Toman (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
This fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.
Starring: Jirí Machácek, Katerina Winterová, Kristýna Boková, Stanislav Majer, Petr Vanek
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Kursk (2018)
Action | Drama | History | Thriller
The film follows the 2000 K-141 Kursk submarine disaster and the governmental negligence that followed. As the sailors fight for survival, their families desperately battle political obstacles and impossible odds to save them.
Starring: Léa Seydoux, Colin Firth, Matthias Schoenaerts, Max von Sydow, Michael Nyqvist, August Diehl
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Cry Freedom (1987)
Biography | Drama | History
South African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.
Starring: Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Penelope Wilton, Josette Simon, Zakes Mokae, Garrick Hagon
Director: Richard Attenborough
Shadow / Ying (2018)
Action | Drama | History
Set during China's Three Kingdom's era (AD 220-280). The story of a great king and his people, who will be expelled from their homeland and will aspire to claim it. The king, violent and ambitious, of mysterious methods and motives; his general, a visionary who yearns to win the final battle but needs to prepare his plans in secret; the women of the palace, who struggle to find redemption in a world where they have no place; and a commoner called "Lord of all the world", will be the characters around who turn the inexorable forces of this story.
Starring: Chao Deng, Li Sun, Ryan Zheng, Qianyuan Wang, Jingchun Wang, Jun Hu, Xiaotong Guan, Lei Wu
Director: Yimou Zhang
Sergeant York (1941)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
A marksman is drafted in World War I and ends up becoming one of the most celebrated war heroes.
Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Noah Beery Jr., Ward Bond, June Lockhart, Dickie Moore, Stanley Ridges, Margaret Wycherly
Director: Howard Hawks
Peterloo (2018)
Drama | History
The story of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where British forces attacked a peaceful pro-democracy rally in Manchester.
Starring: Maxine Peake, Nico Mirallegro, Rory Kinnear, Tim McInnerny, David Bamber, Leo Bill, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst
Director: Mike Leigh
The Favourite (2018)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History
In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Starring: Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Nicholas Hoult, Mark Gatiss, Joe Alwyn
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
Mary Stuart's attempt to overthrow her cousin Elizabeth I, Queen of England, finds her condemned to years of imprisonment before facing execution.
Starring: Margot Robbie, Saoirse Ronan, Maria Dragus, Jack Lowden, Joe Alwyn, Martin Compston
Director: Josie Rourke
The Front Runner (2018)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery
American Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign in 1988 is derailed when he's caught in a scandalous love affair.
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons, Kaitlyn Dever, Sara Paxton, Mamoudou Athie
Director: Jason Reitman
The Isle (2019)
Fantasy | History | Horror | Thriller
On a remote island off the west coast of Scotland in 1846 a heavy storm hits, causing a ship to sink. Three survivors row through a thick early morning mist, lost and disorientated. The mist begins to clear and The Isle appears before them. They soon discover that it is almost abandoned except for four sole residents: an old harbour man, a farmer, his niece and a young mad woman. Once rested and recovered the sailors are desperate to leave and return to the mainland, but the promised boat never appears. One of them starts to investigate and learns of a tragedy at sea that occurred five years previously causing several young men from the island to perish. When his two shipmates meet with accidents, the myth of a ghostly siren haunting the island leads him to uncover the truth whilst he battles to save his own life.
Starring: Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Fisayo Akinade, Tori Butler-Hart, Alix Wilton Regan, Graham Butler, Dickon Tyrrell, Emma King, Joe Bannister, Ben Lee
Director: Matthew Butler-Hart
The Great Battle / Ansi-seong (2018)
Action | Drama | History | War
A historical film about the siege of Ansi Fortress and the epic eighty-eight day battle that Yang Man-chun and his Goguryeo troops fought against 500,000 invading Tang dynasty men to defend it.
Starring: In-sung Jo, Joo-Hyuk Nam, Sung-woong Park, Seong-woo Bae, Tae-goo Eom, Seol-Hyun Kim, Byeong-eun Park, Dae-hwan Oh, Eun-chae Jung, Dong-il Sung
Director: Kwang-shik Kim
Slasti Otce vlasti / Delights of the Father of the Nation (1969)
Comedy | History | Romance
The young Prince Charles, the future King of his country Charles IV, is being educated at the French court in the company of his fiancée Blanche. One day he receives a summons from his father John of Luxembourg in Italy. He leaves for Italy accompanied by a deputation from Bohemia. On the way the prince's company fights a battle with armed Milanese against heavy odds. Thanks to Charles's perspicacity, the prince's almost naked soldiers win through. In Lucca in Italy Charles joins his father, and here he experiences an amorous adventure and escapes from the traps laid by the Italian rebels.
Starring: Jaromír Hanzlík, Daniela Kolárová, Milos Kopecký, Oldrich Velen, Vilém Besser, Zdenek Kryzánek
Director: Karel Steklý
Fire in the Night / Fire in the Night: The Piper Alpha Disaster (2013)
Documentary | History
Fire in the Night relives the tragic events that occurred on the Piper Alpha rig on 6th July 1988. It was a catastrophe that killed 167 men and left only 61 survivors, each of whom had to fight for their lives to escape the huge, labyrinthine structure and the flames that were consuming it. The documentary features astonishing testimonies from men who found themselves in the midst of an inferno that destroyed a rig which was, at one time, the world's single largest oil producer. Speaking to survivors and rescuers, many of whom have never spoken on camera before, this film uses dramatic reconstructions to show the horror of this disaster and how the survivors escaped the burning rig.
Director: Anthony Wonke
First Man (2018)
Biography | Drama | History
A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
Starring: Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll, Pablo Schreiber, Jason Clarke
Director: Damien Chazelle
Brexit: The Uncivil War (2019)
Biography | Drama | History
Political strategist Dominic Cummings leads a popular but controversial campaign to convince British voters to leave the European Union from 2015 up until the present day.
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Sarah Belcher, Malcolm Freeman, Lucy Russell
Director: Toby Haynes
La noche de 12 años / A Twelve-Year Night (2018)
Crime | Drama | History
1973. Uruguay is governed by a military dictatorship. One autumn night, three Tupamaro prisoners are taken from their jail cells in a secret military operation. The order is precise: "As we can't kill them, let's drive them mad." The three men will remain in solitary confinement for twelve years. Among them is Pepe Mujica – later to become president of Uruguay.
Starring: Antonio de la Torre, Chino Darín, Alfonso Tort, César Troncoso, Soledad Villamil, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Mirella Pascual, Nidia Telles
Director: Álvaro Brechner
Kings of the Sun (1963)
Adventure | Drama | History | Thriller
On the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, the Native American tribe of chief Black Eagle clashes with the Mayan tribe of king Balam.
Starring: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Hollywoodland (2006)
Biography | Crime | Drama | History | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
A detective examines the mysterious death of George Reeves, the star of the television series Adventures of Superman (1952).
Starring: Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney, Kathleen Robertson
Director: Allen Coulter
Iceman: The Time Traveler / Iceman 2 / Bing fung: Wing hang chi moon (2018)
Action | Comedy | Fantasy | History | Sci-Fi
The imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years later pass and they are defrosted continuing the battle they left behind.
Starring: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Shengyi Huang, Kang Yu, Simon Yam, Yasuaki Kurata
Director: Wai Man Yip
Sobibor (2018)
Drama | History | War
"Sobibor" is based on the history of the Sobibór extermination camp uprising during WWII and Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky. When he was a POW in Sobibor, he managed to do the impossible – to organize a revolt and mass escape of the prisoners. Many of the escapees were later caught and died – the rest led by Pechersky managed to join the partisans. Script based on the book by Ilya Vasiliev: "Alexander Pechersky: Breakthrough to Immortality".
Starring: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Christopher Lambert, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Michalina Olszanska, Philippe Reinhardt, Maximilian Dirr, Mindaugas Papinigis, Wolfgang Cerny
Director: Konstantin Khabenskiy
