Historical Movies

In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or...

Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923.

A group of Greek soldiers are assigned to run the Cinematographic Unit of the army in the midst of political unrest.

The story of a young rascal with a tough past who enters a house of generational chefs and learns to cook authentic Shandong cuisine.

1622: Following the death of a heavily pregnant noblewoman, the young outsider Badria is accused of witchcraft. Before a church tribunal, she fights...

On his death-bed, Per Henrik Pistolekors must promise his father two things: first of all to kill king Gustav III, which his father hates. Second, to...

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...

Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are still physically and emotionally devastated by the...

There's a war going on in ancient Kyoto. A war fought in shadows, between the forces of the Shogunate's armed enforcers, the Shinsengumi, and the...

197 AC. War between warlords Cao Cao and Zhang Xiu. Xiangyang prefect Xun Song was besieged by enemy army. His 13-year daughter Xun Guaning broke...

Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi Continis'. It came to life in Giorgio Bassani's 1962...

A biography of Vincent van Gogh using only images and the letters he wrote to his brother Theo.

A portrait of the life and work of the great Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, exploring both his music and his passionate interest in...

In 1575, the young soldier Miguel de Cervantes is captured on the high seas by Barbary pirates and taken to Algiers as a hostage. Aware that a cruel...

Ten years after General Antonio José de Sucre - Grand Marshal of Ayacucho- was murdered in the Berruecos jungle, Colombia. The inquiry into...

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

In 1931, Germany was awarded the Olympic Games in the hope this would draw them into the international community and world peace would be promoted...

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...

This film tells the story of scholar Fang Dong who endangers his life because of his greed for beauty, and his kind-hearted Ya who loves Fang Dong...