Best History movies

Actors : Paul Newman, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the ...

Actors : Aleksandr Korshunov, Aleksey Kopashov, Pavel Derevyanko, Andrey Merzlikin,
Directors : Aleksandr Kott,

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Albert Serra,

Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.

Actors : Christopher Egan, Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Ryan Cartwright,
Directors : David Leland,

Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.

Actors : Mick Jagger, Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber,
Directors : Sean Mathias,

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays)....

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Joseph Blatchley, Bruce Robinson, Isabelle Adjani, Sylvia Marriott,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Valentina Cervi, Luca Zingaretti, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Agnès Merlet,

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ...

Actors : Kemal Sunal, Metin Akpinar, Rafet El Roman, Meltem Cumbul,
Directors : Sinan Çetin,

Based on a true story set in 1948, customs officer Mehti is faced with the duty of formally setting up the border between Turkey and Syria, dividing his hometown. He is unaware of the pain ...

Actors : Nigel Barber, Lisa Greenwood, David Wayman, Edmund Kingsley,
Directors : Andrew Martin,

Guy is an experienced British fighter pilot who is in command of Britain's first manned mission to space. He has trained for this for three years at the height of the Cold War and now he is...

Actors : Jessica Biel, Woody Harrelson, Milla Jovovich, James Marsden,
Directors : Rob Reiner,

A group of journalists covering George Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the presidents claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

Actors : Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Keith Szarabajka, Rene Auberjonois,
Directors : Alex Cox,

An unconventional retelling of the life of William Walker, a 19th century American mercenary leader who became the president of Nicaragua.

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Wendy Hughes, Jim Broadbent, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Michael Austin,

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it ...

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Ji Liu, Li Gong, Rujun Ten, Wen Jiang,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

In 1930s China a young woman is sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. In the nearby red sorghum fields she falls for one of his servants. When the master dies she finds...

Actors : Barbie Hsu, Michelle Yeoh, Xueqi Wang, Woo-sung Jung,
Directors : Chao-Bin Su,

Drizzle/Zeng Jing tries to start a new life after she had betrayed her gang and hid the remains of monk.