Best History movies of 2000s

Actors : Maninder Singh, Abhishek Bachchan, Sikander Kher, Deepika Padukone,
Directors : Ashutosh Gowariker,

Children who are not allowed by the oppressive British colonists to play football decide to join a group of freedom fighters.

Actors : Hristo Shopov, Daniele Liotti, Mónica Cruz, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Giulio Base,

In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nasareth.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Sabrina Impacciatore, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to ...

Actors : Grazyna Szapolowska, Robert Wieckiewicz, Andrzej Seweryn, Magdalena Boczarska,
Directors : Jan Kidawa-Blonski,

Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel ...

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Pankaj Tripathi, Daya Shankar Pandey, Supriya Pathak,
Directors : Bhavna Talwar,

The movie is about a Hindu priest Pandit Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapur) who is one of the most highly respected priests in the entire city of Varanasi. A man who lives for his religion, soaked ...

Actors : Minna Haapkylä, Martin Bahne, Leonid Mozgovoy, Tommi Korpela,
Directors : Lauri Törhönen,

"Raja 1918", also known as "The Border", is a Finnish war drama film directed by Lauri Törhönen set in the immediate aftermath of the Finnish Civil War of 1918. It is spring of 1918. A ...

Actors : Ahmad Zaki, Muna Zaki, Mervat Amin, Mokhles El Behiry,
Directors : Mohamed Khan,

The private and public life of Egyptian president Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat.

Actors : Jan Meduna, Michal Novotný, Petr Vanek, Robert Nebrenský,
Directors : Václav Marhoul,

Set in the Libyan Desert in WW2 a battalion of Czech soldiers face the siege of Tobruk.

Actors : Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

Actors : Steven Waddington, Emily Blunt, Alex Kingston, Leanne Rowe,
Directors : Bill Anderson,

Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Michal Zebrowski, Malgorzata Foremniak, Marina Aleksandrova,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

Polish historical action fantasy based on a novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. In 9th-century pre-Christian Poland, the rustic natives have lived peacefully for centuries, tending their land...

Actors : Mammootty, T. Damodaran, Sasi Kalinga, Suresh Krishna,
Directors : Renjith,

A private detective investigates a cold case , which is the first registered murder case in Kerala, after 50 years.

Actors : John Buijsman, Chris Comvalius, Guus Dam, Robert de Hoog,
Directors : Hanro Smitsman,

Frankie is a young man from Netherlands, in 1979. His father is a Jew, survivor from the Holocaust, a very strict man who owns a Laundry. His mother is a good-hearted woman who wants her ...

Actors : Ye-ryeon Cha, Anh Thu, Anh-Thu, Anh Hong,
Directors : Tae-kyeong Kim,

"Muoi" charts the path of a Korean writer who travels to Vietnam in search of stories for her second novel. There she learns about a mystery centered around a century-old vengeful spirit.

Actors : Jean-François Balmer, Simon Reggiani, Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Isabelle Huppert,
Directors : Patricia Mazuy,

Madame de Maintenon rises from humble beginnings to become a courtesan to the royal court and eventually marries King Louis XIV. With the king's indulgence, Maintenon opens a special school for girls.

Actors : Tadanobu Asano, Daisuke Ryû, Masakatsu Funaki, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Gakuryû Ishii,

Benkei, a master fighter and killer, vows never to take another life after his conversion to Buddhism. His faith in pacifism, however, is shaken and ultimately broken by the attacks from a ...

Actors : Deok-Hwan Ryu, Dal-su Oh, Ji-won Uhm, Jung-min Hwang,
Directors : Dae-min Park,

The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of ...

Actors : Ingeborg Westphal, Ronald Zehrfeld, Jessica Schwarz, Max Riemelt,
Directors : Dominik Graf,

A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.

Actors : Orna Banai, Shani Cohen, Assi Cohen, Maor Cohen,

When ancient Sodom is doomed to destruction due to its people's corrupt ways, Lot is the only righteous man destined to be spared.

Actors : Sylvie Drapeau, Luc Picard, Frédéric Gilles, Pierre Rivard,
Directors : Pierre Falardeau,

French Canadians face execution after a revolt against British bureaucrats in Quebec.