History Movies

Lady Inger of Ostrat

44/100

This historical drama is based on a play by Henrik Ibsen and set in the year 1528. The central figure in the low-keyed story is a Norwegian noblewoman who is seeking to bring independence ... See full summary »

The Long Winter

64/100

In this sequel to "Long Vacations of 36", the son of a large bourgeois family returns to Barcelona to find out what happened after he fled the country in '39. He learns the details of the fascist takeover from his former butler.

John Hus

66/100

A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.

Mambí

71/100

CUBA 1898. La guerra cambió su vida, el amor cambió su destino. Carlos Fuentes encabeza el reparto de Mambi. Es Goyo, un joven jornalero canario al que obligan a alistarse en el ejército ... See full summary »

Iran Is My Land

75/100

Sohrab, a provincial young writer, is lost in the desert on the way to Tehran to get a publication license for his book on old Persian poetry, but the trip involves some bizarre events.

Handcart

47/100

Handcart

National Geographic: King Tut's Final Secrets

72/100

Using X-rays and CAT scans, scientists investigate the body of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

76/100

Jai Bolo Telangana

69/100

Treblinka

60/100

Interviews with two survivors of the death camp Treblinka recalling the horrors and their miraculous escape

Dinner with the Alchemist

65/100

In this supernatural drama, a spider-web of lives come clashing together as Old New Orleans is plagued by mysterious deaths.

Cyril and Methodius: The Apostles of the Slavs

53/100

The series follows Cyril and Methodius, two Byzantine Greek brothers born in the 9th century. They became missionaries of Christianity and influenced the cultural development of the Great Moravian territory.

The Dumb Girl of Portici

65/100

Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.

Abdul the Damned

64/100

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.

The Wind Is My Lover

55/100

In 14th Century Sweden, when Lorld Erland Maneskold marries Singoalla, a gypsy, he abandons his worldly possessions. The gypsies, who meanwhile have stolen the Maneskold treasure, want the ... See full summary »

Quebec

53/100

Story of a revolt against England in 1830s Canada.

Wolne miasto

72/100

The heroic struggle of Polish post office workers in Gdansk on the first day of World War II.

Hercules Against Rome

55/100

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by ... See full summary »

In der Stadt S.

72/100

Ba bai zhuang shi

70/100

Eye of the Hurricane

64/100

During the second World War Iran is occupied by the allies. Meanwhile Doctor Rastan is going to the Qashqaei nomads to treat his sister's husband. There he meets Amir Houshang the head of ... See full summary »

Pafnucio Santo

68/100

The controversial, sexy, surreal story of a messenger and his journey and encounters with many historical events and people like Auschwitz, the Ku Klux Klan, Frida Kahlo, Cortés and ... See full summary »

Priklyucheniya Kventina Dorvarda, strelka korolevskoy gvardii

66/100

Topos

69/100

During its 85-minute running time, this jarring experimental film takes a no-holds-barred look at the way women have been treated and depicted in Western art.

Prince Daniil Galitsky

70/100