History Movies

Elixir d'Anvers

55/100

Six young filmmakers were each given the chance to shoot a short on a common theme. Combined, their efforts result in a feature. The idea is to tell an alternative history of Antwerp, based on tall stories, rumors and events.

Besatzung Dora

77/100

Depicts a love triangle involving two Luftwaffe pilots being overcome by their participation in battle together. While on leave one of the pilots inspires a girl with hopes of settling in the east, a dream that no longer appeared possible.

Jallian Wala Bagh

72/100

The whole film is a story about Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar.

Hundiseaduse aegu

61/100

Dede Korkut: Bamsibeyrek

65/100

Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: Solyonyy veter

69/100

Bagrovyy tsvet snegopada

57/100

Ahlam saghira

63/100

We see the developments in Egypt through the eyes of a twelve year old during the presidency of Nasser and the reactions on his step down after the Six Day War with Israel.

Kino

62/100

Gosudarstvennaya granitsa: God sorok pervyy

69/100

Bombaski proces

82/100

In 1928 young Communist activist was arrested and put on trial for anti-state activity. Years later he became known as Tito, Communist president of Yugoslavia, and this TV-movie was made ... See full summary »

Turbina

65/100

The rise and fall of an aristocratic Prague family is the focus of this fine example of filmmaking in Czechoslovakia during the Nazi Occupation. A mill owner who hopes to arrange a marriage... See full summary »

Absolute Evel: The Evel Knievel Story

71/100

The definite biography told by the man who lived it himself, Evel Knievel. The undisputed King of the Daredevils. The Last Gladiator. His exploits are legendary and it's unlikely his ... See full summary »

Mutig in die neuen Zeiten - Im Reich der Reblaus

61/100

Verkaufte Heimat - Teil 1 - Brennende Lieb'

85/100

Ochi de urs

73/100

Crane

67/100

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

Die Liebenden von Cayenne

67/100

In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an ... See full summary »

Richard Vtoroi

78/100

Based on the play Richard II by Shakespeare, the film is set in the 14th century England. Richard II is alienating himself from the true interests of his country. He is rising taxes because... See full summary »

The Plot to Kill: Jesse James

73/100

Le grand Georges

70/100

A Minute's Silence

82/100

A minute's silence is being observed in the grammar school of Hirtshafen, a small fishing town on the Baltic shore - in memory of Stella Petersen, the school's young English teacher. For ... See full summary »

The Prisoner of Corbal

55/100

During the French Revolution a young woman is saved from the guillotine by an insurrectionist (Asther). Also called The Prisoner of Corbal.

Un august in flacari

80/100

The Louisiana Purchase

70/100

The History Channel looks at the background of the Louisiana Purchase and how Thomas Jefferson's emissaries managed to double the size of the United States with the stroke of a pen.