History Films

Egypt and Rome – follows her relationships first with Julius Caesar and then with Mark Antony

Shakespeare’s play about the death and aftermath of this famous dictator

Shakespeare’s play about the death and aftermath of this famous dictator

Rome – the Julio-Claudian dynasty

Rome – the reigns and family life of the Julio-Claudians

Judea – the life of Jesus Christ

Judea – The Biblical account of the nativity of Jesus, following the story of Mary and Joseph until the birth of Jesus occurs.

Germany – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, where the Cherusci ambushed and annihilated three Roman legions.

Rome – the reign of the third emperor

Based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Based on the 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

Judea – the life of Jesus Christ

Rome – ending reign of Tiberius, the beginning of Caligula

Beginning with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, and continues with the first ten chapters of the Book of Acts.

Rome – ending reign of Tiberius, the reign of Nero

Saint Peter

Judea – Immediately after Jesus’ crucifixion

Set shortly after the unification of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt by the First Dynasty of Egypt.

Judea – The final 12 hours of Jesus Christ’s life

Roman province of Judea shortly after the death of Jesus

Ancient Rome – the end Caligula reign

Rome – spanning the reigns of Claudius and Nero

Rome – about the reign of Messalina and Claudius

Rome – about the reign of Messalina and Claudius

from the end of the Gallic Wars to the death of Mark Antony and the beginning of the Principate

Rome – low budget Indian film on the missionary work of Thomas the Apostle in India.

Rome during the reign of Nero

Rome during the reign of Nero

American epic biblical drama film inspired by the Genesis flood narrative and Noah’s Ark in the Book of Genesis.

Britain – a rebellion shortly after the area had been conquered by Rome

Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Persecution of the Christians immediately after the Great Fire of Rome

Dacia (modern Romania) – Domitian’s Dacian War

Rome – Ephesus

Rome – the assassination of Domitian

the Roman Emperor Trajan conquering Dacia

Roman Britain – the supposed fate of the Ninth Legion

Based on the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), a member of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.

Roman Britain – a young Roman man attempts to find out what happened to his father and the Ninth Legion

Rome during the reign of Commodus

Rome during the reign of Commodus

Iberian Peninsula immediately before the Second Punic War

Rome and the Palmyrene Empire during the reigns of Aurelian and Zenobia

Rome during the reign of Gallienus

Rome Low-budget homo-erotic film about Saint Sebastian

Rome’s first Christian emperor from the death of Constantius Chlorus to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge

Rome early in the reign of Constantine I

Life and death of scientist/philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and the destruction of the Library.

Based on the reign of Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), a member of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.

Ireland and Roman Britain during the life of Saint Patrick

Ireland – Celtic warriors attempt to repel a fictitious Roman invasion

Scandinavia during the Germanic Heroic Age

Rome – the Huns conquests and the downfall of the Roman Empire

the Visigothic sack of Rome

Roman province of Africa – focusing on the life of Augustine of Hippo, and including the Vandal conquest of Carthage

about the Germanic hero Siegfried, his murder, and his widow’s vengeance

about the Germanic hero Siegfried, his murder, and his widow’s vengeance

about the Germanic hero Siegfried

the Roman withdrawal from Britain and the Battle of Mount Badon

Set during the reign of the pharaoh Khafra (Chephren), a member of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt.

Rome – the Hunnic leader up to his retreat from the Po river

Rome – the life and death of the famous Hunnic leader

connecting (in heavily fictionalized fashion) the deposition of the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustus by Odoacer with the Battle of Mount Badon

Britain after the Roman withdrawal

Byzantine empress Theodora

heavily fictionalized story of King Arthur

Byzantine empress Theodora

A epic film which is loosely based on the tale of the cities Sodom and Gomorrah in the Book of Genesis.

Television miniseries based on the Bible, starting with Abraham.

Filmset in 2016 BC, in the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro. The historical city was one of the largest settlements of the Indus Valley Civilisation, and one of the world’s earliest major cities.

A television film based on the life of the patriarch Abraham.

A German/Italian/American television film based on the novel Giacobbe by Francesco Maria Nappi. The novel is in turn based on the depiction of the patriarch Jacob in the Book of Genesis.

Set in Ancient Egypt and based on the story of Joseph, a Vizier depicted in the Book of Genesis. The era of the film’s setting corresponds to the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt.

Set in The Holy Land during the time of the Old Testament patriarchs of the Book of Genesis. Dinah, the only daughter of Leah and Jacob, chronicles her story from youth through adulthood.

Film based on the Bible, starting with the Book of Genesis and ending with Abraham.

Set in Ancient Egypt; loosely based on the life of Nefertiti, Great Royal Wife of the Pharaoh Akhenaten. Nefertiti and her husband were members of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and were ruling figures of the Amarna Period.

Based on the novel The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, who adapted the Story of Sinuhe. The film mentions the pharaoh Akhenaten, the Hittite Empire, and iron technology.

The three-part miniseries is based on the life of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, a member of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

Set in Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses II, a member of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The film is based on the founding narrative of the Exodus, as depicted in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Set in Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses II, a member of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The film is based on the founding narrative of the Exodus, as depicted in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Set in Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ramesses II, a member of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. The film is based on the founding narrative of the Exodus, as depicted in the books of Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, based on the epic poem Odyssey by Homer. It depicts the ten-year struggle of war veteran Odysseus to return home to the island of Ithaca following the war.

Set in western Anatolia during the Trojan War, largery based on the epic poems Iliad and Odyssey by Homer.

Set in western Anatolia during the Trojan War, loosely based on the epic poem Iliad by Homer.

Set in the port town of Aulis, Greece immediately before the Greek expeditionary force set sails to attack Troy. Due to unfavorable weather conditions, king Agamemnon of Mycenae offers his daughter Iphigenia as a human sacrifice to the goddess Artemis. The film is based on the theatrical play Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides.

Set in western Anatolia in the 10th and final year of the Trojan War.

Aeneas struggles to establish a new home-land in the Italian Peninsula for his fellow survivors of the Trojan War. The film is based on the epic poem Aeneid by Virgil, which depicts Aeneas and his Trojan colonists as ancestor of the Romans.

Set in the aftermath of the Trojan War, based on the epic poem Odyssey by Homer. It depicts the ten-year struggle of war veteran Odysseus to return home to the island of Ithaca following the war.

Set in the Southern Levant, it depicts the complex relationship between Saul, Kings of Israel and his son-in-law and eventual successor David. Based on the Books of Samuel, where Saul is depicted as the founder of the Kingdom of Israel.

Set in the Southern Levant, focused on the conflict between rival kings Saul and Asrod, and their representatives in champion warfare: David and Goliath of Gath. Based on the Books of Samuel, which depict Achish as a king of Gath who was in conflict with Saul and recruited David to serve in his army.

Set in the Southern Levant, it depicts the life and reign of David, Kings of Israel. Based on the Books of Samuel. David is the supposed founder of the House of David (Davidic line).

Russia – the Rus prince Oleg of Novgorod defeats Askold and Dir

England – Alfred the Great, king of Wessex repels the army of Guthrum and begins the unification of England

Set in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, during the reign of semi-legendary queen Semiramis. The legends are in part based on the historical Shammuramat, queen consort of Shamshi-Adad V and regent for her son Adad-nirari III.

Celtic Britain

Based on the story of Romulus and Remus, and the founding of the city of Rome and the Roman Kingdom.

Set in the Neo-Assyrian Empire; focusing largely on Sardanapalus (probably the Greek name for Ashurbanipal, but anachronistically including Zoroaster (11th–10th century BC) and Hammurabi (1792–1750 BC).

Set in the Neo-Babylonian Empire, depicts Semiramis as a Babylonian queen.

Depicting the life of the Gautama Buddha. Siddhārtha Gautama is a member of the Ikshvaku dynasty, and seeks a solution to human misery and a path for salvation. He redefines the concept of the Dharma (cosmic law and order).

Western Front of World War I

Greece: Battle of Marathon

the biblical story of Esther

the biblical story of Esther set in the Achaemenid Empire

Greece: Battle of Thermopylae

Greece: Battle of Salamis

Greece: Battle of Thermopylae

From Tiberius Gracchus to the Sack of Rome (410). BBC Docu-drama.

Syracuse, Sicily

the Gallic sack of Rome

An American action fantasy adventure film based on the graphic novel Hercules: The Thracian Wars which present a realistic and more human version of Hercules.

Kannada film set in Kadamba Dynasty, during the reign of Raja Mayurasharma

Ancient kingdom of Macedonia and Persia

Ancient kingdom of Macedonia and Persia

Egypt – The entire Ptolemaic dynasty

Ancient India, during early years of the rule of Maurya emperor Asoka

during the Second Punic War

during the Second Punic War

during the Second Punic War

the Roman Siege of Syracuse during the Second Punic War

Battle of Corinth between Rome and the Achaean League

Rome

a bio-pic of Julius Caesar, not the Shakespeare play about his death and the aftermath

The reign of King Burebista of Dacia(modern day Romania)

Roman province of Judea during the First Jewish–Roman War

the Third Servile War in Rome

the Third Servile War in Rome

the Third Servile War in Rome

the Third Servile War in Rome

the struggle between Julius Caesar and Vercingetorix in the Gallic Wars

Rome – the life of Augustus, the first emperor

Egypt leading up to the arrival of Julius Caesar

Egypt and Rome – follows her relationships first with Julius Caesar and then with Mark Antony

Egypt and Rome – follows her relationships first with Julius Caesar and then with Mark Antony

Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf

Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf

Britain and Ireland – adaptation of the Brythonic legend of Tristan and Iseult

Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – very loose adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon poem of Beowulf

animated film based on the 1971 novel Grendel, retelling the Anglo-Saxon poem from the monster’s perspective

Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – this is a Russian adaptation of the Shakespeare play based on the Danish legend of Amleth

Britain and Ireland – adaptation of the Brythonic legend of Tristan and Iseult

the Ostrogoths’ struggle against the Byzantine emperor Justinian I and his generals Belisarius and Narses – adaption of a novel by Felix Dahn

Britain and Ireland – adaptation of the Brythonic legend of Tristan and Iseult

Denmark in the Germanic Heroic Age – legend of Amleth from the Danish Gesta Danorum

Alboin and the Lombard invasion of Italy

the Lombard invasion of Italy

Arabian Peninsula – the life of Muhammad

Arabian Peninsula – the life of Muhammad

the life of Omar ibn Al-Khattab, one of the companions of Muhammad

epic about the fall of Old Great Bulgaria and the creation of modern-day Bulgaria; focuses on Kanasubigi Asparuh’s life

Charlemagne’s reign up to his coronation as emperor in 800

Roland, a knight of Charlemagne’s court who was killed at the Battle of Roncevaux Pass

Series inspired by the sagas of Viking Ragnar Lothbrok, one of the best-known legendary Norse heroes and notorious as the scourge of England and France.

Poland – the death of Popiel and the rise of Piast the Wheelwright

Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages.

Fictitious medieval legend of a woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to the status of Pope in the Middle Ages.

set in England during the Viking Age (“Normans” in the title being used in its original continental sense, meaning “Vikings”)

highly fictionalized account of the death of Ragnar Lodbrok and the subsequent invasion of Northumbria by two of his sons

Iceland – adaptation of the saga of Gisli Sursson

Viking Age

Magyar settlement in Hungary

Iceland in the Viking Age

Norway – based on a Sami legend

Iceland in the Viking Age

Iceland in the Viking Age

blends elements of the historical account of the travels of Ahmad ibn Fadlan (AD 922), the legend of Beowulf (6th century), and the Kurosawa film Seven Samurai

Ferdinand Gonzalez: an early hero of the Spanish Reconquista

Kievan Rus’ – Vladimir I of Kiev

about Mieszko I of Poland

a fictionalized version of the reign of Æthelred the Unready

Kievan Rus’ – Vladimir I of Kiev

Iceland – borrows elements from several Icelandic sagas, most notably Laxdœla saga and Njáls saga

Leif Ericson and the expedition to North America

Scandinavia and North America in 1000 AD

North America – two Scandinavians left behind in North America after the settlements made by Leif Ericson were abandoned

Spain / Kingdom of Castile

England

Scotland

England

England

Byzantine Empire

Italy and the Levant

Levant

England/Middle East

France

England

Kingdom of Georgia

Spain

England

England

Northern Italy

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Italy

Italy

Italy

Kingdom of Jerusalem

England

England

The Levant and Sweden

Levant

Kingdom of Jerusalem

Levant

England

England

Levant

England

Mongolia

Mongolia

England

England

France

England

Denmark

England

Kingdom of Bohemia

North-eastern Europe

Anatolia

China

China

China

Prussia

Europe

Scotland

China

Sweden

France

Great Britain

Mexico

India

France

France

Middle-East

Italy

England

England

Poland

England

Italy

Norway

Sweden

France

England

France near Paris and Meaux

England

Russia

England

Wallachia

England

Serbia

Serbia, Montenegro

Baltic Sea

Central Europe

England and northern France

England and northern France

Germany

France

France

France

France

France

England

France

Wallachia

Wallachia

France

Constantinople

Constantinople

England

France and Constantinople

Catherine of Aragon

Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico, the declining period of the Maya civilization

Martin Luther

the painting of the Sistine Chapel

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII of England

Rebellion of György Dózsa, Hungary

Mexico, depicting the secret adherence to traditional religious beliefs of the converted Aztec survivors

Thomas More

Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of King Henry VIII and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I

an executioner in Tyrol (part of the Holy Roman Empire)

Anne and Mary Boleyn

19-episodes TV Series about Ivan IV of Russia

Two-part film about Ivan IV of Russia

Film about Ivan IV of Russia

Francisco Pizarro’s capture of Atahualpa, Sapa Inca.

From the death of Anne Boleyn to the coronation of Elizabeth I of England

The reigns of Mary, Queen of Scots and her son James I of England

The love story of Mughal emperor Akbar the Great and Rajput princess “Jodhaa” i.e. Empress Mariam uz-Zamani

Mary, Queen of Scots

Mary, Queen of Scots

The case of Martin Guerre in France – a true case of identity theft.

During the Ottoman–Hungarian wars, after the Ottomans have taken Buda, the Hungarian Capital (in 1541), the siege of Eger (1552).

About Lady Jane Grey, Queen Regnant of the Kingdom of England for nine days.

The early reign of Elizabeth I of England

The Story of Akbar the Great, Mughal emperor and his son Jahangir. Jahangir’s relationship with slave girl Anarkali is featured.

78-episode TV series about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England

The reign of Elizabeth I of England

The reign of Elizabeth I of England

Lope de Aguirre’s ill-fated expedition down the Amazon in search of El Dorado.

Mary, Queen of Scots

The film is about Veronica Franco, a courtesan in 16th-century Venice who becomes a hero to her city, but later becomes the target of an inquisition by the Church for witchcraft.[3]

Greek biographical film about the life of the Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance, Doménikos Theotokópoulos, known as El Greco

It is set in the Sengoku period of Japanese history and tells the story of a lower-class criminal who is taught to impersonate a dying daimyō to dissuade opposing lords from attacking the newly vulnerable clan. The daimyō is based on Takeda Shingen, and the film ends with the climactic 1575 Battle of Nagashino.

France during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. The massacre was part of the French Wars of Religion.

France during the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre. The massacre was part of the French Wars of Religion.

About the life events of Beatrice Cenci

About the life events of Beatrice Cenci

About the life events of Beatrice Cenci

About the life events of Beatrice Cenci

The last 25 years of the reign of Elizabeth I of England

Yermak Timofeyevich and the Russian conquest of Siberia.

As an adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, the film stars as Hidetora Ichimonji, an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to abdicate as ruler in favor of his three sons.

The reign of Elizabeth I of England and the Spanish Armada.

It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven ronin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops.

Hungarian adventure film based on the eponymous novel by István Fekete. It talks about the adventourous life of the Hungarian soldiers in the Ottoman Hungary, during the Ottoman–Hungarian wars.

The Spanish Armada during the Anglo-Spanish War.

Set in feudal Japan, the film is based on the Siege of Oshi and depicts the struggle of Oshi’s villagers in defending their fortress against Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s campaign against the Hojo clan.

Michael the Brave, prince of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania

About the last journey of Willem Barentsz and Jacob van Heemskerk, when they and their crew attempted sail to the Indies via Northeast Passage over Russia. They were stranded on the island of Nova Zembla.

Set in the Republic of Venice. The film focuses on the Venetian Ghetto.

It depicts real life events of Francesco and Beatrice Cenci

The colonization of Jamestown, Virginia

The Tsardom of Russia during the Time of Troubles

Set in the Kingdom of Germany, Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.

The French playwright Molière

Loosely based on the case of alleged witch Anne Pedersdotter, and using a fictitious witchcraft trial as a metaphor for the then-current Nazi persecution of Jews.

The life of the great 17th-century French statesman Cardinal Richelieu and his dealings with Louis XIII of France

Jesuit missionary among the Hurons.

The life and trial of Urbain Grandier, who was convicted of witchcraft and burned. He was blamed for the Loudun possessions.

During the English Civil War

The life of Michiel de Ruyter and the Dutch civil war

Set in Faroe Islands. About a love triangle between the pastor for the parish of Vágar, his unfaithful wife, and her foppish lover.

The English Civil War and the dissolution of the Rump Parliament

Set during the English Civil War. A fictionalized depiction of Matthew Hopkins, a witch-hunter.

The English Civil War and the reign of Oliver Cromwell

Life of a Spanish soldier (Capitaine Alatriste) until the Battle of Rocroi. Based on the novel by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The French playwright Molière

Life of the poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

The reign of Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector.

The Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine against the control of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It led to the period of the Commonwealth known as the Deluge.

The reign of Charles II of England

A BBC serial about the life of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his wife, Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough

The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Second Northern War

Loosely based on the existence of the Man in the Iron Mask. Set in France in the reign of Louis XIV

Fictionalized drama about the reign of King Louis XIV and the building of Versailles

The Ottoman invasion of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, part of the Polish–Ottoman Wars.

A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.

Bulgarian Christian region is selected by the Ottoman rulers to serve as an example of conversion to Islam

France during the life of master chef François Vatel

Adaptation of the Heinrich von Kleist play fictionalizing the deeds of Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg in the Battle of Fehrbellin against Sweden. The Battle was part of the Scanian War.

Northern Moravia witch trials

One section of the film is set in 1681 in Cremona

The reign of Peter I of Russia

German composer Johann Sebastian Bach

Dramatization of the Salem witch trials that took place in Province of Massachusetts Bay

Robinson Crusoe flees Britain on a ship after killing his friend over love for the same woman. A fierce ocean storm wrecks his ship and leaves him stranded by himself on an uncharted island where he must fight for survival.

Set during the reign of William III and Mary II in England.

Adventure movie in Hungary during Rákóczi’s War of Independence (1703-11).

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.

The Battle of Poltava during the Great Northern War.

Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor

Scottish folk hero Robert Roy MacGregor

Set roughly two decades before the events of Treasure Island and during the Golden Age of Piracy

the infamous pirate Edward Teach

Depicts the life of the Godolphin Arabian, an Arabian colt in 18th-century Kingdom of Great Britain during the reign of George II of Great Britain.

Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II of Russia

Catherine II of Russia, the “enlightened despot” who reigned as Empress of Russia.

Depicts the life of Maria Theresa

It depicts the life of Frederick the Great

Early years of Catherine II of Russia

George Washington’s life up to the American Revolutionary War.

Early years of Catherine II of Russia

Jacobite Rising of 1745

Jacobite Rising of 1745

Jacobite Rising of 1745

Jacobite Rising of 1745

Depicts Johann Sebastian Bach’s visit to Frederick the Great in Potsdam, Prussia, when The Musical Offering was composed.

Loosely based on The Gentlemen Highwaymen William Plunkett and Captain James MacLaine. They were highwaymen noted for their restrained and courteous behavior towards their victims.

Tells the story of John Newton’s transformation from slave trader to Anglican priest; story is set in Calabar, Nigeria.

Adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson

Adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson

Adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson

Adaptation of the famous pirate story by Robert Louis Stevenson

Giacomo Casanova

England and France prior and during the French Revolution.

England and France prior and during the French Revolution.

England and France prior and during the French Revolution.

England and France prior and during the French Revolution.

Austria composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The Seven Years’ War, etc.

Robert Clive, Commander-in-Chief, India and the Battle of Plassey. The Battle was part of the Carnatic Wars.

French and Indian War and the ranger campaign of Robert Rogers

French and Indian War

French and Indian War

Jesuit missionaries in South America

The early life of Maria Anna Mozart, older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Pontiac’s War focusing on the Siege of Fort Pitt.

Based on a real-life series of killings that took place in France in the 18th century and on the famous legend of the Beast of Gévaudan

A story about the Founding Fathers of the United States and the American Revolution.

Set at the court of the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark, and focuses on the romance between his wife, Caroline Matilda of Great Britain, and the royal physician Johann Friedrich Struensee.

The story about the American Founding Father John Adams from the Boston Massacre in 1770 to his death in 1826.[4]

The life of Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire

Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France

Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France

Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France

A musical retelling of the American Revolution’s political struggle in the Continental Congress to declare independence.

Depicting Benedict Arnold, both an early hero of the American Revolution and a notorious defector.

Settlers during the American Revolution. They suffer British, Loyalist, and Indian attacks on their farm.

Roman province of Egypt shortly before the legalization of Christianity

Fictionalized story of the American Revolution in New York

George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River and the Battle of Trenton

Based on the life of Francis Marion, an officer of the Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War.

American Revolutionary War

Based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy, a descendant of the House of Valois and courtesan takes revenge by scamming Marie Antoinette, Cardinal de Rohan, and others. The scandal kindling the flames of the French Revolution.

French composer Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe.

Based on the Affair of the Diamond Necklace. Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy, a descendant of the House of Valois and courtesan takes revenge by scamming Marie Antoinette, Cardinal de Rohan, and others. The scandal kindling the flames of the French Revolution.

On the brink of the French Revolution. A minor baron and engineer from Lyon tries to gain audience with King Louis XVI of France in order to fund drainage of the mosquito-infested swamps bringing sickness and death to his region.

Fictional story about the First Fleet sailing to Botany Bay, New South Wales

George Washington’s life during his time as President of the United States.

The deteriorating mental health of George III of the United Kingdom, King of Great Britain and Ireland

Marie Antoinette, Queen consort of France

the Mutiny on the Bounty

the Mutiny on the Bounty

The Mutiny on the Bounty

French Revolution

French Revolution

French Revolution

Trial and execution of Charlotte Corday after her murder of Jean-Paul Marat. Marat was a Jacobin journalist and politician.

Conflict between Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre during the French Revolution.

Beau Brummell, a 19th-century arbiter of fashion in England who popularized the man’s suit and necktie

Film is about Sangolli Rayanna, a prominent freedom fighter from Karnataka, who fought the British East India Company until he was captured and executed in 1831.

The love story between Désirée Clary and Napoleon I

Napoléon I of France

Set in the years after the American Revolution, when a Headless Horseman haunted a little town, Sleepy Hollow, New York.

Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel

Depicts the Battle of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.

Doctors, Nurses, and others work at The Knickerbocker hospital

An Australian Lieutenant, Harry “Breaker” Morant, who ordered the summary execution of several prisoners during the Second Boer War

Covers personal and professional relationships between Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein

Covers the last 14 years of the life and reign of Nicholas II of Russia, last Emperor of Russia. Includes the events of World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War and the shooting of the Romanov family.

Biography Of Marxist And Anti-War Activist Rosa Luxemburg and her assassination in 1919.

The Russian battleship Potemkin uprising, part of the Revolution of 1905 in the Russian Empire.

Moro Rebellion

Biopic about Marie, the wife of Danish painter Peder Severin Krøyer

the Titanic disaster

World War I, the Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War

Russian Revolution

the Titanic disaster

the Titanic disaster

the Titanic disaster

American women’s suffrage movement during the 1910s

Western Front of World War I

Covers the last three years of the naval career of Alexander Kolchak, a Vice-Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy and leader of the anti-communist White Movement during the Russian Civil War. The film also depicts the love triangle between the Admiral, his wife, and the poet Anna Timiryova.

Western Front of World War I

Western Front of World War I

Focusing on the Lafayette Escadrille, a unit of American volunteer combat pilots in service for the Allies of World War I.

Gallipoli Campaign of World War I

Biopic about Howard Hughes, an aviation pioneer, director, and successful film producer.

Based on the Defense of Van in 1915, an Armenian insurgence in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian Genocide.

Set during World War I in the Ottoman Empire, depicting the Armenian Genocide.

The Sinking of the RMS Lusitania

The Armenian Genocide

Depicts the role of Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the independence of Pakistan.

T. E. Lawrence and the Arab Revolt in the Ottoman Empire.

Later life of Irish resistance leader Michael Collins and his participation in the Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War.

Brutal Career and Corruption of Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin

Battle of Beersheba in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I.

Written by Horton Foote, depicts life in Texas and the devastating effect of the great flu epidemic of 1918.

Covers the fate of the Lost Battalion, units of the 77th Infantry Division. The units under the command of Major Charles White Whittlesey penetrated deep into the Forest of Argonne in France during World War I. They were trapped and surrounded by the German Army.

Covers the fate of the Lost Battalion, units of the 77th Infantry Division. The units under the command of Major Charles White Whittlesey penetrated deep into the Forest of Argonne in France during World War I. They were trapped and surrounded by the German Army.

The life of Jiro Horikoshi

British runners face prejudice and compete in the 1924 Summer Olympics. The runners are Eric Liddell and Harold Abrahams. Liddell was a Scottish man and Abrahams was A British Jew.

Biopic of Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina.

Life and career of J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 to 1972.

The Irish War of Independence and the Irish Civil War

Based upon theories on the survival of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia and the activities of Anna Anderson. Anderson was the most famous of the Romanov impostors.

Crime and power in Atlantic City during the Prohibition Era

Rif War

Aerospace engineer R.J. Mitchell designs the Spitfire despite his failing health.

The quest of George VI, King of the United Kingdom to overcome his stammer.

Biography about the New Zealand-born Australian racehorse Phar Lap

About the struggle of Libyan rebels under Omar Mukhtar against the Italian Royal Army in the years leading up to World War II.

About the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde, American outlaws and robbers during the Great Depression.

Life of actress Frances Farmer

Australia’s Stolen Generations

Set during the Great Depression, it chronicles the final years of the notorious bank robber John Dillinger.

Set during the Great Purge initiated by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. The film focuses on the spillover effects of the Purge on the Mongolian People’s Republic, a satellite state of the Soviet Union.

Set in Shanghai during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria and the resulting conflict.

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones travels to India, and is asked to find a mystical stone. He then stumbles upon a secret cult committing enslavement and human sacrifices in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

The relationship between German-Brazilian communist militant Olga Benário and Luís Carlos Prestes, one of the main leaders of the opposition against Brazilian dictatorship of Getúlio Vargas.

The life of Jesse Owens wons four gold medals during Athletics.

Archaeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the U.S. government to find the Ark of the Covenant before Adolf Hitler’s Nazis can obtain its awesome powers.

The life of Louis Zamperini.

The Nanking Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Nanking Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

The Hindenburg disaster at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

After his father Professor Henry Jones, Sr. goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against Adolf Hitler’s Nazis again to stop them obtaining its powers.

Rise of Central Intelligence Agency’s counterintelligence, leading up to the Bay of Pigs Invasion

Norway during World War II and Winter war

German industrialist Oskar Schindler’s efforts to keep Jewish people from being interred in Nazi concentration camps during World War II.

Australia during World War II

Poland during World War II

Based on the events of the MS St. Louis

April 9, German invasion of Denmark. A group of Danish bicycle infantry is sent as a vanguard to slow down the German advance until reinforcements can arrive.

The Battle of Britain

May–June, 1940. Winston Churchill’s early days as Prime Minister, as Hitler closes in on Britain during World War II.

May 27, 1940 – June 4, 1940. The Dunkirk evacuation of World War II

Italy during World War II

Story of three Jewish brothers of the Bielski partisans who saved and recruited Jews during the Nazi occupation of Belarus.

The Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, and the story of local resistance against Japanese forces.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent American retaliation in the Doolittle Raid.

Depicts German battleship Bismarck and its last battle.

Escape from a Siberian Gulag

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Miniseries portraying the soldiers in Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, from training in boot camp to action in the European Theatre of World War II.

The activities of Soviet sniper Vasily Zaytsev in the Battle of Stalingrad

Australia’s 39th Battalion during the early days of the Kokoda Track campaign

The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Stalingrad from a German perspective.

Set during the Holocaust

Construction of the Burma Railway by forced labour, mainly British prisoners of war, during the Burma Campaign of World War II.

U.S. Navy admiral William Halsey in the crucial early weeks of his command of American forces in the Guadalcanal campaign of World War II.

The Guadalcanal Campaign

Eastern Front

About the 25th and last mission of the Memphis Belle, an American Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber flying over Nazi Germany as part Strategic bombing operations.

The exploits of United States Army General George S. Patton during World War II

The ultimate days of Sophie Scholl, a White Rose revolutionary. She actively opposing Nazi Germany until her execution and death.

Development of the Upkeep bouncing bomb and its use in Operation Chastise

Operation Market Garden

The Battle of the Bulge. Based on the last major German offensive campaign on the Western Front during World War II. It was launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in eastern Belgium, northeast France, and Luxembourg, towards the end of the war in Europe.

the story of two Danish resistance movement fighters nicknamed Flame and Citron, during the Nazi occupation of Denmark

Warsaw Uprising

Tuskegee Airmen during World War II

The Malmedy massacre and its aftermath during the Battle of the Bulge.

The Normandy landings and their aftermath

The Normandy landings, the first stage of the Invasion of Normandy

Set in Nazi Germany during World War II. It depicts the 20 July plot in 1944 by German army officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and to use the Operation Valkyrie national emergency plan to take control of the country.

The Battle of Hürtgen Forest

Focuses on Navajo code talkers during the Battle of Saipan

Polish Home Army soldiers assigned to assassinate a Communist commissar

Depicting the final ten days of Adolf Hitler’s reign over Nazi Germany and their immediate aftermath. Events take place during the Battle of Berlin.

the Battle of Iwo Jima from an American perspective.

2nd Armored Division Tank crewmen during the Western Allied invasion of Germany

Japanese sibling struggle to survive toward the end of World War II during the firebombing of Kobe and its aftermath.

World War II experiences of Desmond Doss

The Battle of Iwo Jima from a Japanese perspective.

The first of the Nuremberg trials

Inspired by true events, The Founding of a Republic weaves a rousing tale of Mao Zedong, who fought against Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. Mao Zedong led his people in battle during the Chinese Civil War, in order to establish a new People’s Republic of China.

During the Potsdam Conference

Liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp on the island of Luzon, Philippines. The camp was set up during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

The sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

Foundation of Israel

The Judges’ Trial

The murder of Elizabeth Short and subsequent investigation.

Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century.

United States Army colonel Mickey Marcus’s involvement in the Israeli War of Independence

The story of student-soldiers trying to protect a middle school during the early days of the Korean War.

Disc jockey Alan Freed’s involvement in the emergence of rock and roll

A drama about the fate of brothers forced to fight in the Korean War.

The SS Pendleton Coast Guard rescue mission attempt

The triumphs and tragedies of the Kennedy family.

The life of Che Guevara

The story follows the life and career of rock and roll icon Elvis Presley.

The conflict between veteran radio and television journalist Edward R. Murrow and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy relating to the anti-Communist Senator’s actions with the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

The events that transpired after the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953.

A drama centered on the Korean War’s final battle which will determine the border between North Korea and South Korea.

Biopic about Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler magazine

The remarkable life story of a kind and brave Alabama man with an IQ of 75.

In Massachusetts, U.S. Marshal Edward “Teddy” Daniels investigates the disappearance of murderer Rachel Solando, who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane. The film is set in Boston Harbor, and is based on the novel Shutter Island (2003) by Dennis Lehane. The hospital is loosely based on the Chronic Disease Hospital of Long Island.

During the Algerian War

The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned the innovative fast food eatery of

The film covers early American covert involvement in Vietnam during the last days of the First Indochina War. It set the stage for the subsequent Vietnam War.

Biopic about drug trafficker George Jung

The life and death of Che Guevara

Biopic about mobster Henry Hill. Hill was an associate of the

Path of the first Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo Patrice Lumumba and his killing. The Republic itself was the former Belgian Congo following its independence.

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

The early career of Rock and roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis

The film focuses on the week during the shooting of the 1957 film The Prince and the Showgirl. Marilyn Monroe was escorted around London by Colin Clark, after her husband Arthur Miller had returned to the United States.

The Suez Crisis from the Egyptian point of view

Twenty-One Quiz show scandals

During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet-captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.

Biographical film about the Max Stuart case where an Indigenous Australia man was found guilty of murder and the legal fight to have his death sentence commuted.

Based on Truman Capote’s nonfiction book of the same name about the murdered Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas

Christine Keeler, Stephen Ward and the Profumo affair

The growth of organized crime in Cidade de Deus, Rio de Janeiro.

The Vostok 1 mission, making the Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin the first human to cross into outer space. It was the first human spaceflight.

Vietnam War

The life of Josef Mengele in Argentina. He was a former Nazi wanted for War crimes. He was a target for Nazi hunters.

The days leading to the Apollo 11 lunar mission

The black female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race

The assassination of President of the United States John F. Kennedy and subsequent investigation

Soviet submarine K-19 nuclear disaster

Events surrounding the development of the film Mary Poppins

Experiences of Australian soldiers during the Vietnam War

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Singapore in Malaysia, 1964 race riots in Singapore (Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation) and National Day of 1965

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, while the search is headed up by an honorable Texas Ranger.

Lyndon Baines Johnson becomes the President of the United States in the chaotic aftermath of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. He spends his first year in office fighting to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The life of Frank Abagnale, a con artist and famous check forger.

Events surrounding the murder of NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers during the civil rights movement in Mississippi

The story of President of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White House.

Jean-Baptiste Lully, an Italian immigrant to France and noted composer of Baroque music.

The assassination of Grigoris Lambrakis

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation into the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner

Biopic about the 1960s–1970s rock band of the same name which emphasizes the life of its lead singer, Jim Morrison

The film tells the story of the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens by Indianapolis housewife Gertrude Baniszewski.

Ron Kovic’s experiences in the Vietnam War

Selma to Montgomery march in Alabama during the civil rights movement

Set in Indonesia during the overthrow of President Sukarno

The Battle of Ia Drang in the Vietnam War

Cultural Revolution in China.

The life and presidency of President of the United States George W. Bush

The 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan

the Nigerian Civil War

Vietnam War

Frank Lucas and his heroin drug trade.

The assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy

Vietnam War

Battle of Huế in the Vietnam War

Brian Clough as manager of Derby County and Leeds United

Vietnam War

Vietnam War

Chronicles the untold story of Ted Kennedy and the Chappaquiddick Incident during July, 1969.

Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Vietnam War

The political life of President of the United States Richard M. Nixon

the Zodiac murders in Northern California

Apollo 13 lunar mission

Follows the band Queen from their formation all the way to the Live Aid concert.

The untold true story behind the meeting between Elvis Presley, the King of rock and roll, and President Richard Nixon.

Gay rights activist Harvey Milk

Race horse Secretariat.

Follows the growth of the personal computer industry through the lives of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

President of Uganda Idi Amin

Journalists from The Washington Post and The New York Times who published the Pentagon Papers, regarding the United States’ covert political and military involvement during the Vietnam War.

Crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571

The Nixon-era Watergate scandal

Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland

Steve Biko and Donald Woods in the apartheid era of South Africa

Mossad efforts to avenge the Munich massacre, the murder of Israeli athletes during the 1972 Summer Olympics

The kidnapping of John Paul Getty III in July 1973.

The 1973 Chilean coup d’état and the murder of Charles Horman

The Cambodian genocide under the Khmer Rouge regime

The musical industry in 1973.

the Indonesian invasion of East Timor and the Balibo Five

Based on Richard Linklater’s life experiences.

The July 1976 rescue of passengers from a hijacked plane

Golden Age of Porn: The rise and fall of fictional pornographic film actor Dirk Diggler

the Frost-Nixon interviews

The assassination of Archbishop Oscar Romero at the height of the Salvadorian Civil War

The Son of Sam murders in New York City

Abscam operation

Four teenagers embark on a roadtrip from Columbus, Ohio to Detroit, Michigan to attend a concert by KISS, their favourite band. The film is named after the song Detroit Rock City (1976) and depicts a concert within Cobo Center.

Six years after the introduction of Title IX

The last year of Studio 54 in New York City.

A portrayal of the CIA’s role in the Canadian Caper.

A mini-series that explores the inner workings of President of Iraq Saddam Hussein’s family and his relationship with his closest advisers.

Young Soviet Army recruits are stuck in the bloody War in Afghanistan, that was started by politicians.

Aging Mafia Don Michael Corleone seeks to avow for his sins, while taking his nephew Vincent Mancini under his wing. The film is loosely based on the sudden death of Pope John Paul I (1978), whose entire term lasted 33 days, and the Banco Ambrosiano scandal (1981–1982).

An elderly Margaret Thatcher talks to the imagined presence of her recently deceased husband Denis Thatcher, as she struggles to come to terms with his death. Scenes from her past life, from girlhood to her terms as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, intervene.

Set during the early 1980s concerning the plight of the ANC’s military wing in the apartheid-era of South Africa

CIA’s covert involvement in the Soviet–Afghan War

Nelson Mandela’s imprisonment

The United States men’s national ice hockey team’s gold medal victory at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Based on the book Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys about her investigations in British Home Children.

Ruthless Cuban criminal Tony Montana arrives in Miami, Florida as part of the Mariel boatlift (1980) and builds a drug empire. The film was a remake of Scarface (1932), and dramatizes the war on drugs and the illegal drug trade.

Legacy and career of Ronald Reagan and his wife, Nancy Reagan.

Portrayal of Polish labor leader Lech Walesa and the Solidarity movement.

A look into the early life of President of the United States Barack Obama.

1981 Irish hunger strike (Part of the Cold War and The Troubles)

Wonderland murders

The first days of the Argentine invasion of the Falkland Islands

Diplomacy leading up to and during the Falklands War

Falklands War (Part of the Cold War and The Troubles)

United States invasion of Grenada: A hard-nosed, hard-living Marine gunnery sergeant clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife, as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.

Covers fourteen years of Steve Jobs’ computing career

In East Berlin, a Stasi agent is assigned to wire-tap a playwright and his lover, who are suspected to be disloyal to the GDR. However, the agent finds himself increasingly absorbed by their lives.

Historical drama about Japan Airlines Flight 123

During the Crack epidemic of the 1980s

Historical drama about Japan Airlines Flight 123

Mini-series depicting the Chernobyl disaster.

A satirical rendition of Donald Trump’s 1987 best selling business book, The Art of the Deal.

Wrestling coach John Eleuthère du Pont and Wrestlers Mark Schultz and Dave Schultz and the events of Foxcatcher farm in the lead up to, and following, the 1988 Summer Olympics.

The story behind hip hop group, N.W.A

Spy thriller set in the days before, during and after the Fall of the Wall

Fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification

Gulf War

Pablo Escobar rules the Medellín Cartel.

Rwandan genocide

Rwandan genocide

Rwandan genocide

The United Kingdom–United States Special Relationship between Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and President of the United States Bill Clinton

the Mrkonjić Grad incident during the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia

Based on the criminal activities of the short-lived Sun Gym gang (1994–1995) of Miami Lakes, Florida, which consisted mostly of bodybuilders. In the film, a trio of bodybuilders in Florida get caught up in an extortion ring and a kidnapping scheme that goes terribly wrong.

During the Bosnian War in former Yugoslavia

A fictional account of the immediate events following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales

Based on the 2012 memoir of former US Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle

Tom and Eileen Lonergan

During the Sierra Leone Civil War

The Boston Globe’s investigative story on the Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston and the September 11 attacks

September 11 attacks

September 11 attacks

The finding and assassination of Osama Bin Laden

The founding of the social networking service-website Facebook

Based on a manga, documentary about from the successful 2004 Summer Olympics to the 2016 Summer Olympics.

the Iraq War, just before the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami

The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, from the viewpoint of a tourist family in Thailand

Based on the 2007 non-fiction book of the same name about Operation Red Wings by Marcus Luttrell and Patrick Robinson

Based on the 2010 book of the same name, about numerous financial experts who predict and proceed to take advantage of the 2008 financial meltdown

About Julian Assange and the foundation of his news-leaking site WikiLeaks

The 2008 financial meltdown

Kidnapping of merchant mariner Richard Phillips by Somalian pirates

Deepwater Horizon explosion

2012 Benghazi attack: During an attack on a U.S. compound in Benghazi, Libya, a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.

The Boston Marathon Bombing.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy entered the Yemeni Civil War and the International military intervention against ISIL.

Post-apartheid South Africa and the 1995 Rugby World Cup

1991 Perfect Storm

1991 uprisings in Iraq against Saddam Hussein and aftermath of the Gulf War and the Dissolution of the Soviet Union

Snowtown murders

The Battle of Mogadishu, Somali Civil War

About boxer Micky Ward and his family

Assassination of Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira and Rwandan genocide