Best History movies of 2000s

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 : Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov, Sergey Makovetskiy,
Directors : Vladimir Khotinenko,

Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII.

Actors : Steven Waddington, Emily Blunt, Alex Kingston, Leanne Rowe,
Directors : Bill Anderson,

Boudica, the Warrior Queen on Britain, leads her tribe into rebellion against the Roman Empire and the mad Emperor of Rome Nero.

Actors : Mammootty, T. Damodaran, Sasi Kalinga, Suresh Krishna,
Directors : Renjith,

A private detective investigates a cold case , which is the first registered murder case in Kerala, after 50 years.

Actors : Pankaj Kapur, Pankaj Tripathi, Daya Shankar Pandey, Supriya Pathak,
Directors : Bhavna Talwar,

The movie is about a Hindu priest Pandit Chaturvedi (Pankaj Kapur) who is one of the most highly respected priests in the entire city of Varanasi. A man who lives for his religion, soaked ...

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.

Actors : Daniel Auteuil, Sabrina Impacciatore, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci,
Directors : Paolo Virzì,

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to ...

Actors : Maninder Singh, Abhishek Bachchan, Sikander Kher, Deepika Padukone,
Directors : Ashutosh Gowariker,

Children who are not allowed by the oppressive British colonists to play football decide to join a group of freedom fighters.

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.

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 : Hristo Shopov, Daniele Liotti, Mónica Cruz, Dolph Lundgren,
Directors : Giulio Base,

In 35 A.D., a Roman tribune is sent to Palestine to investigate the death and possible resurrection of a certain Jesus from Nasareth.

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 : John Buijsman, Chris Comvalius, Guus Dam, Robert de Hoog,
Directors : Hanro Smitsman,

Frankie is a young man from Netherlands, in 1979. His father is a Jew, survivor from the Holocaust, a very strict man who owns a Laundry. His mother is a good-hearted woman who wants her ...

Actors : Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller, Efratia Gitai,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...

Actors : Olivier Gourmet, François-Xavier Demaison, Laurent Bateau, Léa Drucker,
Directors : Antoine de Caunes,

October 1980. Michel Colucci, better known as Coluche, is the French people's favorite comedian. He performs every night to a packed house at the Théâtre du Gymnase. One day, always ...

Actors : Hayley Carr, Olivier Gruner, Michael Berryman, Tino Struckmann,
Directors : Jerry Buteyn,

The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front. Brother's War is based on real events. The western Allies push into Germany ...

Actors : Ila Arun, Nicolas Chagrin, Pankaj Berry, Vinay Anand,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

The film, which is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences. However, it does not cover the controversy surrounding Bose's death.

Actors : Alexandre Borges, Patricia Pillar, Daniel de Oliveira, Leandra Leal,
Directors : Sergio Rezende,

Based on the true story of Zuzu Angel, a famous Brazilian fashion designer in the 70's, who searches for her son Stuart, a member of a leftist university group who suddenly disappears ...

Actors : Deok-Hwan Ryu, Dal-su Oh, Ji-won Uhm, Jung-min Hwang,
Directors : Dae-min Park,

The story takes place in occupied Korea at the start of the 20th century, where a young student in medicine discovers the murdered body of the son of a government official. Being scared of ...

Actors : Csaba Lucas, Vera Graziadei, Lea Mornar, Winter Ave Zoli,
Directors : Constantin Werner,

A controversial film about the end of the old pagan world in central Europe, THE PAGAN QUEEN is based on the Czech legend of Libuse, the Slavic queen of 8th century Bohemia. Gifted with ...