Movies : History

Ben Hur is a gut-wrenching, action-packed drama about the struggle between the Roman Empire and its occupied territory, Judaea. Two lifelong friends, Ben Hur and Messala, are caught in an awful moment of history that puts them on opposite sides of a war for Judaea's national identity - and tests the...

When his clan, including his wife and baby girl Nea, are massacred, Ao, a desperate Neandertal man,......

1942. Joseph is eleven. And this June morning, he must go to school, a yellow star sown on his chest. He receives the support of a goods dealer. The mockery of a baker. Between kindness and contempt, Jo, his Jewish friends, their families, learn of life in an occupied Paris, on the Butte Montmartre,...

Nicola, un beau jeune homme de la region des Pouilles (Sud de l'Italie) est policier mais reve de devenir acteur. Il va devoir infiltrer un monde etudiant en pleine effervescence. A l'universite, il rencontre Laura, une jeune fille de la bourgeoisie catholique italienne, etudiante brillante et passi...

Nobody knows Auguste Maquet, and yet everybody knows "The Three Musketeers", Everybody knows Alexandre......

A revealing biopic about politician Mo Mowlam. When the Blair government takes office in 1997 the difficult job of Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, trying to broker peace between sectarian factions, goes to Dr. Marjorie Mowlam, known as 'Mo'. With her no nonsense attitude, rough language an...

Follow the lives of soldiers who lived Wold War II, through previously unseen color footage....

Following on from his mightily impressive debut feature, The Wind Blows Round, given its world premiere at the LFF in 2005, Giorgio Diritti returns with this larger scale World War Two drama. Set, like the previous film, within a remote community - this time the... more Following on from his mighti...

On the morning of June 18. 1954, the US CIA dropped leaflets in Guatemala City demanding the resignation of the president......

The film tells the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team to help unite their country. Newly elected President Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in the wake of apartheid. Believing he can bring his...