Genre: History
Year: Before 2010
243 content found
John Rabe 2009

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Ulrich Tukur, Daniel Brühl, Steve Buscemi

7.2 IMDB Rating 262 Views
Far till staden 2001

A film about "the father" of Malmö Eric Svenning and how the city has developed during his time.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Olle Svenning

6.3 IMDB Rating 261 Views
Bloody Sunday 2002

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell

7.6 IMDB Rating 356 Views
The Lighthorsemen 1987

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Peter Phelps, Nick Waters, John Larking

6.8 IMDB Rating 427 Views
The Warlords 2007

China, 1860s: Having his army slaughtered, General Qingyun joins 2 bandit leaders in raids on rebels and in blood oath. They form a Qing loyal army with eyes on rebel held Suzhou and Nanjing.

Category: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,421 Views
The Way Back 2010

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,708 Views
The Legend 1993

Martial artists join Red Lotus Flower Society to overthrow evil emperor. Governor hunts society members. Kung fu practitioner falls for merchant's daughter amid kung fu contest for her hand. Gender role reversal comedy ensues.

Category: Action, Comedy, History

Stars: Jet Li, Josephine Siao, Michelle Reis

7.1 IMDB Rating 426 Views
Bobby 2006

The destinies of twenty two people of different races, sexes, beliefs and social classes are intertwined on the night that politician Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone

7.0 IMDB Rating 447 Views
Queen Christina 1933

Queen Christina of Sweden is a popular monarch who is loyal to her country. However, when she falls in love with a Spanish envoy, she must choose between the throne and the man she loves.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith

7.5 IMDB Rating 356 Views
Taking Woodstock 2009

A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History, Music

Stars: Demetri Martin, Henry Goodman, Edward Hibbert

6.7 IMDB Rating 1,272 Views
Gallipoli 1981

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History, Tragedy, War

Stars: Mel Gibson, Mark Lee, Bill Kerr

7.4 IMDB Rating 431 Views
Ned Kelly 2003

An innocent man becomes one of the most wanted criminals the world has ever known.

Category: Action, Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, Western

Stars: Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush

6.4 IMDB Rating 6,378 Views
The Grey Zone 2001

A Nazi doctor, along with the Sonderkommando, Jews who are forced to work in the crematoria of Auschwitz against their fellow Jews, find themselves in a moral gray zone.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler

7.0 IMDB Rating 6,242 Views
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 5,691 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 496 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 552 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 576 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 983 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 5,253 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 426 Views