Best History movies

Actors : Agathe Bosch, Frédéric Schulz-Richard, Diana Sakalauskaité, Marina Palii,
Directors : Cristi Puiu,

A landowner, a politician, a countess, a General and his wife gather in a spacious manor house and discuss death, war, progress and morality. As time passes by, the discussion becomes more serious and heated.

Actors : Max von Sydow, Charlton Heston, Michael Anderson Jr., Dorothy McGuire,

The life of Jesus Christ.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, Teresa Ann Savoy,

Details the graphic and shocking, yet undeniably tragic story of Rome's most infamous Caesar, Gaius Germanicus Caligula.

Actors : Paul Scofield, Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Joan Allen,
Directors : Nicholas Hytner,

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Actors : Sasha Luss, Iain Glen, Julian Kostov,
Directors : Julien Hayet-Kerknawi,

Amidst World War I's chaos, a grieving father turns hero, leading villagers to safety while evading a relentless enemy driven by vengeance.

Actors : Henry Ian Cusick, Christopher Plummer, Stuart Bunce, Daniel Kash,
Directors : Philip Saville,

The story of Jesus' life as told by the apostle John, narrated by Christopher Plummer.

Actors : Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Xueqi Wang, You Ge,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

To save the only child of the Zhao Family, whose entire clan was massacred at the hands of a nefarious minister, a doctor sacrifices his own son; after the Zhao child grows up, the doctor becomes intent on seeking his vengeance.

Actors : Pamela Brown, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Elizabeth Taylor,

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.

Actors : Robert Shaw, Wendy Hiller, Paul Scofield, Leo McKern,
Directors : Fred Zinnemann,

The story of Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarriage.

Actors : Katharine Hepburn, John Castle, Anthony Hopkins, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Anthony Harvey,

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.

Actors : Li Gong, Saifei He, Jingwu Ma, Cuifen Cao,
Directors : Yimou Zhang,

A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord, and must learn to live with the strict rules and tensions within the household.

Actors : Janet McTeer, Ralph Fiennes, Sophie Ward, Juliette Binoche,
Directors : Peter Kosminsky,

A man becomes obsessed with vengeance when his soul mate marries another man.

Actors : Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha, Sharad Kelkar, Sanjay Dutt,
Directors : Abhishek Dudhaiya,

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Bhuj airbase is attacked and a race against time begins to rebuild the damaged airstrip.

Actors : Andriy Dubchak, Katie Couric, Lynsey Addario,
Directors : Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi,

Oscar winners Vasarhelyi and Chin follow photographer Lynsey Addario capturing the Ukraine war while reflecting on her Pulitzer-winning career.

Actors : Franka Potente, Thomas Kretschmann, Avner W. Less, Troy Garity,
Directors : Robert Young,

Based upon the final confession of Adolf Eichmann, made before his execution in Israel as he accounts to Captain Avner Less, a young Israeli Police Officer, of his past as the architect of ...

Actors : Sizo Mahlangu, Mbulelo Grootboom, Masasa Mbangeni, Michael Kenneth Williams,
Directors : Gideon Raff,

Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1979.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba, Akira Ishihama,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Ken Howard, Howard Da Silva, Donald Madden, William Daniels,
Directors : Peter H. Hunt,

A musical retelling of the American Revolution's political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Actors : Carl Anderson, Ted Neeley, Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Film version of the musical stage play, presenting the last few weeks of Christ's life, told in an anachronistic manner.

Actors : Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Newman, John Cusack, Dwight Schultz,
Directors : Roland Joffé,

This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.