History movies

Indexed titles: 62

Hamnet

2025

Rating: 7.8

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet....

Nuremberg

2025

Rating: 7.4

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself ...

I Swear

2025

Rating: 8.0

Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, ...

Christy

2025

Rating: 7.4

Christy Martin never imagined life beyond her small-town roots in West Virginia—until she discovered a knack for punching people. Fueled by ...

Hacksaw Ridge

2016

Rating: 8.2

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientiou...

Troy

2004

Rating: 7.2

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Spart...

Sully

2016

Rating: 7.2

On 15 January 2009, the world witnessed the 'Miracle on the Hudson' when Captain 'Sully' Sullenberger glided his disabled plane onto the Hud...

Ford v Ferrari

2019

Rating: 8.0

American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physi...

Hidden Figures

2016

Rating: 8.0

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as...

Napoleon

2023

Rating: 6.3

An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism ...

Reagan

2024

Rating: 6.3

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked with Ronald Reagan's when Reagan first c...

Blue Moon

2025

Rating: 6.7

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collab...

Lincoln

2012

Rating: 6.9

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change,...

Les Misérables

2012

Rating: 7.3

An adaptation of the successful stage musical based on Victor Hugo's classic novel set in 19th-century France. Jean Valjean, a man imprisone...

1917

2019

Rating: 8.0

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly at...

The Woman King

2022

Rating: 7.6

The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fiercen...

The Captive

2025

Rating: 6.6

In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers as a hostage. Aware that...

Ironclad

2011

Rating: 6.1

In the year 1215, the rebel barons of England have forced their despised King John to put his royal seal on the Magna Carta, a seminal docum...

Nouvelle Vague

2025

Rating: 7.3

After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges ...

Unfrosted

2024

Rating: 5.3

In a time when breakfast is ruled by milk and cereal, a fierce corporate battle begins over a revolutionary new pastry....

The Irishman

2019

Rating: 7.6

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. O...

Tesla

2020

Rating: 5.8

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by ...

Bloody Night

2010

Rating: 7.0

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 19th, 1921, in the streets of Lisbon. But...

Benedetta

2021

Rating: 6.6

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedetta's shocking religious visions that thre...

Apocalypto

2006

Rating: 7.6

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous jo...

Braveheart

1995

Rating: 7.9

Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English ...

Green Book

2018

Rating: 8.2

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forc...

Drum

1976

Rating: 4.8

A mid-19th century mulatto slave is torn between his success as a pit-fighter and the injustices of white society....

Amina

2021

Rating: 6.4

In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family's kingdom. Based on a tr...

Robin Hood

2010

Rating: 6.4

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he ass...

Black Hawk Down

2001

Rating: 7.4

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot ...

Pearl Harbor

2001

Rating: 6.9

The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the two ace fighter pilots become entangled ...

Gandhi

1982

Rating: 7.6

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause ...

Milk

2008

Rating: 7.2

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Francisco in the late 1970s, Harvey Milk becom...

Prisoner of War

2025

Rating: 7.2

British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japan...

The Duchess

2008

Rating: 7.0

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and perso...

The Tin Drum

1979

Rating: 6.9

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, Worl...

Glory

1989

Rating: 7.5

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confede...

BlacKkKlansman

2018

Rating: 7.5

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman, his Jewish colleague, run an undercove...

Luther

2003

Rating: 6.4

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that wi...

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