History Movies

Sternstunde ihres Lebens

64/100

Movie about politician and lawyer Elisabeth Selbert's decisive role in the inclusion of equal rights of men and women in the section on basic rights of the German constitution in 1949.

Bohdan-Zinoviy Khmelnitzkiy

58/100

One of the most difficult and tragic moments of the liberation war of Ukrainian people against the rule of Poland (1648-1657).

Fango e Gloria

65/100

The story of Italian young friends Mario, Agnese and Emilio, and their struggle during the World War I. Contains archive footage from Istituto Luce.

Rose and the Soldier

55/100

1942. In a Martinique facing starvation because of the British blockade, Rose, a young teacher sacked by the Vichy regime, keeps house for a wounded German officer. She plans to spy and ... See full summary »

YADVI-The Dignified Princess

88/100

Based on True Story of a Princess in India. Her journey of strength and courage and living with Dignity, at times where women hardly had any freedom.

Gandhiji My Mentor

83/100

The film revolves around a fictional character, Chandrabhan Upadhyay. The British Government was terrified at the name of that ravenous barbarian. Death prevailed wherever his evil shadow ... See full summary »

The Conquering Horde

66/100

Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to ... See full summary »

Love or a Kingdom

59/100

Barbara Radziwillówna, the daughter of the noble house of Radziwill, accidentally meets the future Polish king Zygmunt August under embarrassing circumstances. She introduces herself as a ... See full summary »

The Law Commands

62/100

Night riders are terrorizing homesteaders, and the town doctor tries to keep the locals from forming a vigilante group. After more towns people are killed, however, the rest of the town ... See full summary »

Shahjehan

71/100

Circa the Mugal rule in Hindustan, Shahjahan, the present emperor is approached by one of his subjects, whose daughter, Ruhi, is so beautiful, that her suitors have killed her to-be grooms,... See full summary »

Im Eismeer verschollen

70/100

Sarajevo

65/100

The film portrays the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914.

Parole unnötig

66/100

Kazimierz Wielki

66/100

The Birthday

56/100

The four sequences in the film cover four days in a life of young Warsaw lad in September 1938, 1939, 1943 and 1944. In the first sequence Jurek decides not to study in the Sorbonne but ... See full summary »

The Battle for the Republic of China

66/100

Patriotic extravaganza concerning early 20th century political events in Taiwan.

The King Goes Forth to France

49/100

Batalha dos Guararapes

58/100

Svoboda ili smart

77/100

In the short but heroic campaign the Bulgarian poet and revolutionary Hristo Botev leads a band of rebels from the Danube to the Balkan Range.

Karolina Rijecka

75/100

The movie Karolina Rijeka is loosely based on the legendary story of young Karolina Belinic. When the English fleet began firing cannons on the Adriatic port of Rijeka, young Karolina ... See full summary »

Rashi: A Light After the Dark Ages

71/100

This animated children's film introduces kids to the life and times of Rashi, history's most studied Biblical commentator. Featuring the voices of Leonard Nimoy and Armand Assante.

March of the Movies

75/100

A two-reel short from Alliance (produced in England and not the USA as some sources indicate)covering the history of "moving pictures" from 1848 to the (then) present, and even going into ... See full summary »

Zdislava z Lemberka

64/100

One of the few historical films to come out of the Czech film industry in the nineties. It describes the last seven years in the life of Zdislava of Lemberk (Milena Steinmasslová), an early... See full summary »

Dôran

68/100

Tom, der Werwolf

71/100

The fate of three brothers in serfdom period, when German barons cruelly robbed Latvian farmers.