Maria Francisca, a wealthy young heiress and her friend Mariana De Castro, a young protestant widow, are accused of witchcraft and taken before the Spanish Inquisition of Lima, Peru. Year 2011.
| Generes: Drama, History, Horror |
| Director: Jac Avila |
| Writer: Jac Avila |
| Actors: Amy Hesketh, Mila Joya, Roberto Lopez, Alejandro Loayza |
12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Year 2018.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Nicolai Fuglsig |
| Writer: Ted Tally, Peter Craig, Doug Stanton (based on the book, “Horse Soldiers” by) |
| Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban |
Depicting Ted Kennedy’s involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne. Year 2017.
| Generes: Drama, History, Thriller |
| Director: John Curran |
| Writer: Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan |
| Actors: Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern |
The next amazing chapter of Olympian and World War II hero Louis Zamperini’s powerful true story of forgiveness, redemption, and amazing grace. Year 2018.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Harold Cronk |
| Writer: Richard Friedenberg (screenplay by), Ken Hixon (screenplay by), Laura Hillenbrand (based on the book “Unbroken” by) |
| Actors: Samuel Hunt, Merritt Patterson, Bobby Campo, David Sakurai |
The story of the last year and a half of Tsar Nicholas II and his family from the February Revolution of 1917 to their execution in July 1918. Year 2000.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Gleb Panfilov |
| Writer: Inna Churikova, Gleb Panfilov, Ivan Panfilov |
| Actors: Aleksandr Galibin, Lynda Bellingham, Vladimir Grachyov, Yuliya Novikova |
Third part in Aleksandr Sokurov’s quadrilogy of Power, following Moloch (1999) and Taurus (2001), focuses on Japanese Emperor Hirohito and Japan’s defeat in World War II when he is finally confronted by General Douglas MacArthur who offers him to accept a diplomatic defeat for survival. Year 2005.
| Generes: Drama, History |
| Director: Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Writer: Yuriy Arabov, Jeremy Noble |
| Actors: Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi, Shirô Sano |
A young swordsman in 1930’s China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes “Let The Bullets Fly” and “Gone With The Bullets.” Year 2018.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Wen Jiang |
| Writer: Beihai Zhang (novel), Wen Jiang (screenplay), Jiping He (screenplay), Fei Li (screenplay), Yue Sun (screenplay) |
| Actors: Eddie Peng, Fan Liao, Yun Zhou, Qing Xu |
The story of the Operation Bernhard, the largest counterfeiting operation in history, carried out by Germany during WWII. Year 2007.
| Generes: Crime, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Stefan Ruzowitzky |
| Writer: Adolf Burger (book), Stefan Ruzowitzky (screenplay) |
| Actors: Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach |
Father Alexander is trying to maintain peaceful life for his church amidst the Nazi occupation during WWII. Year 2009.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Vladimir Khotinenko |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Sergey Makovetskiy, Nina Usatova, Elizaveta Arzamasova, Kirill Pletnyov |
Europe, 1709. Russia and Sweden are at war. Two French duelists are exiled by King Louis XIV of France: one to the side of Czar Peter the Great of Russia, the other to the side of King … Year 2007.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, History, War |
| Director: Oleg Ryaskov |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov, Kseniya Knyazeva, Valeriy Malikov |
Based on a true story, North Face is a survival drama film about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the Alps. Set in 1936, as Nazi propaganda urges the nation’s … Year 2008.
| Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Sport |
| Director: Philipp Stölzl |
| Writer: Chris Silber, Philipp Stölzl, Rupert Henning, Johannes Naber, Benedikt Roeskau (story) |
| Actors: Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Florian Lukas, Simon Schwarz |
During China’s Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as wife. She has borne him two sons and raised his eldest. Now his control over his dominion is complete, including the royal family itself. Year 2006.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Yimou Zhang |
| Writer: Zhihong Bian, Yu Cao (play), Nan Wu, Yimou Zhang |
| Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Li Gong, Jay Chou, Ye Liu |
Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody war in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians. Year 2005.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Fedor Bondarchuk |
| Writer: Iskander Galiev, Yuriy Korotkov |
| Actors: Artur Smolyaninov, Aleksey Chadov, Konstantin Kryukov, Ivan Kokorin |
A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty. Year 2011.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Tao Hai, Wei Li, Guoqiang Tang, Li Zhang, Jackie Chan |
| Writer: Xingdong Wang (screenplay), Baoguang Chen (screenplay) |
| Actors: Jackie Chan, Winston Chao, Bingbing Li, Chun Sun |
Young Czech-Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, investigates a murder conspiracy in 1880’s Vienna. Year 2020–.
| Generes: Biography, Crime, History, Thriller |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Robert Finster, Ella Rumpf, Georg Friedrich, Christoph F. Krutzler |
A film about the investigations following the 1993 serial Bombay bomb blasts, told through the different stories of the people involved –police, conspirators, victims, middlemen. Year 2004.
| Generes: Action, Crime, Drama, History |
| Director: Anurag Kashyap |
| Writer: Anurag Kashyap (screenplay), Hussain Zaidi (book), Piyush Mishra (lyrics) |
| Actors: Kay Kay Menon, Pavan Malhotra, Aditya Srivastav, Dibyendu Bhattacharya |