Best History movies

Actors : Maggie Q, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Cunxin Pu, Andy Lau,
Directors : Daniel Lee,

His country torn asunder by civil war, Zhao Zilong, a common man heeds the call of duty and from the humblest of roots rises through the ranks on wings of courage and cunning to command an ...

Actors : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Darshan Kumar, Richa Chadha, Randeep Hooda,
Directors : Omung Kumar,

Biopic of Sarabjit Singh, a farmer residing at Bhikiwind, Punjab, near the Indo-Pak border, crossed the border after having a couple of drinks. However, he was mistaken to be an Indian spy and was sentenced with capital punishment.

Actors : Mabel Cadena, Emiliano Zurita, Fernando Becerril, Alfonso Herrera,
Directors : David Pablos,

At the end of the 19th century, Ignacio de la Torre married the daughter of the president of Mexico, Porfirio Díaz. Ignacio leads a double life: he rises in the traditional world of politics while being a member of a clandestine society.

Actors : Mahdi Pakdel, Sareh Bayat, Ali Reza Shoja-Nuri, Mina Sadati,
Directors : Majid Majidi,

The events, trials and tribulations of the city of Makkah in 7th century AD.

Actors : Hugo Arana, Héctor Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafañe,
Directors : Luis Puenzo,

After the end of the Dirty War, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.

Actors : Frederico Zardi, Frank Wolff, Sennuccio Benelli, Salvo Randone,
Directors : Francesco Rosi,

The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.

Actors : Sooraj Pancholi, Suniel Shetty, Vivek Oberoi,
Directors : Prince Dhiman,

The movie narrates the tale of Hamirji Gohil, a brave warrior who fought against the Tughlaq Empire to protect the Somnath Temple and the Hindu faith.

Actors : Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan, Richard McCabe, Kangana Ranaut,
Directors : Vishal Bhardwaj,

A love triangle forms against the backdrop of the Second World War.

Actors : Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, Burhan Güven, Fikret Kagan Olcay, Dolunay Soysert,
Directors : Zülfü Livaneli,

Story based on the memoirs of Salih Bozok, which traces the life of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

Actors : Bobby Simha, Anasuya Bharadwaj, Raj Arjun,
Directors : Yaata Satyanarayana,

Revolves around the Hyderabad Liberation Movement of 1948. Capture the struggles of Telangana and its people in the early days of Independence to reclaim their religion and identity in the face of military and political oppression.

Actors : Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Jeanne Moreau, Margaret Rutherford,
Directors : Orson Welles,

The career of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff as roistering companion to young Prince Hal, circa 1400-1413.

Actors : Al Pacino, Joan Plowright, Nastassja Kinski, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Hugh Hudson,

New York trapper Tom Dobb becomes an unwilling participant in the American Revolution after his son Ned is drafted into the Army by the villainous Sergeant Major Peasy. Tom attempts to find...

Actors : Ninetto Davoli, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti, Laura Betti,
Directors : Pier Paolo Pasolini,

Pasolini's artistic, sometimes violent, always vividly cinematic retelling of some of Chaucer's most erotic tales.

Actors : Alice Sapritch, Karin Schubert, Louis de Funès, Yves Montand,
Directors : Gérard Oury,

Don Salluste, a petty tyrant in his own home and minister of the King of Spain, falls from grace. Wanting revenge, he tries to compromize the Queen with his valet Blaze, introduced as his ...

Actors : Tobias Santelmann, Anders Baasmo, Heidi Ruud Ellingsen,
Directors : Henrik Martin Dahlsbakken,

Summer 1941: Hitler seems unstoppable, invading the Soviet Union. Convoys of cargo ships with war materials began the perilous journey to Murmansk. Ordinary sailors facing German superiority in the icy Arctic sea with lives at stake.

Actors : Anne Alvaro, Wojciech Pszoniak, Roland Blanche, Gérard Depardieu,
Directors : Andrzej Wajda,

Action opens in November of 1793, with Danton returning to Paris from his country retreat upon learning that the Committee for Public Safety, under Robespierre's incitement, has begun a ...

Actors : Anaïs Demoustier, Jérémie Elkaïm, Aurélia Petit, Frédéric Pierrot,
Directors : Valérie Donzelli,

An aristocratic brother and sister embrace passion and hope as they flee from society. A story of desire, love and death beyond all morality.

Actors : Jianxin Chen, Hsu Gou, Linjie Hao, Haizhe Jin,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

Japanese troops round up Chinese and Russian prisoners of war and take them to a place called Squadron 731, where they are grotesquely tortured and experimented on to test new biological weapons.

Actors : Yilmaz Erdogan, Monica Bellucci, Behrouz Vossoughi, Caner Cindoruk,
Directors : Bahman Ghobadi,

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence in Iran. Now the one thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks him dead for over twenty years.

Actors : Emilia Dobrin, Nicoleta Hâncu, Adrian Vãncicã,
Directors : Bogdan Muresanu,

On the brink of revolution in 1989 Romania, six lives intersect amid protests and personal struggles, leading to the explosive fall of Ceausescu and the communist regime.