Best History movies

Actors : Antonella Lualdi, Ilarion Ciobanu, Richard Johnson, Amedeo Nazzari,
Directors : Mircea Dragan,

The Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania... See full synopsis »

Actors : Pirkka-Pekka Petelius, Vesa Vierikko, Lasse Pöysti, Jarmo Mäkinen,
Directors : Åke Lindman,

Actors : Masachika Ichimura, Kaya Kiyohara, Kyôko Koizumi,
Directors : Kazuya Shiraishi,

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived in poverty with his daughter Kinu.

Actors : Valentin Teodosiu, Serban Ionescu, Ioana Craciunescu, Petrica Gheorghiu,
Directors : Mircea Muresan,

Set in the 1910's Transylvanian countryside, a poor but industrious peasant must choose between his obsessive lust for riches and his desire for true love.

Actors : Stepan Balakshin, Stas Belozerov, Aleksandr Bykovsky, Sergey Druzyak,
Directors : Andres Puustusmaa,

Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.

Actors : Mike Amason, David Axe, Alyssa Amelia, Jezibell Anat,
Directors : Christopher Forbes,

The Roman Empire occupied Britannia (Britain) for four centuries, providing protection and peace in exchange for submission. The Romans built Hadrian's Wall on the northern border to keep ...

Actors : Meret Becker, Samuel Schneider, Gudrun Ritter, Michael Gwisdek,
Directors : Matti Geschonneck,

Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.

Actors : Al Feldstein, Grant Geissman, William M. Gaines,
Directors : Alan Bernstein,

A historical documentary and tribute to the legacy and influence of MAD Magazine featuring interviews with MAD celebrity readers, along with MAD artists, writers, and editors; affectionately known as the Usual Gang of Idiots

Actors : Saulius Balandis, Brigita Bublyte, Povilas Stankus, Danute Vidugiryte,
Directors : Jonas Vaitkus,

Jonas Vaitkusÿs patriotic war film paints a poignant portrait of Lithuaniaÿs ten-year struggle against Soviet occupation and casts new light on folk hero Juozas Lukða-Daumantas, the ...

Actors : Junquan Wu, Xiaoming Xuan, Zhenhe Ling, Tianxiang Yang,

A few years after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo army attacked the southwest. Gao Shi, who was trapped in the isolated city, recalled his life with Li Bai to the eunuch of the supervising army.

Actors : David Chiang, Ching Lee, Lung Ti, Miao Ching,
Directors : Cheh Chang,

Ying Ke-Feng, head of Peerless Manor, is an expert swordsman whose escort business transports 200,000 taels of silver to the capital each year. This year, however, he is afflicted with an ...

Actors : Charlotte Nielsen, Nick Mancuso, Janet Gunn, John Rhys-Davies,
Directors : Gwyneth Gibby,

Based on the true story of the notorious Marquis de Sade. In eighteenth century Paris, an innocent beauty's search for her missing sister leads her into the deadly sensuous realm of the ...

Actors : Claes Malmberg, Tuulia Eloranta, Antti Reini, Magnus Krepper,
Directors : Saara Cantell,

Anna is a 16-year old in a village where women are accused of witchcraft. It's based on the witch hunts on Åland, Finland in the 1600s.

Actors : Asier Etxeandia, Alberto San Juan, Mario Casas,
Directors : Manuel Gómez Pereira,

1939. Two weeks after the end of the Spanish Civil War, General Franco orders celebrate a dinner at the Hotel Palace. But the hotel, reconverted as field hospital, isn't ready for that. And part of the staff is anti-Franquist.

Actors : Georges Wilson, Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Jacques Perrin,
Directors : Walerian Borowczyk,

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his servant Bartolomeo, visiting the Master.

Actors : Nurul Izzah Anwar, Hasnul Rahmat, Farid Kamil, Acha Septriasa,
Directors : Viva Westi,

Based on the period in Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's life when he became Finance Minister from 1991 until he was fired from the Cabinet in 1998, which sparked a period...

Actors : Jon Finch, Sarah Miles, John Mills, Richard Chamberlain,
Directors : Robert Bolt,

A noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.

Actors : Levent Özdilek, Emre Kivilcim, Ece Çesmioglu, Ebru Özkan,
Directors : Kamil Aydin,

The period after the Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) conquered Constantinople, moving towards Europe in the fifteenth century , and Sultan Mehmed's determination to spread Islam in Europe by the superb morals of Muslims then.

Actors : Grégoire Colin, Irène Jacob, Cyril Gueï,
Directors : Rithy Panh,

Three French journalists travel to Cambodia in 1978 after receiving an invitation from the Khmer Rouge regime, embarking on a perilous adventure.

Actors : Bojtorján Barabas, Grégory Gadebois, Andrea Waskovics,
Directors : László Nemes,

A young boy after the Hungarian uprising of 1956, raised by his mother with the tale of an idealized dead father, is confronted with a brutish man who claims to be his real father.