Genre: History
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Age of Uprising: The Legend of Michael Kohlhaas 2013

In the 16th century in the Cévennes, a horse dealer by the name of Michael Kohlhaas leads a happy family life. When a lord treats him unjustly, he raises an army and puts the country to fire and sword in order to have his rights restored.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Mads Mikkelsen,Mélusine Mayance,Delphine Chuillot,David Kross

6.1 IMDB Rating 3,917 Views
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict 2015

Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict is a feature documentary about the life of art icon Peggy Guggenheim, based on her sole authorized biography. Peggy was an heiress to the Guggenheim family who would become a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not only art, but artists. Her colorful personal history included trysts, affairs and marriages with such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Marcel Duchamp as well as countless others. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, which is today enshrined in her famous Venetian palazzo. The film is a compendium of the greatest 20th century art mixed with the wild and iconoclastic life of one of the most powerful women in the history of the art world.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Peggy Guggenheim,Marina Abramovic,Dore Ashton,Stephanie Barron

7.3 IMDB Rating 2,938 Views
Patterns of Evidence: The Exodus 2014

What is the validity of history found in the Bible? Is it fact or fiction? What does the hard evidence really have to say about the foundational story of the Old Testament: the Exodus out of Egypt? An in-depth investigation by documentary filmmaker Tim Mahoney searches for answers to these questions amid startling new finds that may change traditional views of history and the Bible.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Charles Aling,Manfred Bietak,John Bimson,Mansour Boraik

7.9 IMDB Rating 4,495 Views
Blackadder Back & Forth 1999

It's Millennium Eve and Blackadder is hosting a dinner party for a few select friends, Lady Elizabeth, Viscount George, Archbishop Melchett and Archbishop Darling. Baldrick devises yet another of his infamous cunning plans to help his ever greedy master Edmund Blackadder con money from his gullible friends. The pair build a "time machine" from empty cereal packets and place bets with their friends as to when in history they will travel, retrieving various artifacts from their travels as proof, items which Blackadder already owns! However, in a strange twist of fate the time machine actually works and the pair are thrown back in history initially to the Jurassic period. Gradually the pair start to return to their own time stopping off at various famous times in history such as Sherwood Forest and the Battle of Waterloo but will they make it home?

Category: Comedy, History, Short

Stars: Rowan Atkinson,Tony Robinson,Stephen Fry,Hugh Laurie

7.7 IMDB Rating 4,789 Views
The Visual Bible: The Gospel of John 2003

The story of Jesus' life as told by the apostle John, narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Christopher Plummer,Henry Ian Cusick,Stuart Bunce,Daniel Kash

7.7 IMDB Rating 3,382 Views
Come See the Paradise 1990

Portraying one of the shadier details of American history, this is the story of Jack McGurn, who comes to Los Angeles in 1936. He gets a job at a movie theatre in Little Tokyo and falls in love with the boss's daughter, Lily Kawamura. When her father finds out, he is fired and forbidden ever to see her again. But together they escape to Seattle. When the war breaks out, the authorities decide that the Japanese immigrants must live in camps like war prisoners.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Dennis Quaid,Tamlyn Tomita,Sab Shimono,Shizuko Hoshi

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,393 Views
Let the Lion Roar 2014

Uncover one of the greatest and darkest deceptions of our time - the conspiracy to cover up the Church's true identity.

Category: History

Stars: Kevin Sorbo,Jason Burkey,Eric Roberts,Stephen Baldwin

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,972 Views
Under sanden (Under sandet) 2015

SPOILER: In 1945, in Denmark, after the defeat of Germany, the tough veteran Sergeant Carl Rasmussen is assigned by Lieutenant Ebbe Jensen to defuse and remove 2.2 million mines in the Danish West Coast to make the beaches safe. Carl receives a group of teenage Germans prisoners of war to clear mines. With the formal promise of Ebbe, Carl tells to the youngsters that when the task is accomplished, the survivors would be released to return to Germany. After the initial hostility with the enemy, Carl realizes that the POWs are too young and befriends the boys. But when a mine in a clear area blows up his dog, Carl forces the boys to walk together on the safe areas to check whether any mine was left behind. Months later, the survivors complete their task but Ebbe sends them to another mined field. What will Carl do?

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Roland Møller,Mikkel Boe Følsgaard,Laura Bro,Louis Hofmann

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,749 Views
Money for Nothing 2013

Based on the Book of the same title "Money For Nothing" is a history of the music video from the Beatles and Michael Jackson to Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga and everyone in between.

Category: Documentary, History, Music

Stars: Liev Schreiber,Paul Volcker,Janet Yellen,Peter Atwater

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,628 Views
Ninja Shadow Warriors 2012

NINJA is unearthing the true history, unique military skills and ancient traditions behind the infamous Ninja. The drama documentary tells the intriguing story of Ninja Tanba who was ...

Category: History

Stars: Antony Cummins,Mami Hishida,Shigeru Inoue,Tôru Iwasu

6.9 IMDB Rating 4,332 Views
Ådalen 31 1969

During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between demonstrators and the military who open fire and five people are killed and five injured.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Peter Schildt,Kerstin Tidelius,Roland Hedlund,Stefan Feierbach

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,441 Views
Colonia 2015

Lena and Daniel, a young couple become entangled in the Chilean military coup of 1973. Daniel is abducted by Pinochet's secret police and Lena tracks him to a sealed off area in the South of the country, called Colonia Dignidad. The Colonia presents itself as a charitable mission run by lay preacher Paul Schäfer but, in fact, is a place nobody ever escaped from. Lena decides to join the cult in order to find Daniel. Based on true events.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Emma Watson,Daniel Brühl,Michael Nyqvist,Richenda Carey

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,534 Views
The Scandalous Lady W 2015

A gripping 18th century drama details the scandalous life of Lady Seymour Worsley, who dared to leave her husband and elope with his best friend, Captain George Bisset. Lady Seymour Worsley escapes her troubled marriage only to find herself at the centre of a very public trial brought by her powerful husband Sir Richard Worsley.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Natalie Dormer,Aneurin Barnard,Shaun Evans,Richard McCabe

6.6 IMDB Rating 3,939 Views
Solens kungar 1963

In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Yul Brynner,George Chakiris,Shirley Anne Field,Richard Basehart

6.3 IMDB Rating 3,545 Views
Med eld och svärd 1999

In 1648 a Cossack rebellion in the Ukraine threatens the sovereignty of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth over the Cossack nation. The Cossack rebellion also known as the Khmelnytsky Uprising is pitting the Cossack nation and its Crimean Tatar allies against the forces sent by the Polish king John II Casimir. Polish Colonel Michal Wolodyjowski is leading a squadron of Polish cavalry.Traitors,assassins and spies are everywhere. Against the backdrop of the uprising, a Polish knight Skrzetuski and a Cossack leader Bohun fall in love with the same young beautiful woman, Helena. Their rivalry becomes the symbol of Polish-Ukrainian struggle.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Izabella Scorupco,Michal Zebrowski,Aleksandr Domogarov,Krzysztof Kowalewski

7.1 IMDB Rating 3,788 Views
Monk Comes Down the Mountain 2015

Based on Xu Haofeng's novel A Monk Comes Down the Mountain, the film relates the story of a listless young Taoist cleric called He Anxia who is ejected from his impoverished monastery and finds himself playing Virgil in an infernal 1930s Chinese city.

Category: Action, History

Stars: Jaycee Chan,Chen Chang,Aaron Kwok,Baoqiang Wang

5.2 IMDB Rating 3,459 Views
Hjältarna från Telemarken 1965

Set in German-occupied Norway, this is an embellished account of the remarkable efforts of the Norwegian resistance to sabotage the German development of the atomic bomb. Resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant near the village of Rjukan in rural Telemark. In the process, Pedersen discovers that his ex-wife Anna and her uncle have also joined the resistance. British commandos dispatched to destroy the plant are killed when their glider hits the mountainside at night. An improvised raid by the resistance ends in the partial destruction of the heavy water canisters, but the contingency plans of Reichskommissar Terboven enable the Germans to resume production quickly. Pedersen wants to recommend to London that the Allies bomb the plant. Straud opposes him because of the potential death toll on Norwegian civilians and a fight ensues. They send in separate recommendations, and the air raid takes place, but it fails to destroy the heavy water. A Norwegian traitor gives away the resistance hideout, and Anna's uncle is killed. The Germans load the canisters onto a ferry for shipment to Germany, and the resistance rig explosives to sink the ferry in the fjord. As the ferry is about to leave, it is boarded by the widow and baby of one of Pedersen's and Straud's colleagues. Pedersen boards the ferry and organizes a children's game of "lifejacket" in order to minimize civilian deaths. The film closes with resistance members rescuing passengers as the ferry sinks.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Kirk Douglas,Richard Harris,Ulla Jacobsson,Michael Redgrave

6.4 IMDB Rating 3,702 Views
Naken bland vargar 2015

Taking place at the Concentration camp Buchenwald at the end of March 1945, prisoner Hans Pippig discovers in a carrying case of an incoming prisoner a Jewish child. If reported the three-year-old is sure to die. On the other hand, a violation of the rules of the camp would threaten the long prepared uprising of the concentration camp prisoners against the SS.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Florian Stetter,Peter Schneider,Sylvester Groth,Sabin Tambrea

7.0 IMDB Rating 4,544 Views
Klockan klämtar för dig 1943

Spain in the 1930s is the place to be for a man of action like Robert Jordan. There is a civil war going on and Jordan who has joined up on the side that appeals most to idealists of that era -- like Ernest Hemingway and his friends -- has been given a high-risk assignment up in the mountains. He awaits the right time to blow up a bridge in a cave. Pilar, who is in charge there, has an ability to foretell the future. And so that night she encourages Maria, a young girl ravaged by enemy soldiers, to join Jordan who has decided to spend the night under the stars.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Cooper,Ingrid Bergman,Akim Tamiroff,Arturo de Córdova

7.0 IMDB Rating 2,921 Views
Gettysburg 2011

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Sam Rockwell,Anton Blake,Josh Artis,Greg Berg

6.4 IMDB Rating 5,293 Views