Historical Movies
- 2015
Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion
Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion2.12015HD
The year is 1173. England and France are at war. The destiny of the two great powers has never been so intertwined. As King Henry's wife, Queen Eleano...
- 2024
The Legend of Nezha
The Legend of Nezha02024HD
Nezha gets into trouble and implicates his parents, who get punished by the heavens along with him. He bravely steps up and admits his fault, which to...
- 2022
Mali Twist
Mali Twist6.52022HD
Mali, 1960. The youth of Bamako dance the twist to rock and roll music newly imported from the West and dream of political renewal. Samba, a young soc...
- 1989
Rikyu
Rikyu7.51989HD
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force of will and courageous fighting, Hideyoshi becomes...
- 1958
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
The Spell of the Hidden Gold61958HD
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
- 2014
The Law
The Law6.42014HD
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the Fr...
- 1972
Pope Joan
Pope Joan6.21972HD
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...
- 2021
Charlotte
Charlotte6.42021HD
The true story of Charlotte Salomon, a young German-Jewish painter who comes of age in Berlin on the eve of the Second World War. Fiercely imaginative...
- 2023
Bones of Crows
Bones of Crows7.72023HD
Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of syst...
- 1950
The Mudlark
The Mudlark6.91950HD
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
- 2022
The True Story of Pirates
The True Story of Pirates7.82022HD
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in France, Spain, England and Canada, a group of intern...
- 2006
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light7.12006HD
Film Noir burrows into the mind; it's disorienting, intriguing and enthralling. Noir brings us into a gritty underworld of lush morbidity, providing i...
- 2020
The Plumber
The Plumber02020HD
As curfew approaches, an everyday heroine risks it all in a smuggling operation from Nazi-occupied Poland.
- 2014
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s
Harry & Paul's Story of the 2s72014HD
As part of the BBC2 50th anniversary celebrations comedians Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse were commissioned to produce this spoof history of the c...
- 2020
The Real Right Stuff
The Real Right Stuff6.42020HD
The story of America's first astronauts, known as the Mercury 7, told through archival news & radio reports, newly transferred & previously unheard NA...
- 2006
The Yacoubian Building
The Yacoubian Building7.42006HD
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zaki, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pious Hajj Azzam takes...
- 2007
Defenders of Riga
Defenders of Riga5.6882007HD
The film dramatizes November 11, 1919- a crucial date in the battle for Latvian independence. A year after the end of the official hostilities of WWI,...
- 1998
The Tichborne Claimant
The Tichborne Claimant81998HD
Based on a true story, set in the late 19th century: Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwrec...
- 1987
A Girl from Hunan
A Girl from Hunan5.91987HD
Xiao Xiao is sold into arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy, who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected t...
- 1995
Solomon & Sheba
Solomon & Sheba8.61995HD
In the land of Israel, Solomon (Jimmy Smits) is trying to figure out a way to become the world’s supplier of frankincense. He sends an envoy to the ti...