Best History movies

Actors : Clive Owen, Mick Jagger, Lothaire Bluteau, Brian Webber,
Directors : Sean Mathias,

Max is gay and as such is sent to Dachau concentration camp under the Nazi regime. He tries to deny he is gay, and gets a yellow label (the one for Jews) instead of pink (the one for gays)....

Actors : Richard E. Grant, Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Fiona Shaw,
Directors : Bob Rafelson,

The story of Captain Richard Francis Burton and Lt. John Hanning Speke's expedition to find the source of the Nile river in the name of Queen Victoria's British Empire. The film tells the ...

Actors : Susana Abaitua, Andrés Gertrúdix, Iraia Elias,
Directors : Agustín Díaz Yanes,

A young Spanish civil guard goes undercover within ETA, the Basque separatist group, spending over a decade locating their hideouts in the South of France.

Actors : Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint,
Directors : Otto Preminger,

The state of Israel is created in 1948, resulting in war with its Arab neighbors.

Actors : Jodhi May, Eva Birthistle, Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes,
Directors : Peter Greenaway,

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.

Actors : Christopher Egan, Hayden Christensen, Mischa Barton, Ryan Cartwright,
Directors : David Leland,

Young Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.

Actors : Ed Flanders, Gregory Peck, Dan O'Herlihy, Ivan Bonar,
Directors : Joseph Sargent,

Biopic of General Douglas MacArthur covering his war exploits during WW2 and the Korean War.

Actors : Marc Susini, Iliana Zabeth, Laura Poulvet, Helmut Berger,
Directors : Albert Serra,

Madame de Dumeval, the Duke de Tesis and the Duke de Wand, libertines expelled from the court of Louis XVI, seek the support of the Duc de Walchen, German seducer and freethinker, lonely in a country where hypocrisy and false virtue reign.

Actors : Olga Kurylenko, Andy Beckwith, Tim Barber,
Directors : Jesse V. Johnson,

The eponymous Celtic warrior who rules the Iceni people alongside her husband, Prasutagus. The King dies at the hands of Roman soldiers, leaving Boudica's kingdom without a male heir, and the Romans seize her land and property.

Actors : Jun Hu, Edison Wang, Xueqi Wang, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Teddy Chan,

In 1905, revolutionist Sun Yat-Sen visits Hong Kong to discuss plans with Tongmenghui members to overthrow the Qing dynasty. But when they find out that assassins have been sent to kill him, they assemble a group of protectors to prevent any attacks.

Actors : Aleksandr Korshunov, Aleksey Kopashov, Pavel Derevyanko, Andrey Merzlikin,
Directors : Aleksandr Kott,

A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.

Actors : Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames,
Directors : Richard Pearce,

Two women, black and white, in 1955 Montgomery Alabama, must decide what they are going to do in response to the famous bus boycott lead by Martin Luther King.

Actors : Sai Tamhankar, Aeklavya Tomer, Emraan Hashmi,
Directors : Tejas Prabha Vijay Deoskar,

After the 2001 Parliament attack, BSF officer Dubey leads a 2-year probe uncovering the mastermind Ghazi Baba, enabling India's biggest anti-terror operation.

Actors : Harman Baweja, Om Puri,
Directors : Harry Baweja,

The sacrifices of the four sons of Guru Gobind Singh ji (tenth guru of Sikhs) - Baba Ajit Singh ji, Baba Jujhar Singh ji, Baba Zorawar Singh ji and Baba Fateh Singh ji.

Actors : Meredith Bailey, Joe Dinicol, Paul Gross, Caroline Dhavernas,
Directors : Paul Gross,

The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele.

Actors : Heikki Paavilainen, Timo Torikka, Vesa Vierikko, Taneli Mäkelä,
Directors : Pekka Parikka,

Set during World War 2. After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, Russia attacked Finland in November 1939. Finnish reservists leave their homes and go to war. The film focuses ...

Actors : Phoebe Cates, Wendy Hughes, Jim Broadbent, Kevin Kline,
Directors : Michael Austin,

Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it ...

Actors : Fionnula Flanagan, Aidan Gillen, Helen Mirren, David O'Hara,
Directors : Terry George,

Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as ...

Actors : Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Luca Zingaretti, Valentina Cervi, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Agnès Merlet,

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter ...

Actors : Joseph Blatchley, Bruce Robinson, Isabelle Adjani, Sylvia Marriott,
Directors : François Truffaut,

Adèle Hugo's unrequited love for a lieutenant.