History Movies

Daliás idök

70/100

It is an adaptation of the Toldi trilogy, a 19th-century epic poem in three parts by János Arany. The film was produced through Pannonia Film Studio and is notable for its visual style, ... See full summary »

Chicogrande

68/100

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa's head and he's gonna get it. The "Punitive Expedition" proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.

Geschichtsunterricht

71/100

Kalyanaraman

69/100

Chinnadurai (Major Sundararajan) owns a huge estate that grows and processes tobacco and tea leaves. Due to advancing age, he is concerned about leaving control to his son, Kalyana (Kamal ... See full summary »

Jeffrey Archer: The Truth

70/100

A satirical look at the fascinating 'secret' TRUE life of disgraced 1980's Tory politician turned bestselling author Jeffrey Archer. The Truth, the whole truth and everything BUT the truth.

John Wycliffe: The Morning Star

67/100

The story of 14th century John Wycliffe, AKA "The Morning Star of the Reformation", who was the first to translate the Bible into English.

Martín Fierro, La Película

71/100

At late 19th Century, the Argentinean Pampa is changing. Martin Fierro is a renegade that fights against the power and corruption that try to subordinate him and to take away his most ... See full summary »

Der Hauptmann von Köpenick

69/100

Satya Harishchandra

76/100

This movie is based on the great poet Raghavanka's 'Harishchandra Kavya'. Satya Harishchandra is an epic based on the mythological King Raja Harishchandra who was renowned for upholding ... See full summary »

Interkosmos

58/100

Interkosmos is a musical documentary-style film about the East German space program-a program with the energy and creativity of the Soviet arts scene of the 1920s and a bit of the hippie ... See full summary »

Karl May

71/100

This ethereal, three-hour biopic is the middle film in Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's "German Trilogy" on the mythological foundations of the Third Reich.

The Ship Angelica

62/100

Many years ago The Angelica which was carrying gold and silver from the Portuguese to the Arab Sheykhs had been sunk in the Persian gulf. Ahmad Beyk manages to find it's place and is after ... See full summary »

Da Jue Zhan I: Liao Shen Zhan Yi

66/100

Set in 1948, the first strategic campaign in northeast China during the civil war between CCP army and Nationalist Party army.

The Amazing Grace

55/100

The story of British slave trader John Newton's voyage to West Africa and the events that inspired him to write the world's most popular hymn, Amazing Grace.

Les interdits

60/100

1979. Carole and Jerome are 20 and go on tour in Odessa, behind the Iron Curtain. They are cousins and pretend engaged. The day as tourists, they visit monuments and museums. In the evening... See full summary »

Tanda Putera

33/100

Story about Tun Abdul Razak and Tun Dr. Ismail fix the situation at Malaysia after ' The Worst Day In Malaysia ' 13 May 1969.

Laugh or Die

72/100

In a detention camp in 1918, a group of Finnish actors are sentenced to death. When an important German general arrives, the camp's vicious commandant forges out a cruel plan: the ... See full summary »

Die Geschichte vom Saffianschuh

58/100

Set in the Middle Ages the film tells the story of a wonder child, the little sculptor Wawrzek, who goes to work for a great master, Wit Stwosz. The story culminates in the unveiling of ... See full summary »

Ein Kind mit Namen Jesus

70/100

The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of $Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under... See full summary »

Samanishvilis dedinatsvali

75/100

Impoverished old nobleman Bekina insists on marrying a wife, but his son Platon does not want to have sharer in father's inheritance. Platon finds two times widowed and childless bride for Bekina, but a fate makes fun of him.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

63/100

In 1866, a sea monster is hunting the depths of the oceans and rising only to attack and destroy military ships. Experts around the world are trying to discover the identity of the monster and destroy it before even more lives are lost.

Roanoke: The Lost Colony

55/100

A fictional tale based on the true events of the Lost Colony of Roanoke Island in 1587.

Gekijouban Sengoku Basara: The Last Party

65/100

Prepare for a multi-megaton explosion of battlefield action in the feature-length climax of the Sengoku Basara saga! Hideyoshi's deadliest minion lusts for revenge, even as Japan's other ... See full summary »

The Real Versailles

75/100

Lucy Worsley untangles Louis XIV's complex world of court etiquette, fashion and feasting, while court politics expert Helen Castor delves into the archives and unpicks the Machiavellian world that Louis created.

Hotel Meina

61/100

How will the Germans react to the armistice of the 8th of September 1943, due to which Italy betrays them and sides with the allied forces? This is the distressing questions that a group of... See full summary »