History Movies

Lady Godiva of Coventry

58/100

Fictionalized account of events leading up the famous nude ride (alas, her hair covers everything) of the militant Saxon lady.

1814

61/100

Detective story set up in the time and place of young Pushkin, at Tsarskosel'sky Liceum.

Kung Fu Invaders

67/100

Hung escapes Shaolin after the temple is attacked by the Ching, only to be jailed with the help of Fang (also of Shoalin) who mistakes him for a bandit. Fang must now help Hung escape so they can challenge the Ching together.

The Man with the Carnation

77/100

The story of Nikos Belogiannis member of the communist party and officer of Ellas that has come back to Greece only to get arrested, tried for espionage on behalf of Russia and executed. A ... See full summary »

Hell in Korea

63/100

During the Korean War retreat in 1951, a small British recon group is surrounded by Chinese troops and holds out in a lonely temple atop a hill.

Island of the Blue Dolphins

61/100

The story of a Native American girl, abandoned on a tiny island, who is protected by a wild dog.

Circle of Love

56/100

In Paris during the summer of 1914 a succession of brief liaisons begins and ends with a soldier and a tart, but on the way moves humourously and sometimes poignantly through a fascinating panorama of society and of attitudes to love.

Sons of Soil

61/100

Colette

60/100

Arnost Lustig was one of the world's most renowned literary authors of our times. Lustig's novel 'A girl from Antwerp' upon which our film Colette is based, draws on the author's personal ... See full summary »

Sekigahara

64/100

A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.

Oglinda

73/100

Focused around the August 23rd 1944 coup against Marshal Antonescu, the movie also tackles other topics from the same era such as the Iron Guard rebellion and the execution of political leaders by communists.

12 Meter ohne Kopf

55/100

East Fresia 1401: the era of the feared sea pirates Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels is coming to an end. After a long period with no booty at last a bulging ship appears on the horizon... See full summary »

Stauffenberg - Verschwörung gegen Hitler

63/100

"The Plot to Kill Hitler" is a historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government. Lead ... See full summary »

Martin Luther

71/100

Biopic of German priest Martin Luther covering his life between 1505-1530 A.D. and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.

Ein Mann zuviel

71/100

A French resistance group liberates some German prisoners. Turns out one of them is a spy.

Caligula und Messalina

36/100

The seductive Messalina (Betty Roland) will stop at nothing to become the most powerful woman in Rome. Gaining the attention of the Emperor Caligula (Gino Turini), she soon finds herself at... See full summary »

Hajji Washington

72/100

A loyal and simple-minded statesman is appointed as the first Iranian ambassador in the U.S. but soon starts to lose his mind from homesickness and inaction.

Haven

62/100

This is the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and ... See full summary »

Die Unsichtbaren

72/100

Four young Jews survive the Third Reich in the middle of Berlin by living so recklessly that they become "invisible."

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

69/100

Miep Gies struggles to keep Anne Frank and her family hidden and safe inside the secret annex, as the Nazis turn Amsterdam upside-down.

By the Will of Chingis Khan

47/100

Sisi

66/100

The Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph falls in love with the young Elisabeth. It's love at first sight but Franz Joseph's mother Sophie doesn't approve this love.

Cleopatra

51/100

The fabled queen of Egypt's affair with Roman general Marc Antony is ulimately disastrous for both of them.

The Barretts of Wimpole Street

66/100

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

Westward Ho

56/100

As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon.