Type: Movies
Genre: History
747 content found
Sometimes in April 2005

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,059 Views
The Journey 2016

During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,238 Views
Charming the Hearts of Men 2021

A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional al...

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Anna Friel, Kelsey Grammer, Starletta DuPois

6.4 IMDB Rating 1,360 Views
The New World 2005

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

6.7 IMDB Rating 7,487 Views
Un sac de billes 2017

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family onc...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,323 Views
Sharpe’s Eagle 1993

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Sean Bean,Brian Cox,Daragh O'Malley,Assumpta Serna,Michael Cochrane,David Troughton,Martin Jacobs,Katia Caballero,Michael Mears,John Tams,Jason Salkey,Paul Trussell,Lyndon Davies,Gavan O'Herlihy,David Ashton

8.0 IMDB Rating 4,205 Views
Enemy at the Gates 2001

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Category: Action, Drama, History, War

Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes

7.6 IMDB Rating 9,439 Views
The Killing Fields 1984

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

7.8 IMDB Rating 5,688 Views
The Gathering Storm 2002

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache

7.5 IMDB Rating 1,253 Views
Redeeming Love 2022

Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine Rivers.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Famke Janssen

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,177 Views
Einstein and Eddington 2008

Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Ben Uttley

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,120 Views
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,251 Views
The Lost Legion 2014

After years of decline, the Roman Empire is desperate to recapture its past. Amidst war and political confusion, Urbina Prima schemes to make her son, Cassius, the next emperor. The only thing standing in their way is Maximus, a once great Roman commander with his own dreams of nobility. Can Rome reclaim its glory, or will the chaos lead to civil war?

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Tom McKay,Michelle Lukes,Brian Caspe,Jim High

3.0 IMDB Rating 5,304 Views
1939 Battle of Westerplatte 2013

September 1st, 1939. German battleship Schleswig-Holstein marks the start of World War II by firing on the garrison stationed at the Westerplatte peninsula in Poland.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Michal Zebrowski,Robert Zoledziewski,Jan Englert,Piotr Adamczyk

4.9 IMDB Rating 5,305 Views
Utvandrarna 2021

Based on the book by Vilhelm Moberg (published in 1949) depicting a few people emigrating from Sweden to the United States in the 1840 - early 1850.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Gustaf Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Stig Henrik Hoff

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,338 Views
Surviving the Mount St. Helens Disaster 2020

The remarkable story of the Mount St. Helen's volcanic eruption of 1980 told by first hand witnesses who survived and using rare remastered archive material.

Category: Documentary, History

7.7 IMDB Rating 1,492 Views
The Longest Day 1962

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: John Wayne, Robert Ryan, Richard Burton

7.8 IMDB Rating 5,112 Views
Truth 2015

Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Dennis Quaid

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,285 Views
Cold Mountain 2003

In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,361 Views
Benedetta 2021

A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She is assisted by a companion, and the relationship between the two women develops into a romantic love affair.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia

6.7 IMDB Rating 1,975 Views