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
Mary Shelley (2017)
Biography | Drama | History | Romance
Life and facts of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, who at 16 met 21 year old poet Percy Shelley, resulting in the writing of Frankenstein.
Starring: Elle Fanning, Douglas Booth, Bel Powley, Ben Hardy, Tom Sturridge, Maisie Williams
Director: Haifaa Al-Mansour
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
Apollo 11 (2019)
Documentary | History
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
Starring: Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins
Director: Todd Douglas Miller
Satan Never Sleeps / Flight from Terror (1962)
Drama | History | War
During the Chinese Civil War of 1949, the Communists constantly harass the two priests of a remote Catholic mission outpost.
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler, Martin Benson, Burt Kwouk
Director: Leo McCarey, David W. Orton
Missing (1982)
Biography | Drama | History | Mystery | Thriller
When an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Sissy Spacek, Melanie Mayron, Jerry Hardin, John Shea, Charles Cioffi
Director: Costa-Gavras
Fighter in the Wind / Baramui paiteo (2004)
Action | Biography | Drama | History | War
A young Korean man arrives in Japan near the end of World War II with hopes of being a fighter pilot, but ends up on the streets battling racism, organized crime, occupying American servicemen, and his own fear of failure as a martial artist.
Starring: Dong-kun Yang, Aya Hirayama, Masaya Katô, Tae-woo Jeong, Doo-hong Jung
Director: Yun-ho Yang
The Convent / Heretiks (2018)
History | Horror
During the 17th Century a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
Starring: Michael Ironside, Dilan Gwyn, Clare Higgins, Rosie Day, Hannah Arterton, Ciarán McMenamin
Director: Paul Hyett
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
Brecht (2019)
Biography | Drama | History
Starting from the year 1956, Brecht's year of death, the film looks back on the time of the First World War and the life Bertolt Brecht in a mixture of fiction and documentary.
Starring: Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling
Director: Heinrich Breloer
The Last Man on the Moon (2014)
Adventure | Biography | Documentary | History
When Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan stepped off the moon in December 1972 he left his footprints and his daughter's initials in the lunar dust. Only now is he ready to share his epic but deeply personal story of fulfillment, love, and loss.
Starring: Eugene Cernan, Charles Duke, Richard Gordon, Christopher Kraft, Gene Kranz, Jim Lovell
Director: Mark Craig
Hidden Man / Xie bu ya zheng (2018)
Action | Adventure | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History
A young swordsman in 1930's China returns home to try and solve a five-year-old murder case. Described as the third installment of the gangster trilogy that includes "Let The Bullets Fly" and "Gone With The Bullets."
Starring: Eddie Peng, Fan Liao, Yun Zhou, Qing Xu, Kenya Sawada, Andy Friend, Wen Jiang
Director: Wen Jiang
The Lion in Winter (1968)
Biography | Drama | History
1183 A.D.: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, Timothy Dalton, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Director: Anthony Harvey
Ballon (2018)
Drama | History | Thriller
Balloon is a German thriller that deals with the crossing of the inner German border of the families Strelzyk and Wetzel from the GDR to West Germany with a homemade hot-air balloon.
Starring: Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, David Kross, Alicia von Rittberg, Thomas Kretschmann
Director: Michael Herbig
Werk ohne Autor / Never Look Away (2018)
Drama | History | Thriller
German artist Kurt Barnert has escaped East Germany and now lives in West Germany, but is tormented by his childhood under the Nazis and the GDR-regime.
Starring: Sebastian Koch, Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci, Hanno Koffler
Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
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
