Type: Movies
Genre: History
741 content found
Dark Waters 2019

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman

7.6 IMDB Rating 6,992 Views
Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws 2019

A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawman Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.

Category: Drama, History, Western

Stars: Lana Wood, Johnny Crawford, Robert Carradine, Don Collier

3.0 IMDB Rating 3,120 Views
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band 2019

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Martin Scorsese, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,102 Views
Grant 2019–

The documentary-series examines Grant's life story using his perspective and experiences to explore a turbulent time in history: the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Justin Salinger, Francis Chouler, Gabriel Harry Meltz

7,6 IMDB Rating 7,591 Views
Edmond 2018

December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years. In desperation, he offers the great Constant Coquelin a new play, a heroic comedy, in verse, for the holidays. Only concern: it is not written yet. Ignoring the whims of actresses, the demands of his Corsican producers, the jealousy of his wife, the stories of his best friend's heart and the lack of enthusiasm of all those around him, Edmond starts writing this piece which nobody believes. For now, he has only the title: "Cyrano de Bergerac".

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Thomas Solivérès, Olivier Gourmet, Mathilde Seigner, Tom Leeb

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,564 Views
Peterloo 2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,725 Views
Robert the Bruce 2019

The story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.

Category: Action, History

Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Anna Hutchison, Zach McGowan, Gabriel Bateman

5.0 IMDB Rating 4,880 Views
J’accuse 2019

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois

7.2 IMDB Rating 3,684 Views
The Last King of Scotland 2006

In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson

7.7 IMDB Rating 6,985 Views
Wolyn 2016

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,116 Views
The Birdcatcher 2019

A Jewish girl Esther is forced to conceal her identity as a boy on a Nazi-Norwegian farm. Plotting her escape to Sweden, her daily challenge to keep her true identity a secret, leads to a series of choices and consequences.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Arthur Hakalahti, Jakob Cedergren, Laura Birn

4.7 IMDB Rating 2,806 Views
My Name Is Sara 2018

Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Radoslaw Kaim, Iwona Bielska, Izabela Dabrowska

3,513 Views
The American West 2016–

This series will provide unprecedented access to the wilderness, frontier lawlessness, and bloodshed of the 40 years between the end of the American Civil War and after the turn of the 20th Century, when the west was won. From Jesse James and Crazy Horse, to Wyatt Earp and Buffalo Bill, the characters at the center of this violent, blood-soaked period in American history are explored as each episode follows the stories and struggles of the West's most infamous outlaws as they fight for their land and identity.

Category: Drama, History, Western

Stars: Mark Lee Gardner, Bert Thomas Morris, David H. Stevens, Will Strongheart

7.3 IMDB Rating 8,441 Views
Hacksaw Ridge 2016

World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson

8.1 IMDB Rating 9,800 Views
Samurai Marason 2019

The American imperialists are at the door and intruding on Japan. To assess and train his troops the lord of the land announces a marathon through the land crisscrossing shores, forests and the mountain. The shogunate in Edo was not approving and views word of the contest with contempt and suspicion. Spies and moles are dispatched. One mole realizes the misunderstanding and is determined to stop lives and alliances being lost. He runs.

Category: History

Stars: Takeru Satoh, Nana Komatsu, Mirai Moriyama, Shôta Sometani

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,455 Views
Midway 2019

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

6.9 IMDB Rating 8,797 Views
Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans 2019

Atti, a smart and quick-witted Roman teenager, manages to upset Emperor Nero with one of his schemes. For punishment, Atti is sent to work in a cold and wet Britain where he also meets the Celts.

Category: Comedy, Fantasy, History

Stars: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts

5.2 IMDB Rating 3,847 Views
The Current War 2017

The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Oliver Powell, Katherine Waterston, Nancy Crane

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,113 Views
The Cheshire Murders 2013

A documentary about a brutal home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut in 2007.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Marilyn Bartoli, Deb Biggins, Michael Daluz, Jeremiah Donovan

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,605 Views
The Duchess 2008

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 6,996 Views