Best History movies

Actors : Matías Quer, Ariel Mateluna, Aline Küppenheim, Manuela Martelli,
Directors : Andrés Wood,

Two boys observe a political coup in their native Chile.

Actors : Matthew Fox, Colin Moy, Tommy Lee Jones, Eriko Hatsune,
Directors : Peter Webber,

As the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, General Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing his ruling is his quest to find Aya, an exchange student he met years earlier in the U.S.

Actors : Haley Bennett, Jalyn Hall, Danielle Deadwyler, Frankie Faison,
Directors : Chinonye Chukwu,

In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.

Actors : Simone Kirby, Aileen Henry, Francis Magee, Barry Ward,
Directors : Ken Loach,

During the Depression, Jimmy Gralton returns home to Ireland after ten years of exile in America. Seeing the levels of poverty and oppression, the activist in him reawakens and he looks to re-open the dance hall that led to his deportation.

Actors : Julian Wadham, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Brian Cox,
Directors : Jonathan Teplitzky,

96 hours before the World War II invasion of Normandy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill struggles with his severe reservations with Operation Overlord and his increasingly marginalized role in the war effort.

Actors : Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Paolo Stoppa, Alain Delon,
Directors : Luchino Visconti,

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860's Sicily.

Actors : Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Jon Voight, Ving Rhames,
Directors : John Singleton,

A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African American community.

Actors : Stephen Lang, Robert Duvall, Jeff Daniels, Donzaleigh Abernathy,
Directors : Ron Maxwell,

The rise and fall of legendary war hero Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson as he leads the Confederacy to great success against the Union from 1861 to 1863.

Actors : Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Natasha Richardson, Lynn Redgrave,
Directors : James Ivory,

Set in 1930s Shanghai, where a blind American diplomat develops a curious relationship with a young Russian refugee who works odd -- and sometimes illicit -- jobs to support members of her dead husband's aristocratic family.

Actors : Andrea Riseborough, Abbie Cornish, James D'Arcy, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Madonna,

The affair between King Edward VIII and American divorcée Wallis Simpson, and a contemporary romance between a married woman and a Russian security guard.

Actors : Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Aditi Rao Hydari,
Directors : Sanjay Leela Bhansali,

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati's beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.

Actors : Cher, Kurt Russell, Meryl Streep, Craig T. Nelson,
Directors : Mike Nichols,

A worker at a plutonium processing plant is purposefully contaminated, psychologically tortured and possibly murdered to prevent her from exposing worker safety violations at the plant.

Actors : Antonio Banderas, Jonathan Pryce, Jimmy Nail, Madonna,
Directors : Alan Parker,

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Actors : Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet, Lambert Wilson, Mélanie Thierry,
Directors : Bertrand Tavernier,

Bertrand Tavernier is in top form with this gripping, superbly mounted drama set against the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart in the 16th century. Based on a novella...

Actors : Jessica Chastain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Sam Worthington, Chloë Grace Moretz,
Directors : Ami Canaan Mann,

In the Texas bayous, a local homicide detective teams up with a cop from New York City to investigate a series of unsolved murders.

Actors : Adrian Schiller, Greg Hicks, Diogo Morgado, Amber Rose Revah,
Directors : Christopher Spencer,

The life story of Jesus is told from his humble birth through his teachings, crucifixion and ultimate resurrection.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Ben Kingsley,
Directors : Richard Attenborough,

Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.

Actors : Sophie Marceau, Angus Macfadyen, Mel Gibson, Patrick McGoohan,
Directors : Mel Gibson,

When his secret bride is executed for assaulting an English soldier who tried to rape her, Sir William Wallace begins a revolt against King Edward I of England.

Actors : Cate Blanchett, Christopher Eccleston, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes,
Directors : Shekhar Kapur,

A film of the early years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her difficult task of learning what is necessary to be a monarch.

Actors : Julia Ormond, Pablo Guevara, Benicio Del Toro, Oscar Isaac,
Directors : Steven Soderbergh,

In 1956, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.