Best History movies

Actors : Amitai Ashkenazi, Ben Eidel, Samuel Fuller, Efratia Gitai,
Directors : Amos Gitai,

From Israel's most important filmaker, CARMEL is Amos Gitai's (KADOSH, KIPPUR) deeply personal and resonant meditation on Jewish and Israeli identity. Using both fiction and documentary ...

Actors : Josu Ternera, Francisco Ruiz Sánchez, Jordi Évole,
Directors : Marius Sánchez, Jordi Évole,

An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.

Actors : Alison Wright, Sarah Steele, Sarah Ramos, Cody Horn,
Directors : Rachel Carey,

A group of determined Midwestern women begin providing safe but illegal abortions in this 1960s period drama based on a true story.

Actors : Peter Gantzler, Casper Christensen, Frank Hvam, Jacob Lohmann,
Directors : Jesper Rofelt,

A group of eccentric men in the 80's are going to make an electric car.

Actors : Gila Almagor, Assi Dayan, Klaus Kinski, Yehoram Gaon,
Directors : Menahem Golan,

In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to ...

Actors : Marcin Bosak, Wojciech Solarz, Piotr Glowacki, Filip Bobek,
Directors : Waldemar Krzystek,

Solidarity activists prepare a bravura heist, taking out 80 mln from a union bank account just before it is blocked by communist authorities.

Actors : Muhammad Farrag, Mona Zaki, Ahmad Khaled Saleh,
Directors : Marwan Hamed,

Kulthum rose to Arab music prominence in the late 1920s by reaching mass audiences through then-new technologies like radio, records, film and TV.

Actors : Sergey Bondarchuk, Boris Zakhava, Lyudmila Saveleva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov,
Directors : Sergey Bondarchuk,

Actors : Senta Berger, Hans Christian Blech, Yelena Samarina, Lou Castel,
Directors : Wim Wenders,

In 17th-century Salem, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet A because she is an adulteress, with a child out of wedlock. For seven years, she has refused to name the father. A vigorous older ...

Actors : Shih-Chieh King, Mi Yang, Chen Chang, Yi Zhang,
Directors : Yang Lu,

In the Ming dynasty of China, Shen Lian (starring Chang Chen), a secret police of corrupt government, is trapped by the conspiracy on a mission. To prove the innocence, he seeks the truth with a girl called Bei Zhai (starring Yang Mi).

Actors : Eric Porter, Hildegard Neil, Charlton Heston, John Castle,
Directors : Charlton Heston,

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Laura Betti,

A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.

Actors : Kim Thomson, Bernard Hepton, Denholm Elliott, Derek de Lint,
Directors : Clive Donner,

In medieval Paris, a young religious scholar and the beautiful niece of a local patrician fall madly in love and consummate their passion for each other. In the religious uproar that follows, they are condemned and brutally punished.

Actors : Ila Arun, Nicolas Chagrin, Pankaj Berry, Vinay Anand,
Directors : Shyam Benegal,

The film, which is about the last five years of the Indian leader Subhas Chandra's life, also includes his life's story in flashback sequences. However, it does not cover the controversy surrounding Bose's death.

Actors : Hans Christian Blech, Renato Scarpa, Mathieu Carrière, Gian Maria Volontè,
Directors : Giuliano Montaldo,

Flying from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, ...

Actors : Ekaterina Klimova, Sergey Bezrukov, Stanislav Boklan, Elizaveta Boyarskaya,
Directors : Andrey Malyukov,

Goalkeeper Nikolay Ranevich and his Dinamo football team are about to play against the German footballers during the Nazi occupation of Kiev in 1942. The match is much more about honor and dignity than sport.

Actors : Sidse Babett Knudsen, Xavier Dolan, Claes Bang,
Directors : Stéphane Demoustier,

The story of Otto von Spreckelsen, a real-life architecture teacher from Copenhagen, who surprised the world when he won an open-call competition launched by French president François Mitterrand.

Actors : Timothy Bottoms, Joanasie Salamonie, Louis Gossett Jr., Warren Oates,
Directors : Philip Kaufman,

In 1896, three whalers are stranded in the Arctic North Canada and seek refuge with an Eskimo tribe. Gradually they gain control with the Eskimo village and introduce gambling, booze, theft...

Actors : Sriyantha Mendis, Jackson Anthony, Uddika Premarathna, Kusum Renu,
Directors : Jayantha Chandrasiri,

Dutugamunu also known as Dutthagamani and Gamani Abhaya ("fearless Gamini"), was a Sinhalese king of Sri Lanka who reigned from 161 BC to 137 BC. He is renowned for defeating and ...

Actors : Viktor Kosykh, Mikhail Metyolkin, Vasiliy Vasilev, Valentina Kurdyukova,
Directors : Edmond Keosayan,

Third film in the Neulovimye mstiteli (1967) trilogy. This time the action is set in 1923/24 and the heroes Danya, Yasha, Ksanya and Valeri have joined the Cheka and take an active part ...