History Movies

Xavier

72/100

Fourth Week Films and the New Orleans Jesuit Province present Xavier, a new PBS-style documentary film on the life of the famed 16th-century Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier. Narrated by ... See full summary »

All of Us, Efendi

69/100

The film is a documentary and a fiction movie, outlines a true story: At the end of the Civil War, a group of eight persecuted fighters of the Democratic Army of Greece and exiled to Ikaria... See full summary »

Die Legende von Derdriu und Noisi

62/100

The wise druid Cathbad predicts in a mild night in autumn, that the daughter of Fedlim and his wife Derdriu will be the most beautiful and bravest woman Erin has ever seen, but she will ... See full summary »

Zamora: Tierra y hombres libres

47/100

Setting: Venezuela, in the second half of the nineteenth century. Disputes between Liberals and Conservatives marked the political agenda. Social inequalities inherited from colonial times ... See full summary »

Die Teufel von Loudun

84/100

This opera revolves around the demonic collective possession suffered by the Ursuline nuns in the convent of Loudun in 1634. The story concentrates on the handsome but doomed Urbain Grandier who fights against fanaticism and evil.

La Sargento Matacho

70/100

In 1948 the partisan violence whips the Colombian countryside. Liberals and Conservatives face up to death. South of the country in Tolima, conservative official forces brutally kill ... See full summary »

Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus

65/100

From the First World War to the 1970s, a look back on the life of Marcel Dassault, a French aeronautical genius, but also a press magnate, an arms dealer and a politician, to name but a few... See full summary »

The Light of Freedom

47/100

It is the year 1861 and President Lincoln has called for 75,000 men to join the Union Army. As the Civil War begins, another battle has been raging for decades. It is the fight for freedom ... See full summary »

Wall of Heroism

60/100

"Wall of Heroism," by Mohamed Rady, a war pic shot in 1998 but never released for political reasons.Heroism is about the lead-up to and the events of the Arab-Israeli October War in 1973 ... See full summary »

Monstrum

58/100

Movie about a sculptor Otakar Svec who is building a statue of Stalin in Prague.

Sibenik: 950 godina

88/100

Der zweite Prager Fenstersturz

50/100

The film is set during Bohemian Revolt, now Czechia that triggered Thirty Years' War in Europe in 17th century. Main characters of the story are Jindrich Matyás Thurn, Ferdinand II and Frederick I known as the Winter King.

The Great Darkened Days

62/100

While a world war rages, Philippe, a draft-dodger from Quebec, takes refuge in the American West, surviving by competing in Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests. As Philippe makes his ... See full summary »

They Wanted Peace

62/100

The Gaucho Priest

74/100

Men of Texas

65/100

Played by Robert Stack, Barry Conovan, a newspaperman, is sent to Texas some years after the death of Sam Houston, with the aim of getting the real skinny on the grand old man. He unearths ... See full summary »

El primer cuartel

63/100

War Is Hell

55/100

Die Löwen von Petersburg

48/100

The story is about two rivals during the Russian Revolution.

Wienfilm 1896-1976

63/100