History Movies
The Storm Gate

The Storm Gate

The Storm Gate
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208

Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t…

Genre: Drama, History
Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti
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157

A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the…

King and the Clown

King and the Clown

King and the Clown
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119

Set in the late 15th century during the reign of King Yeonsan, two male street clowns and tightrope walkers, Jangsaeng (Gam Wu-seong) and Gong-gil (Lee Joon-gi), are part of an…

The New World

The New World

The New World
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172

A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.

Munich

Munich

Munich
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164

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits…

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha
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145

A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a…

Joyeux Noël

Joyeux Noël

Joyeux Noël
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116

In 1914, World War I, the bloodiest war ever at that time in human history, was well under way. However on Christmas Eve, numerous sections of the Western Front called…

The White Countess

The White Countess

The White Countess
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135

The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, “The White Countess” is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of…

St. Peter

St. Peter

St. Peter
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186

Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film’s first half dramatizes the New Testament’s “Acts”: early fear, the renewal of Pentecost,…

9th Company

9th Company

9th Company
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139

The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Good Night, and Good Luck.
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93

The story of journalist, Edward R Murrow’s stand against Senator McCarthy’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.

Genre: Drama, History
Two Sons of Francisco

Two Sons of Francisco

Two Sons of Francisco
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132

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it…

Genre: Drama, History
The Great Raid

The Great Raid

The Great Raid
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132

As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of…

Genre: Action, History, War
Welcome to Dongmakgol

Welcome to Dongmakgol

Welcome to Dongmakgol
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133

Based on the long running play by Jang Jin, the story is set in Korea during the Korean War in 1950. Soldiers from both the North and South, as well…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, War
Nomad: The Warrior

Nomad: The Warrior

Nomad: The Warrior
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112

The Nomad is a historical epic set in 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalised account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan, as he grows and fights to…

Genre: Action, History, War
Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man

Cinderella Man
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144

The true story of boxer, Jim Braddock who, in the 1920’s after his retirement, has a surprise comeback in order to get him and his family out of a socially…

The Last Drop

The Last Drop

The Last Drop
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103

Different factions in WWII-era Holland race to find a stash of Nazi gold.

Genre: Action, Crime, History, War
Speer und er

Speer und er

Speer und er
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270

A reassessment of the role Albert Speer played in the Third Reich. Speer, who was ultimately convicted at the Nuremburg trials and served a 20-year prison sentence, was known for…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven

Kingdom of Heaven
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144

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody holy wars during the Crusades.

The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit

The Turkish Gambit
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130

The film is based on the second book from the Adventures of Erast Petrovich Fandorin series of novels written by the Russian author Boris Akunin. The film takes place in…

Sometimes in April

Sometimes in April

Sometimes in April
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140

Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero and Idris Elba star in this drama framed by the Rwandan genocide.

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Sun

The Sun

The Sun
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110

The Sun (Russian: Сóлнце, Solntse) is a 2005 Russian biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama…

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
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117

True story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to thrilling, dramatic life. Sophie Scholl stars Julia Jentsch in a luminous performance as the fearless activist of the underground student…

Genre: Drama, History
Inside Deep Throat

Inside Deep Throat

Inside Deep Throat
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92

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel, “Deep Throat,” starring Linda Lovelace. This film would surpass the wildest expectation of everyone involved…

The Colt

The Colt

The Colt
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83

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Union Jim Rabb’s beloved mare. Refusing the orders to shoot it,…

Genre: Drama, Family, History, War
Why We Fight

Why We Fight

Why We Fight
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98

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki’s shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an…

Alexander

Alexander

Alexander
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175

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any…

Alone in the Wilderness

Alone in the Wilderness

Alone in the Wilderness
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57

Dick Proenneke retired at age 50 in 1967 and decided to build his own cabin in the wilderness at the base of the Aleutian Peninsula, in what is now Lake…

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda

Hotel Rwanda
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121

Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnoticed by the…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Downfall

Downfall

Downfall
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156

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Izo

Izo

Izo
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128

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun’s men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished,…

Olga

Olga

Olga
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141

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent…

Genre: Drama, History
R-Point

R-Point

R-Point
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107

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

King Arthur

King Arthur

King Arthur
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126

The story of the Arthurian legend, based on the ‘Sarmatian hypothesis’ which contends that the legend has a historical nucleus in the Sarmatian heavy cavalry troops stationed in Britain, and…

Our Music

Our Music

Our Music
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80

Jean-Luc Godard’s poetic meditation on war, violence and defeat. The film is structured in three parts. The three segments are “Hell”, “Purgatory”, and “Heaven”. The first segment is a montage…

Genre: Drama, History
The Assassination of Richard Nixon

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

The Assassination of Richard Nixon
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95

It’s 1974 and Sam Bicke has lost everything. His wife leaves him with his three kids, his boss fires him, his brother turns away from him, and the bank won’t…

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
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120

A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel’s eclectic slate…

The Rider Named Death

The Rider Named Death

The Rider Named Death
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106

In pre-Soviet Russia, Boris Savinkov leads a terrorist faction of Socialist-Revolutionary Party members responsible for the deaths of governors and ministers.

The Alamo

The Alamo

The Alamo
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137

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna’s forces at the Alamo in…

Genre: History, War, Western
Spartacus

Spartacus

Spartacus
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174

Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is…