Type: Movies
Genre: History
747 content found
The Tragedy of Macbeth 1971

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

Category: Drama, History, Tragedy

Stars: Jon Finch, Francesca Annis, Martin Shaw

7.4 IMDB Rating 152 Views
Loving Highsmith 2022

Based on Patricia Highsmith's personal writings and accounts of her family and lovers, the film casts new light on the famous thriller writer's life and oeuvre, permeated by themes of love and its defining influence on identity.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Annina Butterworth, Patricia Highsmith, Marijane Meaker

6.9 IMDB Rating 116 Views
Riveted: The History of Jeans 2022

The history of jeans, from their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: James Sullivan, Kimberly Jenkins, Rabbit Goody

133 Views
Världens vackraste pojke 2021

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Luchino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world's most beautiful boy. 50 years later, that shadow still weighs upon Björn Andresen's life.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Kristina Lindström, Luchino Visconti, Mario Tursi

6.8 IMDB Rating 182 Views
Lincoln 2012

As the Civil War rages on, U.S President Abraham Lincoln struggles with continuing carnage on the battlefield as he fights with many inside his own cabinet on his decision to emancipate the slaves.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,466 Views
After Hitler 2016

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Will Johnson, Vincent Lindon, Georgi Zhukov

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,233 Views
The Hiding Place 1975

During WWII, a Dutch family caught hiding Jews is sent to a concentration camp where their Christian faith helps them endure the hardships.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell

7.4 IMDB Rating 192 Views
Stasi FC 2023

Personal testimony from survivors of the era of late 70's where East Germany's secret service (The Stasi) attempted to subvert the last remaining oasis of free speech in the country football.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History, Sport

7.0 IMDB Rating 198 Views
Vi som överlevde Rågsved 2008

Michaela had three brothers. Christer died aged 28, Benny at 38:th, and Dag was 43 when the drugs finally took his life. Yes. There was hard times in Rågsved in the 70s. But Göte lives and so do many more. So what happened then?

Category: Documentary, History

6.7 IMDB Rating 277 Views
United 93 2006

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Category: Action, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas

7.6 IMDB Rating 7,219 Views
Worth 2020

An attorney in Washington D.C. battles against cynicism, bureaucracy and politics to help the victims of 9/11.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Michael Keaton, Amy Ryan, Stanley Tucci

6.8 IMDB Rating 2,503 Views
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg 2023

This intimate documentary reveals the story of a fierce rock 'n' roller, actress, muse and mother who rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Anita Pallenberg, Volker Schlöndorff, Metka Kosak

7.0 IMDB Rating 309 Views
Flammen & Citronen 2008

A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group.

Category: Action, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, Thriller, War

Stars: Thure Lindhardt, Mads Mikkelsen, Stine Stengade

7.2 IMDB Rating 5,676 Views
Firebrand 2023

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Junia Rees, Ruby Bentall

6.2 IMDB Rating 570 Views
Executive Action 1973

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer

6.7 IMDB Rating 226 Views
Detroit 2017

Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,429 Views
A United Kingdom 2016

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton

6.9 IMDB Rating 279 Views
Goodbye Bafana 2007

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,570 Views
I Am All Girls 2021

A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Erica Wessels, Hlubi Mboya, Leshego Molokwane

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,898 Views
The Kings Choice 2016

April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,439 Views