History Movies
A Life Interrupted

A Life Interrupted

A Life Interrupted
IMDb: 6
N/A

After Debbie Smith was raped, she didn’t take the law into her own hands. She wrote the law… Based on a true story. In 1989, Debbie Smith was living a…

My Enemy’s Enemy

My Enemy’s Enemy

My Enemy’s Enemy
IMDb: 7.3
87

Reveals an alternate history of the post-war world. This is a version of history where, in contrast to what we are all told, fascist ideology prevailed. The story of Klaus…

Last Stand of the 300

Last Stand of the 300

Last Stand of the 300
IMDb: 7.4
90

This is the true and astounding saga of the Spartans at Thermopylae. It is among the greatest tales of war ever recounted. All the glory and grit of these warriors’…

Heroic Times

Heroic Times

Heroic Times
IMDb: 7.3
83

The tragic medieval tale of a man of inhuman strength, fierce temper and a desire for noble knighthood. While on the run as a murderer, he finds new life as…

A Prayer for Rain

A Prayer for Rain

A Prayer for Rain
IMDb: 7.1
103

Thirty years on from the 1984 Union Carbide plant malfunction, the consequences of which are tragically ongoing, A Prayer for Rain is the powerful and moving story of the Bhopal…

Genre: Drama, History
Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front

Molly: An American Girl on the Home Front
IMDb: 6.6
85

Molly is a girl living in the year 1944 and WWII has brought many changes to Molly’s life. An English girl comes to live with Molly’s family to escape the…

Genre: Drama, Family, History
Blockade

Blockade

Blockade
IMDb: 7.4
52

The images comprise only of material Sergei Loznitsa found in the Moscow film archives about the siege of Leningrad during the World War II. By providing the originally silent images…

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown

Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
IMDb: 6.7
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

Ghetto

Ghetto

Ghetto
IMDb: 6.7
110

In 1942, in Vilna, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate…

Genre: History, War
Spellbound

Spellbound

Spellbound
IMDb: N/A
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple
IMDb: 7.8
86

Featuring never-before-seen footage, this documentary delivers a startling new look at the Peoples Temple, headed by preacher Jim Jones who, in 1978, led more than 900 members to Guyana, where…

The Steamie

The Steamie

The Steamie
IMDb: 8
78

Tony Roper wrote ‘The Steamie’ for Glasgow’s Mayfest in 1987. Return to Hogmany 1957 when a fiesty group of Glasgow women; Mrs Culfeathers, Dolly, Doreen and the irrepressible Magrit, all…

The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland

The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland

The Pre-Opening Report from Disneyland
IMDb: 7
55

With the grand opening of Disneyland just a matter of days away, Walt Disney brings us an update on the construction of the new magic kingdom. Winston Hibler narrates scenes…

Killing the Shadows

Killing the Shadows

Killing the Shadows
IMDb: 7.5
135

Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk)…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Felix Austria!

Felix Austria!

Felix Austria!
IMDb: 5.9
77

Compelled by the inheritance of a mysterious box of letters, American aesthete Felix Pfeifle begins the journey of a lifetime to reach the source of the correspondence: the last heir…

Sharpe’s Challenge

Sharpe’s Challenge

Sharpe’s Challenge
IMDb: 7.4
138

Sean Bean is back as the swashbuckling hero in Sharpe’s Challenge, an action packed mini-series to be shot on location in Rajasthan, India. Two years after the Duke of Wellington…

Destined for Blues

Destined for Blues

Destined for Blues
IMDb: 6.9
101

The life of Ryszard Riedel, former leader of cult Polish rock-blues band Dzem, including the history of his family relationships, music career and addiction to alcohol and drugs.

Genre: Drama, History, Music
The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide
IMDb: 4.5
57

Explores the Ottoman Empire killings of more than one million Armenians during World War I. The film describes not only what happened before, during and since World War I, but…

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle
IMDb: 6.3
90

What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.

Hana

Hana

Hana
IMDb: 6.6
127

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his father. He isn’t an accomplished…

Soldier of God

Soldier of God

Soldier of God
IMDb: 4.5
94

“Soldier of God” A film by W. D. Hogan From The New York Times Director W. D. Hogan‘s sweeping period epic “Soldier of God” unfurls in the Middle East of…

Genre: Drama, History
The Tin Mine

The Tin Mine

The Tin Mine
IMDb: 8.1
105

A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by working for four years in a rainforest tin mine.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar

Jodhaa Akbar
IMDb: 7.5
213

A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a Mughal emperor and a Rajput princess.

The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead

The Living and the Dead
IMDb: 6
87

In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some…

Men from the Fisherman’s Village

Men from the Fisherman’s Village

Men from the Fisherman’s Village
IMDb: 6.2
91

After a stormy night on the sea, a group of Estonian fishermen end up in a small coastal Finnish town. As they await the Soviet authorities to take them back…

Genre: Drama, History
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today

Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
IMDb: 7.4
78

How, in November 1945, after the end of the World War II and the fall of the Third Reich, the international prosecutors participating in the first Nuremberg trial —formally, the…

Same Sex America

Same Sex America

Same Sex America
IMDb: 7.3
89

In the spring of 2004, Massachusetts began the final battle of its journey towards legalizing same-sex marriage. This documentary follows a few local couples & their families through the months…

Clerks: The Lost Scene

Clerks: The Lost Scene

Clerks: The Lost Scene
IMDb: 7.3
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

Gunner Palace

Gunner Palace

Gunner Palace
IMDb: 6.6
85

American soldiers of the 2/3 Field Artillery, a group known as the “Gunners,” tell of their experiences in Baghdad during the Iraq War. Holed up in a bombed out pleasure…

Princess of Mount Ledang

Princess of Mount Ledang

Princess of Mount Ledang
IMDb: 6.6
145

In the late 15th century, a forbidden romance blossoms between Gusti Putri, a Javanese Hindu princess and Hang Tuah, a Malay Muslim warrior from Melaka, against a backdrop of war…

Independent Lens

Independent Lens

Independent Lens
IMDb: 7.8
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002

Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002

Manchester United: The Official History 1878-2002
IMDb: 8.3
170

Manchester United Football Club started life as Newton Heath, a team founded by workers from the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in 1878. Recounting the history of Manchester United. Honors soon…

The History of the Pink Trunk

The History of the Pink Trunk

The History of the Pink Trunk
IMDb: 6
97

In 1945, in the train station of Bogota, Colombia, a dead girl is found in a trunk. The case is assigned to Detective Mariano Corzo, he has to deal with…

Genre: Crime, Drama, History
1944 The Final Defence

1944 The Final Defence

1944 The Final Defence
IMDb: 5.8
117

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back,…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Au théâtre ce soir

Au théâtre ce soir

Au théâtre ce soir
IMDb: N/A
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

The Making of ‘the X Files: Fight the Future’

The Making of ‘the X Files: Fight the Future’

The Making of ‘the X Files: Fight the Future’
IMDb: 7.3
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

The Power Behind the Throne

The Power Behind the Throne

The Power Behind the Throne
IMDb: N/A
178

In the decadent heart of the Roman Empire, one man’s descent into madness would shake the foundations of history. Caligula: The Final Cut is a bold reimagining of the life…

H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer

H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer

H.H. Holmes: America’s First Serial Killer
IMDb: 6.3
64

Torture chambers, acid vats, greased chutes and gassing rooms were just some of the devices of death designed by the Torture Doctor, H.H. Holmes in his castle of horrors. Follows…

The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams

The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams

The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams
IMDb: 5.3
96

Amid the bitter divisiveness of the Civil War, Confederate Capt. Robert Adams (Julian Adams) feels the rift within his soul. Steadfastly loyal to the South, Adams also holds an unshakable…

Names in Marble

Names in Marble

Names in Marble
IMDb: 7
91

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country’s government is declaring a mobilization for all. Henn Ahas, the son of a poor family,…