History Movies
Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday

Bloody Sunday
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107

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.

The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo

The Cuckoo
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100

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a…

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials

Salem Witch Trials
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240

The film recounts the sobering tale of how 19 innocent lives were taken in a community experiencing paranoid hysteria regarding the suspected – but unproved – presence of the occult…

Genre: Drama, History
Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down
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144

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy…

Genre: Action, History, War
Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray

Charlotte Gray
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121

This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French…

The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion
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92

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Affair of the Necklace

The Affair of the Necklace

The Affair of the Necklace
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118

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family’s fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.

Genre: Drama, History
In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies

In the Time of the Butterflies
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95

In the Time of the Butterflies is inspired by the true story of the three Mirabal sisters who, in 1960, were murdered for their part in an underground plot to…

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle

Gojoe: Spirit War Chronicle
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138

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks…

Genre: Action, History
Mad Love

Mad Love

Mad Love
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115

The love story who transformed Juana I de Castilla, Queen of Spain, into Juana “The mad”. The tragic fate of a Queen madly in love to an unfaithful husband, Felipe…

The Bunker

The Bunker

The Bunker
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95

In 1944, in the Belgian – German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege…

Asoka

Asoka

Asoka
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155

In India, about 260 BC in the Empire of Magadha, the Prince Asoka (Shah Rukh Khan) survives to many betrayals of his brothers, leaded by the evil Susima (Ajit Kumar),…

Genre: Drama, History
No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land

No Man’s Land
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98

Two soldiers from opposite sites get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. The UN is asked to free them and both sides agree on a ceasefire, but…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
The Warrior

The Warrior

The Warrior
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155

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave…

Genre: Action, Drama, History
The Lady and the Duke

The Lady and the Duke

The Lady and the Duke
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129

This breathtaking, visually experimental film from New Wave director Eric Rohmer tells the true story of Grace Dalrymple Elliot (Lucy Russell), a British aristocrat trapped in Paris during the French…

Genre: Drama, History, War
To End All Wars

To End All Wars

To End All Wars
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108

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon (Ciaran McMenamin), Lt….

The Legend of Suriyothai

The Legend of Suriyothai

The Legend of Suriyothai
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185

During the 16th century, as Thailand contends with both a civil war and Burmese invasion, a beautiful princess rises up to help protect the glory of the Kingdom of Ayothaya….

Genre: Drama, History, War
Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor
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183

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled in a love triangle with beautiful Naval…

Conspiracy

Conspiracy

Conspiracy
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96

The historical recreation of the 1942 Wannsee Conference, in which Nazi and SS leaders gathered in a Berlin suburb to discuss the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question”. Lead by…

Genre: Drama, History
The Profession of Arms

The Profession of Arms

The Profession of Arms
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105

In autumn of 1526, the Emperor, Charles V, sends his German landsknechts led by Georg von Frundsberg to march towards Rome. The inferior papal armies, commanded by Giovanni de’Medici, try…

61*

61*

61*
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129

In 1961, Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle played for the New York Yankees. One, Mantle, was universally loved, while the other, Maris, was universally hated. Both men started off with…

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
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131

When a Greek fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander. The film is based on a novel…

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates
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131

Enemy at the Gates is a war film from Jean-Jacques Annaud from 2001 that takes place during the battle of Stalingard in World War II between the Russians and the…

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Brotherhood of the Wolf
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137

In 18th century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent by the King to the Gevaudan province to investigate the killings of hundreds by…

Uprising

Uprising

Uprising
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177

Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.

Bang Rajan

Bang Rajan

Bang Rajan
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113

Set right before the fall of Thailand’s old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies. With no…

Genre: Action, History, War
The King Is Dancing

The King Is Dancing

The King Is Dancing
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115

Louis XIV, the French sun-king has two passions, establishing absolute rule over the realm -after decades of religious/civil wars- by divine right and artistic brilliancy as a dancer

Genre: Drama, History, Music
The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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97

Documentary on the Shackleton Antartic expedition. A retelling of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica in and the crew of his vessel ‘The Endurance’, which was trapped in the…

Blackboards

Blackboards

Blackboards
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85

Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Sade

Sade

Sade
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100

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
The Dish

The Dish

The Dish
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101

The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man’s first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
The Patriot

The Patriot

The Patriot
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165

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a…

Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Vatel

Vatel

Vatel
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125

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a…

El invierno de las anjanas

El invierno de las anjanas

El invierno de las anjanas
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90

A young worker enjoying an affair with an upper class beauty, Adelaida, is drafted by the Spanish Army to fight in the Cuban War of Independence. After Adelaida receives an…

Captains of April

Captains of April

Captains of April
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123

Story of the 1974 coup that overthrew the right-wing Portuguese dictatorship–which continued the fascist policies of long-time dictator Antonio Salazar–and of two young army captains who were involved in it.

Genre: Drama, History
Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement

Rules of Engagement
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128

Part war movie, part courtroom thriller, this gripping drama finds a war hero put on trial for a rescue mission gone terribly wrong with only his doubtful friend and fellow…

The Miracle Maker

The Miracle Maker

The Miracle Maker
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90

A mother and father in search of help for their sick daughter cross paths with an extraordinary carpenter named Jesus, who has devoted his life to spreading God’s word. An…

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld

The Einstein of Sex: Life and Work of Dr. M. Hirschfeld
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100

The life story of Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, a German Jew, who as a physician established the field of sexology, and fought militantly against German anti-sodomy laws in the late 19th…

Genre: Drama, History
The Libertine

The Libertine

The Libertine
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100

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

Genre: Comedy, History
Longitude

Longitude

Longitude
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198

Parallel stories: 18th century Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea; 20th century Gould is obsessed with restoring it.