Best History movies

Actors : Claude Gauthier, Jean Lapointe, Hélène Loiselle, Guy Provost,
Directors : Michel Brault,

A fact-based account of ordinary citizens who found themselves arrested and imprisoned without charge for weeks during the October Crisis in 1970 Quebec.

Actors : Judith Engel, Jonas Dassler, Sina Ebell, Michael del Coco,
Directors : Lars Kraume,

A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Actors : Colin Blakely, Prunella Ransome, Michael York, David Hemmings,
Directors : Clive Donner,

While Old England is being ransacked by roving Danes in the ninth century, Alfred is planning to join the priesthood. But observing the rape of his land, he puts away his religious vows, to...

Actors : Leslie Caron, Pierre Mondy, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol,
Directors : Abel Gance,

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.

Actors : Klaus Maria Brandauer, Jean-François Balmer, François Cluzet, Jane Seymour,

A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the ...

Actors : Reha Yurdakul, Fikret Hakan, Cüneyt Arkin, Meral Zeren,
Directors : Atif Yilmaz,

Depiction of the life of the legendary Muslim Serdar of Malatya, Battal Gazi.

Actors : Megumi Hayashibara, Tesshô Genda, Hiroaki Hirata, Yoshihiro Ike,
Directors : Kei'ichi Sato,

Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with civilization, he must learn to tame the beast within.

Actors : José Carlos Rodríguez, Damián Delgado, Elpidia Carrillo, Iñaki Aierra,
Directors : Salvador Carrasco,

It is May 1520 in the vast Aztec Empire one year after the Spanish Conqueror Hernán Cortés' arrival in Mexico. "The Other Conquest" opens with the infamous massacre of the Aztecs at the ...

Actors : Grazyna Szapolowska, Robert Wieckiewicz, Andrzej Seweryn, Magdalena Boczarska,
Directors : Jan Kidawa-Blonski,

Pressured by his superiors to disgrace public intellectual Warczewski, a professor and respected writer whom they believe to be a "camouflaged Zionist," rough security-services colonel ...

Actors : Thales Pan Chacon, Ludmila Dayer, Marieta Severo, Antonio Abujamra,
Directors : Carla Camurati,

A hot blooded Spanish princess plots to conquer her enemies and become queen.

Actors : Lars Eidinger, Danila Kozlovsky, Luise Wolfram, Michalina Olszanska,
Directors : Aleksey Uchitel,

In the twilight of Imperial Russia, prima ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya becomes the mistress of three Grand Dukes.

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Michal Zebrowski, Malgorzata Foremniak, Marina Aleksandrova,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

Polish historical action fantasy based on a novel by Jozef Ignacy Kraszewski. In 9th-century pre-Christian Poland, the rustic natives have lived peacefully for centuries, tending their land...

Actors : Himika Akaneya, Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Miyuki Sawashiro,
Directors : Ai Yoshimura,

The story of Lady Oscar, a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution.

Actors : Roman Luknár, Karel Roden, Zuzana Bydzovská, Zuzana Fialová,
Directors : Petr Nikolaev,

At the beginning of the story Lidice is just one of many small Czech villages trying to survive the war as best as it can... See full synopsis »

Actors : Géza Tordy, Imre Sinkovits, Franco Nero, Tibor Bitskey,
Directors : Gábor Koltay,

Filmed in commemoration of Hungary's 1100th anniversary and on the sites of the actual events, a cast of thousands authentically recreates the 896 AD arrival of the Magyar chief Arpad (Nero...

Actors : Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher,
Directors : Floyd Mutrux,

The story of Alan Freed, the pioneering disc jockey who was instrumental in introducing and popularizing rock 'n' roll in the 1950s.

Actors : Laura Peterson, Mirt Preegel, Tarmo Song, Ingrid Isotamm,
Directors : Martti Helde,

"Risttuules" is very emotional and tragic movie about mass deportation to Siberia based on memories of Erna. It all started 14th of June 1941 when trucks came for the innocent families with...

Actors : Sanna Kelly, Stella Stocker, Richard Short, Tim Fellingham,
Directors : Giles Alderson,

Follows King Arthur and his people race home to prevent Mordred from taking over Camelot.

Actors : Magdalena Zawadzka, Mieczyslaw Pawlikowski, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Hanka Bielicka,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

In 1668 Polish colonel Michael Wolodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland's eastern frontier defenses against invading Tatar hordes and Ottoman armies.

Actors : Jan Meduna, Michal Novotný, Petr Vanek, Robert Nebrenský,
Directors : Václav Marhoul,

Set in the Libyan Desert in WW2 a battalion of Czech soldiers face the siege of Tobruk.