Movie List for "history 5"

Suffragette (2015)

In 1912 London, a young working mother is galvanized into radical political activism supporting the right for women to vote, and is willing to meet violence with violence to achieve this end. Year 2015.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Sarah Gavron
Writer: Abi Morgan
Actors: Anne-Marie Duff, Grace Stottor, Geoff Bell, Carey Mulligan

Land of Mine (2015)

In post-World War II Denmark, a group of young German POWs are forced to clear a beach of thousands of land mines under the watch of a Danish Sergeant who slowly learns to appreciate their plight. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Martin Zandvliet
Writer: Martin Zandvliet
Actors: Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard

History Of Blood (2010)

A killer bandit decides to become a politician in order to avenge deaths in his family. Year 2010.

Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director: Ram Gopal Varma
Writer: Shyamraj Dutta (lyrics), Sarim Momin (lyrics), Prashant Pandey (story & screenplay), Sandeep Singh (lyrics), Vayu (lyrics)
Actors: Vivek Oberoi, Shatrughan Sinha, Sudeep, Abhimanyu Singh

Colonia (2015)

A young woman’s desperate search for her abducted boyfriend draws her into the infamous Colonia Dignidad, a sect nobody has ever escaped from. Year 2015.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Director: Florian Gallenberger
Writer: Torsten Wenzel, Florian Gallenberger, Tom Kinninmont (additional script material by)
Actors: Emma Watson, Daniel Brühl, Michael Nyqvist, Richenda Carey

Stonewall (2015)

A young man’s political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Roland Emmerich
Writer: Jon Robin Baitz
Actors: Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beauchamp, Joey King, Caleb Landry Jones

The Eichmann Show (2015)

Dramatisation of the team hoping to televise the trial of Adolf Eichmann, an infamous Nazi responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews. It focuses on Leo Hurwitz, a documentary film-maker and Milton Fruchtman, a producer. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: Paul Andrew Williams
Writer: Simon Block
Actors: Martin Freeman, Anthony LaPaglia, Rebecca Front, Andy Nyman

Child 44 (2015)

A disgraced member of the Russian military police investigates a series of child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Year 2015.

Generes: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Daniel Espinosa
Writer: Richard Price (screenplay), Tom Rob Smith (novel)
Actors: Xavier Atkins, Mark Lewis Jones, Tom Hardy, Joel Kinnaman

Straight Outta Compton (2015)

The group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood. Year 2015.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Music
Director: F. Gary Gray
Writer: Jonathan Herman (screenplay), Andrea Berloff (screenplay), S. Leigh Savidge (story), Alan Wenkus (story), Andrea Berloff (story)
Actors: O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.

Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)

A group of ten young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300’s. Year 2015.

Generes: Comedy, Drama, History
Director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Writer: Giovanni Boccaccio (stories), Paolo Taviani (screenplay), Vittorio Taviani (screenplay)
Actors: Lello Arena, Paola Cortellesi, Carolina Crescentini, Flavio Parenti

In the Heart of the Sea (2015)

A recounting of a New England whaling ship’s sinking by a giant whale in 1820, an experience that later inspired the great novel Moby-Dick. Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Director: Ron Howard
Writer: Charles Leavitt (screenplay), Charles Leavitt (story), Rick Jaffa (story), Amanda Silver (story), Nathaniel Philbrick (book)
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson

Bridge of Spies (2015)

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Matt Charman, Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Actors: Mark Rylance, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, Mark Fichera

The Revenant (2015)

A frontiersman on a fur trading expedition in the 1820s fights for survival after being mauled by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Western
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu
Writer: Mark L. Smith (screenplay), Alejandro G. Iñárritu (screenplay), Michael Punke (based in part on the novel by)
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Poulter

The 33 (2015)

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days. Year 2015.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Patricia Riggen
Writer: Mikko Alanne (screenplay), Craig Borten (screenplay), Michael Thomas (screenplay), Jose Rivera (screen story), Hector Tobar (book)
Actors: Antonio Banderas, Rodrigo Santoro, Juliette Binoche, James Brolin

Ip Man 3 (2015)

When a band of brutal gangsters led by a crooked property developer make a play to take over a local school, Master Ip is forced to take a stand. Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History
Director: Wilson Yip
Writer: Tai-lee Chan, Lai-Yin Leung, Edmond Wong
Actors: Donnie Yen, Lynn Xiong, Jin Zhang, Mike Tyson

The Last Witch Hunter (2015)

The last witch hunter is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history. Year 2015.

Generes: Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Director: Breck Eisner
Writer: Cory Goodman, Matt Sazama, Burk Sharpless
Actors: Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, Elijah Wood, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson

Northern Wedding (2015)

Martin’s bug in Linda’s desk is discovered by accident. Martin and Linda spend some quality time together, when he reveals his real identity to her. Year 2015.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Director: Edward Berger
Writer: Andrea Willson, Anna LeVine, Anna LeVine (created by), Jörg Winger (created by)
Actors: Jonas Nay, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Noethen, Sylvester Groth