Best History movies

Actors : Folco Lulli, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Actors : Leon Lai, Kelly Chen, Donnie Yen, Xiaodong Guo,
Directors : Siu-Tung Ching,

After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom.

Actors : John Paul Sneed, Jonathan Blair, JT Schaeffer,
Directors : Joshua Enck,

One of the most defining moments in American history is the story of an unlikely friendship between the Reverend George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin.

Actors : Willem Dafoe, Robert Loggia, Edward James Olmos, Wendy Gazelle,
Directors : Robert M. Young,

Fact based story about a former Greek Olympic boxer who was taken as a prisoner during World war II and placed in the Auschwitz prison camp. There he was permitted to survive as long as he ...

Actors : Michal Zebrowski, Izabella Scorupco, Krzysztof Kowalewski, Aleksandr Domogarov,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

An epic story about the Ukrainian uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth magnates in the 17th Century.

Actors : Gene Wilder, Jack MacGowran, Hugh Griffith, Donald Sutherland,
Directors : Bud Yorkin,

Two mismatched sets of identical twins - one aristocrat, one peasant - mistakenly exchange identities on the eve of the French Revolution.

Actors : Zofia Wichlacz, Józef Pawlowski, Anna Próchniak, Antoni Królikowski,
Directors : Jan Komasa,

A story of love, friendship and the pursuit of adventure during the bloody and brutal reality of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.

Actors : Xun Zhou, Jianbin Chen, Yun-Fat Chow, Quan Ren,
Directors : Mei Hu,

The life story of the highly-influential Chinese philosopher, Confucius.

Actors : Michael Pas, Jan Decleir, Gérard Desarthe, Antje de Boeck,
Directors : Stijn Coninx,

In the 1890s, Father Adolf Daens goes to Aalst, a textile town where child labor is rife, pay and working conditions are horrible, the poor have no vote, and the Catholic church backs the ...

Actors : Massimiliano Rossi, Fabrizio Rongione, Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice,
Directors : Matteo Rovere,

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.

Actors : László Gálffi, Katica Nagy, Miklós H. Vecsei,
Directors : Lajos Koltai,

In 1847 a mysterious epidemic is raging in a maternity clinic in Vienna, while the doctor Ignác Semmelweis tries to defeat puerperal fever by going against all traditional theories.

Actors : Patrick Shai, Seputla Sebogodi, Danny Keogh, Brian O'Shaughnessy,
Directors : Ralph Ziman,

Set when the apartheid government was still in control, this powerful South African thriller is based on the true story of a policeman belonging to an elite government squad who was ...

Actors : Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Tony Richardson,

A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 ...

Actors : Milla Olin, Isabel Christine Andreasen, Tobias Santelmann, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal,
Directors : Roar Uthaug,

Signe, spared from death to produce a child, befriends a little girl, Frigg, and escapes from the camp.

Actors : Charles Hawtrey, Sidney James, Kenneth Williams, Kenneth Connor,
Directors : Gerald Thomas,

Two Britons are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. Hengist Pod creates useless inventions, while Horsa is a brave and cunning fighter. One of their first encounters...

Actors : Erdem Kaynarca, Deniz Isin, Aslihan Malbora,
Directors : Can Ulkay,

An aspiring footballer defies his strict father to chase his dream, navigating challenges in family, love, and identity - all in the name of greatness.

Actors : David Niven, Roger Moore, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Dira Paes, Ângelo Antônio, Márcio Kieling, Thiago Mendonça,
Directors : Breno Silveira,

The story of Francisco, a very simple and poor man whose dream was to see his children become country music stars, and who made all the efforts to make it happen.

Actors : Kristjan Üksküla, Kaspar Velberg, Gert Raudsep, Maiken Schmidt,
Directors : Elmo Nüganen,

In "1944" Director Elmo Nyuganena portrays the real events on the Eastern Front in Estonia in 1944, from the Battle Of Tannenburg Line, the July fighting on the Sinimäed Hills, until ...

Actors : Garazi Urkola, Amaia Aberasturi, Daniel Fanego, Alex Brendemühl,
Directors : Pablo Agüero,

Basque Country, 1609. The men of the region are at sea and Amaia takes part for the first time in the nightly dances in the woods with the other villager girls. She is only 20. At dawn, they are all arrested.