Type: Movies
Genre: History
815 content found
Det hände i Ingermanland 2018

"It Happened in Ingermanland" - about a forgotten people's displacement that took place during the Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union. During the WW2, when the Nazi army arrived in the area of St. Peterburg/Leningrad about 63 000 Ingermanlanders was deported to Finland. In 1946 Stalin wanted them back for his work camps.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Anneli Kustfält, Juhani Kustfält, Ensio Hutter

7.4 IMDB Rating 88 Views
Queer 2024

In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with ...

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit, Jason Schwartzman

6.5 IMDB Rating 849 Views
William Tell 2024

The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century amidst the days of the Holy Roman Empire where Europe's nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians, desiring more land, encroach upon Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Claes Bang, Tobias Jowett, Connor Swindells

5.7 IMDB Rating 2,085 Views
Nelly & Nadine 2022

Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Trien de Haan-Zwagerman, Lola Sylman, Nadine Hwang

7.2 IMDB Rating 84 Views
History of the World in 2 Hours 2011

A rapid-fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day. This two-hour CGI-driven special delves into the key turning points: the formation of earth, emergence of life, spread of man and the grow...

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Corey Burton, Alex Filippenko, Peter Ward

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,736 Views
Ground Zero 2025

After the 2001 Parliament attack, BSF officer Dubey leads a 2-year probe uncovering the mastermind Ghazi Baba, enabling India's biggest anti-terror operation.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Emraan Hashmi, Sai Tamhankar, Aeklavya Tomer

7.4 IMDB Rating 433 Views
Peterloo 2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell

6.5 IMDB Rating 5,315 Views
The Eternal Road 2017

One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman

7.1 IMDB Rating 974 Views
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali 2021

From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, Sport

Stars: Ilyasah Shabazz, Rahman Ali, Cornel West

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,420 Views
Blitz on Britain 1960

Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.

Category: History, War

Stars: Alistair Cooke, Henning Skaarup, Hermann Göring

6.9 IMDB Rating 113 Views
A Radiant Girl 2021

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is Jewish and French. She is 19 and living a life of passions - Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress - Nothing suggests that Irene's time is running out.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rebecca Marder, André Marcon, Anthony Bajon

6.1 IMDB Rating 67 Views
Anton 2008

When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place from the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Gerard McSorley, Anthony Fox, Laura Way

4.9 IMDB Rating 121 Views
The Salt of the Earth 2014

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado

8.4 IMDB Rating 4,426 Views
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 2021

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Elizabeth Hinton, Nelson George, Alan Charles

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,248 Views
Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,175 Views
Robert the Bruce 2019

The story of the nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.

Category: Action, History

Stars: Angus Macfadyen, Diarmaid Murtagh, Jared Harris

5.4 IMDB Rating 5,710 Views
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2019

Against all the odds, a thirteen-year-old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maxwell Simba, Felix Lemburo

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,308 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 6,355 Views
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America 2016

Daryl Davis is an accomplished musician who was played all over the world. He also has an unusual hobby, particularly for a middle aged black man. When not displaying his musical chops, Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan. When many of these people eventually leave the Klan with Daryl's support, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods; building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person, in hopes of one day opening a museum of the Klan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Daryl D. Davis, Kenneth Nwadike, Jeff Schoep

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,051 Views
6 Days 2017

Armed gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in London in April 1980, taking hostages. A tense six-day standoff ensued as the SAS, a highly trained military unit, prepared for an unprecedented raid to resolve the crisis.

Category: Action, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Abbie Cornish

6.2 IMDB Rating 6,934 Views