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 : Amin Zendegani, Hossein Mahjoub, Elham Hamidi, Mahmood Pakniat,
Directors : Shahriar Bahrani,

Solomon, Prophet and the King, has asked God to give him an ideal kingdom which has never been given to anybody before. He is told to prepare himself and his subjects with evil and unearthly creatures that haunt the men.

Actors : Jet Li, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Man Cheung, Chingmy Yau,

A wild and rollicking martial arts fantasy extravaganza that features prized swords -- and swordsmen, a crazy monk attached to a rolling boulder (yup!), serious clan and cult rivalries, and...

Actors : Kris Hitchen, Tom Goodman-Hill, Elliot James Langridge, Sam Hazeldine,
Directors : J.P. Watts,

During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.

Actors : Christine Kaufmann, Yul Brynner, Tony Curtis, Sam Wanamaker,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

In the 16th century Ukraine, the Polish overlords and the Cossacks fight for control of the land but frequent Turkish invasions force them to unite against the common Turkish foe.

Actors : Ervin Nagy, Andrea Petrik, József Gyabronka, Tibor Gáspár,
Directors : Gábor Herendi,

Ernõ Blaskovich lost everything after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Kincsem, a magnificent horse gives a purpose of his meaningless, self-destructing life. He gets a chance to gain everything back: revenge, love and fame.

Actors : Jackson Yee, Yihong Duan, Jing Wu, Yawen Zhu,

Set in the Second Phase Offensive of the Korean War, "The Battle at Lake Changjin" tells an epic historical tale: 71 years ago, the People's Volunteer Army (PVA) entered North Korea for ...

Actors : Le Geng, Xiaogang Feng, Dong Han, Yu Xia,
Directors : Wen Jiang,

A story of four teenagers during Cultural Revolution in Beijing.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, F. Murray Abraham, Goran Bogdan, Giulio Berruti,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

Hendrik Goltzius, a late sixteenth-century Dutch printer and engraver of erotic prints, seduces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for a printing press to make and publish illustrated books.

Actors : Pia Degermark, Lennart Malmer, Cleo Jensen, Thommy Berggren,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

The Danish tightrope dancer Elvira Madigan meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away.

Actors : Ahmed Malek, Noah Skape, Kaushik Das, Baykali Ganambarr,
Directors : Roderick MacKay,

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

Actors : Francis Chouler, Cian Barry, Mikael Persbrandt,
Directors : Per Fly,

Set in Cold War in 1961, follows the story of diplomat and economist Dag Hammarskjöld, who boards a plane in a desperate attempt to negotiate a ceasefire from his enemies after he leads UN troops into their first wartime operation.

Actors : Jason Robards, Jean Hale, Ralph Meeker, George Segal,
Directors : Roger Corman,

Al Capone's Valentine Day surprise for the rival Bugs Moran gang in 1929 Chicago.

Actors : Jet Li, Xin Xin Xiong, Kwok-Pong Chan, Rosamund Kwan,
Directors : Sammo Kam-Bo Hung,

The story is set in both Hong Kong and the U.S. So goes to the U.S. to open a martial arts school. Around this time, many Chinese people were sold off to U.S. railroad companies, and were ...

Actors : Daniel Brühl, Joel Joan, Tristán Ulloa, Leonardo Sbaraglia,
Directors : Manuel Huerga,

A profile of anarchist and bank-robber Salvador Puig Antich, whose 1974 execution under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco ushered in a period of unrest that helped Spain transition to democracy.

Actors : Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Tuva Novotny, Karl Markovics,
Directors : Erik Poppe,

On the 9th of April 1940, the German war machine arrive in the city of Oslo. The Norwegian King faces a choice that will change his country forever.

Actors : Jin-mo Ju, Ji-hyo Song, Yong-gu Do, In-sung Jo,
Directors : Ha Yoo,

A historical drama set in the Koryo dynasty and focused on the relationship between a king and his bodyguard.

Actors : Jaroslav Moucka, Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna,
Directors : Frantisek Vlácil,

A minor Czech clan falls afoul of the King in medieval times, against the backdrop of Christianity replacing Paganism.

Actors : Marc Pitman, Leslie Orr, Marcelo Games, Maureen Allisse,
Directors : Jim Van Bebber,

A dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.

Actors : Mrunal Thakur, Ishaan Khatter, Priyanshu Painyuli,
Directors : Raja Menon,

A young Indian Army captain from the 45 Cavalry regiment commanding the amphibious PT-76 war tank comes of age as he and his two siblings fight to liberate Bangladesh in the Indo-Pakistani war of 1971.