Genre: History
Year: Before 2010
259 content found
Barabbas 1961

Governor Pontius Pilate gave the populace a choice to spare either Barabbas, a criminal, or Jesus, condemned as a heretic, from crucifixion. The masses chose Barrabas, and he is haunted by the image of Jesus for the rest of his life.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anthony Quinn, Silvana Mangano, Arthur Kennedy

6.9 IMDB Rating 35 Views
El Cid 1961

The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone

7.2 IMDB Rating 118 Views
1492: Conquest of Paradise 1992

Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver

6.4 IMDB Rating 209 Views
Blitz on Britain 1960

Archive footage from both British and German sources to tell the story of the defense of Britain during World II.

Category: History, War

Stars: Alistair Cooke, Henning Skaarup, Hermann Göring

6.9 IMDB Rating 133 Views
Anton 2008

When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970s Ireland is a radically different place from the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan.

Category: Action, Crime, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, Thriller

Stars: Gerard McSorley, Anthony Fox, Laura Way

4.9 IMDB Rating 147 Views
Good Night, and Good Luck. 2005

Broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow looks to bring down Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson

7.4 IMDB Rating 4,195 Views
Sophie Scholl The Final Days 2005

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Stars: Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held

7.6 IMDB Rating 5,170 Views
Cromwell 1970

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley

7.0 IMDB Rating 227 Views
The War Lord 1965

In 11th century Normandy, a Norman duke sends one of his knights to build a defensive fortress in order to guard the borders against Frisian raiders.

Category: Drama, History, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Charlton Heston, Richard Boone, Rosemary Forsyth

6.6 IMDB Rating 275 Views
The Agony and the Ecstasy 1965

The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento

7.2 IMDB Rating 171 Views
Restrepo 2010

A year with one platoon in the deadliest valley in Afghanistan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, War

Stars: The Men of Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Juan 'Doc Restrepo, Dan Kearney

7.4 IMDB Rating 9,343 Views
The Warrior’s Brother 2002

13th century France. To live, to survive, requires weapons. Which do you choose? Weapons of war, which give the power to punish and kill? Or the sword of knowledge, which gives the power to read and heal? Two brothers, separated long ago, must do battle. Alongside, and coming between them, a woman...

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Vincent Lindon, Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Doutey

6.0 IMDB Rating 209 Views
Rid i natt! 1942

In the south of Sweden, some farmers get into trouble when the German Count is forcing them to perform day labor for him. But a man refuses to bow to the German Count.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Oscar Ljung, Gerd Hagman, Eva Dahlbeck

6.4 IMDB Rating 196 Views
Gandhi 1982

The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Rohini Hattangadi

8.0 IMDB Rating 227 Views
633 Squadron 1964

A RAF squadron is assigned to knock out a German rocket fuel factory in Norway. The factory supplies fuel for the Nazi effort to launch rockets on England during D-Day.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Cliff Robertson, George Chakiris, Maria Perschy

6.4 IMDB Rating 224 Views
Khartoum 1966

In the Sudan, in 1884 to 1885, Egyptian forces led by British General Charles "Chinese" Gordon (Charlton Heston) defend Khartoum against an invading Muslim Army led by a religious fanatic, Mohammed Ahmed el Mahdi (Sir Laurence Olivier).

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Tragedy, War

Stars: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson

6.8 IMDB Rating 257 Views
1939 1989

World War II through the eyes of a Stockholm waitress.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Helene Egelund, Helena Bergström, Per Morberg

6.1 IMDB Rating 322 Views
Chapter 27 2007

A film about Mark David Chapman in the days leading up to the infamous murder of Beatle John Lennon.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jared Leto, Lindsay Lohan, Judah Friedlander

5.6 IMDB Rating 412 Views
Young Andersen 2005

Drama about the difficult early years of Danish writer of fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Simon Dahl Thaulow, Peter Steen, Stine Fischer Christensen

6.2 IMDB Rating 245 Views
The Passion 2008

Follows Jesus' last days and crucifixion.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Ben Daniels, John Lynch, Joseph Mawle

6.6 IMDB Rating 417 Views