in need, a young couple closely pursued by a ruthless sheriff and his deputy.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Maxine Peake, Charles Dance, Freddie Fox, Tanya Reynolds

7,1 IMDB Rating 3,796 Views