History Movies

Skryté dějiny

1950

A documentary about archaeology, which, based on traces and finds hidden underground, creates a picture of the beginnings of the history of the Czech lands, which goes back to the Ice Age 30,000 years ago.
star 10

Sophia

2022

Sophia

2022

star 10
A serbian young girl visits Albania in search of the roots of an old story about her Grandpa during the War of 1941. She falls in love with an albanian guy, starting an "impossible" relationship between two nations divided by war.
star 3

Dawn of America

1951

Dawn of America

1951

star 3
Kingdom of Castile, the late fifteenth century. The film chronicles the events that Cristóbal Colón lived (Antonio Vilar) from their stay in the Convent of La Rabida, his meeting with the Catholic Monarchs and, above all, the great odyssey that led to cross the Atlantic and reach the shores of America (1492), thus beginning a new era in the history of mankind.
star 6.9

Le Mystère Daval

2022

Le Mystère Daval

2022

star 6.9
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 12:10 pm. Two men disembark, panicked, at the gendarmerie of Gray. Jonathann Daval, accompanied by his brother-in-law, comes to report the disappearance of his wife, Alexia. She had gone for a morning jog and had not returned. What happened to her? For 3 months, the police will carry out a relentless, exemplary investigation, as discreetly as possible, in order to gather evidence and then make the man confess, who they are convinced is not telling the whole story: Jonathann.

L'Homme aux mains d'argile

1949

The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
star 10

In the Fire

1978

In the Fire

1978

star 10
Historical film about the dramatic event in the southern regions of Azerbaijan during the 1917 Soviet Revolution.
star 5.3

The Catch

2011

The Catch

2011

star 5.3
When an American plane crashes in the Cambodian jungle, the pilot is taken captive by the Khmer Rouge. They instruct the kids of a village to keep an eye on the prisoner. While the younger kids gradually become friends with the stranger, the older boy called Pang has a different attitude. Since he grew up without parents, he accepted the Khmer rouge as his replacement parents and endears himself to them by betraying villagers. When Pang becomes responsible for watching the prisoner, things become worse for the pilot.
star 5.8

Lenin in October

1937

Lenin in October

1937

star 5.8
Commissioned by Josef Stalin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution, Lenin in October was the first of Russian director Mikhail Romm's tributes to the Marxist visionary who helped orchestrate the insurrection of October, 1917.
star 3

Fish & Men

2019

Fish & Men

2019

star 3
Fish & Men exposes the high cost of cheap fish in the modern seafood economy and the forces threatening local fishing communities and public health by revealing how our choices as consumers drive the global seafood trade. But, a new movement is underway – an opportunity to return sustainability to both fish and fishermen. Thriving on local communities, pioneering fishermen and celebrated chefs are leading a revolutionary new model, a ‘Catch of the Day’ revival based on local, seasonal, sustainable fish and reconnect us with those who risk their lives to harvest the bounties of the sea. Featuring the owners of Mac’s Seafood on Cape Cod and the Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing community.
star 4.9

The Duenna

1978

The Duenna

1978

star 4.9
A funny musical based on the comedy "The Duenna" by British dramatist Richard B. Sheridan.
star 6.9

Walnut Tree

2020

Walnut Tree

2020

star 6.9
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...
star 6

Clues to Adventure

1949

Clues to Adventure

1949

star 6
This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provisions - freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and prohibition of the infliction of cruel and unusual punishments - in the U.S. Constitution's Bill of Rights.
star 4

Salsa Criolla

1995

Salsa Criolla

1995

star 4
Enrique Pinti reviews Argentine History through music and humor

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin

2022

The story of French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010), one of the most singular voices of European cult cinema, deeply misunderstood and widely misrepresented.

Maryla

1969

Maryla

1969

star 7.7

Golgotha

1966

Golgotha

1966

star 7.7
Six widows demand compensation for the death of their husbands, who were killed during a worker's strike. The women are arrested and taken to the police quarters, where the authorities try to make them retract their statements, but it turns out they're not so easily intimidated.

Free

2019

Free

2019

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard, this random act of kindness provided an education that paved the way from slavery to freedom.

Palm Sunday

1969

Epic recalling the early days of the Republic of the councils.