History Movies

La revolución de los balcones

2018

star 5
Documentary made by the Spanish political party VOX about the Catalan referendum of 2017 from the point of view of some leaders of the party.

General

1992

General

1992

A biopic about a Soviet general V. Gorbatov.

Osama Bin Laden: Up Close and Personal

2015

star 5.6
Four years after a Navy SEAL team killed Osama Bin Laden in a raid on his compound, his correspondence sheds new light on his mindset and final years.

Помни, Каспар!

1965

star 6
In January 1945 during WWII, German corporal Kaspar and a Russian fugitive become partners in survival.

Chrysalis

2004

Chrysalis

2004

A Sikh woman and her son take refuge in a convent during the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms

Somuncu Baba: Askin Sirri

2016

star 7
Based on a real life story of sufi dervish Somuncu Baba, who lived in Aksaray in Turkey.

Golden Blood: The Frontiers of Greed

2023

Two best friends, Clint and Lenny, set out to pan for gold during the California Gold Rush. They have a stroke of luck and find a significant amount of gold in their pans. As they continue to pan, Clint becomes increasingly fixated on finding more and more gold, to the point where he becomes ruthless and starts to turn on Lenny. Lenny tries to remind Clint of the importance of their friendship and the values they once held, but Clint's greed continues to consume him. Eventually, their friendship is put to the test as Clint's behavior becomes increasingly dangerous and erratic. Will the gold be the end of their friendship, or will Lenny be able to save his friend from the destructive power of greed?
star 6

Billie Bob Joe

2015

Billie Bob Joe

2015

star 6
Two stepsisters uncover a bizarre conspiracy about a secret battle between the people named Joe in the world and the people named Bob.
star 6.3

The Swarm

1966

The Swarm

1966

star 6.3
During turbulent times of the First Serbian uprising in 1804, on a freshly liberated land, a woman who betrayed her husband to the Turks has been taken to the court. A complicated truth and the real motives of the case get overlooked by the judge, a neutral Turk.
star 4.7

Third Eye Spies

2019

Third Eye Spies

2019

star 4.7
Two physicists discover psychic abilities are real only to have their experiments at Stanford co-opted by the CIA and their research silenced by the demands of secrecy. Yet, as both these 'remote viewers' and our audience learn, the 'more you hide something, the more it shines like a beacon in psychic space and this ancient truth can no longer be suppressed.' The true story of Russell Targ and America's cold war psychic spies, disclosed and declassified for the first time, with evidence presented by a Nobel Laureate, an Apollo Astronaut, and the military and scientific community that has been suppressed for nearly 30 years, now able to speak for the first time.

The Ashes And Ghosts of Tayug 1931

2017

A filmmaker revisits the town of Tayug, Pangasinan in preparation for a new feature film she is making about the folk hero Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931. As she revisits the actual sites in Tayug where the infamous uprising had taken place, she imagines scenes in her new film about the subject. As she goes deeper in her research at Tayug, she uncovers the memories of the townspeople about Pedro Calosa and the Tayug Uprising of 1931.
star 5.1

Don Quichotte

1903

Don Quichotte

1903

star 5.1
An early Pathé version of Don Quixote told in 15 chapters.

Justinian's Human Torches

1908

star 4.2
During an orgy, Emperor Justinian orders three people to be torched alive.

Surname Viêt Given Name Nam

1989

star 6.1
The film evolves around questions of identity, popular memory and culture. While focusing on aspects of Vietnamese reality as seen through the lives and history of women resistance in Vietnam and in the U.S, it raises questions on the politics of interviewing and documenting.

Zabijaka

1967

Zabijaka

1967

A moral story about two people who have completely different attitudes to life and people. The duel of the heroes ends tragically.
star 6

Scars Of Nanking

2017

Scars Of Nanking

2017

star 6
During the brutal invasion of China in 1937 by Imperial Japanese forces, tens of thousands of civilians and prisoners of war are murdered and women raped in what is known simply as "The Rape of Nanking." This docudrama is a stirring account of a small band of courageous American missionaries who choose to stay in Nanking to try and protect a quarter million vulnerable Chinese civilians who are trapped in a city ruled by a savage, out of control army. Their stories are brought vividly to life through actual real-time letters and diaries as they bear witness to one of the worst wartime atrocities in history.

Gabriel

2020

Gabriel

2020

At the end of World War II, a wounded German soldier, disguised as a Canadian, ends up in the midst of a hiding Jewish family.