History Movies

El conde de Maravillas

El dos de Mayo

Film based on the historic facts of what happened in Madrid in 2 May 1808.

Foreign Devils

Clothes Make the Woman

A young Russian peasant feels pity for the Princess Anastasia and saves her life by accidentally wounding her in the massacre of the Romanoffs during the Russian Revolution.

Court-Martial

During the American Civil War, A Union-Army officer is ordered by U. S. President Abraham Lincoln to bring in Belle Starr, the leader of a Missouri guerrilla band, dead or alive. However, ... See full summary »

Dornenweg einer Fürstin

Rosen blühen auf dem Heidegrab

Madame Guillotine

During the French Revolution, a revolutionary falls in love with and marries an aristocratic woman.

Die Tänzerin von Sans Souci

¡Que viva Mexico!

Having revolutionized film editing through such masterworks of montage as Potemkin and Strike, Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein emigrated west in hopes of testing the capabilities of the American film industry.

Colonel Blood

Tribu

King August the Strong

Ginevra degli Almieri

Florence 15th century: Ginevra falls into a state of catalepsy after a marriage imposed on her by her father. She is thought to be dead and buried but manages to leave her tomb and goes for... See full summary »

Queen of the Scala

The Count of Brechard

Julius Caesar

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Pietro Micca

A Royal Divorce

The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.

La sposa dei re