History Movies

A multi-generational anthology about the horrors of war in various foxholes that possibly include that of the Civil War, World War I/II, and Vietnam.

Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers…

Experience the events of September 11, 2001 through the eyes of President Bush and his closest advisors as they personally detail the crucial hours and key decisions from that historic…

Based on real life transcripts culled from conversations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy that took place between 1984 and 1989, No Man of God details…

In 1961, a 60 year old taxi driver stole Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only)…

During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America’s history lost—until now.

In 1999, teen Rocío Wanninkhof is murdered. Her mother’s ex-partner, Dolores Vázquez, is suspected. Did she do it? A second victim reveals the truth.

Karlskov is a self made, successful owner of a large electronics factory, has a wife and five children. They live the good, privileged upper-class life on Strandvejen north of Copenhagen…

A chainsaw-wielding George Washington teams with beer-loving bro Sam Adams to take down the Brits in a tongue-in-cheek riff on the American Revolution.

Haunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation…

The gripping true story of the first three witnesses to the Book of Mormon.

Inspired by true events from the spring of 1944 when the Nazis organized a football match between a team of camp inmates and an elite Nazi team on Adolf Hitler’s…

Two young women from both sides of the Civil War volunteer as battlefield nurses, facing down scornful commanders and murderous war criminals to accomplish their hazardous duty.

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta’s shocking religious visions that threaten to shake the Church to its core.

War photographer W. Eugene Smith travels back to Japan where he documents the devastating effect of mercury poisoning in coastal communities.

Harry Price investigates the ghosts of Borley Rectory during his stay there.

Biopic about Sir James Brooke, the British adventurer who became King of Sarawak in the 1840’s and embarked on a lifelong crusade to end piracy and head-hunting – only to…

The warmhearted story of Polish immigrant and mathematician Stan Ulam, who moved to the U.S. in the 1930s. Stan deals with the difficult losses of family and friends all while…

During the last desperate months of World War II, an Allied mission to regain Ramree Island off the coast of Burma ends in horror when an embattled group of soldiers…

The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian…

The life of American woman Mildred Gillars and her lawyer, who struggles to redeem her reputation. Dubbed “Axis Sally” for broadcasting Nazi propaganda to American troops during World War II,…

This documentary examines the 1999 London bombings that targeted Black, Bangladeshi and gay communities, and the race to find the far-right perpetrator. He terrorized a city, seeking to ignite a…

Set in the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, the film follows four Communist party special agents who return to China after receiving training in the Soviet Union. Together,…

When Air Force Space Command receives a signal from an alien satellite in Earth orbit an emergency meeting with the President reveals a government conspiracy.

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully…

Dr. Bernard Nathanson and Dr. Mildred Jefferson square off in a national battle in this untold conspiracy that led to the most famous and controversial court case in history.

The Federal Bureau of Narcotics launches an undercover sting operation against jazz singer Billie Holiday.

A university student returns home to self-isolate during the lockdown. He’s totally alone, he’s caught the virus and in order to cope, he’s started to talk to himself.

In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficult home life by following the rules. That is until an indiscretion creates a series of…

Bill O’Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.

Part of the 12 Western feature films to be made in 12 months during 2020, this film tells the story of Texas Red, an African-American man who was hunted by…

Bob Zellner, grandson of a Klansman, comes of age in the Deep South and eventually joins the Civil Rights Movement.

Outside the Sudanese capital Khartoum, the remains of an ancient city stand in the desert. Are you ready to dive beneath the pyramids of Sudan’s black pharaohs?

A backwoods team of Missouri kids race to solve a 100 year old mystery and save their friends in this family friendly action adventure. Chased deep into ancient caves they…

Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain’s past resonate…

November 1944. On the flooded isle of Walcheren, Zeeland, thousands of Allied soldiers are battling the German army. Three young lives become inextricably connected. A Dutch boy fighting for the…

The story of Ray-Ray McElrathbey, a freshman football player for Clemson University, who secretly raised his younger brother on campus after his home life became too unsteady.

Movie was released on 2020-11-20, the IMDB rating is 7,2 (upd: 11-14-2020) and lasts 120 min. The Real Right Stuff belongs to the following categories: Documentary. Directed by Tom Jennings.OverviewDiscover…

Movie was released on 2020-09-25, the IMDB rating is 7,6 (upd: 10-13-2020) and lasts 129 min. The Trial of the Chicago 7 belongs to the following categories: Drama, Featured movies,…

Amidst the horrors and indignities of Jim Crow America, one million African Americans served their country to protect democracy abroad and expand it at home during World War II. The…

Movie was released on 2020-11-17 The Burning of Atlanta belongs to the following categories: Action, History.Overview“The Burning of Atlanta” is the story of the destruction of a major city near…

Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

Movie was released on 2020-10-23 and lasts min. Sacrifice belongs to the following categories: Action, History, War. Directed by Frant Gwo, Guan Hu, Lu Yang, Tian Yusheng.OverviewA film commemorating the…

Movie was released on 2020-09-16, the IMDB rating is 5,5 (upd: 10-09-2020) and lasts min. The Secrets We Keep belongs to the following categories: Featured movies, Thriller. Directed by Yuval…

Movie was released on 2020-10-02, the IMDB rating is 5,4 (upd: 09-29-2020) and lasts 124 min. A Call to Spy belongs to the following categories: Drama, Thriller, War. Directed by…

In 1987, as martial law ends in Taiwan, Jia-han and Birdy fall in love amid family pressure, homophobia and social stigma.

Movie was released on 2020-09-25, the IMDB rating is 6,8 (upd: 11-27-2020) and lasts 135 min. Leap belongs to the following categories: Drama. Directed by Peter Chan.OverviewAfter 12 years, the…

Movie was released on 2020-09-24 and lasts 101 min. Streltsov belongs to the following categories: Drama, History, Romance. Directed by Ilya Uchitel.OverviewBy the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything…

Movie was released on 2020-09-23, the IMDB rating is 7,1 (upd: 11-08-2020) and lasts 100 min. The Swordsman belongs to the following categories: Action. Directed by Choi Jae-hoon.OverviewTae-yeul, a swordsman…

When Jarah loses her husband, her child, her land and her innocence she embarks on a brutal journey of of retribution and revenge that transforms into redemption and reconciliation.

Movie was released on 2020-09-18, the IMDB rating is 3,7 (upd: 09-16-2020) and lasts min. Brutus Vs César belongs to the following categories: Adventure, Comedy, History. Directed by Kheiron.

When the communist government raises food prices in 1962, the rebellious workers from the small industrial town of Novocherkassk go on strike. The massacre which then ensues is seen through…

Movie was released on 2020-07-30, the IMDB rating is 6,2 (upd: 08-03-2020) and lasts 114 min. Waiting for the Barbarians belongs to the following categories: Drama, Featured movies. Directed by…

To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown gold.

Maya legend tells us that there is a hidden underground cave below Chichen Itza, now high tech archaeologists are here to find the buried truth.

Movie was released on 2020-08-21, the IMDB rating is 5,2 (upd: 08-18-2020) and lasts 101 min. The 24th belongs to the following categories: Drama, History. Directed by Kevin Willmott.OverviewThe 24th…

Movie was released on 2020-08-20, the IMDB rating is 6,1 (upd: 08-11-2020) and lasts 96 min. Tesla belongs to the following categories: Drama, History. Directed by Michael Almereyda.OverviewHighlighting the Promethean…

Movie was released on 2020-08-14, the IMDB rating is 7,2 (upd: 09-24-2020) and lasts 147 min. The Eight Hundred belongs to the following categories: History, War. Directed by Guan Hu.OverviewIn…

A first-time captain leads a convoy of allied ships carrying thousands of soldiers across the treacherous waters of the “Black Pit” to the front lines of WW2. With no air cover protection for 5 days, the captain and his convoy must battle the surrounding enemy Nazi U-boats in order to give the allies a chance to win the war.

Presenting the tale of American founding father Alexander Hamilton, this filmed version of the original Broadway smash hit is the story of America then, told by America now.

A small unit of U.S. soldiers, alone at the remote Combat Outpost Keating, located deep in the valley of three mountains in Afghanistan, battles to defend against an overwhelming force…

Movie was released on 2020-01-29, the IMDB rating is 5,5 (upd: 06-19-2020) and lasts 128 min. Wasp Network belongs to the following categories: Drama, Featured movies, History, Thriller. Directed by…

Movie was released on 2020-07-14, the IMDB rating is 7,4 (upd: 07-15-2020) and lasts 95 min. Showbiz Kids belongs to the following categories: Documentary. Directed by Alex Winter.OverviewA documentary chronicling…

Movie was released on 06.13.2020, the IMDB rating is 2,0 (upd: 07-12-2020) and lasts 82 min. Jack Jonah belongs to the following categories: Family. Directed by Gary Lee Vincent, Jason…

This is the true story of Freddy and Walter – two young Slovak Jews, who were deported to Auschwitz in 1942. On 10 April 1944, after meticulous planning and with…

Movie was released on 2020-05-28 and lasts min. Arthur & Merlin: Knights of Camelot belongs to the following categories: Action, Adventure, History. Directed by Giles Alderson.OverviewKing Arthur returns home after…

Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape From Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. Two white South Africans,…

A group of women hatch a plan to disrupt the 1970 Miss World beauty competition in London.

Noreno, a half-Roman, is entrusted with the mission of crossing the snowy mountains of Armenia, swarming with Parthian patrols, to seek help for his slowly dying men.

Movie was released on 2020-05-07, the IMDB rating is 4,8 (upd: 09-15-2020) and lasts 90 min. Matchless Mulan belongs to the following categories: History, War. Directed by Chen Cheng.OverviewDuring the…

Movie was released on 2020-11-12, the IMDB rating is 6,1 (upd: 07-16-2020) and lasts 120 min. Resistance belongs to the following categories: Featured movies, History. Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz.OverviewThe story…

A lineup of artists — including Beck, Common, Gary Clark Jr., Foo Fighters, H.E.R., Juanes, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Chris Martin, Mavis Staples, St. Vincent, Usher and more — pay…

From the bustling streets of Jerusalem to the raging Sea of Galilee, join Peter, Nicodemus, Mary Magdalene, and a multitude of others as they journey alongside the most famous person…

Movie was released on 2020-03-27 and lasts 99 min. Emperor belongs to the following categories: Drama, History. Directed by Mark Amin.OverviewAn escaped slave travels north and has chance encounters with…

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp for disabled teenagers, transforming their young lives and igniting a landmark movement.

When a high-ranking war planner is captured and held in a German prisoner of war camp, a team of specialists take on the dangerous mission of trying to break him…

When Mari Gilbert’s daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen…

Tells the story of Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie and her extraordinary scientific discoveries — through the prism of her marriage to husband Pierre — and the seismic and transformative…

Movie was released on 2020-03-06 and lasts 122 min. Fukushima 50 / フクシマフィフティ belongs to the following categories: Drama. Directed by Setsurô Wakamatsu.OverviewWorkers at the Fukushima Daiichi facility in Japan…

Movie was released on 2020-03-06, the IMDB rating is 6,2 (upd: 10-04-2020) and lasts 122 min. Fukushima 50 belongs to the following categories: Drama. Directed by Setsurô Wakamatsu.OverviewWorkers at the…

Movie was released on 2020-03-04, the IMDB rating is 5,9 (upd: 11-18-2020) and lasts 108 min. De Gaulle belongs to the following categories: Drama, History. Directed by Gabriel Le Bomin.OverviewParis,…

The true life-story of Sara Góralnik, a 13 year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September of 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside,…

Movie was released on 2020-02-20, the IMDB rating is 9,8 (upd: 07-02-2020) and lasts 103 min. Uncle Tom belongs to the following categories: Documentary. Directed by Justin Malone.OverviewIn a collection…

Tank commander Kalashnikov is severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital he begins creating…

In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travel to Ukraine, where he experiences at first hand the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet…

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers, Schofield and Blake are given a seemingly impossible mission. In a race against time, they must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers—Blake’s own brother among them.

The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.

This is the stark, moving ultimately redemptive story of the bonds these children make with one another, and of how the friendships forged at Windermere become a lifeline to a…

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

The true story of Richard Jewell, hero and then suspect of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.

Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However,…

In the 1950s, truck driver Frank Sheeran gets involved with Russell Bufalino and his Pennsylvania crime family. As Sheeran climbs the ranks to become a top hit man, he also goes to work for Jimmy Hoffa — a powerful Teamster tied to organized crime.