History Movies

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1530, a tribe rejected a light-eyed Indian woman. In the present, a woman's recurring dreams reveal her mystery in a divided country.

In November 2023, amidst the height of a global AI boom, OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever teamed with the company board to make one of the defining...

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

After being blinded in a coup against the king, Joseon's greatest swordsman goes into hiding, far removed from his city's anguish. But when...

A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

When the Iron Curtain cuts his tiny German village in half, Peter the bull gets separated from his 36 cows. Based on a true story narrated by...

There is a writer who in the late 1970s managed to publish a poem in the monthly "Nowy Wyraz". It was enough to become a self-confessed writer whose...

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The...

The story of this film is a loose adaptation of a novel of the same name written by Ruhollah Rashidi and narrates the attachments of a building...

From his beginnings in real estate to his rise to power, this is the story of Silvio Berlusconi's two decades of ascension, during which he radically...

The life of Émilie du Châtelet, mathematician and physicist during the Enlightenment.

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward...

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and...

After befriending documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, former Indonesian death squad leaders reenact their real-life mass killings in the style of...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring...

A young woman is forced to return to the conservative small town where her bizarre family lives to take care of her mother, having to deal with the...

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.