Best History movies

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Pankaj Tripathi, Daya Shankar Pandey, Supriya Pathak,
Directors : Bhavna Talwar,

The movie is about a Hindu priest Pandit Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapur) who is one of the most highly respected priests in the entire city of Varanasi. A man who lives for his religion, soaked ...

Actors : Alisa Freyndlikh, Anatoliy Romashin, Velta Line, Aleksey Petrenko,
Directors : Elem Klimov,

Details the life of the Russian monk Rasputin. The film shows his rise to power and how it corrupted him. His sexual perversions and madness ultimatly leads to his gruesome assasination.

Actors : Geun-young Moon, Kang-ho Song, Hae-suk Kim, Ah-in Yoo,
Directors : Joon-ik Lee,

Set in 18th century Korea, long-ruling King Yeongjo's struggle with his son, Sado, sees the king take extreme measures in order to deal with his heir.

Actors : Jeff Fahey, Casper Van Dien, Louis Mandylor, Eoin O'Brien,
Directors : Brandon Slagle,

A Surgeon defends a hospital from invading enemy forces in the Battle of Saipan during World War II.

Actors : Maninder Singh, Abhishek Bachchan, Sikander Kher, Deepika Padukone,
Directors : Ashutosh Gowariker,

Children who are not allowed by the oppressive British colonists to play football decide to join a group of freedom fighters.

Actors : Dolph Lundgren, Hiram A. Murray, Andrew Stecker, Apostolos Gliarmis,
Directors : Steven Luke,

In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats, for one last mission, to attack the United States Homeland.

Actors : Horst Buchholz, José Ferrer, Valerie Gearon, Don Borisenko,
Directors : Mark Robson,

Fictional narrative of Hindu militant activist Nathuram Godse's plan to kill Mahatma Gandhi and of police officer Gopal Das' task to find the killer before it's too late.

Actors : Philippe Noiret, Christine Pascal, Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

France, 1719. Four years after Louix XIV's death, Philippe d'Orleans is the regent for the nine-year-old Louis XIV. Philippe is a liberal and a libertine. His right-hand man, Dubois, an ...

Actors : Kata Sarbó, Nikolett Barabas, Caroline Boulton, Lili Bordán,
Directors : Tamas Yvan Topolanszky,

As America prepares to enter WW2, Hungarian film director Michael Curtiz grapples with political intervention and a dysfunctional relationship with his estranged daughter amid the troubled production of Casablanca in 1942.

Actors : Lisa Wagner, Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann,
Directors : Andreas Dresen,

In Berlin 1942, Hilde is a member of an anti-Nazi group. She falls in love with another member, Hans. The two spend a summer together until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.

Actors : Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, John Steiner, Leo McKern,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the ...

Actors : Arjun Sarja, Darshan Thoogudeep, Ambareesh, V. Ravichandran,
Directors : Naganna,

The film is loosely based on the Indian epic Mahabharata and poet Ranna's Gadhayuddha with the story centered upon Duryodhana, a Kaurava king.

Actors : Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

Actors : Orson Welles, Ray Laska, Bob Ruggiero, Philip L. Clarke,
Directors : Robert Guenette,

Hosted by Orson Welles, this documentary utilizes a grab bag of dramatized scenes, stock footage, TV news clips and interviews to ask: Did 16th century French astrologer and physician ...

Actors : Cüneyt Arkin, Zerrin Arbas, Bilal Inci, Yavuz Selekman,
Directors : Natuk Baytan,

When, now senior, Battal Gazi is killed by Byzantine Prince, his son swears to take revenge.

Actors : Dong-wook Kim, Ji-Young Park, Min-jun Kim, Yeo-jeong Jo,
Directors : Dae-seung Kim,

A tragic love triangle story between Hwa-Yeon, a daughter of a nobleman, her true love Kwon-Yoo, a servant and the man who will be King, Prince Sungwon.

Actors : Mammootty, T. Damodaran, Sasi Kalinga, Suresh Krishna,
Directors : Renjith,

A private detective investigates a cold case , which is the first registered murder case in Kerala, after 50 years.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Julie Gayet, Henri Garcin, Michel Piccoli,
Directors : Agnès Varda,

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. Also a line of ...

Actors : David Ruland, August Diehl, Maximilian Meyer-Bretschneider,
Directors : Kirill Serebrennikov,

Follows the story of notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele during his fugitive years, from Paraguay to the Brazilian jungle.

Actors : Farooq Shaikh, Pavan Malhotra, Indraneil Sengupta, Victor Banerjee,
Directors : Mrityunjay Devvrat,

Would you go to war for peace? A war child's search for acceptance and a nation inundated in blood.