Genre: History
Year: 2016
63 content found
Tokyo Trial 2016

A historical drama that focuses on a decade-long investigation into events in the Pacific during and after WWII.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Tim Ahern, Paul Freeman, Serge Hazanavicius

7.3 IMDB Rating 139 Views
Jerry Lewis, clown rebelle 2016

Jerry Lewis: The Man Behind the Clown chronicles the remarkable life and genius work of one of the most iconic and incomparable comic performers and filmmakers of our time.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Jerry Lewis, Frank Krutnik, Tony Lewis Comedian

7.5 IMDB Rating 101 Views
A United Kingdom 2016

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Category: Biography, Drama, History, romance, Romantic

Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton

6.9 IMDB Rating 998 Views
The Crown 2016–2023

Follows the political rivalries and romances of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped Britain for the second half of the 20th century.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, Imelda Staunton

8.6 IMDB Rating 34,813 Views
Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America 2016

Daryl Davis is an accomplished musician who was played all over the world. He also has an unusual hobby, particularly for a middle aged black man. When not displaying his musical chops, Daryl likes to meet and befriend members of the Ku Klux Klan. When many of these people eventually leave the Klan with Daryl's support, Daryl keeps their robes and hoods; building his collection piece by piece, story by story, person by person, in hopes of one day opening a museum of the Klan.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History

Stars: Daryl D. Davis, Kenneth Nwadike, Jeff Schoep

7.6 IMDB Rating 4,218 Views
1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines 2016

In 1898, Spain sends a military squad to the town of Baler, the Philippines, to protect one of the last colonies of the Spanish Empire, to prevent rebellious natives from recovering their ancient territories. Lead by Captain Enrique de las Morenas and Lieutenant Cerezo, proud military men, the soldiers are stalked at night by the rebels, and are forced to seek refuge in the church run by Fray Carmelo, Baler's priest. Turning the church into a military fort, the unrelenting heat and malaria starts to sweep across the men.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Luis Tosar, Javier Gutiérrez, Álvaro Cervantes

6.5 IMDB Rating 4,274 Views
Frontier 2016–2018

Follows Declan Harp, a half-Irish/half Cree Native-Canadian outlaw who is campaigning to breach the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly on the fur trade in Canada.

Category: Adventure, Drama, History, Western

Stars: Jason Momoa, Landon Liboiron, Zoe Boyle

7.1 IMDB Rating 27,117 Views
The American West 2016

A large-scale review of the American frontier stories.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Mark Lee Gardner, Bert Thomas Morris, David H. Stevens

7.4 IMDB Rating 6,590 Views
The Innocents 2016

1945. Mathilde is a French Red Cross doctor working on a mission to help the French survivors of the German camps. While she works in Poland, she is asked for help by a nun. In her convent, several nuns are pregnant.

Category: Drama, History

Stars: Lou de Laâge, Agata Buzek, Agata Kulesza

7.3 IMDB Rating 756 Views
Underground 2016–2017

With the country on the brink of Civil War, the struggle for freedom is more dangerous than ever. Underground follows the story of American heroes and their moving journey to freedom.

Category: Action, Drama, History, Thriller

Stars: Jurnee Smollett, Aldis Hodge, Jessica De Gouw

7.9 IMDB Rating 18,390 Views
Hell Below 2016–2024

Tells the story of the stealth game: stealth of underwater combat, following the dramatic narrative from contact to attack by the largest underwater patrols of the Second World War.

Category: Documentary, History, War

Stars: Mark Oliver, Nihat Akosman, Heiner Schluck

7.6 IMDB Rating 1,203 Views
Diamond Sword 2016

Diamond Sword is a large-scale historical drama of first Kazakh Khans, which BBC called "Kazakh Game Of Thrones". The action takes place in the XV century, and the plot demonstrates the key events in formation of Kazakh statehood ...

Category: Action, Drama, History, War

Stars: Kairat Kemalov, Yerkebulan Daiyrov, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov

6.1 IMDB Rating 821 Views
Roots 2016

An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots" chronicles the history of an African man and his descendants sold into slavery in America.

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Malachi Kirby, Forest Whitaker

7.9 IMDB Rating 14,230 Views
Drain the Ocean: WWII 2016

World War II left the greatest-ever number of ships and submarines hidden beneath the waves. Now, as the oceans drain, each vessel reveals its secrets through new data-based 3D reconstructions. From the Arizona in Pearl Harbor's shallows, whose destruction brought

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Russell Boulter, James Delgado, Herbert Weatherwax

6.8 IMDB Rating 807 Views
Confirmation 2016

Judge Clarence Thomas' nomination to the United States Supreme Court is called into question when Anita Hill, a former colleague, testifies that he sexually harassed her.

Category: Biography, Drama, History

Stars: Kerry Washington, Wendell Pierce, Greg Kinnear

6.8 IMDB Rating 5,376 Views
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War 2016

In February 1939, Waitstill Sharp, a Unitarian minister, and Martha Sharp, a trained social worker, boldly commit to a life-threatening mission in Europe to assist refugees.

Category: Biography, Documentary, History, War

Stars: Marina Goldman, Tom Hanks

7.1 IMDB Rating 986 Views
I Called Him Morgan 2016

An exploration of the relationship between jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who was implicated in his murder in 1972.

Category: Documentary, Drama, History

Stars: Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter

7.3 IMDB Rating 3,490 Views
After Hitler 2016

What happened in France just after WWII, between 1945 and 1949? An interesting historic documentary looks at the fate of male and female (presumed) collaborators with the Nazis, the use of the POW in the reconstruction of the plundered and devastated country.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Will Johnson, Vincent Lindon, Georgi Zhukov

8.3 IMDB Rating 4,885 Views
The Kings Choice 2016

April 1940. Norway has been invaded by Germany and the royal family and government have fled into the interior. The German envoy to Norway tries to negotiate a peace. Ultimately, the decision on Norway's future will rest with the ...

Category: Drama, History, War

Stars: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo, Karl Markovics

7.1 IMDB Rating 6,265 Views
No Gods, No Masters: A History of Anarchism 2016–2022

"Ni Dieu Ni Maître" reviews all the great events of the social history of the last two centuries and reveals the origin and destiny of this political current that has been fighting for over 150 years all masters and gods.

Category: Documentary, History

Stars: Redjep Mitrovitsa, Audrey Vernon, Gaetano Manfredonia

8.7 IMDB Rating 1,167 Views