Browse Movies : Upcoming + TBA : Historical (Page #5)

Based on a true story, this war drama follows an all-black tank battalion's 183 days on the front lines of the Battle of the Bulge.

The film is a biopic on the life of the Dutch banker Wally van Hall, who was responsible for saving the lives of 80,000 families during World War II.

The story centers on Robert FitzRoy, the captain of the HMS Beagle, and the 30 year relationship he had with Charles Darwin and their debate oer the theory of evolution.

The story of Robert Jordan, the young American teacher who joins an antifascist guerrilla unit in the mountains of Spain.

Against the backdrop of the deadliest natural disaster in American history, the story follows a pair of young lovers on the verge of being separated, a struggle for power among various bureaucracies and a bitter love triangle involving two brothers.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Over a 24-hour period in 1775 during the American Revolution, Boston silversmith Paul Revere makes "midnight ride" from Charlestown to Lexington, Massachusetts in order to warn the Colonial militia of the impending British invasion.

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.

Set against the dramatic landscape of the English coastal town of Lyme-Regis and centers on two female 19th century fossil hunters who make significant discoveries that changed the scientific world forever. The story reveals invisible women in science who were influential but marginalized and whose accomplishments were appropriated by men.