Movie List for "history"

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati’s beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar. Year 2018.

The film offers an alternative version of the fight between two legendary Chekavars from Chanthu’s perspective. Year 1989.

A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose. Year 2005.

The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. Year 1938.

A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever. Year 1935.

In the Soviet Union in 1936, shadow of Stalin’s repressions lie on a famous revolution hero. The accusations of being him a foreign spy are nonsense, and all known that, but a slow process of his life’s downfall is already running. Year 1994.

A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images. Year 1969.

The story of a young revolutionary who raised an armed resistance against the British rule in India. Year 2002.

Mein Kampf’s powerful influence on a modern American woman affects her mental perception of herself to the point that she assumes the personage of Hitler’s mistress Eva Braun, and is … Year 2014.

Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth. Year 2016.

Ancient Arabia. A youth is chosen by a beautiful slave girl to be her new master; she is kidnapped and they must search for each other. Stories are told within stories; love, travel and the whims of destiny. Year 1974.

A chronicle of the life of 18th-century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. Year 2008.

Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Year 1963.

Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England. Year 1995.

In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks. Year 2016.

The arrival of a hussar regiment stirs a small town into life. The love of cornet Pletnev for the young actress Nastenka unexpectedly intertwines with the machinations of Merzlyayev, an … Year 1981.