Genre: History
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The Right Stuff 2020

U.S. fighter pilots are recruited to test experimental aircraft and rockets to become first Mercury astronauts. TV adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book, 'The Right Stuff'.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Patrick J. Adams, Jake McDorman, Colin O'Donoghue

6.8 IMDB Rating 13,287 Views
Seabiscuit 2003

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.

Category: Drama, History, Sport

Stars: Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges, Elizabeth Banks

7.3 IMDB Rating 5,126 Views
The Red Sea Diving Resort 2019

Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alona Tal

6,5 IMDB Rating 5,272 Views
The 1619 Project 2023–

Connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.2 IMDB Rating 1,192 Views
Nuremberg 2000

Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, the Allies determine that there must be an accounting of German war crimes. Twenty-four Nazis, representative of all sections of military and civilian life are chosen to stand trial for the crimes of conspiracy to commit aggression, commission of aggression, crimes during war and crimes against humanity. The preparations for the trial, the trial itself and its aftermath are shown through the eyes of Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson and through the eyes of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, the ranking Nazi defendant.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Alec Baldwin,Brian Cox,Christopher Plummer

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,224 Views
Fuglene over sundet 2016

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: David Dencik, Danica Curcic, Jakob Cedergren

6.3 IMDB Rating 1,556 Views
Guldkysten 2015

The Gold Coast (Guldkysten), is a dense and visceral exploration of a dark time in European history, namely the Danish involvement in the slave trade on the African coast during the 1830s. Undoubtedly a politically charged affair, this film is also an intense portrait of obsession and individual morality.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Jakob Oftebro,Danica Curcic,John Aggrey,Luise Skov

5.3 IMDB Rating 3,769 Views
Into the Darkness 2020

Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Danish industrialist (portrayed by Jesper Christensen of James Bond fame) , cooperates and profits from the German occupation of Denmark. While his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyekjær Giese

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,237 Views
The Laramie Project 2002

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant

7.1 IMDB Rating 608 Views
Bajirao Mastani 2015

An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,426 Views
21
21 2008

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,965 Views
Dark Side Of The Ring 2019–

From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Dutch Mantell, Bruce Prichard, James E. Cornette

9,3 IMDB Rating 15,092 Views
One Night with the King 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble

6.0 IMDB Rating 5,328 Views
Cadillac Records 2008

Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,534 Views
The Knick

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century. Every day they must deal with lack of funding, personal conflicts, egotism, racial tensions, personal vices, drug addiction, affairs, closed minds, dated nigh-medieval medical techniques and them and their experimental new techniques being misunderstood by most, in order to keep the hospital going and give the ill the help they need. The pressure is enormous and leaves its mark on the souls of most of them.

Category: Drama, History

8.5 IMDB Rating 20,073 Views
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die 2023

In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Alexander Dreymon, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius

9.5 IMDB Rating 4,145 Views
Kagemusha 1980

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara

7.9 IMDB Rating 631 Views
The Promise 2016

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Category: Drama, History

5,9 IMDB Rating 5,302 Views
Barry Lyndon 1975

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

8.1 IMDB Rating 6,197 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,177 Views