Browse movies by genre: History
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1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992)Centuries before the exploration of space, there was another voyage into the unknown.Christopher Columbus' discovery of the Americas and the effect this has on the indigenous people. read more on IMDB |
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Alexander (2004)Fortune favors the boldAlexander, the King of Macedonia and one of the greatest military leaders in the history of warfare, conquers much of the known world. read more on IMDB
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All the President's Men (1976)At times it looked like it might cost them their jobs, their reputations, and maybe even their lives.Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. read more on IMDB |
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Amazing Grace (2007)Behind the song you love is a story you will never forget.The idealist William Wilberforce maneuvers his way through Parliament, endeavoring to end the British transatlantic slave trade. read more on IMDB |
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Australia (2008)Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to protect her new property from a takeover plot. As the pair drive 2,000 head of cattle over unforgiving landscape, they experience the bombing of Darwin, Australia, by Japanese forces firsthand. read more on IMDB |
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Becket (1964)An age of rampant lusts, abandon, runaway passions. An age brought bristling to life by two of the most exciting stars of our time!An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's. read more on IMDB |
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Bloody Sunday (2002)A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. read more on IMDB
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Braveheart (1995)The courage to face fearWilliam Wallace, a commoner, unites the 13th Century Scots in their battle to overthrow English rule. read more on IMDB
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Brother's WarEnemy At The Gates Meets The Man Who Would Be King. During the Final daysThe story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front... read more on IMDB |
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Cadillac Records (2008)If you take the ride, you must pay the price.Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. read more on IMDB
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Changeling (2008)To find her son, she did what no one else dared.A grief-stricken mother takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day. read more on IMDB
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Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (2008)The children of the Nazi generation vowed fascism would never rule their world again.A look at Germany's terrorist group, The Red Army Faction (RAF), which organized bombings, robberies, kidnappings and assassinations in the late 1960s and '70s. read more on IMDB |
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The Duchess (2008)There were three people in her marriageA chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. read more on IMDB
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Einstein and Eddington (2008)A look at the evolution of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and Einstein's relationship with British scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, the first physicist to understand his ideas. | read more on IMDB |
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EndgameA story based on the covert discussions that brought down the Apartheid regime in South Africa. | read more on IMDB
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Enemy at the Gates (2001)Some Men Are Born To Be Heroes.Two Russian and German snipers play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad. read more on IMDB |
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)The temperature where freedom burns!Michael Moore's view on what happened to the United States after September 11; and how the Bush Administration allegedly used the tragic event to push forward its agenda for unjust wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. read more on IMDB
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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)The Most Magnificent Re-Creation . . . Of An Ancient Empire . . . Launches A New Epoch In Motion Pictures . . .Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome... read more on IMDB |
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Flags of Our Fathers (2006)A Single Shot Can End The WarThe life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in WWII. read more on IMDB
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Flammen & Citronen (2008)A drama centered on two fighters in the Holger Danske World War II resistance group. | read more on IMDB |
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Frost/Nixon (2009)400 million people were waiting for the truth.A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. read more on IMDB |
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Gandhi (1982)His Triumph Changed The World Forever.Biography of read more on IMDB |
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Gangs of New York (2002)America Was Born In The Streets.In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher, his father's killer. read more on IMDB |
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Gettysburg (1993)Same Land. Same God. Different Dreams.In 1863, the Northern and Southern forces fight at Gettysburg in the decisive battle of the American Civil War. read more on IMDB
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Gladiator (2000)Father of a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife and I shall have my vengeance in this life or the nextWhen a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. read more on IMDB |
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Glory (1989)Their innocence. Their heritage. Their lives. Nothing would be spared in the fight for their freedom.Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of both his own Union army and the Confederates. read more on IMDB
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The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)A golf drama based on the true story of the 1913 US Open, where 20-year-old Francis Ouimet defeated his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman, Harry Vardon. read more on IMDB |
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Hitler: The Rise of Evil (2003)"The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund BurkeA unique slant, profiling the life of Adolf Hitler as a child and his rise through the ranks of the National German Workers' Party prior to World War II. read more on IMDB |
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Hunger (2008)An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands. read more on IMDB
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In Cold Blood (1967)After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity. read more on IMDB |
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Into the Storm (2010)A relentless leader is the greatest weapon of war.Continuing the storyline of The Gathering Storm, Churchill at War is a look at the former British prime minister's life and career at the end of WWII. | read more on IMDB
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JFK (1991)The Story That Won't Go AwayA New Orleans DA discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story. read more on IMDB |
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Kingdom of Heaven (2005)Be without fear in the face of your enemies. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrongBalian of Ibelin travels to Jerusalem during the crusades of the 12th century, and there he finds himself as the defender of the city and its people. read more on IMDB |
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The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce (2008)Hunger Has No LimitEight men escape from the most isolated prison on earth. Only one man survives and the story he recounts shocks the British establishment to the core. This story is the last confession of Alexander Pearce. read more on IMDB |
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The Last Emperor (1987)He was the Lord of Ten Thousand Years, the absolute monarch of China. He was born to rule a world of ancient tradition. Nothing prepared him for our world of change.The story of the final Emperor of China. read more on IMDB |
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The Last Samurai (2003)In the face of an enemy, in the Heart of One Man, Lies the Soul of a Warrior.An American military advisor embraces the Samurai culture he was hired to destroy after he is captured in battle. read more on IMDB |
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Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup (2009)Does History Repeat Itself?read more on IMDB |
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Lucky Country (2009)One day, your luck runs out...1902....the Australian Federation is a year old. Twelve year-old Tom's beloved father, Nat, has dragged him and his sister... read more on IMDB |
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Luther (2003)Rebel. Genius. Liberator.During the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation. read more on IMDB
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The Man from the Alamo (1953)Out Of Texas' Bravest Hour... Came The Man They Called The CowardDuring the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help... read more on IMDB |
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)For the honor of a king. And the destiny of a country. All for one.The cruel King Louis XIV of France has a secret twin brother who he keeps imprisoned. Can the twin be substituted for the real king? read more on IMDB |
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Milk (2009)His life changed history. His courage changed lives.The story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California's first openly gay elected official. read more on IMDB
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Miracle (2004)What America needed was a miracle. What it got was a hockey game.Miracle tells the true story of Herb Brooks (Russell), the player-turned-coach who led the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team to victory over the seemingly invincible Russian squad. read more on IMDB |
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Munich (2006)The world was watching in 1972 as 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the Munich Olympics. This is the story of what happened next.Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day. read more on IMDB
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Nordwand (2008)read more on IMDB |
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Of Time and the City (2008)A filmmaker looks at the history and transformation of his birthplace, Liverpool, England. | read more on IMDB |
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Passchendaele (2008)in love, there is only one rule... don't die.The lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse girlfriend and a naive boy intersect first in Alberta and then in Belgium during the bloody World War I battle of Passchendaele. read more on IMDB
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Pathfinder (2007)Two Worlds, One War. The Ultimate Battle Begins.A Viking boy is left behind after his clan battles a Native American tribe. Raised within the tribe, he ultimately becomes their savior in a fight against the Norsemen. | read more on IMDB
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Public Enemies (2009)America's Most WantedThe Feds try to take down notorious American gangsters John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd during a booming crime wave in the 1930s. read more on IMDB |
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The Right Stuff (1983)By flying higher and faster than any other man had ever dared before, Chuck Yeager set the pace for a new breed of hero. Those that had just one thing in common...THE RIGHT STUFF.The original US Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program. read more on IMDB |
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Run for Your Life (2008)Without one eccentric first-generation Jewish immigrant from Transylvania, the New York City Marathon simply wouldn't exist... read more on IMDB |
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Schindler's List (1993)Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. read more on IMDB |
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Sharpe's Peril (2008)Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they... read more on IMDB |
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Sicko (2007)This might hurt a little.A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories. read more on IMDB
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The Soviet Story (2008)An Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews.The Soviet Story offers an alternative history of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. read more on IMDB
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Tobruk (2008)read more on IMDB
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True Women (1997)In the old west, men made the rules...and women broke them.True Women is a sweeping saga of love, war and adventure. Spanning five decades from the Texas Revolution through the Civil War... read more on IMDB
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The Untouchables (1987)The Chicago Dream is that bigFederal Agent Elliot Ness sets out to take out Al Capone; because of rampant corruption, he assembles a small, hand-picked team. read more on IMDB |
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Valkyrie (2008)Many saw evil. They dared to stop it.Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII. read more on IMDB
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The Voyage That Shook the WorldIf Darwin had known what we now know...In 1831 a young amateur scientist, Charles Darwin, boarded HMS Beagle on an epic five-year voyage of discovery... read more on IMDB | |
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We Were Soldiers (2002)Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it. read more on IMDB |
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Whisper IslandLost Gold, Lost Love, Last HopeIn pursuit of lost Civil War gold to save their fading ranch, two kids help an old woman solve the mystery of her past. read more on IMDB
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Winter of Frozen DreamsSex. Passion. Betrayal. Murder.Barbara Hoffman (Birch) is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling (Carradine) has to do is prove it. | read more on IMDB |
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"Strange Days on Planet Earth" (2005)In this confusing era, only one thing is certain: These are Strange Days on Planet EarthAround the globe, scientists are racing to solve a series of mysteries. Unsettling transformations are sweeping across the planet... read more on IMDB |
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"War and Peace" (2007)The story of five aristocratic families in Russia during the the Napoleonic Era. read more on IMDB |
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Yip Man (2008)The celebrated Kung Fu master of Bruce Lee.A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial art of Wing Chun. | read more on IMDB
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The Young Victoria (2009)Love rules allA dramatization of the turbulent first years of Queen Victoria's rule, and her enduring romance with Prince Albert. | read more on IMDB |


































































