Best History movies of 2000s

Actors : Alexandre Borges, Patricia Pillar, Daniel de Oliveira, Leandra Leal,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears ...

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 : Olivier Gourmet, François-Xavier Demaison, Laurent Bateau, Léa Drucker,
Directors : Antoine de Caunes,

October 1980. Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, is the French people's favorite comedian. He performs every night to a packed house at the Théâtre du Gymnase. One day, always ...

Actors : Lisa Werlinder, Lumi Cavazos, Michael Nyqvist, Kate del Castillo,

The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973. We travel with Edelstam during the terrible moments just after the coup and follows his never-ending fight for human rights, law and order. What drove him? And what price did he end up paying for his ...

Actors : Heather Fields, Alan Collett, Libby Clearfield, Dianna Collett,

A terrorist cell takes three Americans hostage and threatens to expose a secret that will shatter America's soul.

Actors : Constantin Dita, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras, Catalin Babliuc,
Directors : Constantin Popescu,

The story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.

Actors : Hayley Carr, Olivier Gruner, Michael Berryman, Tino Struckmann,
Directors : Jerry Buteyn,

The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother's War is based on real events. The western Allies push into Germany ...

Actors : Ila Arun, Nicolas Chagrin, Pankaj Berry, Vinay Anand,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

The film, which is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences. However, it does not cover the controversy surrounding Bose's death.

Actors : Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller, Efratia Gitai,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...

Actors : Rick Macy, David Nibley, Tayva Patch, Nathan Mitchell,

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed ...

Actors : Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Vincent Perez, Juan José Ballesta, Santi Millán,
Directors : Daniel Benmayor,

1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked ...

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Billy Zane, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Lyne Renee,
Directors : Paul Breuls,

In 1945 a group of victorious American officers discover a stash of German jewels and try to fence them in New York.

Actors : Camillo Grassi, Bud Spencer, Jun Ichikawa, Sally Ming Zeo Ni,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate.

Actors : Enrico Lo Verso, Sergio d'Amato, Eduardo Noriega, Paula Garcés,
Directors : Josh Evans,

Rebel. Hero. Lover. Legend. Che Guevara has inspired generation after generation as the young idealist and revolutionary who fought for the poor and oppressed. Eduardo Noriega (Vantage ...

Actors : Mrinal Kulkarni, Mammootty, Sonali Kulkarni, Mohan Gokhale,
Directors : Jabbar Patel,

A portrait of the one of our greatest social reformer of our times - Ambedkar. The film documents the period between 1901 and 1956. The film delves more into Ambedkar's life as a reformer, ...

Actors : Rolf Kanies, Manu Fullola, Brian Blessed, James Faulkner,
Directors : Christoph Schrewe,

In 1458, five years after the fall of Constantinople to the Turk, eighteen cardinals met in Rome to elect a new pope. A 27-year-old Spanish cardinal, Rodrigo Borgia, learns to play a very dangerous game; how to survive his first conclave.

Actors : Anton Pampushnyy, Igor Botvin, Bogdan Stupka, Pavel Trubiner,
Directors : Igor Kalyonov,

Young prince Aleksandr has to hold out against two enemies - the Horde in the east and the Teutonic order and Sweden in the west. He discovers that some boyars are plotting against him and ...

Actors : Ivan Stebunov, Anna Thalbach, Jochen Nickel, Bela B.,
Directors : Niko von Glasow,

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss ...

Actors : Jun Kunimura, Ken Matsudaira, Hiroshi Abe, Bruno Ganz,
Directors : Masanobu Deme,

German soldiers are transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Japan after the First World War.