Best History movies

Actors : Robin Renucci, Stéphane Freiss, Valeria Golino, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Axel Corti,

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Actors : Titta Karakorpi, Risto Taulo, Anja Pohjola, Aarno Sulkanen,
Directors : Edvin Laine,

Täällä Pohjantähden alla is based on the book with the same title. It is a story of the little village. The movie starts in the 1890's and it ends to the Finnish civil war in 1918. Story ...

Actors : Christopher Abbott, Matilda Firth, Valentino Picone, Salvatore Ficarra, Toni Servillo, Julia Garner,
Directors : Leigh Whannell, Roberto Andò,

A Sicilian colonel leading a motley crew outwitting adversaries in Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 campaign that unified Italy.

Actors : Rick Macy, David Nibley, Tayva Patch, Nathan Mitchell,

Joseph Smith: The Prophet of the Restoration focuses on some of the events during the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, which was both filmed and distributed ...

Actors : Gabriele Anicaite, Tauras Cizas, Saulius Ciucelis, Ieva Andrejevaite,
Directors : Donatas Ulvydas,

Emilia.Breaking Free is a suspense drama about the fight for freedom in Soviet-repressed Lithuania - in a society where a more satiated life seems more important than honour, a clear ...

Actors : Wen-ting Chiang, Yung Pan, Shao-tien Hsiung, Liang Zhang,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.

Actors : Franklin Caicedo, Luis Brandoni, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Actors : Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Jack Palance, Omar Sharif,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that ...

Actors : Sergey Bezrukov, Pavel Tabakov, Nikita Kologrivyy,
Directors : Nikita Vysotskiy, Ilya Lebedev,

The history of the military operation "Bagration", which took place in August 1944.

Actors : Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman, Katy Behean,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Actors : Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Faramarz Sadighi, Akbar Abdi, Amin Tarokh, Jamshid Hashempur,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

A movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France.

Actors : Davoud Rashidi, Ali Nassirian, Ezzatolah Entezami, Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Actors : Tom Tryon, Stuart Whitman, Viveca Lindfors, Peggy Wood,
Directors : Henry Koster,

Inspired by the scriptural tale. Moabitess priestess Ruth is drawn both to a Judean man and to his talk of a forgiving God. After tragedy strikes, she begins a new life in Bethlehem.

Actors : Heather Fields, Alan Collett, Libby Clearfield, Dianna Collett,

A terrorist cell takes three Americans hostage and threatens to expose a secret that will shatter America's soul.

Actors : Gerrit Schoonhoven, Richard Kiley, Bruce Marchiano, Dawid Minnaar,
Directors : Regardt van den Bergh,

Matthew 15:1 - 28:20 - The year is about 62 A.D., and the aging apostle Matthew recalls the remarkable events he witnessed as a young man. As his story unfolds, the centuries melt away and ...

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Thanos Grammenos, Kostas Pavlou, Giorgos Kyritsis,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during ...

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, James Mason, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...