In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.
Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Plot
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Movie | Drama, History | Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria | Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian
Director
Jasmila Zbanic
Writer
Jasmila Zbanic, Hasan Nuhanovic
Cast
Jasna Djuricic, Izudin Bajrovic, Boris Ler
Plot
Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.
Movie | Drama, History | Italy, France | Italian, Latin
Director
Luchino Visconti
Writer
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast
Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot
The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
Movie | Drama, History | France, Canada | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Tony Kushner, Eric Roth, George Jonas
Cast
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Marie-Josee Croze
Plot
After the Black September capture and massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics, five men are chosen to eliminate the people responsible for that fateful day.
TV | Drama, History | Ireland, Canada | English, Spanish
Writer
Michael Hirst
Cast
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Henry Cavill, Anthony Brophy
Plot
Epic series reveals the scandalous life of a young king whose affairs and obsession with producing a male heir changed marriage, the church, and the world.
Movie | Drama, History | Yugoslavia | Bosnian, Serbian
Director
Srdjan Dragojevic
Writer
Vanja Bulic, Srdjan Dragojevic, Biljana Maksic
Cast
Dragan Bjelogrlic, Nikola Kojo, Dragan Maksimovic
Plot
During the war in Bosnia, two childhood friends eventually become enemies, as the tragic and devastating circumstances of the war put them on the opposite sides and expose the most gruesome and cruel aspects of the human nature.
As food shortages reach catastrophic proportions, Gangacharan attempts to preserve his privileged situation while his generous wife Ananga conversely tries to help and support the community.
Movie | Drama, History | Denmark, Germany | German, Danish
Director
Martin Zandvliet
Writer
Martin Zandvliet
Cast
Roland Ma¸ller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman
Plot
In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight.
Movie | Documentary, History | Lithuania | English
Director
Aleksandras Brokas, Mindaugas Urbonavicius
Writer
Aleksandras Brokas
Cast
Jeremy Irons
Plot
Narrated by Jeremy Irons, this definitive account tells of the heart-rending human rights tragedy in 1992 when hundreds of Azerbaijanis were massacred after Armenians stormed the city of Khojaly.
A Japanese pacifist, unable to face the dire consequences of conscientious objection, is transformed by his attempts to compromise with the demands of war-time Japan.
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Ningen no jokenaka The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity(1959)
Movie | Drama, History | Japan | Japanese, Mandarin
During the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.
Hitler used a symbol for his political and racial ideology. The world today calls that symbol "Swastika", an Indian name to a symbol used by Hindus, Buddhists, and Jains for ages. But was it a Swastika? or Something else?
Movie | Drama, History | USA, India | English, German
Director
Steven Spielberg
Writer
Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Cast
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Alan Alda
Plot
During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Movie | Biography, History | India | Tamil, Sinhala
Director
Kittu
Writer
Muthu Cheziyan, Kittu, Krish Thirukumaran
Cast
Lizzie Antony, Eshwar Basha, Chandrasekar
Plot
The Movie shows the true events that happened in Tamileelam to suppress Tamil ethnicity and it is talking about how and why Tamil leader Prabhakaran emerged in the Tamil freedom struggle in the Indian Ocean Island nation Srilanka.
Inspired by true stories, this series is a gripping tale of extraordinary heroism demonstrated by the employees of the Indian Railways in Bhopal. They rose against all odds to save their fellow citizens on the night of December 2,...
Movie | Drama, History | Taiwan, USA | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Ang Lee
Writer
Eileen Chang, James Schamus, Hui-Ling Wang
Cast
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
Plot
During World War II era, a young woman, Wang Jiazhi, gets swept up in a dangerous game of emotional intrigue with a powerful political figure, Mr. Yee.
Biopic of B. R. Ambedkar, known mainly for his contributions in the emancipation of the downtrodden and oppressed classes in India and shaping the Constitution of India.
The legendary Forty-seven ronin plot to avenge the death of their lord, Asano Naganori, by killing Kira Yoshinaka, a shogunate official responsible for Asano being forced to commit seppuku.
Movie | Drama, History | USA, India | English, Arabic
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Writer
Mark Boal
Cast
Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt
Plot
A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L.s Team 6 in May 2011.
Movie | Drama, History | France, Germany | French, German
Director
Christian Carion
Writer
Christian Carion
Cast
Diane Kruger, Benno Farmann, Guillaume Canet
Plot
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Movie | Drama, History | China, Hong Kong | Mandarin, English
Director
Chuan Lu
Writer
Chuan Lu
Cast
Ye Liu, Wei Fan, Hideo Nakaizumi
Plot
In 1937, Japan occupied Nanjing, the Chinese capital. There was a battle and subsequent atrocities against the inhabitants, especially those who took refuge in the International Security Zone.
A grim portrayal of the shift from Paganism to Christianity in medieval central Europe - as a young virgin promised to God is kidnapped and raped by a marauder who her religious father seeks to kill in return.
Sanskrit and upper-caste poet, Kalidas, faces many challenges after falling in love with a low-caste woman, and being entered into a competition against a learned princess.
A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima (Enakshi) is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz (Rai). She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan (Ro...
Movie | Drama, History | Iran, Turkey | Turkish, Persian
Director
Hasan Fathi
Writer
Hasan Fathi, Farhad Tohidi
Cast
Parsa Pirouzfar, Shahab Hosseini, Hande Era§el
Plot
Story of Rumi, his friendship with Shams Tabrizi, the love he had for him and the great influence of Shams over him in his life, his poetry and his love for God.
Movie | Drama, History | USA, UK | English, German
Director
Richard Attenborough
Writer
Cornelius Ryan, William Goldman
Cast
Sean Connery, Ryan O'Neal, Michael Caine
Plot
Operation Market Garden, September 1944: The Allies attempt to capture several strategically important bridges in the Netherlands in the hope of breaking the German lines.
Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
In the harsh times of the small time crime in Istanbul, a conscientious police officer Cumali is recognized by the police chief Ziver Bey who sees Cumali as a threat and matches him with Sekerpare, a famous harlot.
A pair of lookalikes, one a former French aristocrat and the other an alcoholic English lawyer, fall in love with the same woman amidst the turmoil of the French Revolution.
This film chronicles key events in the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire from his birth to his Coronation as "Chhatrapati"
The Chosen is a historical drama based on the life of Jesus and those who knew him. Set against the backdrop of Roman oppression in first-century Israel, the series shares an authentic look at Jesus' revolutionary life and teachings.
Shivaji Maharaj was born in a collapsing kingdom where fought against the Mughal empire and went on establish the Maratha empire. The series takes covers well detailed sequences with his strategies and tactics winning many outnumb...
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Movie | Drama, History | China | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Heng Liu, Geling Yan
Cast
Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang
Plot
An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
In the years of military coup, Turkey was unable to produce its own cars. But Pasha believed that Turkish people can produce their own cars so he ordered 2 cars. Gunduz and engineers with him must produce 2 cars in only 130 days.
Movie | Drama, History | China | Mandarin, Japanese
Director
Yimou Zhang
Writer
Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo, Wei Zhu
Cast
Gong Li, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng
Plot
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army.
During World War II in a small village outpost, a Soviet sergeant has his troop replaced by an all female unit. As they finally begin to appreciate one another, German paratroopers are spotted nearby and the realities of war emerge.
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen i...
Rajkummar Rao, Naveen Kasturia, Edward Sonnenblick
Plot
The man. The legend. The mystery. He fascinated us in life, and long after his "death". This is the story of India's biggest cover-up: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and the mystery of his alleged death.
Movie | Drama, History | Germany, Poland | German, English
Director
Christian Petzold
Writer
Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Hubert Monteilhet
Cast
Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Nina Kunzendorf
Plot
After surviving Auschwitz, a former cabaret singer has her disfigured face reconstructed and returns to her war-ravaged hometown to seek out her gentile husband, who may or may not have betrayed her to the Nazis.
Movie | Drama, History | Mexico, USA | English, Spanish
Director
John Ford, Emilio Ferna¡ndez
Writer
Dudley Nichols, Graham Greene, Louis Sauvat
Cast
Henry Fonda, Dolores Del Rao, Pedro Armenda¡riz
Plot
Anti-Catholic and anti-cleric policies in the Mexican state of Tabasco lead the revolutionary government to persecute the state's last remaining priest.
Movie | Documentary, History | France, UK | English
Director
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Writer
Vito Russo, Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Cast
Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright
Plot
A documentary surveying the various Hollywood screen depictions of homosexuals and the attitudes behind them throughout the history of North American film.
In the wake of Pearl Harbor, a young lieutenant leaves his expectant wife to volunteer for a secret bombing mission which will take the war to the Japanese homeland.
A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, showing their own small problems.
