Best History movies

Actors : Jishu Sengupta, Swastika Mukherjee, Prasenjit Chatterjee, Mamata Shankar,
Directors : Srijit Mukherji,

The life and notable works of Anthony Firingee a 19th century Bengali language folk poet of Portuguese origin.The time frame of the storyline jumps between two different time periods-19th century and the present day.

Actors : Manu Rishi Chadha, Vishwajeet Pradhan, Vijay Raaz, Raj Zutshi,

In 1948, a cross-fire erupts at an isolated stretch of Indo-Pak border, leaving only two soldiers alive. One is an Indian soldier of Pakistani origin while the other happens to be a ...

Actors : Takao Ohsawa, Togo Igawa, Masatoshi Nagase, Chiao Chiao,
Directors : Chih-Hsiang Ma,

A Taiwanese high school baseball team travels to Japan in 1931 to compete in a national tournament.

Actors : Sarah Kent, Alexa Rae, Kimball Stinger, Jasen Wade,
Directors : T.C. Christensen,

Children who were held hostage in their elementary school tell stories of miraculous things, but many adults are skeptical that the Cokeville Miracle ever truly happened.

Actors : Meral Çetinkaya, Boglarka Csösz, Selim Bayraktar, Mahsun Kirmizigül,
Directors : Mahsun Kirmizigül,

Life of a young sultan, struggles with childhood love

Actors : Robert Patrick, Alison Doody, Poppy Drayton, Tommy Flanagan,

The Mongol Empire had grown to the largest the world had ever known. It's armies now laid siege to much of Eastern Europe. A small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpathian Mountains.

Actors : Stacy Martin, Valeria Golino, Vincent Lindon, Julia Roy,
Directors : Benoît Jacquot,

In the eighteenth century, Casanova, known for his taste for fun and play, arrived in London after having to go into exile. In this city of which he knows nothing, he meets several times a ...

Actors : Goran Visnjic, Mustafa Nadarevic, Tarik Filipovic, Goran Navojec,
Directors : Antun Vrdoljak,

Follows the life of general Ante Gotovina.

Actors : Jesse White, Elaine Stewart, Karen Steele, Ray Danton,
Directors : Budd Boetticher,

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewellery thieves. After a spell in jail the coldly ambitious Diamond hits on the idea of stealing from thieves himself...

Actors : Maurice Denham, Dirk Bogarde, Alec Guinness, Nigel Stock,
Directors : Lewis Gilbert,

On the H.M.S. Defiant, during the French Revolutionary Wars, fair Captain Crawford is locked in a battle of wills against his cruel second-in-command Lt. Scott-Paget whose heavy-handed command style pushes the crew to mutiny.

Actors : Tatsuya Mihashi, Chûsha Ichikawa, Akira Takarada, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Hiroshi Inagaki,

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Actors : János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár, Gábor Agárdi,
Directors : Miklós Jancsó,

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, ...

Actors : Ernst Castelli, Gustav Leonhardt, Paolo Carlini, Christiane Lang,

The life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach as presented by his wife, Anna.

Actors : Lilli Palmer, Senta Berger, Keir Dullea, Anna Massey,

Hounded by the police on charges of inflammatory writing, the once handsome Marquis De Sade seeks refuge in an abandoned family mansion. This colorful movie depicts DeSade's life from ...

Actors : Daniel Olbrychski, Kazimierz Wichniarz, Tadeusz Lomnicki, Malgorzata Braunek,
Directors : Jerzy Hoffman,

During the 1655 war between Protestant Sweden and Catholic Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth some Polish-Lithuanian nobles side with Swedish king Charles X Gustav while others side with the Polish king Jan Kazimierz.

Actors : Ulli Lommel, Karlheinz Böhm, Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck,
Directors : Rainer Werner Fassbinder,

In the nineteenth century, seventeen year old Effi Briest is married to the older Baron von Instetten and moves into a house, that she believes has a ghost, in a small isolated Baltic town....

Actors : Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice,
Directors : Don Sharp,

In March 1914, a mining engineer named Richard Hannay tries to prevent Prussian agents from executing a political assassination designed to trigger World War I.

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : John Phillip Law, Sam Neill, Mel Gibson, Chris Haywood,
Directors : Tim Burstall,

A group of Australian commandos launch a secret mission against Japanese forces in World War II.