Genre: History
1103 content found
Greyhound Attack 2019

In the early days of WWII, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first command of a U.S. destroyer, crosses the treacherous North Atlantic while hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.

Category: History

Stars: Jezibell Anat, Ronald Blanton, Christopher Brophy, Christopher Carey

7,885 Views
Empire of the Sun 1987

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers

7.8 IMDB Rating 7,993 Views
En kongelig affære 2012

A young queen, who is married to an insane king, falls secretly in love with her physician - and together they start a revolution that changes a nation forever.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,396 Views
Gone with the Wind 1939

Scarlett is a woman who can deal with a nation at war, Atlanta burning, the Union Army carrying off everything from her beloved Tara, the carpetbaggers who arrive after the war. Scarlett is beautiful. She has vitality. But Ashley, the man she has wanted for so long, is going to marry his placid cousin, Melanie. Mammy warns Scarlett to behave herself at the party at Twelve Oaks. There is a new man there that day, the day the Civil War begins. Rhett Butler. Scarlett does not know he is in the room when she pleads with Ashley to choose her instead of Melanie.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil, Vivien Leigh, Evelyn Keyes

8.2 IMDB Rating 7,971 Views
Das schweigende Klassenzimmer 2018

A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,996 Views
The Viking War 2019

Ingrid and her siblings are on the run from the Beserkers who have begun invading the villages, taking over, savagely using the residents on a game where they vs a Beserker, and if they win, they get to survive - only, no one ever wins. The siblings are trying to escape the Beserkers after they violently murdered and took over their town. However, the Beserkers are on their trail, and want to put them in the game.

Category: History

Stars: Darcie Lincoln, Peter Cosgrove, Victor Toth, Georgia Wood

8.3 IMDB Rating 8,517 Views
The Ghost Army 2013

During World War II, a hand-picked group of American GI's undertook a bizarre mission: create a traveling road show of deception on the battlefields of Europe, with the German Army as their audience. The 23rd Headquarters Special Troops used inflatable rubber tanks, sound trucks, and dazzling performance art to bluff the enemy again and again, often right along the front lines. Many of the men picked to carry out these dangerous deception missions were artists. Some went on to become famous, including fashion designer Bill Blass. In their spare time, they painted and sketched their way across Europe, creating a unique and moving visual record of their war. Their secret mission was kept hushed up for nearly 50 years after the war's end.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Wesley Clark, Peter Coyote

7.7 IMDB Rating 6,132 Views
Suomen Hauskin Mies 2018

In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the imprisoners have to perform a comedy - and if they can make the visiting general laugh, they will be spared. A story about zest for life and power of laughter. Based on true events.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Martti Suosalo, Jani Volanen, Leena Pöysti, Paavo Kinnunen

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,968 Views
Les Miserables 2018

Television adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel which follows Jean Valjean as he evades capture by the unyielding Inspector Javert. Set against a backdrop of post-Napoleonic France as unrest beings to grip the city of Paris once more.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Adeel Akhtar, David Oyelowo, Dominic West

8.1 IMDB Rating 12,214 Views
Ashes in the Snow 2018

In 1941, a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Bel Powley, Peter Franzén, Sophie Cookson

8,0 IMDB Rating 6,698 Views
Padmaavat 2018

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,433 Views
Brexit: The Uncivil War 2019

Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,189 Views
Sirius the Jaeger 2018

Imperial Capital, 1930. A strange group of people carrying musical instrument cases landed on Tokyo station. They are called the "Jaegers", who came to hunt vampires. Amongst them, there stood a young man with striking serenity and unusual aura. His name is Yuliy, a werewolf whose home village was destroyed by vampires. Yuliy and the Jaegers engage in deadly battle over a mysterious holy arc only known as "The Arc of Sirius". What truth awaits them at the end...?

Category: Action, Animation, History, Kids

Stars: Reba Buhr, Ray Chase, Greg Chun

6,9 IMDB Rating 15,776 Views
Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis 2018

This documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to save the United States from an economic collapse.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Ben Bernanke, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,962 Views
Spitfire 2018

The story of the fighter plane and pilots that helped win the Battle of Britain in World War II.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Charles Dance, Mary Ellis, Geoffrey Wellum

7,5 IMDB Rating 7,154 Views
Robin Hood The Rebellion 2018

With his true love captured by the villainous Sheriff of Nottingham, the legendary Robin Hood and his crew of outlaws execute a daring rescue to save her.

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Martyn Ford, Brian Blessed, Kristian Nairn

4,1 IMDB Rating 9,056 Views
The Normal Heart 2014

The story of the onset of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Ruffalo,Jonathan Groff,Frank De Julio,William DeMeritt

7.9 IMDB Rating 5,607 Views
Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House 2017

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name "Deep Throat" helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Liam Neeson,Diane Lane,Marton Csokas,Tony Goldwyn

6.3 IMDB Rating 6,506 Views
Two Catalonias

Category: Documentary, History, News

Stars: Álvaro Longoria, Gerardo Olivares

4,096 Views
Woman Walks Ahead 2018

Catherine Weldon, a portrait painter from 1890s Brooklyn, travels to Dakota to paint a portrait of Sitting Bull and becomes embroiled in the Lakota peoples' struggle over the rights to their land.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Jessica Chastain, Sam Rockwell, Ciarán Hinds

5,5 IMDB Rating 6,400 Views