Free History Movies

Harriet is a movie starring Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., and Joe Alwyn. The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes, whose courage, ingenuity, and...

The Astronot is a movie starring Pennan Brae, Kiran Cash, and Tim Cash. Daniel was a recluse who shut out the world yet longed to touch the moon. Sandy was a light whose warmth melted his heart and propelled him to the stars.

Midway is a movie starring Ed Skrein, Patrick Wilson, and Woody Harrelson. The story of the Battle of Midway, told by the leaders and the sailors who fought it.

Le retour du héros is a movie starring Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Laurent, and Noémie Merlant. 1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his...

Mrs Lowry & Son is a movie starring Vanessa Redgrave, Timothy Spall, and Stephen Lord. A portrait of the artist L.S. Lowry and the relationship with his mother, who tries to dissuade him from pursuing his passion.

The Invocation of Enver Simaku is a movie starring Antonio de la Cruz, Piro Milkani, and Ema Andrea. What did they see? What did they think? What or who did they awaken? 18 years have passed since the pogrom of Mesopotam, Albania....

L'Empereur de Paris is a movie starring Vincent Cassel, Patrick Chesnais, and August Diehl. Under the reign of Napoleon, François Vidocq, the only man who escaped from the greatest penal colony of the country, is a legend of the...

Das schweigende Klassenzimmer is a movie starring Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, and Lena Klenke. A group of twelfth-grade pupils decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two...

Judy is a movie starring Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, and Finn Wittrock. Legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London in the winter of 1968 to perform a series of sold-out concerts.

Christmas at the Royal Hotel is a movie starring Harry Oram, Lydia Lee Tang, and Ashley Leung. In 1941, Hong Kong was the Casablanca of the East, a city full of war refugees, profiteers and spies. With the sudden attack by Japanese...

141 A.D. Mission in Dacia is a movie starring Alexandru Belciu, Paul Bondane, and Alexandru Bornea. "Year 141 after Christ, in the Roman province of Dacia. An unusual appearance of a comet is observed on the night sky. The...

The Report is a movie starring Adam Driver, Annette Bening, and Jon Hamm. Idealistic Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones, tasked by his boss to lead an investigation into the CIA's post 9/11 Detention and Interrogation Program, uncovers...

The Secret of China is a movie starring Kenan Heppe, Wang Peng Kai, and Valery Gadreau. Based on historical events, "Red China" tells the story of American journalist Edgar Snow (Kenan Heppe), venturing into the Red Territory to get...

Pan deng zhe is a movie starring Jing Wu, Ziyi Zhang, and Boran Jing. May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most...

Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans is a movie starring Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, and Nick Frost. Atti, a smart and quick-witted Roman teenager, manages to upset Emperor Nero with one of his schemes. For punishment,...

Jue sheng shi ke is a movie starring Guoqiang Tang, Jin Liu, and Ted Duran. The film is set in 1949, as the members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China prepare to establish a new Chinese state, the People's...

The Last of the Manson Girls is a movie starring Jen Bevan, Elliott Kashner, and Cindy Marie Martin. Counterculture journalist Paul Krassner embarks on an LSD tinged investigation of the last of Manson's disciples: Brenda McCann,...

The King is a movie starring Timothée Chalamet, Joel Edgerton, and Tom Fisher. Hal, wayward prince and heir to the English throne, is crowned King Henry V after his tyrannical father dies. Now the young king must navigate palace...

The Fighting Preacher is a movie starring David McConnell, Charley Boon, and Kenna Dawn. When Willard and Rebecca Bean are called on a mission to a town that's hostile towards them, they must choose whether to fight for their right...

Kingudamu is a movie starring Kento Yamazaki, Ryô Yoshizawa, and Masami Nagasawa. In ancient China, a young boy dreams of becoming the greatest general of the Qin Kingdom.

Robert the Bruce is a movie starring Gabriel Bateman, Talitha Eliana Bateman, and Mhairi Calvey. The story of nobleman-turned-outlaw hero who was crowned king of Scots in the 14th century.

The Terror Season 2 is an episode of The Terror starring Derek Mio, Hira Ambrosino, and William deVry. Individuals of Japanese descent encountering a cultural monster during the Japanese internment camps of WW2. In 1847, the crew of a real life Royal Naval expedition (later known as Franklin's expedition) led by three captains, Sir John Franklin, Francis Crozier and James Fitzjames, is sent to find the Arctic's fabled treacherous Northwest Passage but instead discovers a monstrous polar bear-like predator, a cunning and vicious Gothic horror that stalks the ships in a desperate game of survival. However, it soon becomes clear that that's just the beginning of their troubles. As things worsen and civilized behavior disintegrates in favor of survival at any cost, the crew must simultaneously battle the elements, the supernatural and eventually - themselves. The captains' only ally in all of this becomes a mute Inuit woman, who lives as an outcast from her tribe but still follows their old animistic religion.

Mission Mangal is a movie starring Akshay Kumar, Vidya Balan, and Sonakshi Sinha. Based on true events of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) successfully launching the Mars Orbiter Mission (Mangalyaan), making it the...

The Birdcatcher is a movie starring August Diehl, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, and Jakob Cedergren. On her attempt to flee the Nazi round-up in Norway, Esther finds herself alone, on an occupied farm forced to conceal her identity;...

Ask for Jane is a movie starring Cody Horn, Alison Wright, and Sarah Steele. A group of determined Midwestern women begin providing safe but illegal abortions in this 1960s period drama based on a true story.

Brecht is a movie starring Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling, and Adele Neuhauser. 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...

Flock of Four is a movie starring Braeden Lemasters, Uriah Shelton, and Isaac Jay. Four best friends search for a legendary jazz musician on Central Avenue, Los Angeles in 1959.

Boudica: Rise of the Warrior Queen is a movie starring Sean Carlsen, Guillaume Rivaud, and Simon Pengelly. Boudica is an innocent sixteen-year-old girl who is forced into an arranged marriage by her father, the leader of a Celtic...

The Current War is a movie starring Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Nicholas Hoult. The dramatic story of the cutthroat race between electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to determine whose electrical...

Rubezh is a movie starring Kristina Brodskaya, Aleksandr Korshunov, and Elena Lyadova. Michael's perfect life changes dramatically when he discovers a portal which allows him to travel in time. He travels back to the World War II to...

Edmond is a movie starring Thomas Solivérès, Olivier Gourmet, and Mathilde Seigner. December 1897, Paris. Edmond Rostand is not yet thirty but already two children and a lot of anxieties. He has not written anything for two years....

Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding is a TV movie starring Jill Buchanan, Etienne Dutoy, and Nicholas Frentz. Historian Lucy Worsley and a team of experts re-stage Victoria and Albert's wedding. It was regarded as the wedding of...

Ross and Demelza's domestic life is interrupted when a plea from Ross's old Army colonel compels him to London. Following Elizabeth's death, George's grief leads the Warleggans into uncharted territory. Ross Poldark returns to England after fighting in the American Revolution. His family and friends thought he was dead. The woman he hoped to marry is now engaged to his cousin. His father is dead, and the property he has inherited has been allowed to deteriorate. It is the late 1700s in Cornwall, England. This is a family drama, but is also about the challenges and conflicts between the rich and the poor. It is a time when fishermen are not catching much fish, tin and copper mines are closing down because prices are too low, but the price of food and rents are high. Ross faces the challenge of making his land productive, caring for the tenants who rely on him, and trying to win back the woman he loved - or finding a reason to live without her.

Union is a movie starring Marcelle LeBlanc, Virginia Newcomb, and Blaine Burdette. A woman disguises herself as her dead brother, Henry, in order to survive in the Confederate ranks during the Civil War. He marries a widow to rescue...

Enemy Within is a movie starring Rila Fukushima, Beulah Koale, and Matt Riedy. When a Japanese pilot crash-lands on the tiny remote Hawaiian island of Ni'ihau, he is met with courtesy and traditional Hawaiian hospitality from the...

The Iron Orchard is a movie starring Austin Nichols, Lew Temple, and Ali Cobrin. "The Iron Orchard" is the story of Jim McNeely, a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939, who works his way through...

Gwen is a movie starring Mark Lewis Jones, Maxine Peake, and Richard Harrington. A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.

Kurier is a movie starring Philippe Tlokinski, Julie Engelbrecht, and Bradley James. Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.

Operation Brothers is a movie starring Chris Evans, Haley Bennett, and Alona Tal. Israel's Mossad agents attempt to rescue Ethiopian Jewish refugees in Sudan in 1977.

Union Bound is a movie starring Drew Seeley, Randy Wayne, and Isaac C. Singleton Jr.. He went to war to free slaves but in the end was freed by them.

Chernobyl Season 1 is an episode of Chernobyl starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, and Paul Ritter. Plant workers and firefighters put their lives on the line to control a catastrophic April 1986 explosion at a Soviet nuclear power plant.

Capri-Revolution is a movie starring Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, and Antonio Folletto. With Italy about to go to war in 1914, this is the story of the encounter between a goatherd called Lucia, the commune of...

Episode #1.1 is an episode of Les Misérables starring Lily Collins, Dominic West, and Johnny Flynn. Convict Jean Valjean makes an enemy of the cruel guard Javert, but, on release, is moved by the kindness of a bishop, who saves him...

Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown is an episode of Victoria starring Vincent Regan, Jenna Coleman, and Tom Hughes. The workers across Europe are rising up. In France, Louis Philippe has been deposed. He asks Victoria for...

Karmouz War (No Surrender (2018)) is a movie starring Amir Karara, Ghadah Abdulrazeq, and Ahmed el-Sakka. An Egyptian police officer named General Yousef al-Masri lives in Karamouz neighborhood in Alexandria. The film dates back to the reign of King...

The Best of Enemies is a movie starring Taraji P. Henson, Sam Rockwell, and Babou Ceesay. Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, in 1971 Durham, North Carolina over the...

The Itchy Onion is an episode of Warrior starring Andrew Koji, Olivia Cheng, and Jason Tobin. San Francisco, 1878. Ah Sahm, a newly arrived Chinese immigrant with serious fighting skills, is introduced to Chinatown's most ruthless...

Hotel Mumbai is a movie starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, and Nazanin Boniadi. The true story of the Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai. Hotel staff risk their lives to keep everyone safe as people make unthinkable sacrifices to...

All Is True is a movie starring Kenneth Branagh, Lolita Chakrabarti, and Jack Colgrave Hirst. A look at the final days in the life of renowned playwright William Shakespeare.

Legenda o Kolovrate is a movie starring Ilya Malakov, Aleksey Serebryakov, and Aleksandr Ilin. In the 13th century, an amnesiac soldier vows to get his revenge on the Mongol army that ransacked his village.

Ballon is a movie starring Friedrich Mücke, Karoline Schuch, and David Kross. 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...

Kesari is a movie starring Akshay Kumar, Parineeti Chopra, and Suvinder Vicky. Based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Saragarhi in which an army of 21 Sikhs fought against 10,000 Afghans in 1897.

Il primo re is a movie starring Alessandro Borghi, Alessio Lapice, and Fabrizio Rongione. Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the...

Frank and Ava is a movie starring Rico Simonini, Emily Elicia Low, and Harry Dean Stanton. Before he was chairman of the board. He was just a man, desperate for a woman, clinging to a dream. The story of Sinatra as never told before...

The Convent is a movie starring Michael Ironside, Rosie Day, and Clare Higgins. 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.

Apollo 11 is a movie starring Buzz Aldrin, Joan Ann Archer, and Janet Armstrong. A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.

Xie bu ya zheng is a movie starring Eddie Peng, Fan Liao, and Yun Zhou. 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...

Top Knot Detective is a movie starring Toshi Okuzaki, Masa Yamaguchi, and Mayu Iwasaki. This is the story of how a failed Japanese samurai series, became an instant cult classic.

Don't Tell is a movie starring Jack Thompson, Aden Young, and Sara West. With help from a local lawyer, a young abuse survivor finds the courage to speak out when having a voice is her only option.

Werk ohne Autor is a movie starring Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, and Paula Beer. 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...

Greyhound Attack is a movie starring Barry W. Jerald Jr., Ethan McGee, and Brad Owens. In the early days of WWII, an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first command of a U.S. destroyer,...

Halloween Special: The Haunted Museum Live is an episode of Ghost Adventures starring Zak Bagans, Darren Wayne Evans, and Chris Fleming. Ghost Adventures Live takes over Zak's Las Vegas Haunted Museum for a four-hour live event with...

The Fuller Dogfight is an episode of Project Blue Book starring Aidan Gillen, Michael Malarkey, and Laura Mennell. Dr. Allen Hynek is recruited by the Air Force into their top-secret UFO investigation program, starting with the case...