Best History movies of 2004

Actors : Cate Blanchett, John C. Reilly, Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A biopic depicting the early years of legendary Director and aviator Howard Hughes' career from the late 1920s to the mid 1940s.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Joaquin Phoenix, Sophie Okonedo, Xolani Mali,
Directors : Terry George,

Paul Rusesabagina was a hotel manager who housed over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda.

Actors : Eric Bana, Julian Glover, Orlando Bloom, Brad Pitt,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

An adaptation of Homer's great epic, the film follows the assault on Troy by the united Greek forces and chronicles the fates of the men involved.

Actors : Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich, Nathan West,
Directors : Gavin O'Connor,

Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad.

Actors : Billy Bob Thornton, Emilio Echevarría, Jason Patric, Dennis Quaid,
Directors : John Lee Hancock,

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas.

Actors : Alexandra Maria Lara, Juliane Köhler, Bruno Ganz, Ulrich Matthes,
Directors : Oliver Hirschbiegel,

Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

Actors : Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim, Manuela Martelli,
Directors : Andrés Wood,

Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.

Actors : Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Aditya Srivastava,
Directors : Anurag Kashyap,

Black Friday is a film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved --police, conspirators, victims, middlemen.

Actors : Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis, Vasilis Kolovos,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

This is the first film of Theo Angelopoulos' trilogy. The story starts in 1919 with some greek refugees from Odessa arriving somewhere near Thessaloniki. Among these people are two small ...

Actors : Caco Ciocler, Camila Morgado, Luís Melo, Eliane Giardini,
Directors : Jayme Monjardim,

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and...

Actors : Sébastien Huberdeau, David La Haye, Noémie Godin-Vigneau, Juliette Gosselin,
Directors : Jean Beaudin,

In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls.

Actors : Hyo-jun Park, Sang-Woo Kwon, Jung-Jin Lee, Ga-in Han,
Directors : Ha Yoo,

By "Fist of Fury", Kim Hyun-Soo (Sang-Woo Kwone) addicted to Bruce Lee. Year 1978. Hyun-Soo moved to KangNam, Seoul. Hyun-Soo transferred to JungMoon High, Maljuk Street, Kangnam, Seoul. He...

Actors : Tobias Zilliacus, Ilkka Heiskanen, Christopher Weiss, Kim Gustafsson,
Directors : Åke Lindman,

A story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus.

Actors : Ivan Stebunov, Anna Thalbach, Jochen Nickel, Bela B.,
Directors : Niko von Glasow,

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time. But working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss ...

Actors : Saulius Balandis, Brigita Bublyte, Povilas Stankus, Danute Vidugiryte,
Directors : Jonas Vaitkus,

Jonas Vaitkusÿs patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuaniaÿs ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Lukða-Daumantas, the ...

Actors : Doug Moore, Stephanie Love, Amber Bland, Hope Wade,
Directors : Ric White,

"The Bell Witch Haunting" is a powerful supernatural historic thriller based on terrifying actual events that took place in Robertson County, Tennessee from 1817 to 1821, in which a spirit ...

Actors : Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trêpa, Miguel Guilherme, Glória de Matos,
Directors : Manoel de Oliveira,

Actors : Jan Nowicki, Marianna Moór, György Cserhalmi, Lili Horváth,
Directors : Márta Mészáros,

The life story of Imre Nagy is one of the defining stories of 20th century Hungarian history. He was the first communist leader to become the symbol of a national revolution, who, in ...

Actors : Maria de Medeiros, Imma Villa, Rosario Sparno, Raffaele Di Florio,
Directors : Antonietta de Lillo,

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy.

Actors : Iryna Bardakova, Nikolay Boklan, Oleg Drach, Igor Gnezdilov,
Directors : Oles Yanchuk,

One hundred soldiers of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, led by Michael Duda (Hromenko) fearlessly fighting with the Bolshevics and with the Nazis.