Best History movies of 2011

Actors : Jan Decleir, Victor Reinier, Juda Goslinga, Robert de Hoog,
Directors : Reinout Oerlemans,

A Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies. The weather had other ideas for them.

Actors : Tatyana Lyutaeva, Agniya Ditkovskite, Vidas Petkevicius, Mantas Jankavicius,
Directors : Donatas Ulvydas,

A romance blooms between a noblewoman and a common man amid a peasant revolt against the brutal Russian army

Actors : James Franco, Michael Shannon, Stacey Miller, Richard Abate,
Directors : James Franco,

A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Actors : Ferdous Ahmed, Ahmed Rubel, Joya Ahsan, Shampa Reza,
Directors : Nasiruddin Yousuff,

Bilkis Banu, lost her husband Hasan on the bloody night of 25th March 1971. She tries to forget him and concentrate on the urban guerrilla movements of Dhaka with Altaf Mahmud, Shahadat, ...

Actors : Matthias Schoenaerts, Sylvia Hoeks, Daan Schuurmans, Frank Lammers,
Directors : André van Duren,

Netherlands, 1938. In a small town in the province of North Brabant called Oss, Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.

Actors : Leon Lai, Hanyu Zhang, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Shaofeng Feng,
Directors : Daniel Lee,

White Vengeance tells the story of two brothers contending for supremacy during the fall of the Qin Dynasty, which ruled Imperial China from 221 to 206 BC. As rebels rose, the nation fell ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Natasza Urbanska, Borys Szyc, Jerzy Bonczak,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

The First Polish 3D Feature Film! Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is ...

Actors : Michael Conner Humphreys, Christopher Serrone, Kyle Erickson, Philip De Lorenzo,
Directors : Curt A. Sindelar,

Three companies of paratroopers travel in a deadly mission to France to prepare the drop zone for the airborne attack on the D-Day. They have to install an Eureka transmitter and searchlight to guide the planes in the Normandy invasion.

Actors : Emily Wadley, Natalie Blackman, Jason Celaya, Jasen Wade,
Directors : T.C. Christensen,

The pioneer trek across the plains of the Mormon pioneers.

Actors : Tiny Bertels, Evelien Bosmans, Michel van Dousselaere, Stany Crets,
Directors : Frank van Mechelen,

Germaine Debruycker is 18 when the workers at the Vieille Montagne factory, including her father, go on strike to obtain a 10 franc raise. The turbulent strike lasts for 9 weeks and changes their lives forever. Based on a true story.

Actors : Roman Luknár, Karel Roden, Zuzana Bydzovská, Zuzana Fialová,
Directors : Petr Nikolaev,

At the beginning of the story Lidice is just one of many small Czech villages trying to survive the war as best as it can... See full synopsis »

Actors : Justyna Bartoszewicz, Piotr Andruszkiewicz, Ryszard Brozek, Magdalena Bochan,
Directors : Antoni Krauze,

Antoni Krauze reminds one of the darkest history of the cards with PRL. Spectacular reconstruction of the dramatic events in Gdynia, ended a brutal pacification of demonstrators by troops and militia in 1970.

Actors : Mimi Sagadin, Craig Robert Young, David Thomas Jenkins, John Rhys-Davies,

When the Nazis begin killing Jews in Holland, a group of youth fight to save the lives of the innocent.

Actors : Marcin Bosak, Wojciech Solarz, Piotr Glowacki, Filip Bobek,
Directors : Waldemar Krzystek,

Solidarity activists prepare a bravura heist, taking out 80 mln from a union bank account just before it is blocked by communist authorities.

Actors : Nolay Piho, Chih-Hsiang Ma, Masanobu Andô, Sabu Kawahara,
Directors : Te-Sheng Wei,

After the initial uprising at Wushe, Mona Rudao faces an unwinnable guerrilla war against the militarily superior Japanese plus fierce rival Seediq clans. He and his followers must fight ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Omar Rahim, Shayna Amin, Victor Banerjee,
Directors : Rubaiyat Hossain,

A film about loving the other. This film critiques certain pitfalls of nationalism that create conditions to justify war, killing and violence. 'Meherjaan' attempts to offer an aesthetic solution to war and violence.

Actors : Jenna Dewan Tatum, Henry Thomas, Lou Taylor Pucci, Eric Balfour,
Directors : Tanner Beard,

The story of how 'Hell's Gate' at Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas came to have its name. Relive the story of how three outlaws' expeditions and encounters through historical 1870s Texas were remembered for a lifetime.

Actors : Eiji Okuda, Shun Sugata, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Takako Tokiwa,
Directors : Vicente Amorim,

In 1945 the war was not over in Brazil: A death squad assassinated all the Japanese immigrants who accepted defeat.

Actors : Zach Cregger, Trevor Moore, Sam Brown, Darren Trumeter,

The Civil War on Drugs is a historical drama that the WKUK made to document the journey to legalize marijuana during the War Between the States.

Actors : Alfredo Castellani, Juan Ciancio, Víctor Hugo Carrizo, Rodrigo De la Serna,
Directors : Leandro Ipiña,

The story follows a 15-year-old Manuel Corvalán, who decides to leave his upper-class family and be disinherited by his father to join the newly formed Army of the Andes, commanded by the General José de San Martín.