Genre: History
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Brecht 2019

Starting from the year 1956, Brecht's year of death, the film looks back on the time of the First World War and the life Bertolt Brecht in a mixture of fiction and documentary.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, Adele Neuhauser

6,3 IMDB Rating 5,455 Views
Hotel Mumbai 2018

The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Manoj Mehra, Dinesh Kumar

7.8 IMDB Rating 10,091 Views
Honeydripper 2007

1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyrone "Pine Top" Purvis. Deep in debt to the liquor man, the chicken man, and the landlord, Tyrone is desperate to lure the young cotton pickers and local Army base recruits into his juke joint, away from Touissant's, the rival joint across the way. His plan to hire a guitar legend go awry and Tyrone is forced to take drastic action in a final scheme to save the club.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Danny Glover, LisaGay Hamilton, Yaya DaCosta

6,6 IMDB Rating 3,258 Views
A Girl Named Jo 2019–

Two girls from opposite sides of the tracks begin to unravel a dark chapter in Attaway's past.

Category: Drama, History, Mystery

Stars: Annie LeBlanc, Addison Riecke, Bella Shepard

8.7 IMDB Rating 6,793 Views
Curiosa 2019

To pay off her father's debts, Marie de Heredia marries the poet Henri de Regnier, but it is Pierre Louÿs whom she loves, a poet who is also an erotomaniac and a great traveler. It is with him that she will live an initiation to love and eroticism through the photographic and literary link that they invent together.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Noémie Merlant, Niels Schneider, Benjamin Lavernhe

5,4 IMDB Rating 7,179 Views
Downfall 2004

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Soviet Armies closing in from the west and south. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler proclaims that Germany will still achieve victory and orders his Generals and advisers to fight to the last man. "Downfall" explores these final days of the Reich, where senior German leaders (such as Himmler and Goring) began defecting from their beloved Fuhrer, in an effort to save their own lives, while still others (Joseph Goebbels) pledge to die with Hitler. Hitler, himself, degenerates into a paranoid shell of a man, full of optimism one moment and suicidal depression the next. When the end finally does comes, and Hitler lies dead by his own hand, what is left of his military must find a way to end the killing that is the Battle of Berlin, and lay down their arms in surrender.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Bruno Ganz,Alexandra Maria Lara,Corinna Harfouch,Ulrich Matthes

8.3 IMDB Rating 10,837 Views
Another Period 2013

Another Period follows the lives of the obscenely rich Bellacourt family and their many servants in turn-of-the-century Rhode Island. Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome lead an all-star cast - including Michael Ian Black, David Wain, Christina Hendricks, Jason Ritter and Paget Brewster - in this historical satire about narcissistic aristocrats and the poor souls in their employ.

Category: Comedy, History

Stars: Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome, Armen Weitzman

7,2 IMDB Rating 58,812 Views
The 24 Hour War 2016

In the early 1960s, Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari went to war on the battlefield of Le Mans. This epic battle saw drivers lose their lives, family dynasties nearly collapse and the development of a new race car that changed racing.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Charlie Agapiou, Mario Andretti, A.J. Baime

7,3 IMDB Rating 3,736 Views
Enemy Within 2019

When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the locals - until they discover he was part of the recent attack on Pearl Harbor.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Rila Fukushima, Beulah Koale, Matt Riedy

5,3 IMDB Rating 3,891 Views
Karmouz War 2018

An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria. The film dates back to the reign of King Farouk before the 1952 revolution in the English occupation of Egypt.

Category: Action, Crime, History

Stars: Amir Karara, Ghadah Abdulrazeq, Ahmed el-Sakka

6,3 IMDB Rating 4,840 Views
Macbeth 2015

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jack Madigan

6,6 IMDB Rating 5,384 Views
All the Way 2016

November 22, 1963. President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated and Vice President Lyndon Johnson is now President. One of his first acts as President is to reaffirm the US government's intention to pass the Civil Rights Act. This Act was drafted while JFK was in office and gives people of all races the same rights, including voting rights, access to education and access to public facilities. However, he faces strong opposition to the bill, especially from within his own party. He will have to use all his political will and cunning to get it through.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Bryan Cranston,Anthony Mackie,Melissa Leo,Frank Langella

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,392 Views
The Other Boleyn Girl 2008

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Natalie Portman,Scarlett Johansson,Eric Bana,Jim Sturgess

6.7 IMDB Rating 6,798 Views
All is True 2019

A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen

6,1 IMDB Rating 4,330 Views
Into the Storm 2009

Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm (2002), Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Brendan Gleeson, Clive Mantle, Adrian Scarborough

7,1 IMDB Rating 4,745 Views
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Cyber Attacks 2016

The shocking story of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Rebecca Humphries, Noel Biderman, Louise Van Der Velde

5,2 IMDB Rating 7,394 Views
Union Bound 2019

He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Drew Seeley, Randy Wayne, Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

5,5 IMDB Rating 4,134 Views
The Best of Enemies 2019

Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay

6,7 IMDB Rating 6,800 Views
The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005

In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas

7,5 IMDB Rating 5,424 Views
The Accountant of Auschwitz 2018

Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Jeff Ansell, Hedy Bohm, Hans-Jürgen Brennecke

6,9 IMDB Rating 5,668 Views