HISTORY Movies and Tvshows - Page 7

Le Bazar de la Charité (2019 )

IMDb: 7.7
2019

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayal, deception, and romantic turmoil Inspired by real events

Barkskins (2019 )

IMDb: 7.3
2020–

Based on the novel by Pulitzer winner Annie Proulx, BARKSKINS follows a disparate group of outcasts who must navigate brutal hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization late 1600s New Fran

The Food That Built America (2019 )

IMDb: 8.5
2019–

Food will tell the unknown stories of innovation and rivalries behind food industry tycoons Milton Hershey, John and Will Kellogg, Henry Heinz, C W Post, the McDonald brothers and more

The Good Lord Bird (2020 )

IMDb: 7.6
2020

Ethan Hawke stars as abolitionist John Brown in this series based on the novel Onion is a fictional enslaved boy who becomes a member of Browns family of abolitionist soldiers and finds himself in the 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry

Shogun (1980)

IMDb: 8.1
1980

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in the complex political games in feudal Japan

The Wedding Song (2008)

IMDb: 6.7
2008

The Nazi occupation of Tunisia strains the bonds of friendship between a Muslim woman and a Sephardic Jewish woman who are both preparing for their marriages

Nefertiti, figlia del sole (1995)

IMDb: 5.5
1995

Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment jus

Some Mothers Son (1996)

IMDb: 7.2
1996

The 1981 hunger strike in an Irish prison, in which I R A prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against their treatment as criminals rather than as prisoners of war It focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle

Origins The Journey of Humankind (2017-)

IMDb: 6.7
2017–

Our primal curiosity has sparked new inventions and revealed the mysteries of the universe This eight part mini series strives to trace the pivotal innovations that make us modern

Helene (2020)

IMDb: 6.1
2020

A story of renowned Finnish painter Helene Schjerfbeck, and the love affair between her and a younger art critic Einar Reuter

Steeltown Murders (2023-)

IMDb: 7.1
2023–

It centers on the hunt to catch the killer of three young women set in both 1973 and the early 2000s, contrasting the policing methods of the 1970s with the forensic breakthroughs of the early 2000s

Prorok (2022)

IMDb: 5.4
2022

Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskis story sets the stage for the dramatic rise of Pope John Paul II and the fall of communism in Europe Who is this prophetic man who battled evil and saw a son of Poland rising

Faraway Downs (2023-)

IMDb: 8.5
2023–

An aristocrat, Sarah has a cattle ranch in Australia Following death of her husband, a barons plots to take her land but she joins forces with cattle drover Jackman to protect her ranch

One Life (2023)

IMDb: 7.7
2023

The story of Sir Nicholas Nicky Winton, a young London broker who, in the months leading up to World War II, rescued Jewish children from the Nazis

The Devils Bath (2024)

IMDb: 6.6
2024

Austria in the 18th century Forests surround villages Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death Agnes readies for married life with her beloved But her mind and heart grow heavy A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising

Uprising (2024)

IMDb: N/A
2024

In the Joseon Dynasty, two friends who grew up together one the master and one the servant reunite post war as enemies on opposing sides

Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

IMDb: 7.4
2012

A chronicle of the decade long hunt for al Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S E A L s Team 6 in May 2011

The Book of Negroes

IMDb: 7.8
2015

Kidnapped in Africa and subsequently enslaved in South Carolina, Aminata must navigate a revolution in New York, isolation in Nova Scotia, and the treacherous jungles of Sierra Leone, in an attempt to secure her freedom in the eighte

King of Kings (1961)

IMDb: 7.0
1961

The temporary physical life of the Biblical Savior, Jesus Christ

The Way Back (2010)

IMDb: 7.3
2010

Siberian gulag escapees travel four thousand miles by foot to freedom in India

War and Peace (2016 TV series)

IMDb: 8.1
2016

As the Russian conflict with Napoleon reaches its peak, five aristocratic families face the possibility of their lives being changed forever

The Thin Red Line (1998)

IMDb: 7.6
1998

Adaptation of James Jones autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War

Midway (1976)

IMDb: 6.8
1976

A dramatization of the battle that was widely heralded as a turning point of the Pacific Theatre of World War II

Selma (2014)

IMDb: 7.5
2014

A chronicle of Dr Martin Luther King, Jr s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965

Red White & Blue (2010)

IMDb: 6.4
2010

A woman attracts the attention of a psychopathic former Army interrogator and an emotionally fragile young man caring for his ailing mother

Cleopatra (1934)

IMDb: 6.8
1934

The man hungry Queen of Egypt leads Julius Caesar and Mark Antony astray, amid scenes of DeMillean splendor

Borgia (20112014)

IMDb: 7.8
2011–2014

Story of the rise and the fall of the Renaissance dynasty

The Legend of Tomiris (2019)

IMDb: 4.2
2019

This is the story of the life of the great queen of of the steppe legendary Tomiris She is destined to become a skillful warrior, survive the loss of close people and unite the ScythianSaka tribes under her authority

Legends of the Lost with Megan Fox (2018

IMDb: 6.1
2018

Actress Megan Fox has peeked behind the curtain of some of these ancient sites, igniting an insatiable curiosity to learn more about these lost worlds She embarks on an epic international journey to investigate and find answers to t

Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)

IMDb: 7.5
2021

Offered a plea deal by the FBI, William ONeal infiltrates the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party to gather intelligence on Chairman Fred Hampton

The Courier (2020)

IMDb: 7.1
2020

Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis

Saving the Titanic (2012)

IMDb: 7.3
2012

The story of the engineers who worked tirelessly to keep the electric power running as the Titanic sank Their selfless actions kept the lights on and the electric lifeboat winches operational to facilitate the survival of others

Masada (1981)

IMDb: 7.8
1981

After the destruction of the Second Temple, nine hundred Jewish zealots hold out against a five thousand man Roman legion on the mountaintop fortress of Masada

The Champion (2020)

IMDb: 6.5
2020

The story of the pre war boxing champion Tadeusz Teddy Pietrzykowski, who in 1940 arrives with the first transport of prisoners to the newly created Auschwitz concentration camp

Common Threads Stories from the Quilt (1

IMDb: 8.1
1989

A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt

Medieval (2022)

IMDb: 5.9
2022

The story of fifteenth century Czech icon and warlord Jan Zizka, who defeated armies of the Teutonic Order and the Holy Roman Empire