History Movies
Coven

Coven

Coven
IMDb: 6.1
90 min

French Basque Country, year 1609. The men of the region have gone to sea. Amaia participates with other girls of the village in a coven celebrated in the forest. Judge…

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Genre: Drama, History
Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah

Judas and the Black Messiah
IMDb: N/A
126 min

Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle…

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The Eight Hundred

The Eight Hundred

The Eight Hundred
IMDb: 7.2
149 min

From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The Dig

The Dig

The Dig
IMDb: 6.7
112 min

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain’s past resonate…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Furnace

The Furnace

The Furnace
IMDb: 4.8
116 min

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

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Genre: History, Western
Tall Tales

Tall Tales

Tall Tales
IMDb: 7.0
112 min

1945, Hungary. Shortly after the end of World War II, when chaos and insecurity reign supreme in the country, a con man tries to take advantage of such confused times….

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Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls

Blizzard of Souls
IMDb: 8.7
104 min

The love story of the sixteen-year-old Arturs gets interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Winter of The Braves

Winter of The Braves

Winter of The Braves
IMDb: 6.3
110 min

Ukraine, 1918. As a Bolshevik army of about 4.000 men, commanded by General Muravyov, advances towards Kyiv, with the aim of capturing the city, a small Ukrainian unit of 400…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Liberté

Liberté

Liberté
IMDb: 4.7
138 min

1774, shortly before the French Revolution, somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin. Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the puritanical court of…

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Genre: Drama, History
Ether

Ether

Ether
IMDb: 6.0
118 min

At the end of the 19th century, somewhere in the outskirts of the Russian Empire, a doctor administers a lethal overdose of ether to a young woman – the object…

Your Name Engraved Herein

Your Name Engraved Herein

Your Name Engraved Herein
IMDb: 7.1
118 min

In 1987, decades of martial law is lifted in Taiwan and two schoolboys, A-han and Birdy, are about to enter an illicit love affair after meeting in the school band…

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One Nation, One King

One Nation, One King

One Nation, One King
IMDb: 5.9
121 min

„Un peuple et son roi” crosses the destinies of the men and women of the population, and those of historical figures. Their meeting place is the newly founded National Assembly….

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Genre: Drama, History
Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler

Vlad The Impaler
IMDb: 5.4
121 min

The true story of 7 oddly dressed fearless men of ottoman army fight against cruel Vlad.

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Genre: Action, History, War
Mank

Mank

Mank
IMDb: N/A
131 min

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

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Genre: Drama, History
Savannah

Savannah

Savannah
IMDb: 5.9
101 min

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…

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55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking
IMDb: 6.7
154 min

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival…

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Genre: History
Alone Yet Not Alone

Alone Yet Not Alone

Alone Yet Not Alone
IMDb: 4.5
103 min

Fleeing religious persecution in Germany, the Leininger family seeks a new start in uncharted country – America. It is the mid-1700s and British and French forces are struggling for control…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History
Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins
IMDb: 7.2
133 min

Neil Jordan’s historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led…

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Zulu

Zulu

Zulu
IMDb: 7.7
138 min

In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke’s Drift from tribal…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
The Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter

The Lion in Winter
IMDb: 7.9
134 min

1183 AD: King Henry II’s three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won’t commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him. An…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation

The Birth of a Nation
IMDb: 6.3
195 min

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
A Midnight Clear

A Midnight Clear

A Midnight Clear
IMDb: 7.1
108 min

Set in 1944 France, an American Intelligence Squad locates a German Platoon wishing to surrender rather than die in Germany’s final war offensive. The two groups of men, isolated from…

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Francofonia

Francofonia

Francofonia
IMDb: 6.7
88 min

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

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Genre: Drama, History
The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen

The Tuskegee Airmen
IMDb: 7.1
106 min

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate African American pilots into the Fighter Pilot Program. Known as the “Tuskegee…

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Spartacus

Spartacus

Spartacus
IMDb: 7.9
197 min

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners…

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The Vikings

The Vikings

The Vikings
IMDb: 7.1
116 min

Einar, brutal son of Ragnar and future heir to his throne tangles with Eric, a wily slave, for the hand of a beautiful English maiden.

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The Innocents

The Innocents

The Innocents
IMDb: 7.8
100 min

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.

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The Lennon Report

The Lennon Report

The Lennon Report
IMDb: 5.9
87 min

The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could…

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Genre: Drama, History
Flying Tigers

Flying Tigers

Flying Tigers
IMDb: 6.8
102 min

Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought the Japanese in China before America’s entry into World War II. Gordon must send…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World

Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World

Martin Luther: The Idea that Changed the World
IMDb: 7.2
113 min

The year 2017 marks the 500th anniversary of one on the most important events in Western civilization: the birth of an idea that continues to shape the life of every…

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Malmkrog

Malmkrog

Malmkrog
IMDb: N/A
N/A

A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The Trial of the Chicago 7
IMDb: 7.5
129 min

In Chicago 1968, the Democratic Pary Convention was met with protests from activists like the moderate Students for a Democratic Society led by Tom Hayden and the militant Yippies led…

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The Great Darkened Days

The Great Darkened Days

The Great Darkened Days
IMDb: 7.0
95 min

While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his long journey…

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Piłsudski

Piłsudski

Piłsudski
IMDb: N/A
120 min

The year 1901, a psychiatric hospital in the Russian partition. One of the patients is a political prisoner – Józef Pilsudski (Borys Szyc). The Polish underground independence movement is preparing…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Legend of Tomiris

The Legend of Tomiris

The Legend of Tomiris
IMDb: 6.7
156 min

This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe – legendary Tomiris. She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of…

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Genre: Drama, History
Tesla

Tesla

Tesla
IMDb: 5.9
96 min

Highlighting the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology–including his own previous work–by pioneering a system of wireless energy that will change the world.

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Genre: Drama, History
La Llorona

La Llorona

La Llorona
IMDb: 6.9
97 min

A tale of horror and fantasy, ripe with suspense, and an urgent metaphor of Guatemalan recent history and its unhealed political wounds.

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The Conquest Of Siberia

The Conquest Of Siberia

The Conquest Of Siberia
IMDb: 5.0
108 min

Ivan Demarin, a young officer of Peter the First’s new guards, follows the Tsar’s order and goes to the frontier town of Tobolsk, deep in the Siberian forest. There Ivan…

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Genre: Drama, History
AK-47

AK-47

AK-47
IMDb: 6.4
110 min

Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating…

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Genre: Drama, History
Rising Free

Rising Free

Rising Free
IMDb: 7.5
102 min

Amidst the rugged Oregon territory, Rising Free is a visual masterpiece that showcases the harrowing journey of a young woman running from the throes of prejudice. Taken in by a…

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Genre: Drama, History