Home
Collection of movies in the History genre on our website. Have fun!
Country: Turkey
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Year: 2013
Last days of 1941 summer the era of Obligation during the famine atmosphere of the Second World War. In the middle of all this poverty and turmoil there are two poets in their early twenties: Muzaffer Tayyip Uslu and Rustu Onur. They have been carrying tuberculosis germs in their lungs and love of poetry in their hearts for years. Two poets who have the constant habit of making bets on things...
HD
2013
138 min
The Butterfly's Dream - Kelebegin Rüyasi
Country: United States
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History, News
American Made Movie looks back on the glory days of U.S. manufacturing when there was a more balanced relationship between the goods produced and consumed and illustrates how technology and globalization have changed the competitive landscape for companies doing business in America as well as overseas. By illustrating the successes of companies and entrepreneurs that of their own accord have...
82 min
American Made Movie
Year: 2014
More money flows through the family courts and into the hands of courthouse insiders than in all other court systems in America combined - over $50 billion a year and growing. Through extensive research and interviews with the nations top divorce lawyers mediators judges politicians litigants and journalists this documentary uncovers how children are torn from their homes unlicensed...
2014
93 min
Divorce Corp
Country: Japan
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
...
135 min
Yurusarezaru Mono
Country: Argentina, Spain, Norway, France
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Patagonia 1960. A German doctor Alex Brendemühl meets an Argentinean family and follows them on a long desert road to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. Eva Natalia Oreiro Enzo Diego Peretti and their three children welcome the doctor into their home and entrust their young daughter Lilith Florencia Bado to his care not knowing that they are harboring one of...
Wakolda
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Year: 2012
When a series of package bombs show up on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919 U.S. Bureau of Investigation Agent William Flynn Strathairn is assigned the task of finding those responsible. He becomes immersed in an investigation that uncovers an anarchist plot to destroy democracy. Inspired by true events of the 20s the film sets the stage for a timely...
2012
94 min
No God, No Master
Country: Timor-Leste
Genre: Drama, History, War
101 min
A Guerra Da Beatriz
Country: United States, Germany
Genre: Documentary, History
Teenagers did not always exist. In this living collage of rare archival material filmed portraits and voices lifted from early 20th Century diary entries a struggle erupts between adults and adolescents to define a new idea of...
78 min
Teenage
Country: United States, Italy, Afghanistan
Genre: Documentary, History, News, War
Korengal picks up where Restrepo left off; the same men the same valley the same commanders but a very different look at the experience of...
84 min
Korengal
Genre: Animation, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Jiro dreams of flying and designing beautiful airplanes inspired by the famous Italian aeronautical designer Caproni. Nearsighted from a young age and unable to be a pilot Jiro joins a major Japanese engineering company in 1927 and becomes one of the worlds most innovative and accomplished airplane designers. The film chronicles much of his life depicting key historical events including the...
126 min
Wie Der Wind Sich Hebt
Genre: Documentary, Drama, History
ANITA tells the story about a young brilliant African American Anita Hill who accuses the Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of unwanted sexual advances during explosive Senate Hearings in 1991 and ignites a political firestorm about sexual harassment race power and politics that resonates 20 years later today. ANITA is a dramatic look at the consequences to a private citizen acting out of...
95 min
Anita
Country: China, Hong Kong
Genre: Action, Comedy, History, Sci-Fi
During the Ming Dynasty four orphans; Ying Sao Yuanlong and Niehu are raised in Taoyuan Village and become close to being brothers. Their exceptional martial arts skills allows them to reach the highest rank within the imperial guards. After a successful attempt to kill a Japanese troop leader the Emperor orders Ying to escort the Golden Wheel of Time from Sindu back to the capital which is...
104 min
Bing Fung: Chung Sang Chi Mun
Country: India
Genre: Action, Adventure, History
The Story of a powerful king Kochadaiiyaan and so does his Kingdom. But on a fateful day one of his close friends plots against him and acquires his kingdom while he was driven away. Kochadaiiyaan gets a baby boy Rana who grows up to become a great warrior and fights and redeems the kingdom that rightfully belongs to...
124 min
Kochadaiiyaan
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History, Horror
Four timeless urban legends continue to haunt the psyche of the American public. This documentary follows filmmakers Joshua Zeman and Rachel Mills as they investigate the true crimes that may have spawned these urban legends while exploring how these myths evolved and why we continue to believe. The documentary probes the following legends: The Candyman: The film travels viewers to Houston...
86 min
Killer Legends
Genre: Documentary, History, War
Year: 2008
Zeitgeist Addendum attempts to locate the root causes of this pervasive social corruption while offering a solution. This solution is not based on politics morality laws or any other establishment notions of human affairs but rather on a modern non-superstitious based understanding of what we are and how we align with nature to which we are a part. The work advocates a new social system...
2008
123 min
Zeitgeist: Addendum
Genre: Documentary, Crime, History
Year: 2002
The career and death of notorious Colombian drug kingpin Pablo...
2002
The True Story Of Killing Pablo
Country:
Year: 1995
A comprehensive documentary of the history of gays and lesbians in cinema from negative to positive reflections of gay characters and the troubles of actors and...
1995
102 min
The Celluloid Closet
Year: 2011
2011
60 min
Lives Worth Living
Country: United Kingdom
Year: 2005
Documentary using only original colour footage charts the 12 years from Adolf Hitlers rise to power to the fall of Berlin in 1945. Complemented by eyewitness material tracks the dramatic transformation of Germany into a Nazi state looks into Hitlers relationship with his lover Eva Braun and replicates pivotal events including Nazi rallies the invasion of Poland Hitlers meeting with Lloyd...
2005
90 min
Hitler In Colour
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Afghanistan
Genre: Documentary, Action, History, War
What does it mean to lead men in war? What does it mean to come home? Hell and Back Again is a cinematically revolutionary film that asks and answers these questions with a power and intimacy no previous film about the conflict in Afghanistan has been able to achieve. It is a masterpiece in the cinema of...
88 min
Hell And Back Again
Country: Turkey, Egypt, India
Year: 2010
12.000 years ago there already was a sacred place on...
2010
80 min
Gobeklitepe: The World's First Temple
Country: United States, United Kingdom
An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic...
120 min
Gettysburg (2011)
Year: 1989
This movie documents the Apollo missions perhaps the most definitively of any movie under two hours. Al Reinert watched all the footage shot during the missions--over 6000000 feet of it and picked out the best. Instead of being a newsy fact-filled documentary. Reinart focuses on the human aspects of the space flights. The only voices heard in the film are the voices of the astronauts and...
1989
For All Mankind
Tells the story of the Kung Fu sub-culture from its ancient Peking Opera origins to its superhero-powered future. From Enter the Dragon to Kung Fu Panda and everything in between Films of Fury features the genres greatest on-screen warriors and reveals the legend the lore and the loony of the Kung Fu film genre like it has never been seen...
Films Of Fury: The Kung Fu Movie Movie
Double Cross: The True Story Of The D-day Spies
Country: United States, Canada
Year: 1988
In the 20th century no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages readings and interviews this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great...
1988
Comic Book Confidential
Country: United States, Canada, Germany
The USA of America is notorious for its astronomical number of people killed by firearms for a developed nation without a civil war. With his signature sense of angry humor activist filmmaker Michael Moore sets out to explore the roots of this bloodshed. In doing so he learns that the conventional answers of easy availability of guns violent national history violent entertainment and even...
Bowling For Columbine
Year: 2006
Marty Callaghans Synopsis: Except for the Dardanelles/Gallipoli campaigns the extensive combat operations in the Middle East during World War I have been largely overlooked in documentary programs. Given the historical significance of the Ottoman Empires demise in 1918 and the ongoing importance of Middle Eastern oil reserves to Western economies a close study of this conflict provides two...
2006
112 min
Blood And Oil: The Middle East In World War I
The morning of September 11 2001 is shown through multiple video cameras in New York City from the moment the first WTC tower is hit until after both towers...
102 Minutes That Changed America
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, History, War
Year: 1959
Based on Anne Franks diary and the stage play that was adapted from it: In Nazi-occupied Holland Otto Frank and his family have decided to go into hiding because of the increasing persecutions against Jews. The businessman Kraler and his assistant Miep prepare a hiding place in the rooms above their place of business and arrange for the Franks and another family the Van Daans to stay...
1959
152 min
The Diary Of Anne Frank
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Year: 1951
This biopic follows Rommels career after the Afrika Korps including his work on the defenses of Fortress Europe as well as his part in the assassination attempt on Hitler and his subsequent...
1951
The Desert Fox: The Story Of Rommel
Year: 1944
In the inspired Olivier concept Shakespeares play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V who had developed from a dissolute youth to a purposeful monarch. Proving his ability as a soldier and skillful leader he unites the dissident factions in the English army and goes on to crush the French against enormous odds at...
1944
137 min
The Chronicle History Of King Henry The Fift With His Battell Fought At Agincourt In France
Country: Germany, France, Czech Republic
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the yet fragile German democracy. The radicalised children of the Nazi generation lead by Andreas Baader Ulrike Meinhof and Gudrun Ensslin are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism: American imperialism supported by the...
150 min
The Baader Meinhof Complex
Country: Romania
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History
During the summary trial that he and his wife were submitted to Nicolae Ceausescu is reviewing his long reign in power: 1965-1989. From a formal point of view The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu proves that it is possible to only use existing images to yield films focused on recent history yet with an epic vein similar to that of the historical fiction cinema. This is an eminently syntactic...
180 min
The Autobiography Of Nicolae Ceausescu
Country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Western
Year: 2007
The last months of Jesse Jamess life from meeting Robert Ford a 19-year-old who idolizes Jesse to the day Ford shoots him. Jesses a wanted man living under a pseudonym carrying out a train robbery disappearing to Kentucky and reappearing to plan a bank holdup with Robert and Roberts brother as his team. The rest of the gang is dead arrested or gone from Missouri. Whenever Jesses...
2007
160 min
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Year: 1960
In 73 BCE a Thracian slave leads a revolt at a gladiatorial school run by Lentulus Batiatus. The uprising soon spreads across the Italian Peninsula involving thousand of slaves. The plan is to acquire sufficient funds to acquire ships from Silesian pirates who could then transport them to other lands from Brandisium in the south. The Roman Senator Gracchus schemes to have Marcus Publius Glabrus...
1960
197 min
Spartacus
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War
The Final Days is the true story of Germanys most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Sophie Scholl is the fearless activist of the underground student resistance group The White Rose. Using historical records of her incarceration the film re-creates the last six days of Sophie Scholls life: a journey from arrest to interrogation trial and sentence in 1943 Munich. Unwavering in her...
Sophie Scholl - Die Letzten Tage
Genre: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1956
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. Hes sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun Japans most powerful clan leader. Hes also challenged to fight by the supremely confident and skillful Sasaki Kojiro. Takezo agrees to fight Kojiro in a years time but rejects Shoguns patronage choosing instead to live on the edge of a village raising vegetables. Hes followed...
1956
105 min
Samurai Iii: Duel At Ganryu Island
Country: United Kingdom, France, South Africa
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, News
Robert Mugabe... what happened? charts the Shakespearean rise and fall of the man who led a very successful African country and then ruined it. Mugabe was damned as a terrorist then knighted by Queen Elizabeth and is still in power more than 30 years later. The film explores what happened through interviews with some of his closest comrades. It assembles a unique collection of southern...
Robert Mugabe... What Happened?
Country: United Kingdom, Germany, Japan
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1997
The story of Oscar Wilde genius poet playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realization of his homosexuality caused Wilde enormous torment as he juggled marriage fatherhood and responsibility with his obsessive love for Lord Alfred Douglas nicknamed Bosie. After legal action instigated by Bosies father the enraged Marquise of Queensberry Wilde refused to flee the country and was...
1997
118 min
Wilde
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War, Western
Year: 1952
In 1909 Emiliano Zapata a well-born but penniless Mexican Indian from a remote province Morelos comes to Mexico City to complain that their arable land has been enclosed leaving them only in the barren hills. His expressed dissatisfaction with the response of the President Diaz puts him in danger and when he rashly rescues a prisoner from the local militia he becomes an outlaw. Urged on by...
1952
Viva Zapata
Country: Italy, France
Year: 2009
The story of Mussolinis secret lover Ida Dalser and their son...
2009
128 min
Vincere
Dominated by her possessive mother and her bullying consort Conroy since childhood teen-aged Victoria refuses to allow them the power of acting as her regent in the last days of her uncle William IVs rule. Her German cousin Albert is encouraged to court her for solely political motives but following her accession at age eighteen finds he is falling for her and is dismayed at her reliance...
The Young Victoria
Year: 1984
Member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Harvey Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White on November 27 1978. Milks life leading up to his election his successful efforts to politically represent San Franciscos gay community and the citys reaction to the assassinations are documented with extensive news film and personal...
1984
The Times Of Harvey Milk
Country: France
Year: 1975
Halifax 1863. A young woman Miss Lewly comes to Halifax to search for Lt Pinson with whom she is madly in love. Actually she is Adèle Hugo the second daughter of the great French literary figure and statesman. The Lt Pinson does not answer to her love and makes her understand it is hopeless. But as her obsession grows she keeps chasing and harassing him. This film about passionate yet...
1975
96 min
The Story Of Adele H
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Year: 1957
Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviations infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in...
1957
The Spirit Of St. Louis
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Year: 1982
During the middle of the 16th century Martin Guerre returns to his village in southwestern France after being away in the war for almost a decade. The villagers who knew him as a young man suspect he is not Martin but he seems to know all about his friends his family and his wife even the most unusual things. Is this man really Martin...
1982
122 min
The Return Of Martin Guerre
Year: 1928
The sufferings of a martyr Jeanne DArc 1412-1431. Jeanne appears in court where Cauchon questions her and dEstivet spits on her. She predicts her rescue is taken to her cell and judges forge evidence against her. In her cell priests interrogate her and judges deny her the Mass. Threatened first in a torture chamber and then offered communion if she will recant she refuses. At a cemetery...
1928
110 min
The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (la Passion De Jeanne D'arc)
Country: Spain, Brazil
A chronicle of the life of Lope de Vega the Spanish playwright who dominated Spains early Golden Age of...
106 min
The Outlaw
Captain Smith is spared his mutinous hanging sentence after captain Newports ship arrives in 1607 to found Jamestown an English colony in Virginia. The initially friendly natives who have no personal property concept turn hostile after a theft is punished violently on the spot. During an armed exploration Smith is captured but spared when the chiefs favorite daughter Pocahontas pleads...
The New World
Genre: Documentary, Biography, History, War
A sons riveting look at a father whose life seemed straight out of a spy thriller. The secret world of a legendary CIA spymaster. Told by William Colbys son Carl the story is at once a probing history of the CIA a personal memoir of a family living in clandestine shadows and an inquiry into the hard costs of a nations most cloaked...
The Man Nobody Knew: In Search Of My Father, Cia Spymaster William Colby
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Year: 1994
A meditation on power and the metaphor of the body of state based on the real episode of dementia experienced by George III [now suspected a victim of porphyria a blood disorder]. As he loses his senses he becomes both more alive and more politically marginalized; neither effect desirable to his lieutenants who jimmy the rules to avoid a challenge to regal authority raising the question of...
1994
107 min
The Madness Of King George
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History
This historical martial arts film adapted from the story of Guan Yu crossing five passes and slaying six generals in Luo Guanzhongs historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In AD 200 during the late Eastern Han Dynasty Cao Cao eliminates his political opponents Dong Cheng and others before turning his attention towards rival warlords Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. To avoid fighting a war on two...
109 min
The Lost Bladesman (guan Yun Chang)
Country: United Kingdom, France
THE LADY is an epic love story about how an extraordinary couple and family sacrifice their happiness at great human cost for a higher cause. This is the story of Aung San Suu Kyi and her husband Michael Aris. Despite distance long separations and a dangerously hostile regime their love endures until the very end. A story of devotion and human understanding set against a background of...
132 min
The Lady
Country: Canada
Year: 1996
1996
Full
The Ken & Barbie Killers
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Music, Romance
Year: 1991
Born in St. Louis Missouri Josephine Baker was born poor but achieved fame and fortune through her sizzling erotic performances. Starting life on the American Vaudeville circuit success takes Josephine to Paris where her semi-nude dancing causes an international sensation. Through her marriages to an Italian count and orchestra leader to her bond with army officer Sydney Williams...
1991
130 min
The Josephine Baker Story
Country: France, Italy, Germany
The night of August 24 1572 is known as the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. In France a religious war is raging. In order to impose peace a forced wedding is arranged between Margot de Valois sister of the immature Catholic King Charles IX and the Hugenot King Henri of Navarre. Catherine of Medici maintains her behind-the-scenes power by ordering assaults poisonings and instigations to...
174 min
Queen Margot
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Albert Pierrepont delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his fathers footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion rising to become the best in the land. From early 1933 until the end of his career in 1955 he executed 608 people including the Beasts of Belsen war criminals for which he earned the gratitude of a nation. But by the time he hanged...
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
Year: 1981
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal...
1981
198 min
Peter And Paul
