Popular History Movies - Page 126
Bang Rajan
2000
Bang Rajan
2000
star 6.4Set right before the fall of Thailand's old capital, Ayuttaya, Bang Rajan draws on the legend of a village of fighters who bravely fended off the Burmese armies.Chushingura
1938
Chushingura
1938
star 7The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.Goebbels and the Führer
2024
star 6.7As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans for Total War and the Holocaust. When the war is lost, he conceives his last staging, the most radical propaganda act still possible to him.The Talking Caftan
1969
The Talking Caftan
1969
star 8The 16th century Kecskemét troubled by both the Kurutses and the Labancs would like a Bey from the Buda pasha to defend them in exchange for four beautiful girls, but only gets a caftan. It was a good deal, however. All Muslims fall on their knees when they see the magic caftan and fulfil its owner's wish.The Last Four Days
1974
The Last Four Days
1974
star 6.3In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.Feng Shui
2018
Feng Shui
2018
star 7.2Park Jae-sang was a royal geomancer, who helps people designate propitious site for houses, store and even graves under the belief that a grave in a good site will bring future fortune for descendants. But he loses his family because he exposed a conspiracy about crown Prince's grave site. Park Jae-sang plans to make a revenge of his family and learns that there is a much bigger conspiracy about propitious grave site; the place that would make grave owner's son the King of Joseon.Eighty-Four
2025
Eighty-Four
2025
In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the spectre of retaliatory violence looms over the Sikh community of an Old Delhi neighbourhood.Man to Men
1948
Man to Men
1948
star 4.9The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.A Hungarian Nabob
1966
A Hungarian Nabob
1966
star 7.4On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.The Age of Stupid
2009
The Age of Stupid
2009
star 6.6Pete Postlethwaite stars as a man living alone in the devastated future world of 2055, looking at old footage from 2008 and asking: why didn’t we stop climate change when we had the chance?Sarıkamış Çocukları
2017
Sarıkamış Çocukları
2017
star 10The film Sarıkamış Children tells the story of a group of children living in a village in 1915 who set out to fight on the front lines in harsh winter conditions. In 1915, two friends from the same village, Mehmet and Yusuf, have their fathers killed by bandits in Sarıkamış. The two boys' older brother is fighting on the Sarıkamış front. Determined to find a way to join their brothers at the front, Mehmet and Yusuf learn that a group of soldiers from their village is also being sent to the front. They decide to set out with this group to reach the front.The Lighthorsemen
1987
The Lighthorsemen
1987
star 6In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestine they rely on the Australian light horse regiment to break the deadlock.The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
1939
star 6.3This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.Camões
1946
Kesari Chapter 2: The Untold Story of Jallianwala Bagh
2025
star 7.2A dramatization of the life story of C. Sankaran Nair, the lawyer who fought for the truth behind the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.Farewell To You
1987
Farewell To You
1987
star 7September 1938. Tenants of a Budapest block of flats live their everyday lives, conducted by tradition. World politics does not divide them. Their major experience is the private life of the actress in the house.Dawn of the Nazis
2017
Dawn of the Nazis
2017
star 6How Germany was when its people entered the nightmare of World War II? Despair and fear lead a hungry population to follow the chilling call of just one man to world domination. A real-life horror story, an ominous tale of violence and deception, which takes place from 1919 to 1934. (Entirely made up of restored, colorized archival footage.)Babi Yar. Context
2021
Babi Yar. Context
2021
star 6.2Nazi troops massacre 30,000 Jews over a three-day period in September 1941. Babyn Yar ravine in Kyiv, Ukraine.Maharaj
2024
Maharaj
2024
star 6.8Based on a real-life historic court case, a bold journalist questions a revered leader's immoral behavior.The King of Kings
1927
The King of Kings
1927
star 6.4The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
