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poster
Amazon Prime Video
80
7.4
/5797/
75
/90/
72
/56/
3.5
/2584/
100
/10/
85
/98/
81
/10/

The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
Carrie Watts is living the twilight of her life trapped in an apartment in 1940s Houston, Texas with a controlling daughter-in-law and a hen-pecked son. Her fondest wish – just once before she dies – is to revisit Bountiful, the small Texas town of her youth which she still refers to as "home."
poster
80
7.4
/104739/
73
/1899/
70
/1068/
3.7
/48433/
93
/226/
83
/4960/
80
/41/
cc age 13+

Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)
The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch-hunts in the early 1950s.
poster
MGM Plus
79
7.5
/404242/
73
/8599/
72
/5683/
3.8
/324101/
86
/227/
79
/7993/
77
/41/
cc age 16+

The Aviator (2004)
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
poster
84
79
8.2
/9293/
84
/196/
82
/180/
4.3
/5670/
91
/11/
95
/95/
70
/7/

Devils on the Doorstep (2001)
During the Japanese occupation of China, two prisoners are dumped in a peasant's home in a small town. The owner is bullied into keeping the prisoners until the next New Year, at which time they will be collected. The village leaders convene to interrogate the prisoners. The townspeople then struggle to accommodate the prisoners. One is a bellicose Japanese nationalist, the other a nervous translator. Will the townspeople manage to keep the prisoners until the New Year?
poster
79
78
7.8
/18714/
77
/328/
72
/217/
3.9
/11444/
92
/25/
89
/165/
73
/6/

Seven Days in May (1964)
A U.S. Marine Corps colonel alerts the president of a planned military coup against him.
poster
The CW
77
7.5
/56441/
72
/1049/
73
/909/
3.6
/53853/
74
/43/
85
/1220/
68
/9/
cc age 16+

Sophie's Choice (1982)
Stingo, a young writer, moves to Brooklyn in 1947 to begin work on his first novel. As he becomes friendly with Sophie and her lover Nathan, he learns that she is a Holocaust survivor. Flashbacks reveal her harrowing story, from pre-war prosperity to Auschwitz. In the present, Sophie and Nathan's relationship increasingly unravels as Stingo grows closer to Sophie and Nathan's fragile mental state becomes ever more apparent.
poster
75
7.1
/11312/
72
/574/
69
/242/
3.6
/7437/
90
/10/
76
/157/

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
poster
Hoopla
72
7.0
/7365/
69
/155/
65
/66/
3.5
/1975/
82
/33/
72
/118/
74
/16/

A Woman in Berlin (2008)
A woman tries to survive the invasion of Berlin by the Soviet troops during the last days of World War II.
poster
72
7.0
/31926/
69
/528/
67
/477/
3.5
/26178/
76
/62/
78
/660/
74
/26/

Kundun (1997)
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
poster
70
7.3
/10262/
71
/183/
70
/176/
3.6
/6562/
68
/25/
74
/171/

The Front (1976)
A cashier poses as a writer for blacklisted talents to submit their work through, but the injustice around him pushes him to take a stand.
poster
AMC+ Amazon Channel
69
6.7
/39066/
69
/1144/
63
/476/
3.2
/25437/
81
/73/
68
/872/
68
/9/
cc age 14+

Back to School (1986)
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
poster
67
6.8
/5810/
68
/125/
67
/147/
3.5
/7403/
72
/18/
63
/27/

Fedora (1978)
Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth behind her success.
poster
75
66
7.7
/5160/
71
/90/
70
/84/
3.8
/4275/
75
/8/
85
/40/

Man of Marble (1977)
A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
6.2
/33612/
65
/1066/
61
/534/
3.3
/40135/
83
/63/
63
/1421/
58
/14/

Death Race 2000 (1975)
In a boorish future, the government sponsors a popular, but bloody, cross-country race in which points are scored by mowing down pedestrians. Five teams, each comprised of a male and female, compete using cars equipped with deadly weapons. Frankenstein, the mysterious returning champion, has become America's hero, but this time he has a passenger from the underground resistance.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
65
6.4
/20680/
64
/783/
63
/367/
3.2
/16332/
78
/36/
63
/677/
68
/10/

A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Set in the year 2024 in post-apocalyptic America, 18-year old Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, are scavengers in the desolate wilderness ravaged by World War IV, where survivors must battle for food and shelter in the desert-like wasteland. Vic and Blood eke out a meager existence, foraging for food and fighting gangs of cutthroats.
poster
Kanopy
65
6.7
/8896/
72
/541/
66
/290/
3.1
/3568/
72
/81/
66
/85/
53
/16/
cc age 12+

Viceroy's House (2017)
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
poster
73
63
7.2
/4596/
73
/87/
67
/71/
3.5
/2608/
80
/5/
78
/44/

State of the Union (1948)
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
poster
75
63
7.6
/3396/
72
/69/
68
/53/
3.6
/2030/
78
/9/
88
/115/

Mindwalk (1991)
On the French island of Mont Saint-Michel, Sonia meets Jack and Tom. Sonia is a Norwegian physicist who abandoned a lucrative career after discovering that elements of her work were being applied to weapons development. Jack is an American politician attempting to make sense of his recent defeat as a presidential candidate. Tom is a poet, disillusioned former political speechwriter, and Jack's close friend. As they wander the picturesque medieval abbey, the trio engage in a wide-ranging conversation on political and social problems, exchanging their varied perspectives rooted in their different intellectual backgrounds.
poster
The CW
62
6.5
/8407/
69
/471/
64
/163/
3.0
/4395/
55
/84/
54
/114/
54
/19/
cc age 15+

LBJ (2017)
The story of U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
7.0
/43807/
67
/542/
64
/416/
3.2
/8464/
47
/173/
72
/4346/
54
/31/
cc age 16+

Bobby (2006)
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
poster
Kanopy
60
6.1
/3248/
57
/104/
60
/127/
3.2
/2297/
52
/31/
41
/14/
58
/16/

Jimmy P. (2013)
At the end of WWII, Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot who fought in France, suffers from unexplainable symptoms and is admitted to a military hospital. When doctors suspect schizophrenia, an eccentric psychoanalyst takes up the case and starts a conversation with the veteran.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
67
58
6.9
/4561/
68
/151/
65
/62/
3.2
/1644/
73
/63/

By Dawn's Early Light (1990)
A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainian city of Donetsk. The destruction sets off a race between American and Soviet politicians to prevent a nuclear holocaust. While the U.S. president feverishly works to keep the military and political machine from going into overdrive, various subordinates panic. When the president is believed to be killed in a helicopter crash, zealous advisers take over.
poster
Netflix
57
6.4
/15499/
67
/916/
66
/387/
2.9
/8652/
30
/150/
55
/90/
45
/22/
cc age 13+

Red Joan (2018)
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
poster
84
57
8.6
/8420/
82
/88/
81
/61/
4.0
/3270/
91
/6/

The Witness (1979)
Hungary, 1950s. József Pelikán, who works as a dam keeper on the Danube, meets by chance Zoltán Dániel, an old friend whom he saved from death years before and who is now a powerful politician.
poster
57
56
6.0
/26884/
58
/408/
58
/337/
3.0
/10728/
49
/34/
cc age 17+

The Good German (2006)
An American journalist arrives in Berlin just after the end of World War Two. He becomes involved in a murder mystery surrounding a dead GI who washes up at a lakeside mansion during the Potsdam negotiations between the Allied powers. Soon his investigation connects with his search for his married pre-war German lover.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
52
3.5
/4792/
50
/57/
38
/15/
8.0
/2429/
95
/15/

Bad President (2020)
This black comedy answers the question that has obsessed America and the world since November 08, 2016. How did Donald Trump become President of the United States?
poster
Kanopy
52
6.0
/44584/
59
/1049/
56
/882/
2.9
/30303/
47
/152/
34
/523/
56
/32/
cc age 17+

On the Road (2012)
Sal Paradise is a young writer whose life is shaken and ultimately redefined by the arrival of Dean Moriarty, a free-spirited, fearless, fast talking Westerner and his girl, Marylou. Traveling cross-country, Sal and Dean venture out on a personal quest for freedom from the conformity and conservatism engulfing them in search of the unknown, themselves, and the pursuit of “it” -- the pure essence of experience.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
53
52
6.0
/11066/
60
/354/
57
/216/
2.9
/25196/
46
/13/
41
/151/
52
/4/

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
poster
Hoopla
67
52
7.1
/3687/
75
/375/
65
/94/
2.9
/1001/
66
/14/

Journey Back to Christmas (2016)
WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in 70 years, Hanna is caught in a terrible storm and knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she's in 2016.
poster
62
48
6.6
/2526/
61
/73/
60
/49/
3.4
/2190/
57
/7/
60
/27/

The Second Civil War (1997)
When a planeload of Pakistani orphans are shipped to his state for permanent relocation, the governor of Idaho defies the president and closes the state's border. News Net Television, a cable news program that makes hay by reporting on political scandals, quickly spins the racist act into an overnight media sensation, creating a divide in national opinion over the issue.
poster
fuboTV
48
4.8
/5005/
54
/107/
48
/93/
2.9
/953/
27
/41/
29
/443/
47
/14/

Slipstream (2007)
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
5.8
/5434/
64
/162/
56
/94/
2.8
/2594/
29
/7/
45
/109/
32
/10/

18 Again! (1988)
81-year-old millionaire Jack Watson switches bodies with his 18-year-old grandson David, leading the two to experience life on opposite ends of the age spectrum. But when David, trapped in Jack's aged body, ends up in a coma, his grandfather must use his meager knowledge of the youth to prevent his family from pulling the plug.
poster
The Roku Channel
47
5.7
/23193/
61
/791/
63
/671/
2.8
/21865/
10
/30/
43
/708/
45
/6/

Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988)
A group of kids discover one of the drums containing a rotting corpse and release the 2-4-5 Trioxin gas into the air, causing the dead to once again rise from the grave and seek out brains.
poster
Criterion Channel
67
41
7.1
/1871/
64
/31/
63
/40/
3.6
/3370/
66
/15/

The Joke (1969)
In the 1950s, Ludvik Jahn was expelled from the Communist Party and the University by his fellow students, because of a politically incorrect note he sent to his girlfriend. Fifteen years later, he tries to get his revenge by seducing Helena, the wife of one of his accusers.
poster
74
35
7.5
/784/
68
/12/
74
/29/
3.9
/1681/

Hiroshima (1953)
Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its effects on various civilians, especially children, of that city.
poster
72
29
7.4
/516/
75
/97/
73
/49/
3.4
/247/

WWII From Space (2012)
WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping points in a global perspective. By re-creating groundbreaking moments that could never have been captured on camera, and by illustrating the importance of simultaneity and the hidden effects of crucial incidents, HISTORY presents the war's monumental moments in a never-before-seen context. And with new information brought to the forefront, you'll better understand how a nation ranked 19th in the world's militaries in 1939 emerged six years later as the planet's only atomic superpower.
poster
62
28
6.5
/1423/
64
/31/
60
/17/
3.2
/519/
60
/246/

My Favorite Spy (1951)
A burlesque comic doubles for a spy in Tangier and meets the spy's girlfriend, who is also a spy.
poster
63
27
6.8
/1564/
57
/18/
62
/24/
3.4
/778/

Call Me Madam (1953)
Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy.
poster
55
14
5.6
/611/
56
/12/
48
/15/
3.1
/663/

The Fall of Berlin (1950)
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
poster
52
14
6.4
/437/
62
/19/
53
/10/
29

3 Seasons in Hell (2009)
A 19 year old nonconformist poet living in 1947 Czechoslovakia is blind to the Communist behemoth looking over him, and instead lives a bohemian life with sexually liberated girls.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
62
13
6.4
/615/
58
/9/
68
/12/
58
/9/

Haven (2001)
Based on the true story of a woman named Ruth Gruber who travels to Europe to help escort 1000 Jewish War victims to the United States. She comes to love and feel sorry for them all, and fights for their rights to live in America.
poster
74
13
7.9
/607/
77
/21/
65
/12/
75
/5/

Thurgood (2011)
This one-man play stars Laurence Fishburne in his Tony-nominated performance as Thurgood Marshall, the remarkable Civil Rights lawyer and Supreme Court Justice.
poster
67
12
7.3
/370/
63
/11/
68
/13/
3.3
/327/

Ant Pasted (1953)
Elmer Fudd, on a fourth of July picnic, throws some of his firecrackers into an ant colony, and the ants declare all-out war on him.
poster
?
8.9
/40/
80
/3/

Laboratory Greece (2019)
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts
poster
?
8.2
/48/
10
/1/
80
/1/

George Marshall and the American Century (1993)
He built the mightiest army in history and selected its leaders. Eisenhower, MacArthur and Patton all obeyed his commands. George Marshall was the only soldier ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
poster
?
7.3
/17/
10
/1/

The Truth Game (1983)
1983. The worldwide propaganda surrounding the nuclear arms race is scrutinised.
poster
Hoopla
?
7.0
/62/
50
/4/
70
/2/

The Queen and the Coup (2020)
Planned by Britain’s MI6 and then executed by America’s C.I.A., the coup d’état which follows will destroy Iran’s last democracy, and relations between Iran and the West until the present day. Most shocking of all, the truth about Her Majesty’s role will be hidden from the Queen herself, and even the all-powerful Shah who will be used by Britain and American to replace Iran’s last democratic Prime Minister. The coup will lead to political upheaval all over the Middle East for decades to come, eventually resulting in the Islamic Revolution of 1979 which will end the reign of the Shah, and British and American influence in Iran, inspiring countless other Islamist revolutions around the world.
poster
?
7.6
/75/
80
/1/
75
/2/

Pearl Harbor: The Accused (2016)
This documentary reveals new insight into events leading up to the attack, focusing on the story of Admiral Husband Kimmel, who was stripped of his rank, forced into obscurity, and accused of negligence.


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