Movie List for "history"

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

Stan & Ollie (2018)

Laurel and Hardy, the world’s most famous comedy duo, attempt to reignite their film careers as they embark on what becomes their swan song – a grueling theatre tour of post-war Britain. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Drama, History
Director: Jon S. Baird
Writer: Jeff Pope, ‘A.J.’ Marriot (inspired by the book ‘Laurel & Hardy – The British Tours’ by)
Actors: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly, Shirley Henderson, Nina Arianda

Elvis & Nixon (2016)

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n Roll, and President Richard Nixon, resulting in this revealing, yet humorous moment immortalized in the most requested photograph in the National Archives. Year 2016.

Generes: Comedy, History
Director: Liza Johnson
Writer: Joey Sagal (screenplay), Hanala Sagal (screenplay), Cary Elwes (screenplay)
Actors: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville

Stockholm (2018)

Based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Stockholm that was documented in the New Yorker as the origins of the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Director: Robert Budreau
Writer: Robert Budreau
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Noomi Rapace, Mark Strong, Christopher Heyerdahl

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

12 Strong (2018)

12 Strong tells the story of the first Special Forces team deployed to Afghanistan after 9/11; under the leadership of a new captain, the team must work with an Afghan warlord to take down the Taliban. Year 2018.

Generes: Action, Drama, History, War
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
Writer: Ted Tally, Peter Craig, Doug Stanton (based on the book, “Horse Soldiers” by)
Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban

Chappaquiddick (2017)

Depicting Ted Kennedy’s involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne. Year 2017.

Generes: Drama, History, Thriller
Director: John Curran
Writer: Taylor Allen, Andrew Logan
Actors: Jason Clarke, Kate Mara, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern

Sweet Country (2017)

Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defense and goes on the run as a posse gathers to hunt him down. Year 2017.

Generes: Adventure, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Director: Warwick Thornton
Writer: David Tranter (screenplay by), Steven McGregor (screenplay by)
Actors: Hamilton Morris, Shanika Cole, Ewen Leslie, Sam Neill

Frantz (2016)

In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé’s grave to lay flowers. Year 2016.

Generes: Drama, History, Romance, War
Director: François Ozon
Writer: François Ozon (scenario), Philippe Piazzo (in collaboration with), Ernst Lubitsch (movie “Broken Lullaby”)
Actors: Pierre Niney, Paula Beer, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber

Red Joan (2018)

The story of Joan Stanley (Dame Judi Dench), who was exposed as the K.G.B.’s longest-serving British spy. Year 2018.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Director: Trevor Nunn
Writer: Lindsay Shapero (screenplay), Jennie Rooney (novel)
Actors: Judi Dench, Nina Sosanya, Laurence Spellman, Nicola Sloane

The Best of Enemies (2019)

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 (inspired by true events chronicled in ‘The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South’ by)
Actors: Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, Babou Ceesay, Anne Heche

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

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down The White House (2017)

The story of Mark Felt, who under the name “Deep Throat” helped journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the Watergate scandal in 1972. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Director: Peter Landesman
Writer: Mark Felt (based on the books by), John D. O’Connor (based on the books by), Peter Landesman
Actors: Liam Neeson, Diane Lane, Marton Csokas, Tony Goldwyn

Marshall (2017)

The story of Thurgood Marshall, the crusading lawyer who would become the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, as he battles through one of his career-defining cases. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Director: Reginald Hudlin
Writer: Michael Koskoff, Jacob Koskoff
Actors: Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown

The Wizard of Lies (2017)

The fall of Bernie Madoff, whose Ponzi scheme robbed $65 billion from unsuspecting victims; the largest fraud in U.S. history. Year 2017.

Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama
Director: Barry Levinson
Writer: Sam Levinson (screenplay), John Burnham Schwartz (screenplay), Samuel Baum (screenplay), Diana Henriques (book), Laurie Sandell (book)
Actors: Robert De Niro, Diana Henriques, Nathan Darrow, Alessandro Nivola