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Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | Canada, Australia |
Duration | 01:41 |
Missionary Father LaForgue travels to the New World in hopes of converting Algonquin Indians to Catholicism. Accepted, though warily, by the Indians, LaForgue travels with the Indians using his strict Catholic rules and ideals to try and impose his religion.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:48 |
In order to flee from powerful enemies, young Mayan king Balam leads his people north across the Gulf of Mexico to the coast of what will become the United States. They build a home in the new land but come into conflict with a tribe of Native Americans led by their chief, Black Eagle, while both Balam and Black Eagle fall in love the beautiful Mayan princess Ixchel.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | drama, adventure, biography, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:25 |
Risking his life, Luke ventures to Rome to visit Paul -- the apostle who's bound in chains and held captive in Nero's darkest and bleakest prison cell. Haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds, Paul wonders if he's been forgotten as he awaits his grisly execution. Before Paul's death, Luke resolves to write another book that details the birth of what will come to be known as the church.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:16 |
Austrian mountaineer, Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedition in 1939. But when World War II breaks out, the arrogant Harrer falls into Allied forces' hands as a prisoner of war. He escapes with a fellow detainee and makes his way to Llaso, Tibet, where he meets the 14-year-old Dalai Lama, whose friendship ultimately transforms his outlook on life.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:59 |
During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New Orleans when he learns that a British fleet will arrive with 60 ships and 16,000 men to take the city. In this situation an island near the city becomes strategically important to both parties, but it's inhabited by the last big buccaneer: Jean Lafitte. Although Lafitte never attacks American ships, the governor hates him for selling merchandise without taxes - and is loved by the citizens for the same reason. When the big fight gets nearer, Lafitte is drawn between the fronts. His heart belongs to America, but his people urge him to join the party that's more likely to win.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:18 |
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | action, melodrama, drama, adventure, family, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:25 |
When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of Buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | drama, adventure, biography, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Spain |
Duration | 02:00 |
Genoan navigator Christopher Columbus has a dream to find an alternative route to sail to the Indies, by traveling west instead of east, across the unchartered Ocean sea. After failing to find backing from the Portugese, he goes to the Spanish court to ask Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand for help. After surviving a grilling from the Head of the Spanish Inquisition Tomas de Torquemada, he eventually gets the blessing from Queen Isabella and sets sail in three ships to travel into the unknown. Along the way he must deal with sabotage from Portugese spies and mutiny from a rebellious crew.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | adventure, military, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:15 |
During World War II, Captain Cassidy and his crew of submariners are ordered into Tokyo Bay on a secret mission. They are to gather information in advance of the planned bombing of Tokyo. Along the way, the crew learn about each other as they face the enemy and some of them lose their lives.
Mark | imdb: 4.9 |
Genre | action, adventure, history |
Country | Spain |
A summit of the highest level will be held at the village, to be attended by the major powers of the time: France, England, Portugal and the pope himself. Although these countries have forced the encounter with the excuse of seeking peace between the Spanish and Lusitanian, the real motives are to attack the Kingdom of Spain. To ensure the success of the plot, in which the Marquise de Santillana will be a key, they hire a bloody Cossack to end with Águila Roja ("Red Eagle"). Our hero manages to beat the villain in the fight but his son Alonso is injured and that leads Águila Roja to abandon the struggle for justice and throw away the katana. Thus, both the town as the King and the kingdom are at the mercy of traitors ...
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | Russia |
Duration | 01:37 |
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | fantastic, adventure, family |
Country | USA, Spain, France, Canada, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:22 |
Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as "Tomorrowland."
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | drama, adventure, history |
Country | United Kingdom, Italy |
Duration | 01:47 |
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, New Zealand |
Duration | 02:12 |
The familiar story of Lieutenant Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Lieutenant Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
Mark | imdb: 3.4 |
Genre | action, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:37 |
A battle-weary ex-Special Forces Operative buys a ranch in remote American West to flee from the world, and encounters a strange series of trespassers, including a beautiful elf princess and a Native American mystic and Orcs. When the Orcs invade his property, John must give up his isolation to become a hero, before the Orcs unleash their dragon god on our world.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, history |
Country | Netherlands, Hungary, Belgium |
While she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter, because her fear and pain are covered by her stubborn closeness.
Mark | imdb: 7 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, biography, history |
Country | Netherlands |
Duration | 02:25 |
When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its own civil war no less, only one man, Michael de Ruyter, can lead the county's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 03:09 |
In a land controlled by feudal barons, a great warrior and a young boy embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. A genre-bending martial arts series very loosely based on the classic Chinese tale Journey to the West.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | drama, adventure, history |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 02:44 |
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, the story begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested, who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate named Ronny Heaslop. She and Ronny's mother, Mrs. Moore, befriend an Indian doctor, Aziz H. Ahmed.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:15 |
A group of slaves plan a daring 600-mile escape from a Georgia plantation. Along the way, they are aided by a secret abolitionist couple running a station on the Underground Railroad as they attempt to evade the people charged with bringing them back, dead or alive.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | action, adventure, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
A young Viking called Vitharr arrives in Britain with dreams of conquest and adventure, but when his family and clan are ambushed and killed, he must survive alone in this strange,dangerous new land as he searches for his Uncle's settlement.
Mark | imdb: 3.5 |
Genre | action, adventure |
Country | USA |
When a young man's bride is kidnapped by an evil king, he turns to Hercules for help. The fallen hero has been living in exile, banished for killing his family, but the young man's courage inspires Hercules. Together, they fight to rescue the bride and reclaim the honor of Hercules.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:05 |
In this highly speculative historical thriller, Colonel Franz Ritter (George C. Scott), a former hero pilot now working for military intelligence, is assigned to the great Hindenburg airship as its chief of security. As he races against the clock to uncover a possible saboteur aboard the doomed zeppelin he finds that any of the passengers and crew could be the culprit.
Mark | imdb: 4.2 |
Genre | fantastic, action, drama, adventure |
Country | USA, Germany, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:40 |
Four young outsiders teleport to a dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | drama, adventure, biography, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:30 |
This unhistorical account of pirate Captain Kidd revolves around treasure and treachery. In 1699, William Kidd, presenting himself as an honest shipmaster, dupes King William III into backing his mission to fight pirates, with a crew of condemned pirates and the promise of pardon.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Our story begins at the end of Sharpe's Challenge. Sharpe and Harper are en route to Madras when they encounter a baggage train from the East India Company traveling through hostile territory. Chitu, a legendary bandit leader in control of the area, strikes fear in the members of the party. When an attack occurs Sharpe takes control of the situation, leading the group 300 miles through enemy territory and training the disorganized, rag-tag group to be proper soldiers. Despite all these responsibilities, Sharpe still manages to find time for a little romance...
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:28 |
When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he assumes Robert's identity; romances his widow, Marion; and draws the ire of the town's sheriff and King John's henchman, Godfrey.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | melodrama, drama, adventure, western, history |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:26 |
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slave in the colony of Virginia, whose inhabitants begin to hear and fear the sinister song of the threatening drums of war that resound in the wild Ohio valley.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | action, drama, adventure, military, history |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:08 |
English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians from the Sudan, Gordon stays on to protect the people of Khartoum, who are under threat of being conquered by a Muslim army.
Mark | imdb: 3.3 |
Genre | fantastic, action, fantasy, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:45 |
In a planet where humans must scavenge the post-apocalyptic barren wasteland, Hirokin – a reluctant warrior with a dark past – sets off on mission to fulfill his destiny. Having fought to the death to save his wife and son from the planets evil dictator – Griffin – and his elite army of hunters, the lone warrior is left for dead in the vast desert. Armed with his samurai blade, Hirokin is forced to choose between avenging the murder of his family and fighting for the freedom his people. In a twist of fate and with a small rebellion by his side Hirokin s vision finally becomes clear.