Best History movies of 2000s

Actors : Amrita Singh, Sunny Deol, Rahul Dev, Bobby Deol,
Directors : Guddu Dhanoa,

When his mentor Lala Lajpatrai is mercilessly beaten to death by the police Bhagat Singh is enraged and he sets about to avenge his death. He and his colleagues do succeed in killing one of...

Actors : Michelle Rodriguez, Juan Fernández, Sergio Carlo, Claudette Lalí,
Directors : Juan Delancer,

This is the story of three brave women; Patria, Minerva, and Maria Teresa, they were known as the Mirabal Sisters, born into a privileged family in the fields of Salcedo. At that time, the ...

Actors : Leonor Baldaque, Ricardo Trêpa, Maria Isabel de Oliveira, Manoel de Oliveira,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

A true story of a doctor and his wife who went on a journey in order to prove that discoverer Christopher Columbus was in fact Portuguese.

Actors : Amy Redford, Julian Adams, Gwendolyn Edwards, Eric Holloway,

The true love story of the conflict between Capt. Robert Adams' dedication to the south and his love for Eveline McCord, his beloved from the north. Produced, written and directed by the descendants of Robert and Eveline, this American Civil War tale is an explosive, richly detailed saga of fierce combat, honor and the will to risk all that's precious for love or country.

Actors : Peter Gantzler, Ken Vedsegaard, Erik Holmey, Hans Henrik Clemensen,
Directors : Michael Mouyal,

Drama set in the viking age, Helgi witnesses the destruction of his village and narrowly escapes to his uncle Rurik who raises him like his son. Many years later he meets the people responsible for his parents death and someone he never expected to see again.

Actors : Tobias Moretti, Eulàlia Ramon, Sergi Roca, Anna Saura Ramón,
Directors : Carlos Saura,

A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera.

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 : Anton Pampushnyy, Bogdan Stupka, Igor Botvin, 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 : Niksa Kuselj, Zrinka Cvitesic, Goran Grgic, Danko Ljustina,
Directors : Branko Ivanda,

The movie takes place in the early 18th century on the borders between Bosnia and Dalmatia, the crossroad between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice. It deals with issues ...

Actors : Edoardo Natoli, Luigi Pisani, Andrea Bosca, Raffaele Di Florio,
Directors : Mario Martone,

The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement.

Actors : Olgierd Lukaszewicz, Alicja Jachiewicz, Magdalena Emilianowicz, Anna Cieslak,
Directors : Ryszard Bugajski,

The tumultuous life of General August Emil Fieldorf aka "Nil", who commanded the underground Home Army against the Nazis and was killed after WW2 by communists.

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.

Actors : Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Canet,
Directors : Pierre Jolivet,

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...

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 : Sezgin Cengiz, Engin Emre Deger, Aram Dildar, Firat Altay,
Directors : Sedat Yilmaz,

Turkey's first Kurdish language newspaper is under siege. After exposing human rights abuses in Diyarbakır, the journalists become the target of increasingly ruthless government-sanctioned intimidation.

Actors : Suzanne Dance, Ron Donachie, Charles Donnelly, James Cosmo,
Directors : John Henderson,

Bobby, a brave Skye Terrier, becomes local legend when it refuses to leave his master's grave after he dies. The townsfolk feed the dog until local authorities ban strays. The kids decide to help Bobby defy the law. Based on true events.

Actors : Orgil Makhaan, Stepanida Borissova, Sergei Egorov, Gernot Grimm,
Directors : Andrei Borissov,

Actors : Jason Connery, Timothy Bottoms, Reggie Lee, Coolio,
Directors : Aki Aleong,

1870's America. A Chinese immigrant falsely accused of murdering a white woman is viciously hunted down; he'll have to prove his innocence in a time when people of color had "no legal ...

Actors : Cochin Hanifa, Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, Mammootty, Vijayaraghavan,
Directors : Major Ravi,

An investigation story set in the early 90's based on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination.

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme, Lima Duarte,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

The story of Father Antonio Vieira, a 17th-century Portuguese priest who lived in Brazil and worked for better treatment of the Indians and to abolish slavery.