Genre: History
989 content found
Hidden Figures 2016

The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe

7.8 IMDB Rating 1,641 Views
The 300 Spartans 1962

Essentially true story of how Spartan king Leonidas led an extremely small army of Greek Soldiers (300 of them his personal body guards from Sparta) to hold off an invading Persian army now thought to have numbered 250,000. The actual heroism of those who stood (and ultimately died) with Leonidas helped shape the course of Western Civilization, allowing the Greek city states time to organize an army which repelled the Persians. Set in 480 BC.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Richard Egan,Ralph Richardson,Diane Baker,Barry Coe,David Farrar,Donald Houston,Anna Synodinou,Kieron Moore,John Crawford,Robert Brown,Laurence Naismith,Anne Wakefield,Ivan Triesault,Charles Fawcett,Michalis Nikolinakos

6.7 IMDB Rating 5,786 Views
Jogi 2022

Amid tension in 1980s India, three friends of different faiths unite in a noble yet dangerous effort to save hundreds in their town.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Diljit Dosanjh, Amyra Dastur, Mohd. Zeeshan Ayyub

8.2 IMDB Rating 1,194 Views
Des
Des 2020–

In 1983 Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen is arrested after the discovery of human remains which have blocked a drain near his London home.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, TV Mini

Stars: David Tennant, Daniel Mays, Jason Watkins, Ron Cook

8.5 IMDB Rating 9,811 Views
Katyn 2007

An examination of the Soviet slaughter of thousands of Polish officers and citizens in the Katyn forest in 1940.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski

7.0 IMDB Rating 1,089 Views
The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 2012

In the summer of 1683, 300,000 warriors of the Ottoman Empire began the siege of Vienna. The fall of the city would have opened the way to conquer Europe. On September 11. was the main battle between the Polish cavalry and the Turks.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Enrico Lo Verso, Jerzy Skolimowski

4.3 IMDB Rating 4,314 Views
Image of Victory 2021

Inspired by true events in 1948. Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid, Mira, a young but valiant mother, is forced ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Joy Rieger, Amir Khoury, Ala Dakka

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,457 Views
The Bombardment 2021

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a school and more than 120 people were k

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Alex Høgh Andersen, Danica Curcic, Susse Wold

7.4 IMDB Rating 2,147 Views
Recount 2008

A chronicle of the weeks after the 2000 U.S. Presidential election, and the subsequent recounts in Florida.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Kevin Spacey, Bob Balaban, Denis Leary

7.3 IMDB Rating 963 Views
Phantom 2013

The haunted Captain of a Soviet submarine holds the fate of the world in his hands. Forced to leave his family behind, he is charged with leading a covert mission cloaked in mystery.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Ed Harris, Julian Adams, David Duchovny

5.9 IMDB Rating 1,318 Views
War & Peace 2016

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James

8.1 IMDB Rating 3,584 Views
Zero Dark Thirty 2012

Maya is a CIA operative whose first experience is in the interrogation of prisoners following the Al Qaeda attacks against the U.S. on the 11th September 2001. She is a reluctant participant in extreme duress applied to the detainees, but believes that the truth may only be obtained through such tactics. For several years, she is single-minded in her pursuit of leads to uncover the whereabouts of Al Qaeda's leader, Osama Bin Laden. Finally, in 2011, it appears that her work will pay off, and a U.S. Navy SEAL team is sent to kill or capture Bin Laden. But only Maya is confident Bin Laden is where she says he is.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jason Clarke,Reda Kateb,Jessica Chastain,Kyle Chandler

7.4 IMDB Rating 10,275 Views
Eiffel 2021

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun'...

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps

6.2 IMDB Rating 1,489 Views
Ammonite 2020

1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gemma Jones

6.5 IMDB Rating 908 Views
Ghosts of Mississippi 1996

A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alec Baldwin, James Woods, Whoopi Goldberg

6.7 IMDB Rating 2,143 Views
Texas Red 2021

Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story of Texas Red, an African-American man who was hunted by hundreds through the Winter wilderness of Mississippi.

Category: Action, History, Western

Stars: John Sayles, Travis Mills, Nathaniel Horton

3.5 IMDB Rating 1,509 Views
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson 2021

A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid

6.8 IMDB Rating 1,420 Views
Unsere wunderbaren Jahre 2020

The history of the Wolf family in post-war Germany in the 40s and 50s.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Elisa Schlott, Vanessa Loibl, Anna Maria Mühe

6.7 IMDB Rating 1,832 Views
Sometimes in April 2005

When the Hutu nationalists raised arms against their Tutsi countrymen in Rwanda in April 1994, the violent uprising marked the beginning of one of the darkest times in African history which resulted in the deaths of almost 800,000...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,027 Views
Ku Klux Klan, une histoire américaine 2020

A look back at years of largely unpunished violence committed from 1865 to the present day by the Ku Klux Klan, the "oldest terrorist group in the United States".

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Birgitta Assheuer, David Gasman

7.7 IMDB Rating 2,195 Views