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7.7
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78
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76
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3.8
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90
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cc age 12+

The Longest Day (1962)
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
poster
Amazon Prime Video
75
73
7.7
/16914/
73
/294/
71
/194/
3.8
/8560/
75
/28/
87
/390/
68
/10/

Becket (1964)
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
poster
Kanopy
81
72
7.8
/6532/
79
/116/
74
/191/
3.7
/2571/
88
/34/
93
/289/

Live and Become (2005)
In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to Israel. The day before the transport the son of a Jewish mother dies. In his place and with his name (Schlomo) she takes a Christian 9-year-old boy.
poster
Kanopy
78
64
7.4
/6485/
74
/265/
74
/254/
3.7
/7521/
90
/10/
86
/8/

The Silent Revolution (2018)
Stalinstadt, East Germany, 1956. While the Hungarian uprising against Soviets is taking place, teenage members of a classroom of the local school perform a seemingly harmless act that causes unexpected consequences.
poster
71
47
6.8
/1495/
65
/48/
57
/84/
3.6
/2253/
94
/18/
79
/1/
65
/8/

Sin (2019)
The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
poster
Criterion Channel
70
47
7.1
/1839/
67
/25/
71
/48/
3.7
/3261/

The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966)
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
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Amazon Prime Video
65
47
7.1
/3471/
71
/108/
70
/97/
3.6
/4290/
42
/5/

The Throne (2015)
Ancient Korea, July 4, 1762. The Crown Prince Hyojang, posthumously named Sado, son of King Yeongjo of Joseon, is accused of treason. Thus, the king asks him to commit suicide, but his closest vassals prevent it, so the king orders the prince to get inside a wooden rice chest, where he suffers deprivation of food and water.
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47
5.3
/41373/
58
/1545/
59
/949/
2.8
/28901/
18
/33/
38
/1103/

Caligula (1979)
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
poster
69
45
6.7
/1413/
65
/109/
62
/160/
3.2
/1863/
100
/6/
56
/1/

The Royal Exchange (2017)
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
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70
44
6.4
/2334/
67
/36/
65
/39/
3.3
/897/
100
/6/
63
/11/

The Man from the Alamo (1953)
During the war for Texas independence, one man leaves the Alamo before the end (chosen by lot to help others' families) but is too late to accomplish his mission, and is branded a coward. Since he cannot now expose a gang of turncoats, he infiltrates them instead. Can he save a wagon train of refugees from Wade's Guerillas?
poster
Public Domain Movies
66
41
6.9
/2352/
60
/30/
67
/47/
3.6
/2298/
62
/9/

Reign of Terror (1949)
The French Revolution, 1794. The Marquis de Lafayette asks Charles D'Aubigny to infiltrate the Jacobin Party to overthrow Maximilian Robespierre, who, after gaining supreme power and establishing a reign of terror ruled by death, now intends to become the dictator of France.
poster
74
38
7.5
/1781/
73
/41/
71
/44/
3.9
/1365/
76
/6/

In the Crosswind (2014)
June 14, 1941, 3 a.m. Over 40000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are deported by Soviets to Siberia. Among them is a philosophy student Erna, a happily married mother of a little girl. Separated from her husband, Erna and her daughter are dispatched together with other women and children to remote Siberian territories. Despite hunger, fear and brutal humiliation Erna never in next fifteen years loses her sense of freedom and hope of returning to homeland.
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61
37
6.2
/1107/
59
/29/
66
/35/
3.4
/626/
40
/5/
75

The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
poster
66
32
6.3
/1100/
68
/46/
65
/71/
3.4
/872/

Captain Blood (1960)
Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
66
31
6.5
/1844/
68
/85/
61
/30/
3.2
/290/
33
/1/

Kenau (2014)
While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
24
4.3
/1805/
57
/142/
57
/56/
2.9
/237/
22
/14/

Lancaster Skies (2019)
Douglas, a broken, solitary, Spitfire Ace, must overcome his past to lead a Lancaster bomber crew in the pivotal aerial war over Berlin, in 1944.
poster
74
21
7.4
/689/
70
/11/
66
/72/
3.6
/464/
88
/1/

In the Name of the Pope King (1977)
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
poster
74
18
7.6
/281/
71
/6/
77
/24/
3.6
/324/

Difficult Years (1948)
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
poster
53
18
5.4
/1434/
53
/32/
46
/26/
3.0
/268/

Boudica (2003)
The Celtic queen who shook the Roman Empire. Boudica is one of history’s first and fiercest women warriors. Sickened by ceaseless war, the king of the Iceni accepts a treaty with the Romans in exchange for his tribe’s continued independence. But oppressively high taxes impoverish the tribe and soon the Romans want something more — slaves. Refusing to submit, the Romans, led by the greedy and psychotic Emperor Nero, move to crush the Iceni and control their lands. Drawing on the strength of her warriors, mystical druidic powers, and her own pain, Boudica unites the historically fractious tribes of Briton to unleash a stunning onslaught on the Roman colonial camps. The ferocity of Boudica’s attacks will shake the foundations of the Roman empire and make her a legend.
poster
64
15
6.0
/694/
50
/12/
63
/21/
3.4
/422/
80
/3/

Napoleon (1955)
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
poster
63
14
6.6
/789/
58
/7/
63
/9/
67
/11/

The Red Danube (1949)
A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.
poster
Criterion Channel
60
12
6.2
/457/
59
/11/
58
/13/
3.4
/562/
57
/2/

Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
poster
60
10
6.9
/304/
40
/2/
64
/13/
3.5
/222/

The Devil Who Limped (1948)
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
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6.9
/17/

Boadicea (1927)
The life of the Celtic Queen Boudica (Boadicea) and her rebellion against the Roman Empire.
poster
?
10
/1/

Umaji Naik (1926)
N/A
poster
?
7.7
/9/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Lapu-Lapu (1955)
Lapu-Lapu who defeated Spanish invaders on then land of Mactan.
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?
6.0
/12/
50
/1/
50
/1/

Prithvi Vallabh (1924)
Seminal silent historical film, the story features King Munja, ruler of Aranti, famed warrior and patron of the arts. Munja (Sandow) falls into the hands of his arch enemy Tailap, who received assistance from Bhillam (Altekar), king of Dharavati. Tailap orders that Munja be put to death but is held back by Tailap's powerful sister Minalvati (Fatma Begum), a widow who first wants to break Munja's spirit. Instead, she and Munja fall in love.
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Amazon Prime Video
40
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6.0
/139/
26
/3/
35
/3/

The Magician (1993)
For more than a year in the early 1980s, police at Scotland Yard watched the build-up of a potentially massive threat to the stability of British society – a flood of the most perfect counterfeit currency ever produced. Unchecked, the tide of fake money could have destabilized the economy, the Bank of England and even the Government.
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62
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6.5
/284/
64
/9/
58
/26/

Francis the First (1937)
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
poster
68
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6.6
/214/
60
/8/
80
/4/

Andreas Hofer (2002)
N/A
poster
52
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5.3
/444/
60
/16/
46
/9/

La conjura de El Escorial (2008)
16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal
poster
63
?
6.8
/188/
60
/9/
62
/6/

Battle on Shangganling Mountain (1956)
The film follows a group of Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers who are holding Triangle Hill for several days against US forces. Short of both food and water, they hold their ground until the relief troops arrive. The movie portray the battle as a Chinese victory over an American invasion, and the People's Volunteer Army soldiers were shown as Chinese war heroes."
poster
MGM Plus
56
?
6.2
/265/
47
/4/
60
/5/

Guilty of Treason (1950)
The story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
poster
50
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5.4
/342/
43
/6/
55
/22/

Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal (1937)
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
poster
62
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6.3
/193/
62
/11/

The Red Dance (1928)
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.
poster
?
7.1
/48/
70
/3/
50
/2/

Zwinglis Erbe (2018)
A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Looking death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged and strengthened, he turns Zurich upside down with the Bible in his hand. However, resistance - even from the closest circle of friends - increases more and more.
poster
?
6.8
/22/
10
/1/
50
/3/

Semmelweis – Retter der Mütter (1950)
In the middle of the 19th century, almost one in three women who gave birth died of puerperal fever. The Hungarian doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis also observed these terrible occurrences in his clinic in Vienna. He came to the conclusion that it was primarily the unhygienic conditions in the clinic itself that led to this disease, as his colleagues were constantly shuttling back and forth between the anatomy department and the delivery room. He tries to convince the doctors of the absolute necessity of thorough disinfection by washing their hands with chlorinated lime. He meets with fierce resistance from his colleagues until he himself sets up an exemplary clinic in Budapest.
poster
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Faust
Faust, an old, bright but desperate man, struggles with the sense of his life. After trying all kinds of sciences he enters into a contract with the devil, Mephistopheles, to feel life, joy and desire again. Mephistopheles promises him to get full satisfaction by enjoying and celebrating all the worldly pleasures: outstanding parties, being young again, the love of a woman. To fulfill the pact, Faust offers him his soul after his death. Their journey begins and leaves many people in total despair...
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Lucrezia Borgia (2009)
Live from Munich 2009


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