Best History movies

Actors : Nihat Ileri, Serhat Tutumluer, Melisa Sözen, Mesut Akusta,
Directors : Dervis Zaim,

Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who...

Actors : Aleksandar Gavric, Vladimir Popovic, Ljuba Tadic, Nikola Jovanovic,
Directors : Zivorad 'Zika' Mitrovic,

One Serbian army battery in the First World War, in forced march with no stopping and rest, arrives to Cer Mountain, and, in decisive moment, enters the fight and throws off Austrian troops...

Actors : Kumiko Asô, Tomorô Taguchi, Akira Emoto, Jacques Gamblin,
Directors : Shôhei Imamura,

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp.

Actors : Antoin Cox, Monic Hendrickx, Barry Atsma, Attila C. Arpa,
Directors : Maarten Treurniet,

While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose ...

Actors : Antoine Bertrand, Gilbert Sicotte, Guillaume Cyr, Rose-Maïté Erkoreka,
Directors : Daniel Roby,

Biopic of Louis Cyr, strongest man in the world at the end of the 19th Century.

Actors : Roland Hedlund, Stefan Feierbach, Peter Schildt, Kerstin Tidelius,
Directors : Bo Widerberg,

During a strike strike-breakers are being transported to Lunde, where they are assaulted by the strikers. The military are sent in. On the 14th May 1931 there is a confrontation between ...

Actors : Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Hong, Honglei Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.

Actors : Jamie Ward, James Oliver Wheatley, James Faulkner,
Directors : Mauro Borrelli,

In the days leading up to his death, Jesus gathers his disciples for the Last Supper. Amidst words of love and farewell, while faith is strengthened, the shadow of betrayal hangs over, but not even pain can erase the promise of redemption.

Actors : Joel Basman, Jonas Nay, Trang Le Hong, Devid Striesow,
Directors : Burhan Qurbani,

On 24th August 1992 in the eastern German city of Rostock a rampaging mob, to the applause and cheering of more than 3,000 bystanders, besieged and set fire to a residential building ...

Actors : Sergio Fantoni, Richard Egan, Joan Collins, Denis O'Dea,

When a modern-day girl faces a big challenge in her life, her mother teaches her about the power of fasting by sharing the story of a heroine from the Bible.

Actors : Mark Gatiss, Jacqueline Boatswain, Hadley Fraser, Tom Hiddleston,
Directors : Tim Van Someren,

Caius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back.

Actors : Kenneth Desai, Kunal Kapoor, Amit Sadh, Mohit Marwah,
Directors : Tigmanshu Dhulia,

A period film based on the historic 1945 Indian National Army Red Fort Trials.

Actors : Vladimír Smeral, Josef Kemr, Elo Romancik, Sona Valentová,
Directors : Otakar Vávra,

A very popular movie on the medieval persecution of witches (inquisition).

Actors : Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov, Fabio Giubbani, Christo Jivkov,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in ...

Actors : Raimonds Celms, Oto Brantevics, Jekabs Reinis, Martins Vilsons,
Directors : Dzintars Dreibergs,

The love story of the sixteen-year-old Arturs gets interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is ...

Actors : Michael Conner Humphreys, Christopher Serrone, Kyle Erickson, Philip De Lorenzo,
Directors : Curt A. Sindelar,

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasion.

Actors : Gaite Jansen, Neil Sandilands, Yannick van de Velde, Benja Bruijning,
Directors : Jean van de Velde,

The Price Of Sugar tells the alternately gripping, romantic and heart-wrenching story of Sarith and Mini-Mini as they grow up on the sugar plantations of Suriname in the latter half of the ...

Actors : Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Lluís Homar, Sergio Múñiz, María Valverde,
Directors : Antonio Hernández,

A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.

Actors : Shirley Anne Field, Yul Brynner, Richard Basehart, George Chakiris,
Directors : J. Lee Thompson,

On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Beba Loncar, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.