Type: Movies
Genre: History
810 content found
Phantom 2013

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny

5.9 IMDB Rating 1,684 Views
Zero Dark Thirty 2012

Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jason Clarke,Reda Kateb,Jessica Chastain,Kyle Chandler

7.4 IMDB Rating 10,997 Views
Eiffel 2021

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun'...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,986 Views
Ammonite 2020

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,390 Views
Ghosts of Mississippi 1996

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg

6.7 IMDB Rating 2,534 Views
Texas Red 2021

Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story of Texas Red, an African-American man who was hunted by hundreds through the Winter wilderness of Mississippi.

Category: Action, History, Western

Stars: John Sayles, Travis Mills, Nathaniel Horton

3.5 IMDB Rating 1,828 Views
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson 2021

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,761 Views
Sometimes in April 2005

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,386 Views
The Journey 2016

During the 2006 Northern Ireland peace talks, Sinn Féin leader Martin McGuinness (Colm Meaney) and Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley (Timothy Spall) are forced to travel by car together.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, John Hurt

6.6 IMDB Rating 1,646 Views
Charming the Hearts of Men 2021

A romantic drama set during the politically charged early 60s where a sophisticated woman returns to her Southern home town and discovers her options are limited yet discrimination is plentiful. With the help of a Congressional al...

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Anna Friel, Kelsey Grammer, Starletta DuPois

6.4 IMDB Rating 1,706 Views
The New World 2005

The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Farrell, Q'orianka Kilcher, Christopher Plummer

6.7 IMDB Rating 8,052 Views
Un sac de billes 2017

In occupied France, Maurice and Joseph, two young Jewish brothers left to their own devices demonstrate an incredible amount of cleverness, courage, and ingenuity to escape the enemy invasion and to try to reunite their family onc...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Dorian Le Clech, Batyste Fleurial, Patrick Bruel

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,730 Views
Sharpe’s Eagle 1993

Sharpe is a Captain saddled with the South Essex, a battalion run by incompetents and filled with soldiers who have never been in battle. When the South Essex loses its colours (its regimental flag), Sharpe vows to save the honor of the regiment by capturing a French Imperial standard: an eagle.

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Sean Bean,Brian Cox,Daragh O'Malley,Assumpta Serna,Michael Cochrane,David Troughton,Martin Jacobs,Katia Caballero,Michael Mears,John Tams,Jason Salkey,Paul Trussell,Lyndon Davies,Gavan O'Herlihy,David Ashton

8.0 IMDB Rating 4,605 Views
Enemy at the Gates 2001

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad.

Category: Action, Drama, History, War

Stars: Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes

7.6 IMDB Rating 9,969 Views
The Killing Fields 1984

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor, John Malkovich

7.8 IMDB Rating 6,135 Views
The Gathering Storm 2002

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave, Jim Broadbent, Linus Roache

7.5 IMDB Rating 1,776 Views
Redeeming Love 2022

Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine Rivers.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Famke Janssen

6.9 IMDB Rating 3,833 Views
Einstein and Eddington 2008

Drama about the development of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to experimentally prove his ideas.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Tennant, Richard McCabe, Patrick Kennedy, Ben Uttley

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,466 Views
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021

English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings that seemed to reflect his declining sanity.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,615 Views
The Lost Legion 2014

After years of decline, the Roman Empire is desperate to recapture its past. Amidst war and political confusion, Urbina Prima schemes to make her son, Cassius, the next emperor. The only thing standing in their way is Maximus, a once great Roman commander with his own dreams of nobility. Can Rome reclaim its glory, or will the chaos lead to civil war?

Category: Action, Adventure, History

Stars: Tom McKay,Michelle Lukes,Brian Caspe,Jim High

3.0 IMDB Rating 5,758 Views