Popular History Movies

The Woman King
The Woman King
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
The Woman King 2022
William Tell
William Tell
The narrative unfolds in the 14th Century, when the European nations vie for supremacy within the Holy Roman Empire. The ambitious Austrian Empire, desiring more land, invades neighbouring Switzerland, a serene and pastoral nation. Protagonist William Tell, a formerly peaceful hunter, finds himself forced to take action as his family and homeland come under threat from the oppressive Austrian King and his ruthless warlords.
William Tell 2025
Chernobyl: Abyss
Chernobyl: Abyss
The aftermath of a shocking explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station made hundreds of people sacrifice their lives to clean up the site of the catastrophe and to successfully prevent an even bigger disaster that could have turned a large part of the European continent into an uninhabitable exclusion zone. This is their story.
Chernobyl: Abyss 2021
Miranda's Victim
Miranda's Victim
The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation.
Miranda's Victim 2023
Love, Lies
Love, Lies
Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn't last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool's first love and songwriter, falls in love with Yeon-hee and her voice. So-yool's feeling of jealousy and inferiority towards Yeon-hee grows by the day, and she eventually makes a drastic decision to bring the two lovers down.
Love, Lies 2016
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye after being falsely accused of treason.
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect 2022
ShadowMarsh
ShadowMarsh
When Jacob and his niece Piper are forced to move back to their old home, they slowly uncover the truth that the town has an ancient evil lurking in its Forest.
ShadowMarsh 2022
Stella. A Life.
Stella. A Life.
Stella, grows up in Berlin during the rule of the Nazi regime. She dreams of a career as a jazz singer, despite all the repressive measures she is forced to go into hiding with her parents in 1944, her life turns into a culpable tragedy.
Stella. A Life. 2024
Shogun
Shogun
An English navigator becomes both pawn and player in the deadly political games in feudal Japan.
Shogun 1981
Prisoner of War
Prisoner of War
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong prove him to be a formidable opponent.
Prisoner of War 2025
Joyeux Noel
Joyeux Noel
France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody no man's land that the French and the Scots dispute with the Germans…
Joyeux Noel 2006
Memoir Seorang Guru
Memoir Seorang Guru
Teacher Suman is adamant in not allowing his daughter Kamariah to follow in his footsteps as the field did not bring him blessings.
Memoir Seorang Guru 2024
The Yin Yang Master Zero
The Yin Yang Master Zero
During the Heian period, Abe no Seimei trains in magic but lacks interest, until a collaboration with Minamoto no Hiromasa arises to solve a strange phenomenon.
The Yin Yang Master Zero 2024
New Jin Pin Mei
New Jin Pin Mei
JIN PING MEI is a Chinese historical drama revolving around the relationship between a lecherous and ugly government official and the beautiful woman he seduces and turns into his concubine. A married woman named Chinny is tricked into becoming a concubine of the lecherous Simon. Simon then poisons Chinny's husband and imprisons her brother-in-law. When Simon steals another man's wife and kills him as well, we realize it's an addiction. While Chinny is mistreated by the other concubines, Simon has affairs with anything that movies.
New Jin Pin Mei 1996
Conquer: Lahad Datu
Conquer: Lahad Datu
When hundreds of militants invade eastern Sabah, the Royal Malaysia Police sends in an elite force to respond to the incursion.
Conquer: Lahad Datu 2024
The Smashing Machine
The Smashing Machine
In the late 1990s, up-and-coming mixed martial artist Mark Kerr aspires to become the greatest fighter in the world. However, he must also battle his opioid dependence and a volatile relationship with his girlfriend Dawn.
The Smashing Machine 2025
Go for Broke!
Go for Broke!
A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is.
Go for Broke! 1951
Hidden Blade
Hidden Blade
Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor when the Wang Jingwei regime declared war on Britain and the U.S.
Hidden Blade 2023
The Chinese Widow
The Chinese Widow
It’s 1941 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has destroyed America’s morale. The US President Franklin D. Roosevelt then decides to risk it all by bombing Tokyo and raise more hope for his citizens. After completing its mission, a unit of the US Air Force is forced to make an emergency landing in China. Its commander Jack Turner (Emilie Hirsch) barely survives but gets rescued by Ying (Crystal Liu), a local widow who will stop at nothing to hide him from the Japanese occupant.
The Chinese Widow 2018
A Hidden Life
A Hidden Life
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
A Hidden Life 2019
The Commandant's Shadow
The Commandant's Shadow
While Hans Jurgen Höss enjoyed a happy childhood in the family villa at Auschwitz, Jewish prisoner Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was trying to survive the notorious concentration camp. At the heart of this film is the historic and inspiring moment – eight decades later – when the two come face-to-face. This is the first time the descendant of a major war criminal meets a survivor in such a private and intimate setting, Anita’s London living room. Together with their children, Kai Höss and Maya Lasker-Wallfisch, the four protagonists explore their very different hereditary burdens.
The Commandant's Shadow 2024
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thousands of works of art that were meticulously catalogued.
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood 2021
2 Below 0
2 Below 0
It’s the bitterly cold Winter of 1979 as Rusty types furiously in his trailer. His fiancé had just left him at the alter and in response, Rusty uproots himself from Minnesota and relocates to the middle of nowhere. He’s not completely alone for Alice, whom he refuses to accept has left his side, stands nearby in the form of a mannequin. Rusty’s new utopia is soon disturbed by Babs, Ruth-Ann and Fran; three local bullies who develop a jealous streak towards Alice. Their reconnaissance mission begins and the snowballs soon fly as the temperature plunges ‘2 Below 0’!
2 Below 0 2019
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Ascent
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Ascent
Examining Adolf Hitler's rise to becoming chancellor and Fuhrer of Germany.
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Ascent 2023
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Austrian
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Austrian
Examining the beginning of Adolf Hitler's rise in popularity.
Hitler: The Lost Tapes of the Third Reich: The Austrian 2023
The Founding of a Republic
The Founding of a Republic
The tale of one man who fought against the tyranny of a ruler and led his people in battle in the ultimate sacrifice for his country.
The Founding of a Republic 2009
Qian Tang River
Qian Tang River
One river, three generations, countless failures. In the late 1950s, a group of people living along the Qiantang River fought against fearsome tides for their respective beliefs.
Qian Tang River 2025
Romance of the West Chamber
Romance of the West Chamber
Cheung, a 23-year-old unmarried travelling scholar, stops by the monastery, where he sees a beautiful woman. Against the rules, Monk Faben allows Cheung to stay and woo the girl, Ann-Ann. She is shy, and also the Prime Minister's daughter, so the wooing is arranged by Ann-Ann's maid Hung.
Romance of the West Chamber 1997
Nuremberg
Nuremberg
In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.
Nuremberg 2025
Vivo o muerto: El expediente García
Vivo o muerto: El expediente García
Amidst the uncertainty caused by the alleged suicide of former president Alan García, journalist Carmen Ríos initiates an intense search aiming to unravel the mystery surrounding the case and answer the pressing question still lingering in the minds of all of Peru: Is Alan García alive or dead?
Vivo o muerto: El expediente García 2024
Chhaava
Chhaava
Shivaji's death sparks the Maratha-Mughal conflict. His son Sambhaji leads resistance against Aurangzeb's forces. Amid battles and intrigue, both sides face challenges in a struggle for power.
Chhaava 2025
Thangalaan
Thangalaan
During the British rule, Thangalaan, a fierce tribal leader, and his tribe assist Lord Clement, a British General, to trace gold in their village. While searching for the gold, the villagers earn the wrath of Aarathi, an apparent sorceress, who Thangalaan sets out to stop with all his might.
Thangalaan 2024
Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho
Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho
A woman calling herself Princess Oryu enters the woman's prison. She is Kasumi, the daughter of the famous magistrate, Ooka Echizen, who slowly after hearing each of the prisoner's stories begins to realize the mystery that lies behind what it could be a big conspiracy.
Musume Bugyo On-na Ro Hisho 1995
Lincoln
Lincoln
The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the war, unite the country and abolish slavery. With the moral courage and fierce determination to succeed, his choices during this critical moment will change the fate of generations to come.
Lincoln 2012
Cinderella Man
Cinderella Man
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.
Cinderella Man 2005
Resurrection
Resurrection
In Resurrection, Jesus’ followers are hunted, leaderless and desperately searching for understanding, but when Jesus rises from the dead, they realize that hope didn’t die on the cross. It lives on in them. One man changed the world and brought hope in a time of despair.
Resurrection 2021
Stockholm Bloodbath
Stockholm Bloodbath
In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish crown from Sten Sture, no matter what it takes. Meanwhile, sisters Freja and Anne make a solemn promise to seek revenge on the men who brutally murdered their family. Everything comes to a head in the heart of Stockholm, where the sisters are drawn into a ruthless political struggle between Sweden and Denmark that culminates in a mass execution, presided over by the mad King "Christian the Tyrant," known as the Stockholm Bloodbath.
Stockholm Bloodbath 2024
Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
Julius Caesar 2002
Cris Miró (She/Her/Hers)
Cris Miró (She/Her/Hers)
The original biopic series that tells the story of the first Argentine trans woman to become famous as a star.
Cris Miró (She/Her/Hers) 2024
Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.
Oppenheimer 2024
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