Movies by Genre - History (64)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 12 Mighty OrphansHaunted by his mysterious past, a devoted high-school football coach leads a scrawny team of orphans to the state championship during the Great Depression and inspires a broken nation along the way. | 2021 | Ty Roberts | History, Sport | 6.9 (8.7K votes) | 118 | 20240419 |
| 37 DaysA TV mini-series that unveils the behind-closed-doors story of the final weeks before the outbreak of World War I. | 2014 | Justin Hardy | History | 8.1 (1.4K votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Acts of the Apostles [Atti degli apostoli]The spread of Christianity, according to Luke's account, 30 years after the departure of Jesus: Peter's community, its trials and martyrs;:Paul's travels,after his conversion, to Antioch and Rome. | 1969 | Roberto Rossellini (*) | History | 8.2 (73 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Adieu, LacanAfter two miscarriages and --in her own words-- ""losing"" her husband, a Brazilian woman goes to Paris to see Jacques Lacan, reputedly ""the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud."" | 2022 | Richard Ledes | History | 9.4 (34 votes) | 2 | 20231001 |
| Bal, LeDance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history. | 1983 | Ettore Scola | History, Musical | 7.7 (2.7K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| BardejovThe story of small town Jewish leader Rafuel Lowy, who found an ingenious way to save Bardejov's Jewish population from being sent to Auschwitz during World War Two. | 2024 | Danny A. Abeckaser | History, War | 4.8 (62 votes) | 85 | 20240329 |
| Between Two Warsnan | 1978 | Harun Farocki | History | 7.4 (44 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Birth of the BluesJeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. They struggle to get their jazz music accepted | 1941 | Victor Schertzinger | History, Music, Romance | 6.4 (405 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Boat10 people escape bombing on small boat, which unexpectedly stops and sinks mid-journey. Passengers struggle to survive as boat goes down. | 2024 | Chimbudeven | History | 6.4 (764 votes) | 126 | 20240910 |
| Broadway to HollywoodTed and Lulu Hackett are vaudeville's The Hacketts, a fairly successful song-and-dance team. They bring their son Ted Jr. up in the business and he soon eclipses them. When the son is offered a starring role on Broadway, he arranges | 1933 | Willard Mack, Jules White | History, Musical | 5.8 (295 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| By the Will of Chingis Khan [Tayna Chingis Khaana]Russian overproduction over the great Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan (1162-1227) from his birth to the beginning of his great empire, involving much suffering and many bloody battles in the vast steppes of northeast Asia. | 2009 | Andrei Borissov | History, War | 4.6 (450 votes) | 127 | 20211228 |
| Centennial SummerIn 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition. | 1946 | Otto Preminger (*) | History, Music, Romance | 6.2 (375 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Chasing the DeerThe Jacobite Rebellion of Scotland, and thirty years after the first battle, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his army make a stand at Culloden. | 1994 | Graham Holloway | History, War | 5.4 (158 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Coldest Game, TheDuring 1962's Cuban missile crisis, a troubled math genius finds himself drafted to play in a U.S.-Soviet chess match -- and a deadly game of espionage. | 2019 | Lukasz Kosmicki | History, Sport, Thriller | 6.2 (9.9K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Conquering Horde, TheNot long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell th | 1931 | Edward Sloman | History, Western | 6.2 (57 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Convent, TheDuring the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within. | 2018 | Paul Hyett | History, Horror | 4.1 (1.4K votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Council of the Gods [Der Rat der Götter]Based on the 1947 book I.G. Farben, by American author Richard Sasuly, and records from the Nuremberg Trial of the chemical giant I.G. Farben, Council of the Gods is a story about the collaboration between international corporations | 1950 | Kurt Maetzig | History | 6.7 (128 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Dawn of War [O2]A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII. | 2020 | Margus Paju | History, Thriller | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 100 | 20240826 |
| Destiny of Rome, TheAt the Battle of Philippi, Marc Antony and Octavian fight back their joint enemies to lay claim to Caesar's throne. Eleven years later, the two square off in the naval Battle of Actium to decide once and for all the destiny of Rome. | 2011 | Fabrice Hourlier | History | 7.1 (81 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| DieppeA dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war. | 1993 | John N. Smith | History, War | 6.8 (157 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Fencing Master, The [El maestro de esgrima]A fencing master in pre-revolution Spain is hired to teach fencing to a beautiful young woman. Although he has never taught a woman before, he is fascinated by her and agrees. She wishes to learn a particular thrust which he is famou | 1992 | Pedro Olea | History, Thriller | 6.9 (688 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Firefly, TheNina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France | 1937 | Robert Z. Leonard | History, Musical, Romance | 6.9 (375 votes) | 131 | 20211228 |
| Forbidden DreamOne of the most important figures of Korean royal history King Sejong develop a 20-year relationship with engineer and inventor Jang Yeong-sil, a truly remarkable scientist based on their common interest in astronomy. | 2019 | Jin-ho Hur | History, Drama | 6.6 (359 votes) | 132 | 20221228 |
| Ghetto [Vilniaus getas]In 1942, in Vilnius, the Nazi annihilate 55,000 Jews and squeeze the 15,000 survivors in a seven blocks ghetto. The twenty-two year old sadistic commander Kittel is assigned to administrate the ghetto in the capital of Lithuania, bec | 2005 | Audrius Juzenas | History, War | 6.8 (1.3K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Gift of Love, Thenan | 2019 | Gyoo-min Kim | History | nan | 88 | 20221228 |
| Haunting of the Tower of London, TheWhen the remains of two murdered Princes are discovered at the Tower of London, a troubled Priest must put his beliefs aside to befriend a mysterious prisoner, who has supernatural powers to communicate with the dead. Together the... | 2022 | Charlie Steeds | History, Horror | 3.7 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20231001 |
| HelltownIn 1974, President Ford ordered the evacuation of Boston, OH, and conspiracy theories as to why have floated around for years. A former Army Signal Corps member comes forward to shed new light on what might have happened. | 2017 | Jay Cheel | History | 4.7 (177 votes) | 85 | 20220415 |
| HexDuring the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch. | 2017 | George Popov, Jonathan Russell | History, Horror, Thriller, War | 5.0 (379 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Honor and Glory [Cest a sláva]It is the year 1647 and the war has been raging for almost thirty years. Poor and dilapidated is the stronghold of the knight Václav Rynda of Loucka (Rudolf Hrusínský) and so is his clothing. The family property was spent by his fath | 1969 | Hynek Bocan | History | 7.2 (101 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| In Harm's Way [Feng huo fang fei]After Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, USA bombs Tokyo to boost morale. A pilot survives thanks to a Chinese woman's help. | 2017 | Bille August | History, Romance, War | 6.1 (1.4K votes) | 97 | 20220415 |
| Invocation of Enver Simaku, TheWhat did they see? What did they think? What or who did they awaken? 18 years have passed since the pogrom of Mesopotam, Albania. 18 years without Angela, television camera woman, killed during a bloody night of rioting. 18 years ... | 2018 | Marc Lledó Escartín | History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 4.4 (123 votes) | 89 | 20220822 |
| Iron Horse, TheAfter witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway. | 1924 | John Ford (*) | History, Romance, Western | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Jeannette - The Childhood of Joan of Arc [Jeannette, l'enfance de Jeanne d'Arc]France, 1425. In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young Jeannette, at the still tender age of 8, looks after her sheep in the small village of Domremy. One day, she tells her friend Hauviette how she cannot bear to see the su | 2017 | Bruno Dumont | History, Musical | 5.8 (1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Junge Medardus, DerAs Napoleon approaches Vienna in 1809, the Valois claimant to the French throne waits there. Valois' daughter urges a patriotic Austrian student Medarus to assassinate the French emperor. | 1923 | Michael Curtiz (*) | History | 4.7 (63 votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| König der Letzten TageThe 1530s. Many are convinced that the Day of Judgement is at hand. A protest movement is making the heart of Europe beat faster and louder: it is a protest against the dissipation of the Catholic clergy, but also against the religio | 1993 | Tom Toelle | History | 7.1 (108 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Last Command, TheModerate Jim Bowie leads rebellious Texicans--and Davy Crockett--in a last-ditch stand against his old friend, Santa Anna. | 1955 | Frank Lloyd | History, War, Western | 6.4 (776 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Last Frontier, TheA trapper and his two partners work as scouts for a remote army fort where they witness an incompetent colonel's decision to throw his small unprepared garrison against Red Cloud's sizable Sioux force. | 1955 | Anthony Mann (*) | History, Romance, Western | 6.4 (1.6K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Last Witness, TheAn ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of twenty-two thousand Polish officers during World War II. A secret that has been kept hidden for far too many years. | 2018 | Piotr Szkopiak | History, Thriller | 5.6 (1.8K votes) | 97 | 20220822 |
| Lost Home Movies of Nazi GermanyA candid look at what life was really like for those living in, and under Hitler's Swastika - at home - and abroad, a record not only of what they saw, but of what they knew. | 2019 | Martin Davidson, Nick Watts | History | 8.4 (76 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Loves of a Dictator [The Dictator]The story opens in Copenhagen in the year 1776 on the wedding night of the King and Princess Caroline Mathilde. But the marriage was a political alliance, and the Princess felt only repugnance for her dissolute husband. On the night | 1935 | Victor Saville | History, Romance | 6.6 (48 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
| Madame de Sade [Markisinnan de Sade]Ingmar Bergman's staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his faithful wife Renee awaits him. Despite all the horrors her husband has committed | 1992 | Ingmar Bergman (*) | History | 6.7 (222 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Man of ConquestThe story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas. | 1939 | George Nichols Jr. | History, War, Western | 6.2 (159 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Napoleon and Josephine - A Love StoryEpic story about the romance between the most powerful man in the world and the woman who conquered his heart. | 1987 | Richard T. Heffron | History, Romance, War | 7.2 (455 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Nell GwynKing Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most | 1934 | Herbert Wilcox | History | 6.4 (117 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
| No. 1 Chung Ying StreetFour young lives were changed forever when they become involved in the 1967 Hong Kong Leftist Riot; half a century later, another four face similar challenges amidst the Mainland-Hong Kong conflict. | 2018 | Derek Chiu | History | 6.0 (160 votes) | 120 | 20220822 |
| Oda NobunagaOn IMDb TV, you can catch Hollywood hits and popular TV series at no cost. Select any poster below to play the movie, totally free! | 1992 | Sadao Nakajima | History | 7.1 (18 votes) | 240 | 20211228 |
| PersuasionEight years earlier, Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, was persuaded to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young seaman, who, though promising, had poor family connections. When | 1971 | Howard Baker | History, Romance | 6.6 (515 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Pony ExpressBuffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickock work to establish the Pony Express and fight Indians and California Separatists who seek to destroy it. | 1953 | Jerry Hopper | History, Romance, Western | 5.9 (1.3K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| Reign of Terror. The [The Black Book]Robespierrre, a powerful figure in the French revolution, is desperately looking for his black book, a death list of those marked for the guillotine. | 1949 | Anthony Mann (*) | History, Romance, Thriller, War | 7.0 (1.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| River of Fury, The [Doto no taiketsu]nan | 1959 | Yasushi Sasaki | History | 6.0 (13 votes) | 114 | 20240614 |
| Sakurada Gate IncidentThe Sakurada Gate Incident recounts the story of Mito Domain Samurai coming off house arrest named Seki Tetsunosuke (played by Osawa Takao). He along with other prominent Mito Clansmen are tasked to assassinate the Tairo (Great Elder | 2010 | Jun'ya Satô | History | 6.2 (73 votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| Samanishvilis dedinatsvaliImpoverished old nobleman Bekina insists on marrying a wife, but his son Platon does not want to have sharer in father's inheritance. Platon finds two times widowed and childless bride for Bekina, but a fate makes fun of him. | 1977 | Eldar Shengelaia | History | 8.2 (151 votes) | 89 | 20230715 |
| Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan, Lesnan | 2023 | Arielle Dombasle | History, Romance | 4.0 (45 votes) | 88 | 20240722 |
| SpionageOberst Alfred Redl heads the military intelligence department of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Frequent letters from the Russian Empire, however, make him suspect of sharing his knowledge with unauthorized authorities. | 1955 | Franz Antel | History, Thriller | 6.7 (41 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Time of Darkness [Feofaniya, risuyushchaya smert]In Middle-Age Russia, a Christian preacher arrives, proposing a new order. He threatens those who take part in a pagan festival with the flames of hell. But when strange crimes start to happen, local leaders decide to investigate. | 1991 | Vladimir Alenikov | History, Mystery, Thriller | 5.3 (117 votes) | 91 | 20240419 |
| TomahawkIn 1866 Wyoming, a frontier scout tries to prevent a war between the Sioux and the U.S. after the Army builds a road and a fort on territory previously ceded to the Sioux by treaty. | 1951 | George Sherman | History, Romance, Western | 6.4 (887 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Volk en vaderliefdeOtanes is certain that Smerdis, King of Persia is an impostor. He gathers together a group of people to stage a coup, only to face the question of which one of them will be worthy to take the thrown. | 1976 | Wim T. Schippers | History | 6.4 (7 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| War Over Reality, AWe will soon be facing the greatest threat ever known as we are feeding and nurturing the monster of our own destruction. Welcome to your future. | 2018 | Philip Gardiner | History | 5.6 (39 votes) | 67 | 20220822 |
| We Believed [Noi credevamo]The stories of three young men who, in the wake of the ferocious repression by the Bourbon reign in 1828, decide to join Giuseppe Mazzini's Young Italy movement. | 2010 | Mario Martone | History | 6.5 (576 votes) | 205 | 20220414 |
| Wells FargoThe life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation. | 1937 | Frank Lloyd | History, Western | 6.5 (567 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Western UnionWhen Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor. | 1941 | Fritz Lang (*) | History, Western | 6.7 (2.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| When a Man LovesA nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan. | 1927 | Alan Crosland | History, Romance | 7.0 (419 votes) | 111 | 20240609 |
| White FeatherIn 1877 Wyoming, during the peace negotiations between the Cheyenne and the USA, an Indian girl falls in love with a land surveyor, causing the ire of her Cheyenne fiance. | 1955 | Robert D. Webb | History, Western | 6.4 (982 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Woman God Forgot, TheCortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover Guatemoco finds Alvarado hiding in her chambers. Tecza next leads Cortez into the city, | 1917 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | History, Romance | 6.3 (96 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |