Genre: History
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Fuglene over sundet 2016

Fuglene Over Sundet is the gripping tale of the Danish Jews' escape to Sweden in October 1943.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: David Dencik, Danica Curcic, Jakob Cedergren

6.3 IMDB Rating 1,507 Views
Guldkysten 2015

The Gold Coast (Guldkysten), is a dense and visceral exploration of a dark time in European history, namely the Danish involvement in the slave trade on the African coast during the 1830s. Undoubtedly a politically charged affair, this film is also an intense portrait of obsession and individual morality.

Category: Drama, History, Romantic

Stars: Jakob Oftebro,Danica Curcic,John Aggrey,Luise Skov

5.3 IMDB Rating 3,707 Views
Into the Darkness 2020

Denmark, April 9th, 1940. Danish industrialist (portrayed by Jesper Christensen of James Bond fame) , cooperates and profits from the German occupation of Denmark. While his family finds themselves on opposite sides of the conflict.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Bodil Jørgensen, Mads Reuther, Gustav Dyekjær Giese

6.5 IMDB Rating 3,163 Views
The Laramie Project 2002

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Christina Ricci, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Chalfant

7.1 IMDB Rating 566 Views
Bajirao Mastani 2015

An account of the romance between the Maratha general, Baji Rao I and Mastani, princess of Bundelkhand.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone, Priyanka Chopra Jonas

7.2 IMDB Rating 4,373 Views
21
21 2008

"21" is the fact-based story about six MIT students who were trained to become experts in card counting and subsequently took Vegas casinos for millions in winnings.

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey

6.8 IMDB Rating 6,877 Views
Dark Side Of The Ring 2019–

From backstage controversies to mysterious deaths and unsolved homicides, this series explores the darkest stories from the golden age of professional wrestling, and tries to find truth at the intersection of fantasy and reality.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Dutch Mantell, Bruce Prichard, James E. Cornette

9,3 IMDB Rating 14,936 Views
One Night with the King 2006

In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble

6.0 IMDB Rating 5,280 Views
Cadillac Records 2008

Chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé

7.0 IMDB Rating 5,477 Views
The Knick

A look at the professional and personal lives of the staff at New York's Knickerbocker Hospital during the early part of the twentieth century. Every day they must deal with lack of funding, personal conflicts, egotism, racial tensions, personal vices, drug addiction, affairs, closed minds, dated nigh-medieval medical techniques and them and their experimental new techniques being misunderstood by most, in order to keep the hospital going and give the ill the help they need. The pressure is enormous and leaves its mark on the souls of most of them.

Category: Drama, History

8.5 IMDB Rating 19,882 Views
The Last Kingdom: Seven Kings Must Die 2023

In the wake of King Edward's death, Uhtred of Bebbanburg and his comrades adventure across a fractured kingdom in the hopes of uniting England at last.

Category: Action, Drama, History

Stars: Alexander Dreymon, Mark Rowley, Arnas Fedaravicius

9.5 IMDB Rating 3,996 Views
Kagemusha 1980

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara

7.9 IMDB Rating 588 Views
The Promise 2016

Set during the last days of the Ottoman Empire, The Promise follows a love triangle between Michael, a brilliant medical student, the beautiful and sophisticated Ana, and Chris - a renowned American journalist based in Paris.

Category: Drama, History

5,9 IMDB Rating 5,253 Views
Barry Lyndon 1975

In the Eighteenth Century, in a small village in Ireland, Redmond Barry is a young farm boy in love with his cousin Nora Brady. When Nora gets engaged to the British Captain John Quin, Barry challenges him to a duel of pistols. He wins and escapes to Dublin but is robbed on the road. Without an alternative, Barry joins the British Army to fight in the Seven Years War. He deserts and is forced to join the Prussian Army where he saves the life of his captain and becomes his protégé and spy of the Irish gambler Chevalier de Balibari. He helps Chevalier and becomes his associate until he decides to marry the wealthy Lady Lyndon. They move to England and Barry, in his obsession of nobility, dissipates her fortune and makes a dangerous and revengeful enemy.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History

Stars: Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Hardy Krüger

8.1 IMDB Rating 6,122 Views
Darkest Hour 2017

In May 1940, the fate of Western Europe hangs on British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Adolf Hitler, or fight on knowing that it could mean a humiliating defeat for Britain and its empire.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Gary Oldman, Lily James, Kristin Scott Thomas

7.4 IMDB Rating 8,115 Views
Sobibor 2018

"Sobibor" is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible - to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died - the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: "Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality"

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska

6.3 IMDB Rating 9,825 Views
Letters from Iwo Jima 2006

The island of Iwo Jima stands between the American military force and the home islands of Japan. Therefore the Imperial Japanese Army is desperate to prevent it from falling into American hands and providing a launching point for an invasion of Japan. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi is given command of the forces on the island and sets out to prepare for the imminent attack. General Kuribayashi, however, does not favor the rigid traditional approach recommended by his subordinates, and resentment and resistance fester among his staff. In the lower echelons, a young soldier, Saigo, a poor baker in civilian life, strives with his friends to survive the harsh regime of the Japanese army itself, all the while knowing that a fierce battle looms. When the American invasion begins, both Kuribayashi and Saigo find strength, honor, courage, and horrors beyond imagination.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Ken Watanabe,Kazunari Ninomiya,Tsuyoshi Ihara,Ryo Kase,Shidô Nakamura,Hiroshi Watanabe,Takumi Bando,Yuki Matsuzaki,Takashi Yamaguchi,Eijiro Ozaki,Nae,Nobumasa Sakagami,Lucas Elliot Eberl,Sonny Saito,Steve Santa Sekiyoshi

7.9 IMDB Rating 8,183 Views
Elvira Madigan 1967

Hedvig Jensen is a famous ropewalker and is known to her public as Elvira Madigan. She meets Lieutenant Sixten Sparre, a Swedish officer who is married and has two children. They both decide to run away, but since Sixten deserted the army, he cannot find any job and the couple encounters many hardships. Moreover, while on the run, Sixten meets a friend who tries to convince him to come back to his country and family.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Pia Degermark,Thommy Berggren,Lennart Malmer,Cleo Jensen

7.6 IMDB Rating 2,930 Views
The Post 2017

A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between the press and the government.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Meryl Streep,Tom Hanks,Sarah Paulson,Bob Odenkirk

7.5 IMDB Rating 7,654 Views
Stephen 2021

The story of the ongoing struggle by Doreen and Neville Lawrence to achieve justice and how a detective, DCI Clive Driscoll - working closely with the Lawrences - puts together an investigation that finally - more than 18 years after

Category: Crime, Drama, History

Stars: Sharlene Whyte, Steve Coogan, Hugh Quarshie

7.4 IMDB Rating 3,682 Views