World History Movies

Mars in Aries

2017

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N/A   2017   N/A   History Movies   2023-10-21

Chhatrapati Shivaji

2017

This film chronicles key events in the life of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Maratha Empire from his birth to his Coronation as "Chhatrapati"...

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Hindi, Marathi   2017   170 min   History Movies   2023-10-16

O Silêncio

2012

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) put an end to the Republican government supported in Parliament by liberal Republicans, communists, and socialists. The conservative winners started a harsh repression with expedite death sentences f...

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Portuguese   2012   N/A   History Movies   2023-07-29

The Tragedy of Man

2011

Adam's and Eve's epic journey throughout history trying to find the meaning of human life. Do we grow in wisdom as centuries pass, or just drift towards an inevitable doom?...

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Hungarian   2011   160 min   History Movies   2023-08-24

Oda az igazság

2010

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Hungarian   2010   100 min   History Movies   2023-08-08

The Movie Orgy

2009

A compilation film designed to evoke nostalgia for the shared entertainment experiences of early baby boomers, "The Movie Orgy" includes clips from television programs and B-movies of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as commercials, m......

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English, French   2009   420 min   History Movies   2023-10-28

A Place of Rage

2007

This celebration of African American women and their achievements features interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker. Within the context of the civil rights, Black power and feminist movements, the trio reassess h......

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English   2007   54 min   History Movies   2023-07-04

I Viceré

2007

Story in set in Sicily, 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in control of its power against the new regime, both on political and personal side, leading to intricate love affairs, difficult parental relashionship and obstacles......

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Italian   2007   120 min   History Movies   2023-09-07

Bobby

2006

The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and twenty-two people in the hotel, whose lives were nev......

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English, Spanish   2006   117 min   History Movies   2023-11-23

Iluminados por el fuego

2005

The suicide of an old soldier buddy brings up some old memories for an Argentinian man....

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Spanish   2005   100 min   History Movies   2023-11-10

Até Amanhã, Camaradas

2005

The underground lives and struggles of communist party militants during the Portuguese 'Estado Novo' regime....

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Portuguese   2005   N/A   History Movies   2023-09-30

The Copyist

2005

During the Second World War, Hugo Autere, an elderly cellist with the Helsinki Philharmonic gets a secret assignment from the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius # to copy the manuscript of the ......

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Finnish   2005   86 min   History Movies   2023-11-02

Olga

2004

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes. During the dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas (1930-1945) she was arrested and sent to Nazi Germany, where she was put ......

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Portuguese, German   2004   141 min   History Movies   2023-09-07

Judas

2004

Judas meets Jesus and at first doesn't know what to make of him or whether or not to trust him. A cynical city boy, Judas makes fun of the country bumpkin disciples who follow Jesus but eventually decides to join the band, as well......

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English   2004   120 min   History Movies   2023-11-08

The Alamo

2004

Based on the 1836 standoff between a group of Texan and Tejano men, led by Davy Crockett and Jim Bowie, and Mexican dictator Santa Anna's forces at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas....

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English, Spanish   2004   137 min   History Movies   2023-12-01

The Edelweiss Pirates

2004

Cologne-Ehrenfeld, November 1944. They're young, wild and rebellious, like young people anywhere and in any time, but working-class boys Karl and his younger brother Peter are Edelweiss Pirates. They oppose the Nazis, and are purs......

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German, English   2004   111 min   History Movies   2023-10-07

Il resto di niente

2004

Set in the 1790s, this historical drama follows the travails of an idealistic noblewoman who helps lead a daring revolution in Italy....

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Italian, French   2004   103 min   History Movies   2023-08-20

Heimat 3: A Chronicle of Endings and Beginnings

2004

The village Schabbach experiences Germany's triumphs and tragedies from 1989 to 2000....

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German   2004   689 min   History Movies   2023-11-26

Ilaria Alpi - Il più crudele dei giorni

2003

Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international environmental scandal. Together with her cameraman, she was......

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Italian, Serbo-Croatian   2003   120 min   History Movies   2023-11-26

Luther

2003

During the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation....

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English, Latin   2003   123 min   History Movies   2023-11-25

Gods and Generals

2003

The rise and fall of confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, as he meets with military success against the Union from 1861 to 1863, when he is accidentally killed by his own soldiers....

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English   2003   219 min   History Movies   2023-11-03

To Kill a King

2003

A recounting of the relationship between General Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, as they try to cope with the consequences of deposing King Charles I....

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English   2003   102 min   History Movies   2023-11-19

Investigation of a Flame

2003

On May 17, 1968, three Catholic priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Their poetic a......

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English   2003   43 min   History Movies   2023-11-29

The Lion in Winter

2003

King Henry II meets with Eleanor of Aquitaine at Christmastide 1183 to choose one of his sons as his successor....

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English   2003   167 min   History Movies   2023-12-01

Imagine

2003

Wide-ranging BBC arts programme....

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English   2003   60 min   History Movies   2023-10-06

The Fog of War

2003

The story of America as seen through the eyes of the former Secretary of Defense under President John F. Kennedy and President Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert McNamara....

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English   2003   107 min   History Movies   2023-11-30

Sea of Silence

2003

Caro, a 9 year old girl, wants to understand the mysteries of the world around her. However, her religious education and the modern world don't always seem to make a good match....

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Dutch   2003   105 min   History Movies   2023-11-27

The Deserter

2003

A British Revolutionary War drummer accidentally deserts from his regiment and is hunted down for execution....

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English   2003   75 min   History Movies   2023-10-05

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

2003

Interviews and archival footage are used to tell the story of post-war Broadway through the 1960s....

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English   2003   111 min   History Movies   2023-11-20

Elisa di Rivombrosa

2003

The series follows the lives of star-crossed lovers Elisa Scalzi, an honest but poor woman, and Count Fabrizio Ristori. Their love is hindered by a conspiracy led by Lucrezia, a noblewoman who also fell in love with Fabrizio....

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Italian   2003   3 min   History Movies   2023-12-01

Cults

2003

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English   2003   50 min   History Movies   2023-11-24

American Dreams

2002

In the 1960s, a family experiences life and the struggles of the era, accompanied by the well-known pop songs of the period....

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English   2002   60 min   History Movies   2023-12-02

The Forsyte Saga

2002

Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920....

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English   2002   276 min   History Movies   2023-10-21

Bloody Sunday

2002

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972....

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English   2002   111 min   History Movies   2023-11-04

The Tracker

2002

It's 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman......

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N/A   2002   1 h 30 min   History Movies   2023-11-04

Russian Ark

2002

A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years....

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Russian, Persian   2002   99 min   History Movies   2023-11-30

K-19: The Widowmaker

2002

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster....

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English, Russian   2002   138 min   History Movies   2023-10-26

Price for Peace

2002

This powerful and thought provoking film chronicles the compelling events in the Pacific Theater of WWII, from the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 to the American occupation of Japan in 1945. It depicts the strength and courage of......

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English   2002   90 min   History Movies   2023-11-17

Onna kunishuu ikki

2002

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Japanese   2002   60 min   History Movies   2023-11-24

The Good War

2002

During the final days of World War II, an Italian prisoner of war in Texas is left in the hands of the camp's commander, the only soldier remaining to guard the only prisoner until the arrival of a patrol force that may never come....

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English   2002   96 min   History Movies   2023-08-05

Frontier House

2002

Modern families time-travel to 1883 Montana for homesteading, learning hard work, community, and sacrifices. Back in 21st century, they reflect on past and present values....

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English   2002   N/A   History Movies   2023-12-02

In Search of

2002

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English   2002   N/A   History Movies   2023-10-21

Farewell to the Deuce

2002

A fun history of 42nd Street from the early 1900's through the late 1990's....

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English   2002   N/A   History Movies   2023-11-20

We Were Soldiers

2002

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news....

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English, Vietnamese, French   2002   138 min   History Movies   2023-11-02

Air Force One

2002

The role of Air Force One in the United States Presidency from FDR to George W. Bush....

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English   2002   57 min   History Movies   2023-11-11

Entre el amor y el odio

2002

At his uncle's death, a lonely, serious young man finds both the love of his life and the hate that might spread in his world....

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Spanish   2002   60 min   History Movies   2023-11-23

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

2002

This 90-minute documentary illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s. Narrated by Woody Harrelson, "Reel Radicals" features clips from such seminal films as ......

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English   2002   90 min   History Movies   2023-12-02

Miss America

2002

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English   2002   90 min   History Movies   2023-11-01

The Rising of the Moon

2002

IRA member Bobby Sands is visited by his mother while imprisoned in Northern Ireland....

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English   2002   6 min   History Movies   2023-12-02

Antarctica: A Frozen History

2002

A history of human exploration in the Antarctic....

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English   2002   N/A   History Movies   2023-12-01