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Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | Czech Republic, United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
The inspiring true story of Seretse Khama, the King of Bechuanaland (modern Botswana), and Ruth Williams, the London office worker he married in 1948 in the face of fierce opposition from their families and the British and South African governments. Seretse and Ruth defied family, Apartheid and empire - their love triumphed over every obstacle flung in their path and in so doing they transformed their nation and inspired the world.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:25 |
Filmmaker Marshall Curry explores the inner workings of the Earth Liberation Front, a revolutionary movement devoted to crippling facilities involved in deforestation, while simultaneously offering a profile of Oregon ELF member Daniel McGowan, who was brought up on terrorism charges for his involvement with the radical group.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, Russia, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:30 |
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:25 |
A ticking-clock thriller following Winston Churchill in the 24 hours before D-Day.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Denmark |
Duration | 02:09 |
Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, India, Sweden |
Duration | 02:21 |
In 1947, Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy, charged with handing India back to its people, living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers, whilst 500 Hindu, Muslim and Sikh servants lived downstairs.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:38 |
Hitchcock follows the relationship between director Alfred Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville during the making of his most famous film "Psycho" - and the trials and tribulations the director faced from Hollywood censors.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these remarkable women who, despite the obstacles they faced, came from obscurity to produce some of the greatest novels in the English language.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Australia |
Duration | 01:45 |
The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in recent times – the forced migration of children from the United Kingdom. Almost singlehandedly, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:53 |
A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, biography, history, sport |
Country | France, Israel, Bulgaria, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:50 |
Victor Perez was a Jewish boxer who became world flyweight champion in 1931 and 1932, but was transported to Auschwitz concentration camp when Paris fell to the Nazi s in 1943. While there he was forced into slave labour and made to participate in violent boxing matches for the amusement of the Nazi guards. Surviving Auschwitz tells Victors astonishing, harrowing, brutal and incredibly moving true story.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
England, while the storm clouds of Nazism menace Germany. Robert Watson Watt and a team of eccentric and brilliant meteorologists struggle to turn the mere idea of radar into a functional reality.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:32 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill suffers from a stroke in the summer of 1953 that's kept a secret from the rest of the world.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France, Hungary, Netherlands |
Duration | 02:37 |
After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is transplanted from her childhood home in rural France to the intellectual and artistic splendor of Paris. Soon after, Willy convinces Colette to ghostwrite for him. She pens a semi-autobiographical novel about a witty and brazen country girl named Claudine, sparking a bestseller and a cultural sensation. After its success, Colette and Willy become the talk of Paris and their adventures inspire additional Claudine novels.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, adventure, biography, history |
Country | Norway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, Sweden |
Duration | 01:49 |
The true story about legendary explorer Thor Heyerdahl and his epic crossing of the Pacific on a balsa wood raft in 1947, in an effort to prove it was possible for South Americans to settle in Polynesia in pre-Columbian times.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Czech Republic |
Duration | 02:23 |
The account of keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:14 |
London, England, May 2000. The peaceful life of elderly Joan Stanley is suddenly disrupted when she is arrested by the British Intelligence Service and accused of providing information to communist Russia during the forties.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | drama, military, biography, history |
Country | Lebanon, Kuwait, Morocco, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt |
Duration | 02:57 |
Handsomely-mounted historical epic concerns the birth of the Islamic faith and the story of the prophet Mohammed.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:22 |
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:50 |
A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a defining moment in European history: two beautiful sisters, Anne and Mary Boleyn, driven by their family's blind ambition, compete for the love of the handsome and passionate King Henry VIII.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | Luxembourg, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 04:03 |
Historical epic. The triumphs and tragedy of the Egyptian queen, Cleopatra.The winner of four Oscars, this epic saga of love, greed and betrayal stars Elizabeth Taylor as the passionate and ambitious Egyptian queen who's determined to hold on to the throne and seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison). When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony (Richard Burton), who vows to take power -- but Caesar's successor (Roddy McDowall) has other plans.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | comedy, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA |
Duration | 01:55 |
England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:51 |
A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany |
Duration | 02:01 |
Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and asks Garrigan to become his personal doctor.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, France |
Duration | 02:08 |
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Civil Rights Act.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:31 |
A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s. Donald Woods is a white liberal journalist in South Africa who begins to follow the activities of Stephen Biko, a courageous and outspoken black anti-apartheid activist.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:31 |
Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:04 |
In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne and menaces the future of Queen Elizabeth I as ruler of England, because she has a legitimate claim to the English throne. Betrayals, rebellions, conspiracies and their own life choices imperil both Queens. They experience the bitter cost of power, until their tragic fate is finally fulfilled.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery, the echoes of Britain's past resonate in the face of its uncertain future.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy, Morocco, Thailand |
Duration | 02:55 |
Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:57 |
An aspiring young physician, Robert Merivel found himself in the service of King Charles II and saves the life of someone close to the King. Merivel joins the King's court and lives the high life provided to someone of his position. Merivel is ordered to marry his King's mistress in order to divert the queens suspicions. He is given one order by the king and that is not to fall in love. The situation worsens when Merivel finds himself in love with his new wife. Eventually, the King finds out and relieves Merivel of his position and wealth. His fall from grace leaves Merivel where he first started. And through his travels and reunions with an old friend, he rediscovers his love for true medicine and what it really means to be a physician.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
An outwardly confident but unmarried woman on the verge of her fortieth birthday reflects on her past suitors and the choices she once made while attempting to help her marriage minded niece choose between a number of potential suitors in this tale inspired by the life and letters of Jane Austen. Jane Austen is about to turn forty, but she still hasn't found her ideal man. When Jane is approached by her niece Fanny and asked to help select the perfect husband for the young girl, the aging spinster begins to wonder why it is that she never found a man to share her own life with. Perhaps if Jane had accepted the proposal of a wealthy landowner she could have saved her family from financial ruin, and what of the handsome young physician who once warmed to Jane after tending to her ailing family members?
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.