Best History movies

Actors : Louis Koo, Ka-Tung Lam, Francis Ng, Tony Ka Fai Leung,

Set in 1973, Hong Kong. The Hong Kong governor sets up Independent Commission Against Corruption to investigate and arrest the corrupted chief Chinese inspector Tsui Lok, and gang boss Crippled Ho.

Actors : Ye Chen, Xiaoqing Liu, Kun Xiang, Tony Ka Fai Leung,
Directors : Han Hsiang Li,

Dramatization of events from the Second Opium War which culminated in the looting and destruction of imperial estate "Yuan Ming Yuan", AKA the Old Summer Palace by invading English and French troops.

Actors : Cumhur Sari, Yalcin Mihci, Arda Kural, Gulseren Aygun,
Directors : Ahmet Faik Akinci,

Actors : Nikolay Eryomenko, Natalya Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Zolotukhin, Tamara Makarova,
Directors : Sergey Gerasimov,

Part one of a pair of historical films about the life of Peter the Great.

Actors : Paolo Graziosi, Carmen Maura, Jocelyn Quivrin, Maxime Mansion,
Directors : Roger Planchon,

The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the ...

Actors : Jean Carmet, Raoul Billerey, Tchéky Karyo, Christine Boisson,

A Dominican friar visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect ...

Actors : Luca Alcini, Eugen Ban, Barbara Begala, Vincenzo Albanese,
Directors : Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani,

Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale...

Actors : Jesús Ochoa, Arturo Ríos, Delia Casanova, Diana Bracho,

Gina (Diana Bracho) is a modern business woman in her late forties, she has a lover named Adrian, who she sees once in a while just to have sex; they are both atracted to the historic ...

Actors : Massimo Ranieri, Frank Wolff, Ottavia Piccolo, Tina Aumont,
Directors : Mauro Bolognini,

Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th ...

Actors : Nada Sargin, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic, Milos Timotijevic, Radivoje Bukvic,
Directors : Nenad Pavlovic,

An aspiring journalist in Communist Yugoslavia, sets out on a journey to investigate a brutal murder in rural countryside.

Actors : Michael McGuire, Bruce Newbold, Craig Wasson, Morgan White,
Directors : Peter N. Johnson,

It showed the process it took to write the Constitution of the United States.

Actors : Patricia Place, Katherine Nelson, Nathan Mitchell, Stephanie Breinholt,

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final years in Nauvoo. Based on the life of Emma Hale Smith.

Actors : Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Catherine Frot, Gérard Depardieu, Yoann Zimmer,
Directors : Lucas Belvaux,

In a village where everyone knows everyone, four veterans of the Algerian War are haunted by their past.

Actors : Tomasz Hudziec, Marek Kondrat, Teresa Marczewska, Zdzislaw Wardejn,
Directors : Wojciech Marczewski,

Set in the early 1950's, during the Stalin's Personality Cult. The story opens in a provincial town. Tomek's father, a former member of the Home Army is arrested so the mother is left with ...

Actors : Johnny Massaro, Julia Dalavia, César Mello, Gabriela Correa,
Directors : José Eduardo Belmonte,

The Pastor and the Revolutionary.

Actors : Roy Chiao, Ying Bai, Chia-Hsiang Wu, Feng Hsu,
Directors : King Hu,

The emperor dispatches an officer and a small band of men to deal with pirates.

Actors : Kenneth Gilbert, Bernard Archard, Keith Barron, Roger Rees,
Directors : Tony Tew,

A dramatized biography of William Tyndale, the 16th Century reformer determined to translate the Bible into English, which illegal act set him at odds with the Catholic Church, Sir Thomas More and King Henry VIII.

Actors : Ossi Aronen, Asser Fagerström, Lauri Arajuuri, Olavi Ahonen,
Directors : Rauni Mollberg,

Rhapsodic story from a small Finnish town in the 1920s. The wounds of the civil war in 1918 are not yet fully healed. The current ban legislation on alcohol triggers a diligently moon-shining.

Actors : Jean-Marc Barr, Simon Callow, Jack Shepherd, Emma Fielding,
Directors : Stuart St. Paul,

The spectacular scenery of Wessex and the Dorset coast provides the backdrop for this adaptation of a Thomas Hardy short story. Set in nineteenth century rural England, this is the story of...

Actors : Hyun-kyoon Lee, Myeong-shin Park, Shin-hye Park, Geum-seok Yang,
Directors : Kim Ji-Hwan,

(Korean with English subtitles) So-yeon awakens from a 10 year coma, with no memory of the tragic drowning of her sister. As ominous events and deaths accumulate, So-yeon begins to discover...