History Movies

star 4.5

Inês de Portugal

1997

Inês de Portugal

1997

star 4.5
The consuming passion between Pedro I of Portugal and Ines de Castro is brutally interrupted when Ines is executed, as a consequence of political intrigue and in the name of the kingdom's interests. Pedro, cruelly hurt, pursues the single-minded purpose of avenging his lost love. He captures and kills the executioners, and compels the nobility to acknowledge Ines as his lawful wife and Queen of Portugal.
star 8

Andreas Hofer

2002

Andreas Hofer

2002

star 8

La sangre y la semilla

1959

Plaquita, the widow of a Paraguayan officer, rescues a wounded sergeant who has been a companion of her husband. She takes care of him and nurtures him back to health. But they only have one hope, to keep fighting for Paraguay against the Argentine Army.
star 5.8

La señora de Fátima

1951

La señora de Fátima

1951

star 5.8
The story of the 1917 miracle of Fatima, in which the Virgin Mary appeared to three children--two girls and one boy..
star 8

Service to Man

2016

Service to Man

2016

star 8
In 1968, a white student from Brooklyn finds himself an outsider at Nashville’s legendary black medical school, where he and his peers attempt to battle the mysteries of medicine, demanding professors, and each other in their quest to become healers in the Service To Man.

Russian Jews. Part One. Before Revolution.

2016

star 7.4
The history of Jewish people in Russia up until the 1917 revolution.

America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference

1994

As the campaign to force Jews out of Germany ramps up, the American government blocks efforts to help rescue many of these displaced persons, and Americans' antisemitism only seems to get worse.

Island of Allah

1956

An old Bedouin tells the story of the twenty-three year old Prince Abdul Aziz ibn Saud’s daring raid on Riyadh to geologists exploring the deserts of Saudi Arabia.
star 8

Berlin 1933

2023

Berlin 1933

2023

star 8
A year that changed a city - and the world - forever. Hitler's rise to power, told through the letters and diaries of those who lived through a fateful turning point in history.

Taira no Kiyomori

1992

The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.

Then God Named It Earth

1961

star 5.2
During the Mexican Agrarian Reform, an engineer travels to a town to distribute the land of the landowners among the peasants.
star 4.3

The Sword of El Cid

1962

The Sword of El Cid

1962

star 4.3
The ruler of Catalonia is killed by his scheming twin brother, who then takes over the throne. But the son of the murdered brother sets about raising an army to regain the birthright which is rightfully his.
star 6.1

Target for Tonight

1941

Target for Tonight

1941

star 6.1
This is the authentic story of a bombing raid on Germany... how it is planned and how it is executed. Every person seen in the picture is a member of the Royal Air Force from Commander-in-Chief to aircraft hand, re-enacting his own daily life on the job. They are the men and women who actually direct, plan and execute the raids.

Hygiène raciale

2012

Before being employed by the Nazis in what remains the most deadly program of “racial purification”, Eugenics was a very popular concept among scientists in the US and Europe. The science of “good birth”, which aims to create the perfect human being, sets out to achieve this by preventing reproduction of those perceived as weak, sick, disabled, or otherwise “degenerate”. As early as 1907, the US applied the first eugenics laws, which continued to be in force until the 1970s. In Sweden, 63,000 people were sterilized, mostly after WWII. The film switches deftly between the explanation of historians and the testimony of victims who continue to struggle for recognition of the harm they have suffered, which has been erased from the collective memory. From North Carolina to Sweden and Germany, a terrifying journey into this quest for the “best of worlds”.

A Woman Shook the Throne of Egypt

1995

star 7
King Farouk finds himself enraged to carry out the British orders to appoint Mustafa El-Nahas as head of the ministry. During his journey to Qassas, he gets injured in a collision. He learns about the doctor Yusuf Rashad and his wife Noha. He admires women and follows her to work in the palace as a writer. , Especially after the husband is commissioned to form the Iron Guard, through which is discovered both the officer Istahter Mustafa Kemal and officer Anwar Sadat. Noha is separated from her husband and expelled by the king. She becomes a mistress for Mustafa Kemal. Calling for standing against the king, and working to form a secret cell with the Free Officers who help them to save the revolution from the dangers.
star 6

Ice Run

1963

Ice Run

1963

star 6
Two proud fisherman families live on a very small island in Estonia. The two fishermen have always bore a grudge against each other. Their stubbornness and disobedience to German occupiers leads to dramatic events where staying alive is worse than death. Since it is impossible to escape public contempt, they have to decide how to redeem themselves.
star 1

Pir Sultan Abdal

1973

Pir Sultan Abdal

1973

star 1
The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Ottoman governors, Hizir Pasha in particular and as a result was hung by him.