Genre: History
987 content found
The Devils 1971

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton

7.8 IMDB Rating 206 Views
The Black Pimpernel 2007

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo

6.3 IMDB Rating 345 Views
141 A.D. Mission in Dacia 2018

"Year 141 after Christ, in the Roman province of Dacia. An unusual appearance of a comet is observed on the night sky. The astrologers think it is a bad sign that will bring misfortune and death.

Category: History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Alexandru Belciu, Paul Bondane, Alexandru Bornea

3.6 IMDB Rating 341 Views
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 2018

An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli

8.7 IMDB Rating 4,333 Views
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,632 Views
Ett jävla liv – en film om Bodil Malmsten 2022

Few poets have been as appreciated and loved as Bodil Malmsten. Her pioneering style drew the broad masses to poetry and shaped generations of readers. But she herself had a hard time feeling that she was dying - a feeling that ov...

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bodil Malmsten, Kjell Andersson, Eva Beckman

6.8 IMDB Rating 189 Views
Delicious 2021

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising talented young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first eve...

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe

7.0 IMDB Rating 252 Views
John Adams 2008

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett

8.4 IMDB Rating 8,439 Views
House of Ga’a 2024

Bashorun Ga'a, a ferocious and feared Prime Minister/kingmaker who became more powerful than the kings he enthroned.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Femi Branch, Mike Afolarin, Funke Akindele

992 Views
The Decameron 2024–

Set in 1348 during the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, explores the timely themes of class systems, power struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic.

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala

1,056 Views
Before Dawn 2024

The journey of fictional WA outback kid Jim Collins and his battalion on the Western Front.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Levi Miller, Travis Jeffery

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,078 Views
One Life 2023

Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn

7.5 IMDB Rating 2,991 Views
Shooting Stars 2023

A look at the young life of basketball star LeBron James. Feature film adaptation of LeBron James and Buzz Bissinger's book 'Shooting Stars'.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Marquis Mookie Cook, Wood Harris, Caleb McLaughlin

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,115 Views
12 Strong 2018

12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña

6.5 IMDB Rating 15,838 Views
The New Boy 2023

A nine-year-old Aboriginal Australian orphan boy arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, History

Stars: Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman

5.6 IMDB Rating 509 Views
Seconds Apart 2011

Seth and Jonah are twins with a dangerous ability: telekinesis. Things spiral out of control as their classmates die one by one. But jealousy soon divides them and they can no longer trust each other leading to a battle against themselves.

Category: History, Thriller

Stars: Orlando Jones, Edmund Entin, Gary Entin

5.6 IMDB Rating 3,177 Views
When Calls the Heart 2014–

Elizabeth Thatcher, a young schoolteacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.

Category: Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Erin Krakow, Martin Cummins, Pascale Hutton

7.9 IMDB Rating 83,887 Views
Sight 2024

Follows the story of Doctor Ming Wang, one of the world's top laser eye surgeons.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Greg Kinnear, Fionnula Flanagan, Terry Chen

7.2 IMDB Rating 490 Views
Uncle Samsik 2024–

A 1960s-set tale of two men, their pride, greed and bromance.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Ryu Tae-ho, Song Kang-ho, Jin Ki-joo

7.8 IMDB Rating 688 Views
The Iron Orchard 2018

"The Iron Orchard" is the story of Jim McNeely, a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939, who works his way through the ranks to ultimately become a formidable wildcatter.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Hassie Harrison, Austin Nichols, Ali Cobrin

5.7 IMDB Rating 5,348 Views