Movie List for "history 6"

The Water Diviner (2014)

An Australian man travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. Year 2014.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Russell Crowe
Writer: Andrew Knight, Andrew Anastasios
Actors: Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Yilmaz Erdogan, Cem Yilmaz

The Captain (2017)

In the last moments of World War II, a young German soldier fighting for survival finds a Nazi captain’s uniform. Impersonating an officer, the man quickly takes on the monstrous identity of the perpetrators he is trying to escape from. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History, War
Director: Robert Schwentke
Writer: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Max Hubacher, Alexander Fehling, Sebastian Rudolph, Max Thommes

The King (2019)

Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life. Year 2019.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Director: David Michôd
Writer: Joel Edgerton, David Michôd
Actors: Tom Glynn-Carney, Gábor Czap, Tom Fisher, Edward Ashley

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

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil’s island. Year 2019.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Roman Polanski
Writer: Robert Harris (original novel), Robert Harris (screenplay), Roman Polanski (screenplay)
Actors: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois

Ashes in the Snow (2018)

In 1941, a 16-year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin’s brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl’s passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history. Year 2018.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
Writer: Ben York Jones (screenplay by), Ben York Jones, Ruta Sepetys (based on the novel by)
Actors: Sophie Cookson, Bel Powley, Peter Franzén, Jonah Hauer-King

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

The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)

Israel’s Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1979. Year 2019.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Gideon Raff
Writer: Gideon Raff
Actors: Mbulelo Grootboom, Sizo Mahlangu, Michael Kenneth Williams, Masasa Mbangeni

Tulip Fever (2017)

An artist falls for a young married woman while he’s commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Justin Chadwick
Writer: Deborah Moggach (screenplay by), Tom Stoppard (screenplay by), Deborah Moggach (based upon the novel by)
Actors: Alicia Vikander, Dane DeHaan, Jack O’Connell, Holliday Grainger

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

The Command (2018)

The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Writer: Robert Rodat, Robert Moore (based on Robert Moore’s book “A Time to Die”)
Actors: Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, August Diehl

Dark Waters (2019)

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution. Year 2019.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Todd Haynes
Writer: Nathaniel Rich (based on The New York Times magazine article “The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare” by), Mario Correa (screenplay), Matthew Michael Carnahan (screenplay)
Actors: Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman

Hotel Mumbai (2018)

The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to protect themselves and their families. Year 2018.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Anthony Maras
Writer: John Collee, Anthony Maras
Actors: Amandeep Singh, Suhail Nayyar, Manoj Mehra, Dinesh Kumar

Clinical (2017)

A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history. Year 2017.

Generes: Horror, Thriller
Director: Alistair Legrand
Writer: Luke Harvis, Alistair Legrand
Actors: Vinessa Shaw, Kevin Rahm, India Eisley, Aaron Stanford

Outlaw King (2018)

A true David vs. Goliath story of how the 14th century Scottish ‘Outlaw King’ Robert the Bruce used cunning and bravery to defeat the much larger and better equipped occupying English army. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Director: David Mackenzie
Writer: Bathsheba Doran (screenplay by), David Mackenzie (screenplay by), James MacInnes (screenplay by), David Harrower (additional writing by), Mark Bomback (additional writing by)
Actors: Chris Pine, Stephen Dillane, Rebecca Robin, Billy Howle

Indu Sarkar (2017)

Indu Sarkar is set during the emergency period between 1975 to 1977 declared by Prime Minister Indra Gandhi. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Madhur Bhandarkar
Writer: Madhur Bhandarkar (story screenplay), Sanjay Chhel (dialogue), Kapil Chopra (additional screenplay), Anil Pandey (story screenplay)
Actors: Kirti Kulhari, Tota Roy Chowdhury, Neil Nitin Mukesh, Ankur Vikal