Browse Movies : TBA : Historical (Page #4)

In 1979, Iranian students storm the American embassy and hold its staff hostage for 444 days.

This biopic focuses on the first female doctor in the Western world, James Miranda Barry (Rachel Weisz). In 1814, Barry graduated from Edinburgh Medical School, where she'd studied disguised as a man, and then served in the U.K. military for 45 years. Her true sex was only determined upon her death.

Irena Sendler makes a defiant stand against Polish Nazi occupation. She develops an incredible network to care for and save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw ghetto. Following her arrest by the Gestapo during the height of the war, it becomes a race against time to save not only herself but the identities of the hidden thousands who'll face certain execution.

Julia Pastrana was a physically-deformed Mexican woman, just over four feet tall, covered with black hair with large, misshapen facial features, who fell in love with the man, Theodore Lent, who displayed her in his traveling freak show. What happened next is far from a happy ending...

Set at a moment when European countries are racing to find ways to carve up the natural resources of Africa, Belgium's King Leopold II becomes the world's richest man with billions stashed in secret bank accounts by gaining private ownership of the Congo Free State, and inserts a mercenary army to cruelly plunder rubber and ivory. He forces the locals to harvest it. Those who refused are dismembered or worse, and as many as 8 million are killed in this ruthless pursuit. The Congolese defy Leopold II and fight back. Their heroic plight sparks a daring and unlikely alliance between a black American missionary, an English investigative journalist and an Irish spy that shine a light on the horrors and give birth to the first human rights movement.

The story will be loosley based on Howard Carter's discovery of King Tut's treasures in 1922 Egypt.

Spelled with a K as an acknowledgement of the Greek influence on the Egyptian queen, the updated film will focus on her relationships as a girl, woman, wife, mother, queen and later, reincarnated goddess.

The movie will star Ryan Phillippe as a seventh-century Viking warrior named Thorfinn who, along with his older brother, the battle-scarred Hakon (Sean Bean), invades Britain.

Set mostly in Russia, the story centers on an emissary sent by Ben Franklin to seek out Catherine and persuade her not to help the British fight the colonies.

The film focuses on extraordinary group of working class housewives from Love Canal, New York who took on the government and the chemical industry in the 70s.

The project will focus on the days following after Lincoln's assassination in 1865 and follow the New York Cavalry as it solves the mystery that eventually leads to John Wilkes Booth, uncovering a plot that threatens to plunge the nation back into war. Col. Everton Conger was in command of the troops when they tracked down Booth in a Virginia barn 12 days after Lincoln was shot.

A biopic of legendary matador Manuel Rodriguez Sanchez (Adrien Brody) and his love affair with actress Lupe Sino (Penelope Cruz), which continued until his death in the bullring in 1947 at 30.

Autobiography of the Roman emperor written as a series of letters to his nephew, Marcus Aurelius.

During WWII, a Jewish refugee looks for a rabbi to perform his bar mitzvah. Accompanied by his soccer coach, the boy travels covertly through Nazi occupied Italy in his quest to become a man.

An uproar begins inside the British Royal Family when they learn that an Australian farmer is the rightful King of England.

In 1859, radical abolitionist John Brown raids Harper’s Ferry. Brown hopes the attack will ignite a slave uprising. Instead it leaves 11 dead and leads to Brown's capture, after which he is found guilty of treason and hanged. Political enemies consider Brown a madman and a terrorist, but the notoriety of his violent attacks are credited with sparking the Civil War.

A film revolving around the infamous My Lai massacre. Bruce Willis will play William R. Peers, the real-life Army general who investigated the murder of about 350-500 people—mostly women, children and the elderly—by U.S. soldiers.