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History movies

Period pieces that transport you back in time, recreating the events and figures that shaped our past.

Subgenres include: Historical Event, Biographical History, Political History.

Fragmented

61. Fragmented

Drama History
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202615min

Director: George Lynch

After the end of the First World War, Lilly’s father returns home to Ireland after his service in the military. However, Lilly isn’t ready for the changes to come.


In the early 1960s, a filmmaker suddenly disappears without a trace. Decades later, a film researcher attempts to piece together what happened to the man that no one can remember.


HMS 25-26

63. HMS 25-26

Comedy Adventure Documentary Drama Family
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202647min

Director: Kellen "Eric" Townsend

A chronicle of the 25-26 HMS team on their path to glory


Winter of the Crow

64. Winter of the Crow

Drama Thriller History
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20261h 52min

Director: Kasia Adamik

Warsaw, December 13, 1981. Martial law shuts down the country. Overnight, a country turns into a prison. Taxis have been replaced by tanks. Citizens are treated like criminals. And visiting British Professor Joan Andrews finds herself trapped. After witnessing the murder of a young student by the secret police (the "Crows"), Joan herself becomes the target.


Living Harriet Tubman

65. Living Harriet Tubman

Documentary History
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202627min

Director: Brandon Tauszik

A retiring Civil War reenactor stages a provocative final performance amid escalating attempts to obscure the realities of American history.


White Mountains

66. White Mountains

Documentary History
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20261h 26min

Director: Alexandros Papathanasiou

The filmmaker, Alexandros Papathanasiou, travels to Crete to meet Lefteris Eliakis, a guerrilla fighter during the Greek Civil War and a political prisoner for two decades. This insightful portrait conjures the ghosts of the Greek Civil War – the maverick people, revolutionary politics, and breathtaking events that have shaped today’s Greece.


La Terza Volta

67. La Terza Volta

History War
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20261h 47min

Director: Gianni Aureli

Matera, 1943. Partisan Nichi has been wounded and is returning to her brigade's hideout, but her true concerns are focused on the fate of her husband, a prisoner of the German army. When she arrives at the hideout, however, she finds no one there except a young courier accompanied by a civilian woman who urgently needs to be escorted out of the city by nightfall.


Le Pretentious Filme

68. Le Pretentious Filme

Comedy History
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20268min

Director: Chrysan Martin

Chelsea, an assistant to an Andy-Warhol-Adjacent underground painter and filmmaker, Kenny Meklor, is roped his narcissistic shenanigans throughout the art world


Dao Ma, the "second most wanted fugitive," is entrusted by his benefactor, the chief of Mo family clan, to take on a mysterious escort mission-escorting the "most wanted fugitive" to Chang'an.


Uchronia

70. Uchronia

Documentary Fantasy History
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20261h 37min

Director: Fil Ieropoulos

A psychedelic docu-essay, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s visionary poem Une Saison en Enfer, in which the poet’s ghost travels through history, encountering revolutionary figures and queer ‘freaks’ such as Emma Goldman, David Wojnarowicz, and Marsha P. Johnson. These encounters form a multilayered collage that interrogates identity, the meaning of revolution, and the role of the artist in shaping radical histories and collective imaginaries.