Genre: History
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Dark Waters 2019

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman

7.6 IMDB Rating 8,041 Views
Bill Tilghman and the Outlaws 2019

A movie company comes to Oklahoma to convince legendary lawman Bill Tilghman to star in a bank robbery silent film featuring real outlaws. Tilghman reluctantly agrees, not realizing everyone's lives will never be the same.

Category: Drama, History, Western

Stars: Lana Wood, Johnny Crawford, Robert Carradine, Don Collier

3.0 IMDB Rating 3,830 Views
J’accuse 2019

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's island.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,538 Views
The Last King of Scotland 2006

In the early 1970s, Nicholas Garrigan, a young semi-idealistic Scottish doctor, comes to Uganda to assist in a rural hospital. Once there, he soon meets up with the new President, Idi Amin, who promises a golden age for the African nation. Garrigan hits it off immediately with the rabid Scotland fan, who soon offers him a senior position in the national health department and becomes one of Amin's closest advisers. However as the years pass, Garrigan cannot help but notice Amin's increasingly erratic behavior that grows beyond a legitimate fear of assassination into a murderous insanity that is driving Uganda into bloody ruin. Realizing his dire situation with the lunatic leader unwilling to let him go home, Garrigan must make some crucial decisions that could mean his death if the despot finds out.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Gillian Anderson

7.7 IMDB Rating 7,937 Views
Wolyn 2016

Despite being in love with a Ukrainian boy from the same village, Polish girl named Zosia is forced into marrying a wealthy widower. Soon World War II begins and ethnic tensions arise. Amidst the war chaos Zosia tries to survive.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Michalina Labacz, Arkadiusz Jakubik, Wasyl Wasylik, Adrian Zaremba

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,897 Views
My Name Is Sara 2018

Sara is a a 13 year-old Polish Jew who finds refuge and is taken in by a farmer and his wife. She soon discovers the dark secrets of her employers' marriage, compounding the greatest secret she must strive to protect, her true identity.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Michalina Olszanska, Radoslaw Kaim, Iwona Bielska, Izabela Dabrowska

4,253 Views
Hacksaw Ridge 2016

World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson

8.1 IMDB Rating 11,099 Views
Midway 2019

The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans

6.9 IMDB Rating 10,046 Views
The Current War 2017

The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical system would power the modern world.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Oliver Powell, Katherine Waterston, Nancy Crane

6.5 IMDB Rating 5,101 Views
The Cheshire Murders 2013

A documentary about a brutal home invasion in Cheshire, Connecticut in 2007.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Marilyn Bartoli, Deb Biggins, Michael Daluz, Jeremiah Donovan

6.7 IMDB Rating 4,345 Views
The Duchess 2008

Georgiana Spencer became Duchess of Devonshire on her marriage to the Duke in 1774, at the height of the Georgian period, a period of fashion, decadence, and political change. Spirited and adored by the public at large she quickly found her marriage to be a disappointment, defined by her duty to produce a male heir and the Duke's philandering and callous indifference to her. She befriends Lady Bess but finds she is once again betrayed by her husband who wields his power with the three eventually living uncomfortably together. Against this background, and with the pressures of an unfaithful husband, strict social pressures and constant public scrutiny, Georgiana falls passionately in love with Charles Grey, a rising young Whig politician. However, despite his ongoing liaison with Lady Bess, the Duke refuses to allow her to continue the affair and threatens to take her children from her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper

6.9 IMDB Rating 8,057 Views
Kurier 2019

Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

Category: Action, Drama, History, Uncategorised

Stars: Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James

5,6 IMDB Rating 6,500 Views
Sea of Shadows 2019

The vaquita, the world's smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the "cocaine of the sea." Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Romel Eduardo Ledezma Abaroa, Rafael Pacchiano Alamán, Hector Capetillo

7,5 IMDB Rating 5,118 Views
Saving General Yang 2013

Northeast China, early Northern Song dynasty, AD 986. The Khitan army takes its revenge for a past massacre, abducting General Yang Ye (Adam Cheng) and leaving his wife and seven sons to rescue him - and fall into their deadly trap. Led by the first son (Ekin Cheng), the seven - two of whom have never seen combat - set out with a small band of fighters to face an army of thousands, brave the treacherous Wolf Mountain, face the nemesis of their shared history, and find the way back alive - all to bring their father home.

Category: Adventure, History, War

Stars: Ady An,Adam Cheng,Ekin Cheng,Vic Chow,Xin Bo Fu,Raymond Lam,Vivi Lee,Bryan Leung,Chen Li,Bing Shao,Apple Wang,Chun Wu,Fan Xu,Bo Yu

6.3 IMDB Rating 7,527 Views
Escape 2012

It's been ten years since the Black Plague ravaged the lands. A poor family sets out on a journey to find a better place to live. On a desolate mountain pass, the family is attacked by a pack of merciless killers. The only one to be spared is 19 year old Signe, who is taken hostage and brought back to camp. There she learns she is to face a fate far worse than death, and she realizes the only thing to do is to run away. But her escape does not go unnoticed, and now the chase is on.

Category: Action, History, Thriller

Stars: Isabel Christine Andreasen,Ingrid Bolsø Berdal,Milla Olin,Tobias Santelmann

6.1 IMDB Rating 7,513 Views
The Report 2019

Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers shocking secrets.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm

7.2 IMDB Rating 6,603 Views
The Convent 2018

During the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.

Category: History, Horror

Stars: Michael Ironside, Rosie Day, Clare Higgins, Hannah Arterton

6.4 IMDB Rating 10,458 Views
Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen 2019

Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the leader of a Celtic Tribe. However, her mother is unsure, doing whatever it takes to protect her daughter; so much so that she takes Boudica and persuades her to flee the village and live in her childhood home, away from an arranged marriage and a miserable life. Confusion and uncertainty fills Boudica's world as she faces so many challenges - the constant protection from her mother, falling in love, the ambiguity of her father's whereabouts and finding her inner strength and power. It is only a matter of time before the past catches up with everyone and Boudica must transform from a girl into the warrior queen of legend in order to protect the lives of those she loves.

Category: History

Stars: Sean Carlsen, Paul Richard Allen, Chris Banks

3,2 IMDB Rating 5,405 Views
The King 2019

Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Robert Pattinson, Timothée Chalamet, Lily-Rose Depp

7.0 IMDB Rating 8,440 Views
15 Minutes of War 2019

In February 1976 in Djibouti, a school bus was taken hostage at the Somali border. The GIGN is sent on the spot. After 30 hours of tension, a rescue operation is organized.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Alban Lenoir, Olga Kurylenko, Sébastien Lalanne

6,2 IMDB Rating 6,623 Views