History

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public ...

In a remote village in Karelia, Sergeant Vaskov commands an anti-aircraft unit that protects a rail depot. While his men are transferred to the ...

An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as “Mihai Viteazul” / “Michael the ...

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As ...

In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter’s apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the ...

A film about the 1931 Ådalen shootings, in which Swedish military forces opened fire against labour demonstrators in the Swedish sawmill district ...

A medieval love story with lots of adventures. The times are troubled – there’s a revolt of peasants going on. To secure its safety a ...

In 1668 Polish colonel Michał Wołodyjowski, who recently retired to a monastery, is recalled to active duty and takes charge of Poland’s ...

The story of Che Guevara’s desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a ...

Second of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the ...

This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle ...

The end of Trajan’s Dacian Wars (106 AD), when south western Dacia was transformed into a Roman province: Roman Dacia.

Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan’s harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to ...

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own ...

It seems that Li Zhenfei was once an imperial concubine, who often found herself competing with her rival Madame Liu for the emperor’s ...

Two 17-year-olds, Werner Holt and Gilbert Wolzow, are pulled out of school and into Hitler’s army. Gilbert becomes a fanatical soldier; but ...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

In 1944 Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, a band of Dutch resistance fighters plot to covertly rescue dozens of compatriots from the local Nazi prison.

Adaptation of Mór Jókai’s classic 19th century novel on Mihály Tímár, the captain of a commercial Danube ship in the 1830s, who finds ...

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes ...

The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the ...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes ...

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a ...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.

Vickie, short for Victoria, is crowned Queen of England and as such needs to learn the responsibilities of her new post.

A documentary of the first successful expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay ...

With the help of Pocahontas, Captain John Smith overcomes the treachery of some of his men and resentment of the local Native Americans to ...

In this biopic, Jim Bowie goes to New Orleans, where he falls for Judalon and befriends her brother, Narcisse. Soon, Jim is forced to avenge ...

In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of ...

The tiny independent duchy of Ferrara is located between Casare Borgia’s Rome and Venice, and Borgia has plans to conquer Venice via ...