Historical Fiction Movies

An animated version of James Fenimore Cooper's classic wilderness adventure during the French and Indian War in colonial America. Hawkeye is in his pr...

In post Civil War West Virginia, 9 year old Jamie's life is forever changed when he unexpectedly meets his Uncle Vernon.

What if I told you the plot of Vertigo is true, but the story even more perversely rooted in the traumatic history of a dictatorship, in a nation’s ob...

It is described as a magical love story is set against the workings of Grand Central Terminal and the solar phenomenon known as Manhattanhenge, which...

An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.

A movie detailing the events that make Quint into the fearless shark hunter of Amity Island. Follow him from 1945 to 1968, and witness how Quint rises...

Unfortunate events beset a poor Chinese girl as she escapes from invading Japanese forces, narrowly avoids being raped, and seeks solace in a neighbor...

Diaochan (aka Diau Charn and Sable Cicada),one of the Four Beauties of China, is supposed to be so stunningly lovely that the moon was shamed to hide...

A fictionalized account of the 1847–1848 expedition of the Royal Navy ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to find the Northwest Passage in the Arctic.

Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, ev...

Cheol-gi who dreams of a society that embraces justice begins classes at a night school. There he learns about political and social contradictions and...

During the reign of Guangxu, the country was weakening and foreign troubles were becoming more and more urgent. The uprising was crushed by the old fe...

The tormented love-hate relationship between acclaimed director Federico Fellini and actress Giulietta Masina, blending reality and imagination in dep...

In this reenactment of a propaganda documentary, a woman is falling prey to the role assigned to her in slow motion. Upon her arrest, diplomat Mária K...

The theatre play is set in the late Heian (794–1185) and early Kamakura period (1185–1333) in Japan. The main character is young adult Minamoto no Yos...

In 18th century Ireland, a wild band of natives struggle to keep their delicate settlement from dissolving into anarchy.

A long-lost love letter between childhood friends is delivered back.

An action-adventure television film set in the hunt for the legendary treasure of the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca through a journey across the...

Opera Australia's 1976 production of Lakmé, an opera in three acts by Léo Delibes, with a French libretto by Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille. Set i...