Best History movies

Actors : Wen-ting Chiang, Yung Pan, Shao-tien Hsiung, Liang Zhang,
Directors : Tun Fei Mou,

In 1937, Japanese troops raid the Chinese city of Nanking to execute a planned massacre by subjecting over 300,000 helpless civilians to various tortures and atrocities before slaughtering them all.

Actors : Vangelis Kazan, Thanos Grammenos, Kostas Pavlou, Giorgos Kyritsis,
Directors : Theodoros Angelopoulos,

It is 1936 in Greece, shortly before the Metaxas' dictatorship. A former drug trafficker and police informer, Sofianos, is in prison because of the assassination of a trade unionist during ...

Actors : Jaya Bhaduri, Omar Rahim, Victor Banerjee, Shayna Amin,
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 : Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Omar Sharif, Jack Palance,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

Biography of Argentinian revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, who helped Fidel Castro in his struggle against the corrupt Batista regime, eventually resulting in the overthrow of that ...

Actors : Sergey Bezrukov, Pavel Tabakov, Nikita Kologrivyy,
Directors : Nikita Vysotskiy, Ilya Lebedev,

The history of the military operation "Bagration", which took place in August 1944.

Actors : Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman, Katy Behean,
Directors : Bill Douglas,

The story of "The Tolpuddle Martyrs". A group of 19th century English farm labourers who formed one of the first trade unions and started a campaign to receive fair wages.

Actors : Douta Seck, Joby Bernabé, Garry Cadenat, Darling Légitimus,
Directors : Euzhan Palcy,

Martinique, in the early 1930s. Young José and his grandmother live in a small village. Nearly everyone works cutting cane and barely earning a living. The overseer can fine a worker for ...

Actors : Ciarán McMenamin, Dan Wyllie, Don Hany, Adrian Dunbar,
Directors : Michael James Rowland,

Eight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce.

Actors : Robin Renucci, Stéphane Freiss, Valeria Golino, Timothy Dalton,
Directors : Axel Corti,

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

Actors : Aleksandr Yatsenko, Maksim Sukhanov, Innokenti Dakaiarov, Roza Khayrullina,
Directors : Andrey Proshkin,

It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and ...

Actors : Christopher Abbott, Matilda Firth, Valentino Picone, Salvatore Ficarra, Toni Servillo, Julia Garner,
Directors : Leigh Whannell, Roberto Andò,

A Sicilian colonel leading a motley crew outwitting adversaries in Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1860 campaign that unified Italy.

Actors : Davoud Rashidi, Ezzatolah Entezami, Ali Nassirian, Jamshid Mashayekhi,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

The movie chronicles the life of the famous painter Kamololmolk, and his relationship with various kings.

Actors : Constantin Dita, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras, Catalin Babliuc,
Directors : Constantin Popescu,

The story of anti-communist partisans in post-World War II Romania.

Actors : Gerrit Schoonhoven, Richard Kiley, Bruce Marchiano, Dawid Minnaar,
Directors : Regardt van den Bergh,

Matthew 15:1 - 28:20 - The year is about 62 A.D., and the aging apostle Matthew recalls the remarkable events he witnessed as a young man. As his story unfolds, the centuries melt away and ...

Actors : Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Tatyana Tkach, Lyudmila Saveleva,

The defeat of the "White Army" in the Russian Civil War of 1918-21, causing massive emigration of the upper classes and nobility, called "White Russians". Set in Crimea, Constantinopol and ...

Actors : Alicia von Rittberg, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Friedrich Mücke,
Directors : Michael Herbig,

Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon.

Actors : Franklin Caicedo, Luis Brandoni, Pedro Aleandro, Héctor Alterio,
Directors : Héctor Olivera,

In 1920, some workers of Patagonia, grouped in anarchist and socialist societies, decide to make a strike demanding better working conditions. The situation becomes unsustainable and the government sends the order is restored.

Actors : Yvonne Mitchell, Nigel Patrick, James Mason, Peter Finch,
Directors : Ken Hughes,

At the height of his fame (his plays being much celebrated in London in the 1890's), Oscar Wilde angers the Marquis of Queensberry by having what is whispered and gossiped as a romantic ...

Actors : Faramarz Sadighi, Akbar Abdi, Amin Tarokh, Jamshid Hashempur,
Directors : Ali Hatami,

A movie about the Iranian classical musicians in Ghajar era and their struggle to release their first Record which takes them on a journey to France.

Actors : Astrid Bergès-Frisbey, Vincent Perez, Juan José Ballesta, Santi Millán,
Directors : Daniel Benmayor,

1808. The Napoleonic Army suffers its first defeat at the hands of a single man: a drummer boy who used the Montserrat mountains to echo his drums and send the enemy troops into a panicked ...