Ophelia (2018)
Drama | History | Romance | Thriller | War
A re-imagining of Hamlet, told from Ophelia's perspective.
Starring: Daisy Ridley, Naomi Watts, Clive Owen, Tom Felton, George MacKay, Daisy Head
Director: Claire McCarthy
Kingdom / Kingudamu (2019)
Action | History | War
In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.
Starring: Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, Masami Nagasawa, Kanna Hashimoto, Kanata Hongô, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Masahiro Takashima, Jun Kaname, Takao Ohsawa
Director: Shinsuke Sato
One Child Nation / Born in China (2019)
Documentary | History
After becoming a mother, a filmmaker uncovers the untold history of China's one-child policy and the generations of parents and children forever shaped by this social experiment.
Starring: Jiaoming Pang, Brian Stuy, Longlan Stuy, Peng Wang
Director: Nanfu Wang, Jialing Zhang
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (2015)
Biography | Documentary | History | Music
Art, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith's massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith's home and studio from 1957 through the '60s.
Starring: David Amram, Carla Bley, Ron Free, Thelonious Monk Jr.
Director: Sara Fishko
The November War (2013)
Documentary | History | War
Former Marine Corps infantry platoon members recall November 22, 2004, during the Second Battle of Fallujah, with diverse opinions on different aspects of their war experience.
Director: Garrett Anderson, Antonio de la Torre
The Battleship Island / Gunhamdo (2017)
Action | Drama | History
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island to mine for coal, attempt to a dramatic escape.
Starring: Jung-min Hwang, Ji-seob So, Joong-Ki Song, Jung-hyun Lee, Su-an Kim, In-woo Kim, Joong-hee Kim
Director: Seung-wan Ryoo
The King (2019)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his past life.
Starring: Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, Sean Harris, Lily-Rose Depp, Robert Pattinson, Ben Mendelsohn
Director: David Michôd
Romulus & Remus: The First King / The First King: Birth of an Empire / Il primo re (2019)
Drama | History
Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
Starring: Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice, Fabrizio Rongione, Massimiliano Rossi, Tania Garribba
Director: Matteo Rovere
Chernobyl (TV Mini-Series 2019)
Drama | History | Thriller
Chernobyl dramatizes the story of the 1986 nuclear accident — one of the worst man-made catastrophes in history — and the sacrifices made to save Europe from unimaginable disaster.
Starring: Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Paul Ritter, Jessie Buckley, Adam Nagaitis, Emily Watson, Robert Emms, Sam Troughton
Creator: Craig Mazin
The Waldheim Waltz / Waldheims Walzer (2018)
Documentary | History
A biographical drama film about Kurt Josef Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and the controversy of his participation and role in the Nazi regime during WW II .
Starring: Kurt Waldheim, Ruth Beckermann
Director: Ruth Beckermann
All Is True (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Kathryn Wilder, Jack Colgrave Hirst
Director: Kenneth Branagh
Jeremiah / The Bible: Jeremiah (1998)
Biography | Drama | History
Jeremiah tells the story of the prophet who abandons his family and the woman he loves in order to relay God's message in Jerusalem, starring Patrick Dempsey and Oliver Reed.
Starring: Patrick Dempsey, Oliver Reed, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Vincent Regan, Leonor Varela, Andrea Occhipinti
Director: Harry Winer
Ashes in the Snow / Tarp pilku debesu (2018)
Drama | History | Romance | War
In 1941, a 16 year-old aspiring artist and her family are deported to Siberia amidst Stalin's brutal dismantling of the Baltic region. One girl's passion for art and her never-ending hope will break the silence of history.
Starring: Bel Powley, Sophie Cookson, James Cosmo, Peter Franzén, Jonah Hauer-King, Martin Wallström, Sam Hazeldine
Director: Marius A. Markevicius
The Messenger / Kurier (2019)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller | War
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
Starring: Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, Bradley James, Martin Butzke, Nico Rogner
Director: Wladyslaw Pasikowski
Les fêtes galantes / The Lace Wars (1965)
Comedy | History | War
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Avron, Jean Richard, Marie Dubois, Geneviève Casile
Director: René Clair
Gwen (2018)
Drama | History | Horror | Mystery
A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Starring: Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Maxine Peake
Director: William McGregor
Kesari (2019)
Action | Drama | History | War
Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.
Starring: Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra
Director: Anurag Singh
Karmouz War / No Surrender (2018)
Action | Crime | History | Thriller | War
An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria. The film dates back to the reign of King Farouk before the 1952 revolution in the English occupation of Egypt.
Starring: Scott Adkins, Amir Karara, Ghadah Abdulrazeq, Ahmed el-Sakka, Rogina, Mayan El Sayed
Director: Peter Mimi
Hex (2017)
History | Horror | Thriller | War
During the English Civil War, two opposing soldiers find themselves trapped in a forest controlled by a Witch.
Starring: Daniel Oldroyd, William Young, Suzie Frances Garton, Tony Broadbent
Director: George Popov, Jonathan Russell
The Red Sea Diving Resort / Operation Brothers (2019)
Drama | History | Thriller
Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.
Starring: Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, Alona Tal, Michiel Huisman, Ben Kingsley, Michael Kenneth Williams
Director: Gideon Raff
