History Movies
Children of Shatila

Children of Shatila

Children of Shatila
IMDb: 7.7
50

Many people first became aware of the Shatila refugee camp in Lebanon after the shocking and horrific Sabra-Shatila massacre that took place there in 1982. Located in Beirut’s “belt of…

Chaalchitra Ekhon

Chaalchitra Ekhon

Chaalchitra Ekhon
IMDb: 7.5
91

A tribute to auteur Mrinal Sen, the film intricately weaves the personal and professional journeys of Kunal Sen and Ranjan through their collaboration on an ambitious film project, Chaalchitra, in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Decoded

Decoded

Decoded
IMDb: 5.9
156

In the 1940s, the world was in turmoil, and it was crucial to decipher the enemy’s communication codes in a timely and accurate manner. Rong Jinzhen has shown amazing mathematical…

The Damned

The Damned

The Damned
IMDb: N/A
88

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the western territories, with the task of patrolling the unchartered borderlands….

Genre: Drama, History, War
North Korea: Dark Secrets

North Korea: Dark Secrets

North Korea: Dark Secrets
IMDb: 5.8
79

Discover how the North Korean people suffered famine, labor camps and public executions, while the Kim regime spent three generations relentlessly pursuing nuclear ambitions.

Genre: History
Bardejov

Bardejov

Bardejov
IMDb: 5.1
85

The story of Holocaust survivor Emil A. Fish, who was nine years old when he and his family in Bardejov, Slovakia were sent to a concentration camp.

Genre: History, War
Goebbels and the Führer

Goebbels and the Führer

Goebbels and the Führer
IMDb: 7.2
136

As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last…

Genre: Drama, History
Color Of Victory

Color Of Victory

Color Of Victory
IMDb: 6
157

The days when Istanbul was occupied as a result of the Armistice of Mudros after the First World War and the Fenerbahce football team won the “Harington Cup”.

Genre: Drama, History
Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia

Kennedy, Sinatra and the Mafia
IMDb: 6.8
N/A

With his mafia wiseguy links and access to entertainment industry star power, Frank Sinatra helped John F. Kennedy into the White House in 1960. But it all came to a…

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist

Face to Face with ETA: Conversations with a Terrorist
IMDb: 6.5
103

An in-depth interview with José Antonio Urrutikoetxea, known as Josu Ternera, one of the most relevant leaders of the terrorist gang ETA.

Strawman

Strawman

Strawman
IMDb: 5.6
113

Budny, a secret service officer, secretly surveils Bishop Karol Wojtyla for 20 years. An unreciprocated bond forms between Budny and the unaware Wojtyla, leading to an obsessive, pathological relationship from…

Genre: Drama, History
Datta

Datta

Datta
IMDb: 4.9
133

Based on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s classic ‘Datta’, Banamali proposes his daughter Bijoya’s hand to his childhood friend’s son, Narendra. But, Bijoya is attracted to Bilas and has always been skeptical…

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb

Manufacturing Death: Birth of the Atom Bomb
IMDb: 6.8
45

The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a weapon of such power was not even remotely imaginable to most people…

Escape from Germany

Escape from Germany

Escape from Germany
IMDb: 5.2
97

1939, Hitler’s army was closing borders, and 85 American missionaries were in Germany serving their church. The escape of these missionaries from Nazi Germany is one of the most dramatic…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Gold: The Inside Story

The Gold: The Inside Story

The Gold: The Inside Story
IMDb: 7.1
58

Three tonnes of stolen gold. Told from the inside by the police who were there, this is the true story of Britain’s biggest bullion heist.

The Edge of the Blade

The Edge of the Blade

The Edge of the Blade
IMDb: 6.5
101

In 1887, at a time when duels are in vogue in Paris, Clément Lacaze and Marie-Rose Astié meet. He’s a charismatic master of arms; she’s a feminist, far ahead of…

Genre: Drama, History
The Essential Church

The Essential Church

The Essential Church
IMDb: 5.7
126

When governments use Covid emergency act edicts to restrict the gathering and worship of the Church, three pastors facing the risk of imprisonment, unlimited fines, and their own Churches splitting…

Ancient Armageddon

Ancient Armageddon

Ancient Armageddon
IMDb: 6.2
83

Explore the collapse of ancient civilizations during the late Bronze Age.

Harkara

Harkara

Harkara
IMDb: 7.1
125

A frustrated postman decides to fool innocent villagers in a ploy to get himself transferred. As he walks uphill to deliver his last letter, a wayfarer narrates to him the…

Genre: Drama, History
Chang’an

Chang’an

Chang’an
IMDb: 7.5
168

A few years after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tibetan army invaded the southwest and the Tang dynasty military commander Gao Shi suffered a defeat in battle. Chang’an was in imminent…

Shibpur

Shibpur

Shibpur
IMDb: 5.5
127

A political journalist associated with a leading mews channel found an interesting story in a woman who rose from an ordinary housewife to a notorious lady mafia gang leader in…

Genre: Action, History
Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War

Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War

Taking Sides: Britain and the Civil War
IMDb: 6.9
50

Michael Portillo returns with an authored documentary, that uses British state papers to shed fresh light on key events and personalities during the Civil War period in Ireland.

Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy

Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy

Frankie Boyle’s Farewell to the Monarchy
IMDb: 6.8
47

The comedian takes a look back at the darker side of the royal family’s 1000-year history, and wonders how generations of land-grabbing, child-murdering, wife-beheading, slave-trading, misogyny, violence and empire-building have…

Kubi

Kubi

Kubi
IMDb: 6.5
131

Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.

Genre: Action, Drama, History
Enter the Clones of Bruce

Enter the Clones of Bruce

Enter the Clones of Bruce
IMDb: 7.3
95

Get ready to play a game of death… and another… and another. This wild documentary dives into the Bruce Lee exploitation craze.

Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2

Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2

Hamka & Siti Raham Vol. 2
IMDb: 6.9
103

This biopic explores Muslim scholar Buya Hamka’s life and hardships alongside his loving wife, Siti Raham, after Indonesia gained independence.

Genre: Drama, History
Yaathisai

Yaathisai

Yaathisai
IMDb: 7.2
121

Set in the 7th century, Kodhi, an young hot-blooded warrior from the Einar clan, believes that his birth is destined to free his fellows from the nomadic life that they…

Genre: Action, History, War
How the Holocaust Began

How the Holocaust Began

How the Holocaust Began
IMDb: 5.8
60

Historian James Bulgin reveals the origins of the Holocaust in the German invasion of the Soviet Union, exploring the mass murder, collaboration and experimentation that led to the Final Solution.

American Maroon

American Maroon

American Maroon
IMDb: 6.4
173

This film presents the untold history of Foundational Black American rebellions and maroon colonies that existed during the antebellum slavery period in America.

Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive

Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive

Spike Milligan: The Unseen Archive
IMDb: 6.9
73

Delve into a treasure trove of recently unearthed archives to tell a brand new story of Spike Milligan as film, scripts, letters, objects, photographs, recordings, and art all come together…

Assault on Hill 400

Assault on Hill 400

Assault on Hill 400
IMDb: 2.4
87

On November 14, 1944, the 2nd Ranger Battalion is tasked with sieging the German town of Bergstein, and Hill 400, a highly strategic position that provides the Reich with high…

Genre: Action, History, War
Close to Vermeer

Close to Vermeer

Close to Vermeer
IMDb: 7.3
77

In the year before he retires, Gregor Weber, a globally renowned Vermeer expert and flamboyant curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, works on his big dream: the largest Vermeer exhibition…

Animals Aloft

Animals Aloft

Animals Aloft
IMDb: 5.5
46

Flying dogs, tigers, monkeys, and more. Discover the incredible war stories and barnstorming adventures of aviation’s animal pioneers.

America’s National Parks at 100

America’s National Parks at 100

America’s National Parks at 100
IMDb: 6.6
51

The National Park Service has been active for over a century preserving and protecting over 400 units across America, from the wild and natural to the man-made and historic. Take…

Libertate

Libertate

Libertate
IMDb: 7.5
109

Sibiu, December 1989. In the chaos and panic generated by the protests of the crowd against the authorities, a unit of the militia becomes the target of a violent assault…

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony

Nazis at Nuremberg: The Lost Testimony
IMDb: 7.3
89

Never-before-heard trial testimony reveals shocking new details about World War II and the inner workings of the Nazi war machine.

Subhedar

Subhedar

Subhedar
IMDb: 8
154

Jay Shivaray In ‘Subhedar’, one will experience the thrilling feat of a mighty warrior who sacrifices his life to build the victory pylon of Swarajya on the summit of the…

Genre: Drama, History
Nazi Fugitives

Nazi Fugitives

Nazi Fugitives
IMDb: 5.4
52

The Nazi regime lasted from 1933 to 1945 and was undoubtedly one of the most horrific periods of history. The Nazi Party and its immoral leader instilled one of the…

We’re Broke, My Lord!

We’re Broke, My Lord!

We’re Broke, My Lord!
IMDb: 6.1
121

Koshiro Matsudaira lives in Tanjousan Bun in Echigo as a commoner and surrounded by people that love him, including his father Sakubei, who works for the Tanjousan Bun. One day,…

Genre: Comedy, History
1815

1815

1815
IMDb: N/A
20

During the Highland Clearances, a stubborn old tenant farmer and a young Waterloo veteran strike up a reluctant and uneasy bond in a relentless search through highlands; glimpsing the human…

Genre: Drama, History