Genre: History
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Firebrand 2023

Katherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII, is named regent while the tyrant battles abroad. When the king returns, increasingly ill and paranoid, Katherine finds herself fighting for her own survival.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alicia Vikander, Junia Rees, Ruby Bentall

6.2 IMDB Rating 586 Views
Executive Action 1973

Rogue intelligence agents, right-wing politicians, greedy capitalists, and free-lance assassins plot and carry out the JFK assassination.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer

6.7 IMDB Rating 241 Views
Detroit 2017

Fact-based drama set during the 1967 Detroit riots in which a group of rogue police officers respond to a complaint with retribution rather than justice on their minds.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: John Boyega, Anthony Mackie, Algee Smith

7.3 IMDB Rating 7,453 Views
A United Kingdom 2016

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton

6.9 IMDB Rating 296 Views
Goodbye Bafana 2007

Goodbye Bafana is the true story of a white South African racist whose life was profoundly altered by the black prisoner he guarded for twenty years. The prisoner's name was Nelson Mandela.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger

7.1 IMDB Rating 4,585 Views
I Am All Girls 2021

A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Erica Wessels, Hlubi Mboya, Leshego Molokwane

6.0 IMDB Rating 2,914 Views
The Kings Choice 2016

April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics

7.1 IMDB Rating 5,455 Views
Dan-Dream 2017

A group of middle aged men from Denmark band together and attempt to make the first ever electric car

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Jacob Lohmann, Peter Gantzler, Magnus Millang

6.0 IMDB Rating 3,871 Views
The Devils 1971

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier's protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun's accusation of witchcraft.

Category: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton

7.8 IMDB Rating 248 Views
The Black Pimpernel 2007

Harald Edelstam uses his position as Sweden's ambassador to Chile to save political dissidents from persecution by the military junta after Augusto Pinochet's 1973 coup d'état.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Michael Nyqvist, Lumi Cavazos, Kate del Castillo

6.3 IMDB Rating 397 Views
141 A.D. Mission in Dacia 2018

"Year 141 after Christ, in the Roman province of Dacia. An unusual appearance of a comet is observed on the night sky. The astrologers think it is a bad sign that will bring misfortune and death.

Category: History, Mystery, Thriller

Stars: Alexandru Belciu, Paul Bondane, Alexandru Bornea

3.6 IMDB Rating 391 Views
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 2018

An exploration of the life, lessons, and legacy of iconic children's television host, Fred Rogers.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Joanne Rogers, Betty Aberlin, David Bianculli

8.7 IMDB Rating 4,383 Views
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese 2019

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,693 Views
Ett jävla liv – en film om Bodil Malmsten 2022

Few poets have been as appreciated and loved as Bodil Malmsten. Her pioneering style drew the broad masses to poetry and shaped generations of readers. But she herself had a hard time feeling that she was dying - a feeling that ov...

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Bodil Malmsten, Kjell Andersson, Eva Beckman

6.8 IMDB Rating 228 Views
Delicious 2021

France, 1789, just before the Revolution. With the help of a surprising talented young woman, a chef who has been sacked by his noble master finds the strength to free himself from his position as a servant and opens the first eve...

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe

7.0 IMDB Rating 301 Views
John Adams 2008

The life of one of the USA's Founding Fathers, its second President, and his role in the nation's first 50 years.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, John Dossett

8.4 IMDB Rating 8,560 Views
House of Ga’a 2024

Bashorun Ga'a, a ferocious and feared Prime Minister/kingmaker who became more powerful than the kings he enthroned.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Femi Branch, Mike Afolarin, Funke Akindele

1,033 Views
The Decameron 2024–

Set in 1348 during the Black Death, the deadliest pandemic in human history, explores the timely themes of class systems, power struggles, and survival in a time of pandemic.

Category: Comedy, Drama, History

Stars: Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala

1,118 Views
Before Dawn 2024

The journey of fictional WA outback kid Jim Collins and his battalion on the Western Front.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Ed Oxenbould, Levi Miller, Travis Jeffery

6.5 IMDB Rating 1,134 Views
One Life 2023

Sir Nicholas 'Nicky' Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued over 600 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Lena Olin, Johnny Flynn

7.5 IMDB Rating 3,058 Views