Genre: History
Year: Before 2010
265 content found
Michael Collins 1996

Neil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War

Stars: Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Julia Roberts

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,377 Views
Balibo 2009

War correspondent Roger East and the young Jose Ramos-Horta travel to East Timor to investigate the murders of the Balibo Five in 1975.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Jane Hampson, Bea Viegas, Christine Martins

7.0 IMDB Rating 220 Views
Flight 93 2006

Flight 93 is the story of the heroic passengers that took back their plane in an effort to stop a 9-11 terrorist attack.

Category: Action, History, Thriller

Stars: Jeffrey Nordling, Brennan Elliott, Kendall Cross

6.3 IMDB Rating 302 Views
The War 1994

A Vietnam veteran helps his kids battle over a tree house while recovering from his traumatic war experience.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Elijah Wood, Kevin Costner, Mare Winningham

6.8 IMDB Rating 344 Views
The Last Legion 2007

As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.

Category: Action, Adventure, History, War

Stars: Colin Firth, Ben Kingsley, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

5.4 IMDB Rating 691 Views
The Right Stuff 1983

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers preferred.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris

7.8 IMDB Rating 4,963 Views
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 240 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 349 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 452 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 274 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 317 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 4,359 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 5,364 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 397 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 460 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 303 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 9,532 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 354 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 335 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 378 Views