Best History movies of 2000s

Actors : Janis Reinis, Elita Klavina, Girts Krumins, Romualds Ancans,
Directors : Aigars Grauba,

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops ...

Actors : Arya, Cochin Hanifa, Amy Jackson, Alexx O'Nell,
Directors : Vijay,

A film set in 1940s India, during the country's struggle for independence. The young daughter of an English governor falls in love with a local Indian boy.

Actors : Nassar, Inaamulhaq, Shahana Goswami, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
Directors : Nandita Das,

Chronicles the devastating impact on vulnerable Muslims in Gujarat after riots.

Actors : Zahide Acar, Çagla Acar, Serif Agdas, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Murat Saraçoglu,

The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.

Actors : Natasa Janjic, Predrag Vasic, Lazar Ristovski, Bora Todorovic,
Directors : Srdjan Dragojevic,

The Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle ...

Actors : Seigi Ozeki, Kanokkorn Jaicheun, Winai Kraibutr, Sorapong Chatree,
Directors : Nopporn Watin,

Based on a true historic figure during Ayothaya Era, the film depicts the life of Yamada Nagamasa, a Japanese adventurer who gained considerable influence in Thailand and became the ...

Actors : Nihat Ileri, Serhat Tutumluer, Melisa Sözen, Mesut Akusta,
Directors : Dervis Zaim,

Eflatun is a master miniature artist who's living in 17th century Istanbul. One day, he's taken to the vizier's mansion by force. There he learns that Danyal, one of the Ottoman princes who...

Actors : Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Chen Hong, Honglei Sun,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

A biographical account of Mei Lanfang, China's greatest opera star.

Actors : Rekha, Rajit Kapoor, Karisma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

Zubeidaa, an aspiring Muslim actress, marries a Hindu prince to become his second wife. Her tumultuous relationship with her husband, and her inner demons lead her to a decision which has fatal consequences for them all.

Actors : Valeria Solarino, Isabella Ragonese, Ennio Fantastichini, Giselda Volodi,
Directors : Donatella Maiorca,

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di mare, presents a ...

Actors : Sergio Grammatico, Dimitar Ratchkov, Fabio Giubbani, Christo Jivkov,
Directors : Ermanno Olmi,

The history of the first victim of modern artillery and its moving agony, amidst conspiracies and betrayals of the powerful. Life and death of Giovanni De' Medici, a young brave captain in ...

Actors : Parzaan Dastur, Naseeruddin Shah, Sarika, Corin Nemec,
Directors : Rahul Dholakia,

A parsi family struggles to find thier son in a genocide carried out by vested interests outfits during 2002, commonly known as Gujarat riots which broke out after the Godhra Train Burning incident. During riots more than 790 Muslim and 289 Hindus died and around 300 people missing in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Actors : F. Murray Abraham, Raz Degan, Rutger Hauer, Christo Jivkov,
Directors : Renzo Martinelli,

German Emperor Barbarossa will stop at nothing to conquer and build his empire. But a young man from Milan, along with his army of 900 men known as the Company of Death, is prepared to challenge the Emperor.

Actors : Sergio Peris-Mencheta, Lluís Homar, María Valverde, Sergio Múñiz,
Directors : Antonio Hernández,

A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's "The Prince," his son Cesare Borgia, and a legend of femme duplicity, daughter Lucrezia Borgia.

Actors : Sebastian Hülk, Andrius Zebrauskas, Heino Ferch, Erika Marozsán,
Directors : Audrius Juzenas,

In 1942, in Vilnius, 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...

Actors : Aleksandr Bukharov, Dmitriy Miller, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov,
Directors : Oleg Ryaskov,

Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King ...

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 : Agie, Ilian Ivanov, Vesela Kazakova, Helmi Dridi,
Directors : Jacques Malaterre,

When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Néa, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man, decides to leave the North country where he has been living for the South where he was ...

Actors : Alberto Ammann, Leonor Watling, Pilar López de Ayala, Ramon Pujol,
Directors : Andrucha Waddington,

A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega, the Spanish playwright who dominated Spain's early Golden Age of theater.

Actors : Miray Daner, Çetin Tekindor, Halit Ergenç, Batuhan Karacakaya,
Directors : Hamdi Alkan,

Tarihci Dede is giving information to a couple of children about Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's success and his way to shape todays Turkey.