Genre: History
1066 content found
The Lion in Winter 1968

1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. When he allows his imprisoned wife Eleanor of Aquitaine out for a Christmas visit, they all variously plot to force him into a decision.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins

7.9 IMDB Rating 14 Views
Lost Cities with Albert Lin 2019–

Utilizing ground-penetrating radar, LiDar and 3D scanning, Lin will work with boots-on-the-ground archaeologists to discover and re-create unexcavated worlds still hidden beneath the earth.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Albert Yu-Min Lin, Duncan Lees, Joseph Angelo Steel

7.6 IMDB Rating 104 Views
Hem till Midgård 2003–2004

A Swedish show concerning the fates of some dorky Swedish Vikings. The show is mainly about a viking called Lill-Snorre and his friends, including Tyke Mörbult who has a below average IQ, to put it mildly. How will they survive? A sm

Category: Action, Comedy, History

Stars: Fredde Granberg, Sara Sommerfeld, Marko Lehtosalo

7.4 IMDB Rating 22,881 Views
Vienna Blood 2019–

Max Liebermann, a medical student and protegé of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around 1900s Vienna.

Category: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Matthew Beard, Juergen Maurer, Luise von Finckh

7.6 IMDB Rating 15,929 Views
They Came to Cordura 1959

An army major, himself guilty of cowardice, is asked to recommend soldiers for the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Mexican Border Incursion of 1916.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History, War

Stars: Gary Cooper, Rita Hayworth, Van Heflin

6.4 IMDB Rating 60 Views
Queen of the Desert 2015

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson

5.7 IMDB Rating 6,408 Views
The Silent Enemy 1958

During WW2, Italian Navy divers use underwater chariots to mine the keels of British warships, forcing the British to send underwater demolition expert Lionel Crabbe and his team to counter these enemy actions.

Category: Action, Biography, History, War

Stars: Laurence Harvey, Dawn Addams, Michael Craig

6.6 IMDB Rating 83 Views
Odette 1950

During WW2, a French woman living in England volunteers to work for British Intelligence in Nazi-occupied France.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Anna Neagle, Trevor Howard, Marius Goring

6.8 IMDB Rating 70 Views
The Colditz Story 1955

Allied prisoners - British, Dutch, French and Polish - pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from the "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle known as "Colditz".

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: John Mills, Eric Portman, Christopher Rhodes

6.9 IMDB Rating 62 Views
The Alto Knights 2025

Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, a pair of Italian Americans who were rivals for control of a major crime family in the mid-20th century. Genovese attempted to assassinate Costello in 1957, although Costello retired from the mob.

Category: Biography, Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Robert De Niro, Cosmo Jarvis, Debra Messing

5.7 IMDB Rating 1,050 Views
Oklahoma City Bombing: One Day in America 2025

A gripping, extraordinary account of the deadliest domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history, told only by those who lived through it.

Category: Documentary, History, TV Mini

Stars: Edye Lucas, Amy Downs, Robin Marsh

7.6 IMDB Rating 602 Views
House of David 2025–

The once-mighty King Saul falls victim to his own pride, as an outcast shepherd boy, David is anointed as the second king.

Category: History

Stars: Michael Iskander, Bahia Haifi, Petros Triandafyllopoulos

7.3 IMDB Rating 6,800 Views
The Girl with the Needle 2024

Copenhagen 1919: A young worker finds herself unemployed and pregnant. She meets Dagmar, who runs an underground adoption agency. A strong connection grows but her world shatters when she stumbles on the shocking truth behind her work.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri

7.3 IMDB Rating 1,002 Views
The Innocents 2016

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza

7.3 IMDB Rating 366 Views
Israel and the Palestinians: The Road to 7th October 2025-

World leaders and their top advisers tell the inside story of two decades of conflict that saw diplomacy fail and Hamas's power grow, leading up to the attacks of 7th October 2023.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Ismail Haniyeh, Khalid Mish'al, Ivanno Jeremiah

7.2 IMDB Rating 449 Views
The True Story of Pirates 2023

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of international scholars paint a new portrait of the world of piracy in the Indian Ocean.

Category: Biography, History

Stars: Anna Flori-Lamour, Martin Mares

7.1 IMDB Rating 627 Views
William Tell 2024

The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century amidst the days of the Holy Roman Empire where Europe's nations fiercely vie for supremacy and the ambitious Austrians, desiring more land, encroach upon Switzerland, a serene and pastoral...

Category: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War

Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Claes Bang, Connor Swindells

5.7 IMDB Rating 1,284 Views
Napoléon 2002

A masterful soldier, tactician, and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte, with courage and love for his country, rises from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe. But his life ends with a fall and exile.

Category: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic, War

Stars: Christian Clavier, Isabella Rossellini, Gérard Depardieu

7.3 IMDB Rating 359 Views
Prison Chronicles 2024

Inside the history and inner workings of prisons; covering institutions from the Tower of London to the high-tech ADX through interviews with journalists, former correctional officers and previously incarcerated individuals.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Xavier Cadeau

1,807 Views
Markisinnan de Sade 1992

Ingmar Bergman's staging at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. While the Marquis De Sade is in prison on charges of crimes of gross perversion, his faithful wife Renee awaits him. Despite all the horrors her husband has committed, she believes that his evil is sacred. Her mother however does everything possible to ensure that the Marquis stays in prison.

Category: History

Stars: Stina Ekblad, Anita Björk, Marie Richardson

6.8 IMDB Rating 126 Views