History Movies

Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, whi...

The region under Maharaj Singh's control is under-going drought and famine-like conditions, and the Maharaj orders that the treasury be made open so t...

First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States...

Documentary that shows the events that culminated in the deposition of President João Goulart, on March 31, 1964, and the implementation of the milita...

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the riv...

A biopic of Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Sambhaji Maharaj.

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

The long-term war with Sparta ends. The power and prosperity of Athens has sunk into the past; in an atmosphere of general despair and irritation, dem...

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

The bureaucratic epos on the dialogues and plots of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin "The History of a Town". In a metaphorical and grotesque form, the fil...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

The film follows the true life story of one of China's greatest composers, Xian Xinghai. The start of the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War against N...

Simona Kossak - daughter of the painter Jerzy Kossak and granddaughter of Wojciech - deprived of the talent that has defined her family for generation...

Indian freedom fighter Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated on 30 January 1948. Why was he killed and what events occurred before and after his murder? Thi...

Roman emperor Caligula leaves the last days of glory amidst orgies of food and sex. During a show by two nude slaves, the emperor is particularly attr...

A staging of Albert Camus' play "Caligula" by Stéphane Olivié-Bisson.

At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under t...

A fresh new look at Lolita, the famous and controversial novel published in 1955 by Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov (1891-1977),a masterpiece of Engl...