History Movies

Ignatius of Loyola (2016)

Ignatius of Loyola (2016)

Ignatius of Loyola (2016)
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Historical biographical religious drama film based on the memoirs of Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order who was also canonized as a saint in Roman Catholicism.

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Hitler’s Olympics (2016)

Hitler’s Olympics (2016)

Hitler’s Olympics (2016)
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Hitler, Nazi propaganda and 1936 Berlin Olympics are put under the microscope to uncover hidden truths and the historical legacy of those games.

The Lighthouse (2016)

The Lighthouse (2016)

The Lighthouse (2016)
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Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.

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Genre: Drama, History, Horror
Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016)

Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016)

Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River (2016)
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In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.

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Genre: Comedy, History
Lou Andreas-Salomé The Audacity to be Free (2016)

Lou Andreas-Salomé The Audacity to be Free (2016)

Lou Andreas-Salomé The Audacity to be Free (2016)
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Lou Andreas-Salomé, the woman who enraptured 19th century Europe’s greatest minds, recounts her life to Ernst Pfeiffer in this German film directed by Cordula Kablitz-Post. A published novelist, poet and…

Genre: Drama, History
Free State of Jones (2016)

Free State of Jones (2016)

Free State of Jones (2016)
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In 1863, Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery, Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew…

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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
On Wings of Eagles (2016)

On Wings of Eagles (2016)

On Wings of Eagles (2016)
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Eric Liddell – China’s first gold medalist and one of Scotland’s greatest athletes – returns to war-torn China.

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Genre: Drama, History, War
Ukraine on Fire (2016)

Ukraine on Fire (2016)

Ukraine on Fire (2016)
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Ukraine in Flames is a documentary produced by Oliver Stone that reveals American and NATO participation in the 2014 coup d’état in Ukraine and its aftermath. The renowned American director,…

Genius (2016)

Genius (2016)

Genius (2016)
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New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic…

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Genre: Drama, History
Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (2016)
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Before Dawn charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” towards the events in war torn…

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Genre: Drama, History
All the Way (2016)

All the Way (2016)

All the Way (2016)
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Lyndon B. Johnson’s amazing 11-month journey from taking office after JFK’s assassination, through the fight to pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and his own presidential campaign, culminating on the…

Fanny’s Journey (2016)

Fanny’s Journey (2016)

Fanny’s Journey (2016)
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Fanny is a Jewish girl in a French orphanage in 1943. When she and her friends are no longer safe from the Nazis, they try to flee to Switzerland. After…

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Genre: Drama, History
Last Days in the Desert (2016)

Last Days in the Desert (2016)

Last Days in the Desert (2016)
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On his way out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself up for a dramatic test.

Nightfall (2016)

Nightfall (2016)

Nightfall (2016)
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The chronicles of a day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary part video essay, ‘Nightfall’ is a fictionalized account of Suwichakornpong’s time…

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Genre: History
The Sacred City (2016)

The Sacred City (2016)

The Sacred City (2016)
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This British film was made about Canadian historian Dan Gibson, who has uncovered startling new archaeological evidence that Mecca was not the original Holy City of Islam.

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City 40 (2016)

City 40 (2016)

City 40 (2016)
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Hidden in the heart of Russia, there is a Soviet-era city where thousands of people live and work behind barbed-wire fences monitored by armed guards. It is Ozyorsk (Ozersk), located…

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Weeds on Fire (2016)

Weeds on Fire (2016)

Weeds on Fire (2016)
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Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by…

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Genre: Drama, History
Confirmation (2016)

Confirmation (2016)

Confirmation (2016)
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Judge Clarence Thomas’ nomination to the United States’ Supreme Court is called into question when former colleague, Anita Hill, testifies that he had sexually harassed her.

Love Lies (2016)

Love Lies (2016)

Love Lies (2016)
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Two best friends, So-yool and Yeon-hee, dream of becoming the top artists in Seoul together. But their friendship doesn’t last long as Yoon-woo, So-yool’s first love and songwriter, falls in…

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To Keep the Light (2016)

To Keep the Light (2016)

To Keep the Light (2016)
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Inspired by true stories, a lighthouse keeper’s wife struggles with her work and her sanity as she cares for her sick husband in 19th century Maine. When a mysterious stranger…

Genre: Drama, History
Two Trains Runnin’ (2016)

Two Trains Runnin’ (2016)

Two Trains Runnin’ (2016)
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The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)

The Man Who Knew Infinity (2016)
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Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor,…

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Genre: Drama, History
God Knows Where I Am (2016)

God Knows Where I Am (2016)

God Knows Where I Am (2016)
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Well-educated, New Hampshire mother, Linda Bishop, was determined to stay free of the mental health system after her early release from a 3 year commitment to New Hampshire State Hospital….

Blood and Glory (2016)

Blood and Glory (2016)

Blood and Glory (2016)
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Set in 1901, this period epic follows Willem Morkel, a Boer family man whose wife and son are murdered during the Anglo-Boer War. Captured as a prisoner of war, Willem…

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Genre: History, War
Finding Altamira (2016)

Finding Altamira (2016)

Finding Altamira (2016)
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The story of nine-year old Maria and her father Marcelino who, in 1879, found the first pre-historic cave paintings at the now world famous Altamira cave.

Genre: Drama, History
The Ploy (2016)

The Ploy (2016)

The Ploy (2016)
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In the summer of ’75 Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film, “Salò”, is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan…

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Genre: Drama, History
Elvis & Nixon (2016)

Elvis & Nixon (2016)

Elvis & Nixon (2016)
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In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
I Am The Blues (2016)

I Am The Blues (2016)

I Am The Blues (2016)
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A musical journey through the swamps of the Louisiana Bayou, the juke joints of the Mississippi Delta and Moonshine soaked BBQs in the North Mississippi Hill Country. Visiting the last…

The Liberators (2016)

The Liberators (2016)

The Liberators (2016)
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Medieval art treasures seized by the Nazis go missing at the end of World War II. Were they destroyed in the chaos of the final battles? Or were these thousand-year-old…

Churchill’s Secret (2016)

Churchill’s Secret (2016)

Churchill’s Secret (2016)
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British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that’s kept a secret from the rest of the world.

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The Last Man on the Moon (2016)

The Last Man on the Moon (2016)

The Last Man on the Moon (2016)
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The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Americans were preoccupied with other developments like NASA, the game-changing space programme that put Neil Armstrong…

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Eddie the Eagle (2016)

Eddie the Eagle (2016)

Eddie the Eagle (2016)
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The feel-good story of Michael ‘Eddie’ Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself—even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help…

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Spirits’ Homecoming (2016)

Spirits’ Homecoming (2016)

Spirits’ Homecoming (2016)
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After the Japanese kidnap two Korean teenagers and take them to a comfort station to join other girls who are serving as sex slaves, only one of them survives. Decades…

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Genre: Drama, History
Race (2016)

Race (2016)

Race (2016)
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Based on the story of Jesse Owens, the athlete whose quest to become the greatest track and field athlete in history thrusts him onto the world stage of the 1936…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Last King (2016)

The Last King (2016)

The Last King (2016)
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Norway, 1204. A civil war between the birkebeiners —the king’s men— and the baglers —supporters of the Norwegian aristocracy and the Church— ravages the country. Two men must protect a…

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The Innocents (2016)

The Innocents (2016)

The Innocents (2016)
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Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a…

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Genre: Drama, History
The Finest Hours (2016)

The Finest Hours (2016)

The Finest Hours (2016)
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The Coast Guard makes a daring rescue attempt off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are destroyed during a blizzard in 1952.

Miles Ahead (2016)

Miles Ahead (2016)

Miles Ahead (2016)
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An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Genre: Drama, History, Music
Airlift (2016)

Airlift (2016)

Airlift (2016)
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When Iraq invades Kuwait in August, 1990, a callous Indian businessman becomes the spokesperson for more than 170,000 stranded countrymen.

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Genre: Action, Drama, History
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
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An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.