Movie List for "history"

Jodhaa Akbar (2008) Action Drama History Movie

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
Director: Ashutosh Gowariker
Writer: Haidar Ali, Ashutosh Gowariker, K.P. Saxena
Actors: Hrithik Roshan, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Sonu Sood

Kaalapani (1996) Action Drama History Movie

Govardhan, a doctor by profession, is wrongly accused of bombing a train and is jailed by the British in Cellular Jail, also known as Kala Pani, in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. He witnesses the sufferings of hundreds of Indian… Year 1996.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Priyadarshan
Writer: T. Damodaran, Priyadarshan
Actors: Mohanlal, Amrish Puri, Prabhu

The Outpost (2019) Action Drama History Movie

A small team of U.S. soldiers battle against hundreds of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan. Year 2019.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Rod Lurie
Writer: Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Jake Tapper
Actors: Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom

The Best of Enemies (2019) Biography Drama History Movie

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. Year 2019.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Robin Bissell
Writer: Robin Bissell, Osha Gray Davidson
Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay

Rangoon (2017) Action Drama History Movie

Julia travels to the Indo-Burma border to perform for the troops during World War II on the insistence of her lover Billimoria, and ends up falling in love with a soldier there, Jemadar. Year 2017.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Vishal Bhardwaj
Writer: Matthew Robbins, Sabrina Dhawan, Vishal Bhardwaj
Actors: Kangana Ranaut, Shahid Kapoor, Saif Ali Khan

Hanussen (1988) Drama History Movie

A man’s story parallels Hitler’s rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that c… Year 1988.

Generes: Drama, History
Director: István Szabó
Writer: Péter Dobai, Erik Jan Hanussen, Paul Hengge
Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági

Sergio (2020) Biography Drama History Movie

A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career. Year 2020.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Greg Barker
Writer: Craig Borten, Samantha Power
Actors: Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O’Byrne

Titanic (1943) Action Drama History Movie

Third Reich’s Nazi propaganda epic about a heroic fictional German officer on board of the RMS Titanic. On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable ship hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean and starts to go down. Year 1943.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Herbert Selpin, Werner Klingler
Writer: Harald Bratt, Hansi Köck, Herbert Selpin
Actors: Sybille Schmitz, Hans Nielsen, Kirsten Heiberg

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017) Biography Drama History Movie

An African-American woman becomes an unwitting pioneer for medical breakthroughs when her cells are used to create the first immortal human cell line in the early 1950s. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: George C. Wolfe
Writer: Rebecca Skloot, Peter Landesman, Alexander Woo
Actors: Renée Elise Goldsberry, Sylvia Grace Crim, Reed Birney

Sher Shivraj (2022) Action Drama History Movie

One of the greatest and bravest incident from the life of The Great Maratha King Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj where he defeated Afzalkhan with his brilliant tactics and courage. Year 2022.

Generes: Action, Drama, History
Director: Digpal Lanjekar
Writer: Digpal Lanjekar
Actors: Chinmay Mandlekar, Mrinal Kulkarni, Mukesh Rishi

Andrei Rublev (1966) Biography Drama History Movie

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev. Year 1966.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer: Andrey Konchalovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky
Actors: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolay Grinko

Eiffel (2021) Biography Drama History Movie

The government is asking Eiffel to design something spectacular for the 1889 Paris World Fair, but Eiffel simply wants to design the subway. Suddenly, everything changes when Eiffel crosses paths with a mysterious woman from Arun’… Year 2021.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Martin Bourboulon
Writer: Caroline Bongrand, Thomas Bidegain, Natalie Carter
Actors: Romain Duris, Emma Mackey, Pierre Deladonchamps

The Road Home (1999) Drama History Romance Movie

Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback. Year 1999.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance
Director: Yimou Zhang
Writer: Shi Bao
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng

’83 (2021) Biography Drama History Movie

On June 25, 1983, the Lord’s Cricket Ground witnessed 14 men beat the two times World Champions West Indies, putting India back onto the cricket world stage. Year 2021.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History
Director: Kabir Khan
Writer: Sumit Arora, Vasan Bala, Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan
Actors: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Tahir Raj Bhasin

Maze (2017) Crime Drama History Movie

Inspired by the true events of the infamous 1983 prison breakout of 38 IRA prisoners from HMP, which was to become the biggest prison escape in Europe since World War II. Year 2017.

Generes: Crime, Drama, History
Director: Stephen Burke
Writer: Stephen Burke
Actors: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Barry Ward, Martin McCann