Type: Movies
Genre: History
747 content found
Descendant 2022

Follows descendants of the survivors from the Clotilda, the last ship that carried enslaved Africans to the United States, as they reclaim their story.

Category: Documentary, History

1,055 Views
Soldier Blue 1970

After a cavalry patrol is ambushed by the Cheyenne, the two survivors, a soldier and a woman, must reach the safety of the nearest fort.

Category: History, Western

Stars: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence

6.9 IMDB Rating 4,632 Views
Les Misérables 1998

Valjean, a former criminal, has atoned for his past and now finds himself in the midst of the French Revolution, avoiding a law-obsessed policeman hell-bent on capturing him.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Liam Neeson, Geoffrey Rush, Uma Thurman

7.4 IMDB Rating 1,129 Views
Savannah 2013

SAVANNAH is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river. Ward navigates the change of early 20th century America on the wrong side of the law and society, his loyal friend, a freed slave named Christmas Moultrie, at his side. Master of Shakespeare, and the shotgun that provides Savannah's markets with fowl, Ward fights for his rights as a hunter. His charisma and eloquent rhetoric win the heart of a society woman who defies her father to marry him. An elderly Moultrie tells the story of life on the river with his friend to a little boy, who passes the legendary Ward Allen down to the next generation.

Category: Drama, Family, History

Stars: Jim Caviezel,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Jaimie Alexander,Bradley Whitford

6.0 IMDB Rating 4,039 Views
The Silent Mountain 2014

How war affects the people in the spectacular Dolomiti Mountains at the outbreak of WWI between Italy and Austria-Hungary in 1915.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: William Moseley,Eugenia Costantini,Claudia Cardinale,Werner Daehn

5.4 IMDB Rating 3,784 Views
Hidden Figures 2016

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

7.8 IMDB Rating 1,695 Views
The 300 Spartans 1962

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Richard Egan,Ralph Richardson,Diane Baker,Barry Coe,David Farrar,Donald Houston,Anna Synodinou,Kieron Moore,John Crawford,Robert Brown,Laurence Naismith,Anne Wakefield,Ivan Triesault,Charles Fawcett,Michalis Nikolinakos

6.7 IMDB Rating 5,822 Views
Jogi 2022

Amid tension in 1980s India, three friends of different faiths unite in a noble yet dangerous effort to save hundreds in their town.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Diljit Dosanjh, Amyra Dastur, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub

8.2 IMDB Rating 1,219 Views
Katyn 2007

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski

7.0 IMDB Rating 1,123 Views
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 2012

In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Enrico Lo Verso, Jerzy Skolimowski

4.3 IMDB Rating 4,346 Views
Image of Victory 2021

Inspired by true events in 1948. Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid, Mira, a young but valiant mother, is forced ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Joy Rieger, Amir Khoury, Ala Dakka

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,484 Views
The Bombardment 2021

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were k

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Danica Curcic, Susse Wold

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,176 Views
Recount 2008

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Denis Leary

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,000 Views
Phantom 2013

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny

5.9 IMDB Rating 1,350 Views
Zero Dark Thirty 2012

Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jason Clarke,Reda Kateb,Jessica Chastain,Kyle Chandler

7.4 IMDB Rating 10,324 Views
Eiffel 2021

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun'...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,520 Views
Ammonite 2020

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones

6.5 IMDB Rating 946 Views
Ghosts of Mississippi 1996

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg

6.7 IMDB Rating 2,184 Views
Texas Red 2021

Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story of Texas Red, an African-American man who was hunted by hundreds through the Winter wilderness of Mississippi.

Category: Action, History, Western

Stars: John Sayles, Travis Mills, Nathaniel Horton

3.5 IMDB Rating 1,537 Views
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson 2021

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,446 Views