Genre: History
1014 content found
Ashley Madison: Sex, Lies & Cyber Attacks 2016

The shocking story of the Ashley Madison hacking scandal.

Category: Crime, Documentary, History

Stars: Rebecca Humphries, Noel Biderman, Louise Van Der Velde

5,2 IMDB Rating 7,417 Views
Union Bound 2019

He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Drew Seeley, Randy Wayne, Isaac C. Singleton Jr.

5,5 IMDB Rating 4,159 Views
The Best of Enemies 2019

Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the issue of school integration.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay

6,7 IMDB Rating 6,827 Views
The Greatest Game Ever Played 2005

In the 1913 US Open, 20-year-old Francis Ouimet played golf against his idol, 1900 US Open champion, Englishman Harry Vardon.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Elias Koteas

7,5 IMDB Rating 5,452 Views
The Accountant of Auschwitz 2018

Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Jeff Ansell, Hedy Bohm, Hans-Jürgen Brennecke

6,9 IMDB Rating 5,693 Views
Il primo re 2019

Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice, Fabrizio Rongione

7,2 IMDB Rating 6,254 Views
Shock and Awe 2018

A group of journalists covering former President George W. Bush's planned invasion of Iraq in 2003 are skeptical of the President's claim that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction."

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Woody Harrelson, James Marsden, Rob Reiner

5,8 IMDB Rating 6,115 Views
The Impossible 2012

A regular family - Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vacation until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them?

Category: Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Naomi Watts,Ewan McGregor,Tom Holland,Samuel Joslin

7.6 IMDB Rating 12,367 Views
The King’s Speech 2010

The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter

8,0 IMDB Rating 5,312 Views
Serena 2014

In Depression-era North Carolina, the future of George Pemberton's timber empire becomes complicated when he marries Serena.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Rhys Ifans

5,4 IMDB Rating 6,251 Views
Deadwood 2019

A show set in the late 1800s, revolving around the characters of Deadwood, South Dakota; a town of deep corruption and crime.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Robin Weigert, Brad Dourif

8.7 IMDB Rating 10,308 Views
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen 2018–

A look at the lives of iconic pioneers such as Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Tecumseh, Davy Crocket and Andrew Jackson as they traveled across America.

Category: History

Stars: Andrew Robertt, Robert I. Mesa, Ben Woollen

7.8 IMDB Rating 12,316 Views
The Libertine 2004

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Johnny Depp, Samantha Morton, John Malkovich

6,4 IMDB Rating 4,138 Views
A House Through Time 2018–2019

istorian David Olusoga charts 180 years of British history as lived by the successive inhabitants of a single home - a terraced house in Liverpool, from its construction in the 1840s to the present day.

Category: History, TV Mini

Stars: David Olusoga, Deborah Sugg Ryan, Gaynor Evans

8,4 IMDB Rating 7,088 Views
Mary Queen Of Scots 2018

Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Angela Bain, Richard Cant, Guy Rhys, Thom Petty

6.5 IMDB Rating 8,733 Views
Russian Ark 2002

An unseen man regains consciousness, not knowing who or where he is. No one seems to be able to see him, except the mysterious man dressed in black. He eventually learns through their discussions that this man is a 19th century French aristocrat, who he coins the "European". This turn of events is unusual as the unseen man has a knowledge of the present day. The two quickly learn that they are in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the European who has a comprehensive knowledge of Russian history to his time. As the two travel through the palace and its grounds, they interact with people from various eras of Russian history, either through events that have happened at the palace or through the viewing of artifacts housed in the museum. Ultimately, the unseen man's desired journey is to move forward, with or without his European companion.

Category: Drama, Fantasy, History

Stars: Sergey Dreyden,Mariya Kuznetsova,Leonid Mozgovoy,Mikhail Piotrovsky

7.4 IMDB Rating 7,284 Views
They Shall Not Grow Old 2018

A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Peter Jackson

8.4 IMDB Rating 10,126 Views
Mr. Turner 2014

Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Timothy Spall,Paul Jesson,Dorothy Atkinson,Marion Bailey

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,121 Views
Greyhound Attack 2019

In the early days of WWII, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first command of a U.S. destroyer, crosses the treacherous North Atlantic while hotly pursued by wolf packs of Nazi U-boats.

Category: History

Stars: Jezibell Anat, Ronald Blanton, Christopher Brophy, Christopher Carey

7,527 Views
Empire of the Sun 1987

Based on J. G. Ballard's autobiographical novel, tells the story of a boy, James Graham, whose privileged life is upturned by the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, December 8, 1941. Separated from his parents, he is eventually captured, and taken to Soo Chow confinement camp, next to a captured Chinese airfield. Amidst the sickness and food shortages in the camp, Jim attempts to reconstruct his former life, all the while bringing spirit and dignity to those around him.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers

7.8 IMDB Rating 7,640 Views