Topic: Historical

Direction Herbert Wise

Cast Derek Jacobi · Sian Phillips · John Hurt · George Baker

Plot This 13-episode miniseries was adapted from the book by Robert Graves, which chronicles the tumultuous life and times of Claudius (Derek Jacobi), who despite a deformed leg and a speech...

Direction Carl Theodor Dreyer

Cast Maria Falconetti · Eugene Silvain · Maurice Schutz · Michel Simon

Plot Year 1431. Young french Joan of Arc is put on trial for alleged treason. Once glorified as her nation’s saviour, she has become a mere pawn in a game of...

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

Direction Stanley Kramer

Cast Spencer Tracy · Burt Lancaster · Richard Widmark · Marlene Dietrich

Plot It has been three years since the most important Nazi leaders had already been tried. This trial is about four Judges who used their offices to conduct Nazi sterilization and...

Direction Paulo Rocha

Cast Luis Miguel Cintra · Clara Joana · Zita Duarte · Jorge Silva Melo

Plot The film tells in a very poetic way the life of Wenceslau de Moraes, an officer of the Portuguese Marine Corps who traveled to Japan and fell in love of...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Adrien Brody · Thomas Kretschmann · Maureen Lipman · Ed Stoppard

Plot The film is adapted from the autobiography of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who detailed his survival during World War II. A composer and a pianist, he played the last...

Direction Peter Watkins

Plot We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein

Cast Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov

Plot The Battleship Potemkin has just returned from the war with Japan, its crew near mutiny because of brutal treatment and bad rations. When they're served maggot-infested meat one morning, the...

Direction David Lean

Cast Peter O'Toole · Omar Sharif · Alec Guinness · Jack Hawkins

Plot While working on the staff of the British Intelligence in Cairo in 1916, Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to a mission to establish contact with Prince Feisal (Alec Guinness), leader...

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast Anatoly Solonitsyn · Ivan Lapikov · Nikolai Sergeyev · Nikolai Grinko

Plot Divided in seven sections, 'Andrei Rublev' focuses on the life of the great Russian painter while taking a gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century,...

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader

Plot A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The...

Direction Mel Gibson

Cast Mel Gibson · Sophie Marceau · Patrick McGoohan · Angus MacFadyen

Plot Based on the life of legendary 13th century Scottish hero William Wallace. Returning to his homeland following the death of an heirless king, Wallace (Mel Gibson) finds the political landscape...

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Plot A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and...

Direction Stanley Kubrick

Cast Kirk Douglas · Tony Curtis · Laurence Olivier · Peter Ustinov

Plot Based on the homonymous novel by Howard Fast about the historical life of Spartacus and the Third Servile War. Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave who leads a violent...

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Luz María Collazo · José Gallardo · Raúl García · Sergio Corrieri

Plot It explores the seductive and decadent world of Batista's Cuba and the grinding poverty and oppression of the Cuban people. Through four stories of the revolution, Mikhail Kalatozov takes the...

Direction David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Plot Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri...

Direction Kazuhiro Furuhashi

Plot Taken by slavers when he was a child, Himura Kenshin is rescued only when an encounter with bandits kills off everyone but him. He is found by a master of...

Direction Thomas Kail

Cast Lin-Manuel Miranda · Daveed Diggs · Renee Goldsberry · Leslie Odom Jr.

Plot The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Filmed live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theatre with the original...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Burt Lancaster · Claudia Cardinale · Alain Delon · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Set in 1860s Sicily, it portrays the decline of an aristocratic family under the crushing weight of political change. The film traces the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio...

Direction John Milius · William J. MacDonald · Bruno Heller · Michael Apted

Cast Kevin McKidd · Ray Stevenson · Polly Walker · James Purefoy

Plot TV Series (2005-2007). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a...