Genre: History
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The Red Sea Diving Resort 2019

Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alona Tal

6,5 IMDB Rating 5,268 Views
The 1619 Project 2023–

Connects the centrality of slavery in history with an unflinching account of brutal racism that endures in so many aspects of American life today.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Nikole Hannah-Jones

4.2 IMDB Rating 1,191 Views
Nuremberg 2000

Following the defeat of Germany in WWII, the Allies determine that there must be an accounting of German war crimes. Twenty-four Nazis, representative of all sections of military and civilian life are chosen to stand trial for the crimes of conspiracy to commit aggression, commission of aggression, crimes during war and crimes against humanity. The preparations for the trial, the trial itself and its aftermath are shown through the eyes of Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson and through the eyes of Reichsmarshal Hermann Goering, the ranking Nazi defendant.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Alec Baldwin,Brian Cox,Christopher Plummer

7.5 IMDB Rating 4,223 Views
Fuglene over sundet 2016

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: David Dencik, Danica Curcic, Jakob Cedergren

6.3 IMDB Rating 1,556 Views
Guldkysten 2015

The Gold Coast (Guldkysten), is a dense and visceral exploration of a dark time in European history, namely the Danish involvement in the slave trade on the African coast during the 1830s. Undoubtedly a politically charged affair, this film is also an intense portrait of obsession and individual morality.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Jakob Oftebro,Danica Curcic,John Aggrey,Luise Skov

5.3 IMDB Rating 3,767 Views
Into the Darkness 2020

Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Danish industrialist (portrayed by Jesper Christensen of James Bond fame) , cooperates and profits from the German occupation of Denmark. While his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyekjær Giese

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,235 Views
The Laramie Project 2002

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant

7.1 IMDB Rating 607 Views
Bajirao Mastani 2015

An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,425 Views
21
21 2008

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,962 Views
Dark Side Of The Ring 2019–

From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Dutch Mantell, Bruce Prichard, James E. Cornette

9,3 IMDB Rating 15,089 Views
One Night with the King 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble

6.0 IMDB Rating 5,326 Views
Cadillac Records 2008

Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,533 Views
The Knick

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century. Every day they must deal with lack of funding, personal conflicts, egotism, racial tensions, personal vices, drug addiction, affairs, closed minds, dated nigh-medieval medical techniques and them and their experimental new techniques being misunderstood by most, in order to keep the hospital going and give the ill the help they need. The pressure is enormous and leaves its mark on the souls of most of them.

Category: Drama, History

8.5 IMDB Rating 20,068 Views
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die 2023

In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Alexander Dreymon, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius

9.5 IMDB Rating 4,144 Views
Kagemusha 1980

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara

7.9 IMDB Rating 628 Views
The Promise 2016

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Category: Drama, History

5,9 IMDB Rating 5,300 Views
Barry Lyndon 1975

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

8.1 IMDB Rating 6,197 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,174 Views
Sobibor 2018

"Sobibor" is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: "Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality"

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska

6.3 IMDB Rating 9,906 Views
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006

The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Ken Watanabe,Kazunari Ninomiya,Tsuyoshi Ihara,Ryo Kase,Shidô Nakamura,Hiroshi Watanabe,Takumi Bando,Yuki Matsuzaki,Takashi Yamaguchi,Eijiro Ozaki,Nae,Nobumasa Sakagami,Lucas Elliot Eberl,Sonny Saito,Steve Santa Sekiyoshi

7.9 IMDB Rating 8,254 Views