Best History movies

Actors : Tuo Tan, Bai Xue, Quiang Liu, Xueqi Wang,
Directors : Kaige Chen,

'Yellow Earth' focuses on the story of a communist soldier who is sent to the countryside to collect folk songs for the Communist Revolution. There he stays with a peasant family and learns...

Actors : Michael Schoeffling, Stephen McHattie, Armand Assante, Gail Youngs,
Directors : Glen Pitre,

A Cajun man attempts to save his town.

Actors : Natan Eidelman, Anatoly Slivnikov, German Shorr, Ilya Ivanov,
Directors : Sergey Solovev,

ASSA is set in Crimea during the winter in the mid eighties. A young musician (Bananan) falls for mobster's (Krymov) young mistress (Alika). The parallel story line involves an 18th century...

Actors : Mammootty, Suresh Gopi, Balan K. Nair, Madhavi,
Directors : T. Hariharan,

The film offers an alternative version of the epic battle between two legendary Chekavars from the villain's perspective.

Actors : Zarko Lausevic, Milos Zutic, Vojislav 'Voja' Brajovic, Gorica Popovic,
Directors : Zdravko Sotra,

On June 28th 1389, at Kosovo Polje, an army of the Serbian Prince Lazar made a stand against the advancing Ottoman forces of Sultan Murad.

Actors : Cecilia Yip, Samuel Hui, Man Cheung, Jacky Cheung,

When a scroll containing valuable martial arts secrets is stolen from the Emperor, an army detachment is sent to recover it. Blademaster, a young martial arts expert, accidentally ends up ...

Actors : Jim Carter, Donald Pleasence, Colin Firth, Amina Annabi,
Directors : Leslie Megahey,

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is ...

Actors : Tomas von Brömssen, Bjørn Floberg, Andrine Sæther, Silje Storstein,
Directors : Erik Gustavson,

Sofie is an ordinary Norwegian girl. One day she recieves a video tape on which a certain Alberto Knox talks directly to her from ancient Greece. They then start to meet at different ...

Actors : Kent Dahlgren, Axel Bøyum, Johannes Blåsternes, Nicolai Cleve Broch,
Directors : Eirik Svensson,

We follow the Jewish Braude family's experiences when the Jews are arrested and deported from the camp Berg, on the ship Donau and down to the extermination in the concentration camp in Auschwitz.

Actors : Benjamin Voisin, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan, Cécile De France,
Directors : Xavier Giannoli,

An adaptation of Honoré de Balzac's novel "Lost Illusions".

Actors : Morten Hee Andersen, Søren Malling, Jakob Oftebro, Trine Dyrholm,
Directors : Charlotte Sieling,

1402. Queen Margrete is ruling Sweden, Norway and Denmark through her adopted son, Erik. But a conspiracy is in the making and Margrete finds herself in an impossible dilemma that could shatter her life's work: the Kalmar Union.

Actors : Karim Abdel Aziz, Razane Jammal, Hind Sabri, Ahmed Ezz,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

Two men team up to fight against British occupation in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.

Actors : Vincent Perez, Fanny Ardant, Josiane Balasko, Michel Serrault,
Directors : Gabriel Aghion,

The 'philosopher' (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot is part of an aristocratic circle which practices the libertarian principles on the rural ...

Actors : Tobias Zilliacus, Ilkka Heiskanen, Christopher Weiss, Kim Gustafsson,
Directors : Åke Lindman,

A story of the infantry regiment 61 that fought from Syväri to the Karelian Ishtmus.

Actors : Mikkomarkus Ahtiainen, Frank Biermann, Jussi Brech, Rauno Ahonen,

The Soviet army breaks through the Finnish defences on the Karelian Isthmus in June 1944, advancing with overwhelming force. Somehow, the Finnish troops must find the strength to fight back...

Actors : Janis Reinis, Elita Klavina, Girts Krumins, Romualds Ancans,
Directors : Aigars Grauba,

The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI, a renegade German general and troops ...

Actors : Nassar, Inaamulhaq, Shahana Goswami, Nawazuddin Siddiqui,
Directors : Nandita Das,

Chronicles the devastating impact on vulnerable Muslims in Gujarat after riots.

Actors : Natasa Janjic, Predrag Vasic, Lazar Ristovski, Bora Todorovic,
Directors : Srdjan Dragojevic,

The Kingdom of Serbia, as part of the Balkan League, battling the remaining Turkish occupiers during the First Balkan War in 1912 and outbreak of World War I in 1914 and the crucial Battle ...

Actors : Zahide Acar, Çagla Acar, Serif Agdas, Tarik Akan,
Directors : Murat Saraçoglu,

The story of an exile man who came from Russia. He is the last descended of his family.

Actors : Leon Lai, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Hanyu Zhang, 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 ...