A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II. Year 1987.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Steven Spielberg |
| Writer: Tom Stoppard (screenplay), J.G. Ballard (novel) |
| Actors: Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers |
N/A Year 1988.
| Generes: Documentary, History |
| Director: Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Aleksandr Sokurov, Joseph Stalin |
A sixteenth century love story about a marriage of alliance that gave birth to true love between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha. Year 2008.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Ashutosh Gowariker |
| Writer: Haidar Ali (story), Haidar Ali (screenplay), Ashutosh Gowariker (screenplay), K.P. Saxena (dialogue), Rajshri Sudhakar (Dialogue Writer: Telugu) |
| Actors: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood, Poonam Sinha |
At the turn of the century, a young Russian cadet falls in love with an American beauty, endangering his career and even their lives. Year 1998.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov (story), Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay), Rospo Pallenberg (in cooperation with) |
| Actors: Julia Ormond, Oleg Menshikov, Aleksey Petrenko, Richard Harris |
Second and final part of epic tale about a legendary battle that changed the course of China history. Year 2009.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, History, War |
| Director: John Woo |
| Writer: John Woo (screenplay), Khan Chan (screenplay), Cheng Kuo (screenplay), Heyu Sheng (screenplay), Guanzhong Luo (novel) |
| Actors: Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang |
A soldier fights to gain recognition for comrades who died during the Chinese Civil War. Year 2007.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Xiaogang Feng |
| Writer: Heng Liu, Jingyuan Yang (original novel) |
| Actors: Hanyu Zhang, Chao Deng, Wenkang Yuan, Yan Tang |
An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord. Year 2017.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Crime, History |
| Director: Jason Kwan, Jing Wong, Aman Chang(co-director) |
| Writer: Koon-Nam Lui (screenplay), Jing Wong, Ming-Ho Yip (screenplay) |
| Actors: Donnie Yen, Andy Lau, Philip Keung, Wilfred Lau |
An American finds refuge during the 1937 Japanese invasion of Nanking in a church with a group of women. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety. Year 2011.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Yimou Zhang |
| Writer: Heng Liu (screenplay), Geling Yan (novel) |
| Actors: Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang, Tianyuan Huang |
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart’s talent and claimed to have murdered him. Year 1984.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Music |
| Director: Milos Forman |
| Writer: Peter Shaffer (original stage play), Peter Shaffer (original screenplay) |
| Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice |
When a leprous winery owner in 1930s China dies a few days after his arranged marriage, his young widow is forced to run the winery to make a living while contending with bandits, her drunkard lover, and the invading Japanese army. Year 1988.
| Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Yimou Zhang |
| Writer: Jianyu Chen, Yan Mo (books), Wei Zhu |
| Actors: Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Teng, Ji Liu |
Five friends go out to war and promise each other to be back for Christmas. Year 2013.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: N/A |
| Writer: N/A |
| Actors: Volker Bruch, Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Miriam Stein |
In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. Year 1972.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Werner Herzog |
| Writer: Werner Herzog |
| Actors: Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra |
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 |
China, 1860s: Having his army slaughtered, General Qingyun joins 2 bandit leaders in raids on rebels and in blood oath. They form a Qing loyal army with eyes on rebel held Suzhou and Nanjing. Year 2007.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Romance, War |
| Director: Peter Ho-Sun Chan, Wai-Man Yip(co-director) |
| Writer: Tin Nam Chun (screenplay), Junli Guo (screenplay), Jiping He (screenplay), Jianxin Huang (screenplay), Yuet-Jan Hui (screenplay), Oi Wah Lam (screenplay), Lan Xu (screenplay), James Yuen (screenplay) |
| Actors: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu |
During WW2 the Russian Army sent a special group named “Zvezda” to fight the Nazis in their backyard. Year 2002.
| Generes: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Nikolay Lebedev |
| Writer: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Evgeniy Grigorev, Emmanuil Kazakevich (short story), Nikolay Lebedev |
| Actors: Igor Petrenko, Artyom Semakin, Aleksey Panin, Aleksey Kravchenko |
An indigenous clan-based people living in harmony with nature find their way of life threatened when violent interlopers from another culture arrive, intent on seizing their natural resources and enslaving them. Year 2011.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History |
| Director: Te-Sheng Wei |
| Writer: Te-Sheng Wei (screenplay) |
| Actors: Nolay Piho, Chih-Hsiang Ma, Masanobu Andô, Sabu Kawahara |