Type: Movies
Genre: History
Year: Before 2010
234 content found
Restrepo 2010

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, War

Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney

7.4 IMDB Rating 9,082 Views
The Warrior’s Brother 2002

13th century France. To live, to survive, requires weapons. Which do you choose? Weapons of war, which give the power to punish and kill? Or the sword of knowledge, which gives the power to read and heal? Two brothers, separated long ago, must do battle. Alongside, and coming between them, a woman...

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Vincent Lindon, Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Doutey

6.0 IMDB Rating 78 Views
Rid i natt! 1942

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Oscar Ljung, Gerd Hagman, Eva Dahlbeck

6.4 IMDB Rating 99 Views
Gandhi 1982

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi

8.0 IMDB Rating 105 Views
633 Squadron 1964

A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy

6.4 IMDB Rating 122 Views
Khartoum 1966

In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Tragedy, War

Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson

6.8 IMDB Rating 154 Views
1939 1989

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Helene Egelund, Helena Bergström, Per Morberg

6.1 IMDB Rating 211 Views
Chapter 27 2007

A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander

5.6 IMDB Rating 293 Views
Young Andersen 2005

Drama about the difficult early years of Danish writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen

6.2 IMDB Rating 141 Views
Trafalgar 2007

This historical drama takes us back to one of the great battles in naval history. It took place in 1805 during the great Napoleonic Wars and pitted the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of Spain and France. In one of the most decisive engagements ever, the Royal Navy lost only one ship while sinking 22 French and Spanish warships.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Jérémy Braitbart, Laurent Schilling

5.7 IMDB Rating 252 Views
Che: Part One 2008

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,860 Views
The Molly Maguires 1970

In 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar

6.8 IMDB Rating 289 Views
The Lion in Winter 1968

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins

7.9 IMDB Rating 210 Views
They Came to Cordura 1959

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History, War

Stars: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin

6.4 IMDB Rating 188 Views
The Silent Enemy 1958

During WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions.

Category: Action, Biography, History, War

Stars: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig

6.6 IMDB Rating 186 Views
Odette 1950

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring

6.8 IMDB Rating 188 Views
The Colditz Story 1955

Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes

6.9 IMDB Rating 162 Views
Markisinnan de Sade 1992

Ingmar Bergman's staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his faithful wife Renee awaits him. Despite all the horrors her husband has committed, she believes that his evil is sacred. Her mother however does everything possible to ensure that the Marquis stays in prison.

Category: History

Stars: Stina Ekblad, Anita Björk, Marie Richardson

6.8 IMDB Rating 209 Views
Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan 2007

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan who was a slave before going on to conquer half the world in 1206.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov, Khulan Chuluun

7.2 IMDB Rating 7,039 Views
The King’s Speech 2010

The story of King George VI, his unexpected ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

8.0 IMDB Rating 5,749 Views