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.
| Generes: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, War |
| Director: Marc Rothemund |
| Writer: Fred Breinersdorfer |
| Actors: Julia Jentsch, Alexander Held, Fabian Hinrichs, Johanna Gastdorf |
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights. Year 1938.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev |
| Writer: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Pyotr Pavlenko |
| Actors: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov |
A tyrannical ship captain takes his reluctant crew on a two-year voyage that will change British maritime law forever. Year 1935.
| Generes: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Frank Lloyd |
| Writer: Talbot Jennings (screenplay), Jules Furthman (screenplay), Carey Wilson (screenplay), Charles Nordhoff (book), James Norman Hall (book), Margaret Booth |
| Actors: Charles Laughton, Clark Gable, Franchot Tone, Herbert Mundin |
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.
| Generes: Drama, History, War |
| Director: Nikita Mikhalkov |
| Writer: Nikita Mikhalkov (dialogue), Rustam Ibragimbekov (dialogue), Rustam Ibragimbekov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (screenplay), Nikita Mikhalkov (story) |
| Actors: Oleg Menshikov, Nikita Mikhalkov, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Nadezhda Mikhalkova |
A super-stylized, surreal biography of Armenian troubadour Sayat Nova, whose life is depicted through non-narrative amalgamations of poetic images. Year 1969.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Music |
| Director: Sergei Parajanov |
| Writer: Sayat Nova (poems), Sergei Parajanov |
| Actors: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Alekyan, Vilen Galstyan, Gogi Gegechkori |
The story of a young revolutionary who raised an armed resistance against the British rule in India. Year 2002.
| Generes: Action, Biography, Drama, History |
| Director: Rajkumar Santoshi |
| Writer: Ranjit Kapoor (additional dialogue), Piyush Mishra (Hindi dialogue), Anjum Rajabali (English dialogue), Anjum Rajabali (screenplay), Rajkumar Santoshi (additional dialogue) |
| Actors: Ajay Devgn, Sushant Singh, D. Santosh, Akhilendra Mishra |
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.
| Generes: Drama, History, Mystery |
| Director: Michael Andres |
| Writer: Michael Andres (story), Michael Andres, Michael Andres |
| Actors: James Maher, Tracy Baumbach, Chadwick Baumbach, Travis Braz |
Behind the walls of a forbidden city, the only thing more dangerous than its secrets is the truth. Year 2016.
| Generes: Documentary, Drama, History, News, War |
| Director: Samira Goetschel |
| Writer: Samira Goetschel, Monique Zavistovski |
| Actors: Lavrenti Beria, Viktor Fetisov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Sergei Kirillov |
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.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance |
| Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini |
| Actors: Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Franco Merli, Tessa Bouché |
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.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, Romance |
| Director: Saul Dibb |
| Writer: Jeffrey Hatcher (screenplay), Anders Thomas Jensen (screenplay), Saul Dibb (screenplay), Amanda Foreman (book) |
| Actors: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Charlotte Rampling, Dominic Cooper |
The people of a small village in Victorian India stake their future on a game of cricket against their ruthless British rulers. Year 2001.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, Musical, Sport |
| Director: Ashutosh Gowariker |
| Writer: Ashutosh Gowariker (story), Ashutosh Gowariker (screenplay), Kumar Dave (screenplay), Sanjay Dayma (screenplay), K.P. Saxena (dialogue) |
| Actors: Aamir Khan, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley, Paul Blackthorne |
Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II. Year 1963.
| Generes: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller, War |
| Director: John Sturges |
| Writer: Paul Brickhill (book), James Clavell (screenplay), W.R. Burnett (screenplay) |
| Actors: Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Donald |
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.
| Generes: Biography, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Mel Gibson |
| Writer: Randall Wallace |
| Actors: James Robinson, Sean Lawlor, Sandy Nelson, James Cosmo |
In November 1941, remaining squad of Soviet soldiers must stop a column of Nazi Germany tanks. Year 2016.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Kim Druzhinin, Andrey Shalopa |
| Writer: Andrey Shalopa |
| Actors: Maksim Abrosimov, Sergey Agafonov, Pavel Aseev, Ivan Batarev |
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.
| Generes: Comedy, Drama, History |
| Director: Eldar Ryazanov |
| Writer: Grigori Gorin, Eldar Ryazanov |
| Actors: Evgeniy Leonov, Oleg Basilashvili, Valentin Gaft, Georgiy Burkov |
In the 13th century, an amnesiac soldier vows to get his revenge on the Mongol army that ransacked his village. Year 2017.
| Generes: Action, Drama, History, War |
| Director: Dzhanik Fayziev, Ivan Shurkhovetskiy |
| Writer: Dmitriy Paltsev, Dmitriy Raevskiy, Evgeniy Raevskiy, Sergey Yudakov |
| Actors: Ilya Malakov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Aleksandr Ilin, Timofey Tribuntsev |