Genre: History
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The Founder 2016

1954. Having worked as a salesman most of his adult life, Ray Kroc has been a hustler in most senses of the word. That hustling has made him the target of derision among certain circles for peddling what have ended up being more novelty or faddish than useful products, but it has also placed more than a comfortable roof in Arlington Heights, Illinois over his and his wife Ethel's heads. Ethel, however, wishes that he placed as much effort into being at home with her than he is in selling, his current job of peddling five-spindle milkshake makers for Prince Castle which has him constantly on the road going from one drive-in restaurant to another. It is because of the beefs he has with the whole drive-in experience (bad food, bad service) in constantly eating at such establishments while on the road that he becomes enthralled with the concept of McDonald's Restaurant in San Bernardino, California, it owned and operated by brothers Richard McDonald and Maurice McDonald - Dick and Mac. Unlike most of Ray's customers who will only require one five-spindle milkshake maker at any given time, the McDonald brothers end up purchasing eight machines for their single restaurant. Primarily on Dick's initiative, the brothers have redesigned the whole concept of the drive-in restaurant to focus on quality food through a smaller menu of only the most popular items (hamburgers, fries, sodas), consistency in product so that customers know what to expect from time to time, change in the target market from lounging teenagers to families, and perhaps most importantly speed in having any order ready within seconds, many of these goals achievable through assembly line styled production. They had tried franchising previously, but failed in that they lost control over many of those aspects which made their San Bernardino restaurant successful. Despite believing Ray a bit off kilter (in other words, crazy), the McDonald brothers somewhat hesitantly enter into a contract with him to be their head of franchising. Ray's experience in the job is not without its problems, especially as his franchisees seem to be making more money than he is, he who is only breaking even. He is not averse to advancing ideas provided to him to get ahead - original ideas which are not his forte - he seeing the brothers as his biggest problem in they thinking small. These differences lead to a standoff between Ray and the brothers, the former who has a different goal for "his" business in profit and stoking his own ego seemingly his main priorities.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Michael Keaton,Nick Offerman,John Carroll Lynch,Linda Cardellini

7.3 IMDB Rating 9,199 Views
Narco Wars 2020–2022

Explore how opportunistic smuggling networks in Latin America turned into powerful and ruthless drug cartels with unprecedented power.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Ioan Grillo, Chris Feistl, Jeremy McDermott

8.5 IMDB Rating 5,075 Views
Project Blue Book 2019–2020

A tough US Air Force officer and a skeptical scientist investigate UFO and alien conspiracies as Cold War paranoia spreads.

Category: History, Mystery

Stars: Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, Laura Mennell

7.6 IMDB Rating 32,585 Views
H2: The Occupation Lab 2022

H2 is the name given to the eastern part of Hebron, the only Palestinian urban area which remains under full Israeli military control, due to the presence of several hundred settlers. Here, along a one-Kilometer road, lies the Cav...

Category: Documentary, History

8.0 IMDB Rating 805 Views
The Salisbury Poisonings 2020

Three episode, fact based drama from the BBC, about the 2018 Novichok poisoning crisis in the city of Salisbury.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Rafe Spall, Anne-Marie Duff, Annabel Scholey

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,921 Views
Munch 2023

Rejected by the art establishment, wracked with grief over the loss of his older sister and tortured by addiction, the film captures Edvard Munch's life, one of the world's greatest artists of all time.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alfred Ekker Strande, Mattis Herman Nyquist, Ola G. Furuseth

6.5 IMDB Rating 941 Views
Pétain 1993

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jacques Dufilho, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Cassel

6.2 IMDB Rating 580 Views
The Vietnam War 2017

Epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in history as never told before on film. Visceral and immersive, exploring the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Peter Coyote, Huy Duc, Duong Van Mai Elliott

9,2 IMDB Rating 24,259 Views
Ballon 2018

East Germany, 1979. After initially failing to flee from the East to the West in a self-built hot-air balloon, two families struggle to make a second attempt, while the East German State Police are chasing them.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross

7.5 IMDB Rating 5,118 Views
Boston Strangler 2023

Loretta McLaughlin was the reporter who first connected the murders and broke the story of the Boston Strangler. She and Jean Cole challenged the sexism of the early 1960s to report on the city's most notorious serial killer.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Robert John Burke

7.2 IMDB Rating 2,359 Views
Till 2022

In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison

7.1 IMDB Rating 1,529 Views
1944 2015

In 1944 Estonia, a fratricide war ensues when Estonians of the retreating German forces fight against Estonians conscripted into the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Kaspar Velberg, Kristjan Üksküla, Maiken Pius

7.0 IMDB Rating 1,200 Views
Das Haus der Träume 2022–

Berlin in the 1920's. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden. They are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she's looking for a job. But as soon as she gets there, her ...

Category: Drama, History, romance

Stars: Naemi Florez, Ludwig Simon, Nina Kunzendorf

7.0 IMDB Rating 2,024 Views
Challenger: The Final Flight 2020

Four-part docuseries on the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster, unpacking an indelible moment for a generation of Americans.

Category: Documentary, History, Sci-Fi

6,330 Views
The Last Emperor 1987

Dramatization of China's last emperor, Puyi.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole

7.7 IMDB Rating 692 Views
Eden Lake 2008

Refusing to let anything spoil their romantic weekend break, a young couple confront a gang of loutish youths with terrifyingly brutal consequences.

Category: History, Thriller

Stars: Kelly Reilly, Michael Fassbender, Tara Ellis

6.7 IMDB Rating 6,771 Views
The First Lady 2022–

In the East Wing of the White House, many of history's most impactful and world-changing decisions have been hidden from view, made by America's charismatic, complex and dynamic first ladies.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Viola Davis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gillian Anderson

5,7 IMDB Rating 6,008 Views
Shindisi 2019

A story of the film is based on real events that occurred during the Russian military intervention in Georgia in 2008. Shindisi is a name of the place where Russian occupation forces sieged Georgian military after peace corridor w...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Goga Pipinashvili, Dato Bakhtadze, Tamar Abshilava

7.3 IMDB Rating 937 Views
SanPa: Sins of the Savior 2020

Amidst a heroin crisis, Vincenzo Muccioli cared for the addicted, earning him fierce public devotion -- even as charges of violence began to mount.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Vincenzo Andreucci, Angelo Battistini, Antonio Boschini

7.9 IMDB Rating 5,099 Views
Mrs. America 2020–

Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly leads an unexpected fight against the Equal Rights Amendment movement during the 1970s.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Uzo Aduba, Elizabeth Banks, Cate Blanchett, Rose Byrne

11,195 Views