Type: Movies
Genre: History
820 content found
Sally 2025

Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey as the first American woman in space concealed a deeply personal story. Her life partner, Tam O'Shaughnessy, unveils their covert 27-year romance and its accompanying sacrifices.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Billie Jean King, Lindsey Lamer, Sally Ride

7.9 IMDB Rating 155 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 60 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 130 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 225 Views
Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road 2021

Documentary that looks at the career of musician Brian Wilson.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, Music

Stars: Brian Wilson, Jakob Dylan, Jim James

7.3 IMDB Rating 144 Views
Det hände i Ingermanland 2018

"It Happened in Ingermanland" - about a forgotten people's displacement that took place during the Stalin's reign of terror in the Soviet Union. During the WW2, when the Nazi army arrived in the area of St. Peterburg/Leningrad about 63 000 Ingermanlanders was deported to Finland. In 1946 Stalin wanted them back for his work camps.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Anneli Kustfält, Juhani Kustfält, Ensio Hutter

7.4 IMDB Rating 171 Views
Queer 2024

In 1950s Mexico City, an American immigrant in his late forties leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival of a young student stirs the man into finally establishing a meaningful connection with ...

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Daniel Craig, Daan de Wit, Jason Schwartzman

6.5 IMDB Rating 904 Views
William Tell 2024

The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century amidst the days of the Holy Roman Empire where Europe's nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians, desiring more land, encroach upon Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation.

Category: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Claes Bang, Tobias Jowett, Connor Swindells

5.7 IMDB Rating 2,217 Views
Nelly & Nadine 2022

Nelly and Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Trien de Haan-Zwagerman, Lola Sylman, Nadine Hwang

7.2 IMDB Rating 110 Views
History of the World in 2 Hours 2011

A rapid-fire history of our world, from the beginning of time as we know it to present day. This two-hour CGI-driven special delves into the key turning points: the formation of earth, emergence of life, spread of man and the grow...

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Corey Burton, Alex Filippenko, Peter Ward

7.0 IMDB Rating 3,765 Views
Ground Zero 2025

After the 2001 Parliament attack, BSF officer Dubey leads a 2-year probe uncovering the mastermind Ghazi Baba, enabling India's biggest anti-terror operation.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Emraan Hashmi, Sai Tamhankar, Aeklavya Tomer

7.4 IMDB Rating 531 Views
Peterloo 2018

The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in which British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Neil Bell

6.5 IMDB Rating 5,339 Views
The Eternal Road 2017

One night of 1930, nationalist thugs violently abduct Ketola from his home in Finland. Beaten and forced to walk the Eternal Road towards a foreign Soviet Russia, his only dream is to return to his family cost it what it may.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Tommi Korpela, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Hannu-Pekka Björkman

7.1 IMDB Rating 998 Views
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali 2021

From a chance meeting to a tragic fallout, Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali's extraordinary bond cracks under the weight of distrust and shifting ideals.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, Sport

Stars: Ilyasah Shabazz, Rahman Ali, Cornel West

6.9 IMDB Rating 2,440 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 138 Views
A Radiant Girl 2021

Paris, summer 1942. Irene is Jewish and French. She is 19 and living a life of passions - Her friendships, her new love, her desire to be an actress - Nothing suggests that Irene's time is running out.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Rebecca Marder, André Marcon, Anthony Bajon

6.1 IMDB Rating 88 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 151 Views
The Salt of the Earth 2014

The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Lélia Wanick Salgado

8.4 IMDB Rating 4,450 Views
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy 2021

In the early 1980s, the crack epidemic tore through America’s inner cities like a tsunami, ravaging all in its wake.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Elizabeth Hinton, Nelson George, Alan Charles

6.7 IMDB Rating 3,273 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 4,203 Views