History Movies

Mumu

1973

Mumu

1973

star 6.2

Babi Yar. Context

2021

Babi Yar. Context

2021

star 6.2
Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region

1960

His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people on the Tokaido Road. The fearless Kinnosuke Nakamura enthusiastically plays the young Jirocho from Shimizu in this chivalrous story.
star 6

A Captain's Honor

1982

A Captain's Honor

1982

star 6
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

Alice Guy, the First Female Filmmaker

2021

star 7.3
Who, apart from moviegoers, knows Alice Guy (1873-1968) today? However, she was the first woman behind the camera and the first female director and producer of fiction films in history.

This Was Pancho Villa: First chapter

1957

star 6.4
The disembodied head of Pancho Villa, kept in a glass jar in a research institute, is the narrator of several short stories from his own life, stories that might or might not have happened but are the stuff of legend.
star 9.5

Urxa

1989

Urxa

1989

star 9.5
Three moments in the life of a woman during the 20th century in Galician society.

A Prussian Love Story

1938

star 6
The film depicts the love affair between William I and Elisa Radziwill.

Ginji The Speculator

2022

A British comedy in Japanese clothes, with central character Ginji at once earnest farm boy and entrepreneurial savant, finding ingenious and entertaining solutions in a timeless tale of business and found family.

A Tour of the Louvre

2021

star 8
The tumultuous history of the Louvre Museum, founded in 1793, and its fabulous art collections, an immortal testimony to the destiny of France and all of Europe.

Flame of Calcutta

1953

A British captain and a French official's daughter save the East India Company.
star 7.5

Le Parti du cinéma

2021

Le Parti du cinéma

2021

star 7.5

You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story

1990

Biographical portrait of one of Broadway's most brilliant songwriters. Told through the use of archival material and interviews with the rich and famous that knew him, this portrait concentrates on his career and his public life events.

Wagner: Parsifal

2017

German composer Richard Wagner wrote Parsifal, which is a three-act opera that tells the story of the title character's quest to save the Knights of the Holy Grail by returning the Holy Spear, healing King Amfortas, and carrying out the sacred ceremony of uncovering the Holy Grail.

Henry VIII - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

2010

The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
star 6.8

The Passage

2019

The Passage

2019

star 6.8
A platoon of Commandos’ soldiers, lead by a fearless commander, Nour, and their journey through heroic battles from The Six Days War to the commencement of The Attrition War.
star 2.5

Caligula's Slaves

1984

Caligula's Slaves

1984

star 2.5
Roman emperor Caligula leaves the last days of glory amidst orgies of food and sex. During a show by two nude slaves, the emperor is particularly attracted to one of them, Lysia, ignoring that she had been planted close to him with orders to murder him. Only, the young man makes her feel for him, passion and motherly love, and she'll protect him rather then fulfill her mission. Drama ensues.

The Cool Lakes of Death

1982

star 6.3
Hedwig, a young wealthy woman growing up in the straight-jacket of bourgeois morality in the Victorian era, descends into madness after years of sexual repression and tragedy.

Liberation: Those Crazy Turks

1994

It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.