Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "based-on-historical-event"

1. Chernobyl (2019)

TV-MA | 41 min | Drama, History, Thriller

In April 1986, the city of Chernobyl in the Soviet Union suffers one of the worst nuclear disasters in the history of mankind. Consequently, many heroes put their lives on the line in the following days, weeks and months.

Stars: Jessie Buckley, Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Adam Nagaitis

Votes: 865,229

2. The Courier (2020)

PG-13 | 112 min | Drama, History, Mystery

Businessman Greville Wynne is asked by a Russian source to try to help put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Director: Dominic Cooke | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Vladimir Chuprikov

Votes: 73,608 | Gross: $6.61M

3. The Bounty (1984)

PG | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Director: Roger Donaldson | Stars: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox

Votes: 30,449 | Gross: $8.60M

4. GomBurZa (2023)

112 min | Action, Biography, Drama

Mariano Gomes, José Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora are three brave Filipino Catholic priests whose narrative is told in this stirring and inspirational historical drama.

Director: Pepe Diokno | Stars: Dante Rivero, Cedrick Juan, Enchong Dee, Piolo Pascual

Votes: 335

5. Centurion (2010)

R | 97 min | Action, Drama, History

A splinter group of Roman soldiers fight for their lives behind enemy lines after their legion is devastated in a guerrilla attack.

Director: Neil Marshall | Stars: Michael Fassbender, Dominic West, Olga Kurylenko, Andreas Wisniewski

Votes: 86,362 | Gross: $7.89M

6. The Silent Revolution (2018)

PG | 111 min | Drama, History

A group of twelfth-grade pupils in East Germany decide to show their solidarity with the victims of the 1956 Hungarian uprising by staging two minutes of silence during lessons.

Director: Lars Kraume | Stars: Leonard Scheicher, Tom Gramenz, Lena Klenke, Isaiah Michalski

Votes: 6,016

7. The Wolf House (2018)

Not Rated | 75 min | Animation, Drama, Horror

Tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.

Directors: Joaquín Cociña, Cristóbal León | Stars: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause, Karina Hyland, Carlos Cociña

Votes: 4,756

8. Cromwell (1970)

G | 139 min | Biography, Drama, History

Puritan statesman Oliver Cromwell leads England in a civil war against the absolutist and Catholic-sympathetic King Charles I.

Director: Ken Hughes | Stars: Richard Harris, Alec Guinness, Robert Morley, Dorothy Tutin

Votes: 6,958 | Gross: $1.37M

9. Made in Dagenham (2010)

R | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, History

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Director: Nigel Cole | Stars: Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Andrea Riseborough, Jaime Winstone

Votes: 16,072 | Gross: $1.09M

10. Mallari (2023)

129 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

The horrific story of Fr. Severino Mallari, a 19th century priest during the Spanish occupation and his descent into madness. It recounts Mallari's life where he reportedly murdered 57 people to aid his ailing mother.

Director: Roderick Cabrido | Stars: Piolo Pascual, Janella Salvador, Elisse Joson, JC Santos

Votes: 237

11. McCarthy (II)

Biography, Drama, History | Pre-production

A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti-communist and anti-homosexual U.S. political sentiment during the Cold War.

Director: Václav Marhoul | Stars: Emilia Clarke, Dane DeHaan, Scoot McNairy, Michael Shannon

12. Ayla: The Daughter of War (2017)

125 min | Biography, Drama, History

Sergeant Süleyman finds a little girl on a battlefield during the Korean War. He takes her and names her Ayla. Fifteen months later, Süleyman's brigade is told they will be returning to Turkey, and he is reluctant to leave her behind.

Director: Can Ulkay | Stars: Çetin Tekindor, Ismail Hacioglu, Lee Kyung-jin, Kim Seol

Votes: 43,792

13. Esterno notte (2022)

330 min | Crime, Drama, History

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Stars: Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo, Fausto Russo Alesi

Votes: 1,685

14. Line of Separation (2015–2018)

92 min | Drama, History

A story of one village in Germany at the end of WW2.

Stars: Johanna Bittenbinder, Jonathan Berlin, Henriette Confurius, Heiner Lauterbach

Votes: 1,335

15. Sin (2019)

134 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Director: Andrey Konchalovskiy | Stars: Jakob Diehl, Yuliya Vysotskaya, Orso Maria Guerrini, Toni Pandolfo

Votes: 1,370

16. Elveda Rumeli (2007–2009)

90 min | Drama

The year is 1896. The Ottoman Empire is slowly losing its dominance in the Balkans. The events that develop around Milkman Ramiz and his family also hold a mirror to the years of the Ottoman Empire retreating from the Balkans.

Stars: Erdal Özyagcilar, Gülçin Santircioglu, Tolgahan Sayisman, Filiz Ahmet

Votes: 1,393

17. Cliffs of Freedom (2019)

R | 137 min | Drama

Inspired by historical events, CLIFFS OF FREEDOM is a timeless and romantic story of bravery and faith between a Greek village girl and a Turkish Ottoman Colonel during the dawn of the Greek War for Independence.

Director: Van Ling | Stars: Tania Raymonde, Jan Uddin, Raza Jaffrey, Patti LuPone

Votes: 786 | Gross: $0.07M

18. Burke & Hare (1972)

R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror

Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

Director: Vernon Sewell | Stars: Paul Luty, Roy Macready, Derren Nesbitt, Susan Coates

Votes: 565

19. The Passing Bells (2014)

TV-14 | Drama, War

An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.

Stars: Patrick Gibson, Jack Lowden, Hubert Burton, Adam Long

Votes: 1,238

20. The Doctor and the Devils (1985)

R | 93 min | Crime, Drama, History

In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done. Based on the horrifying Burke and Hare case.

Director: Freddie Francis | Stars: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands

Votes: 1,392 | Gross: $0.15M

21. Kesisme: Iyi Ki Varsin Eren (2022)

98 min | Action, Biography, Drama

A true intersection story of a teenage boy lives in Black Sea hills whose life is full of struggle, a heroic soldier Ferhat and an uninvited visitor from back of beyond.

Director: Özer Feyzioglu | Stars: Azer Selte, Rahman Besel, Murat Deniz, Ismail Hacioglu

Votes: 1,547

22. L'échange des princesses (2017)

100 min | Drama, History

In 1721, the Regent of France, wanting to seal the peace with Spain, offers to the Spanish King, a marriage between their respective heirs: Louis XV, age 11, and Maria Anna Victoria, the 4-... See full summary »

Director: Marc Dugain | Stars: Lambert Wilson, Anamaria Vartolomei, Olivier Gourmet, Catherine Mouchet

Votes: 1,309

23. Jack the Ripper (1959)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, History

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

Directors: Robert S. Baker, Monty Berman | Stars: Lee Patterson, Eddie Byrne, Betty McDowall, Ewen Solon

Votes: 963

24. Král Sumavy: Fantom temného kraje (2022– )

Drama

It is the spring of 1948. Twenty-four-year-old cook Josef Hasil serves in the kitchen of the National Security Corps in Zvonková. Wild boy. He had already experienced the war in a German labor camp and as a link between partisans.

Stars: Oskar Hes, Gabriela Heclová, Kristyna Ryska, Vojtech Vodochodský

Votes: 45

25. U311 Cherkasy (2019)

102 min | Drama, History, War

The crew of Ukrainian NAVY minesweeper U311 "Cherkasy" is resisting seizure of the vessel by Russian army in Crimea in 2014.

Director: Tymur Yashchenko | Stars: Dmitriy Sova, Evgeniy Lamakh, Roman Semysal, Ruslan Koval'

Votes: 1,224

26. Something of Value (1957)

Approved | 113 min | Drama, War

In British Colonial Kenya during the Mau Mau uprising, Peter and Kimani, who grew up together, find themselves on the opposite sides.

Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Wendy Hiller, Juano Hernandez

Votes: 1,307

27. Kidnap Syndicate (1975)

R | 98 min | Crime, Thriller

Based on an actual event "The Kidnap Syndicate" is the story of two boys, one from a rich family and the other from a poor family, who are kidnapped and held for ransom.

Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Luc Merenda, James Mason, Irina Maleeva, Marino Masé

Votes: 900

28. Seddülbahir 32 Saat (2016)

Action, History, War

It's a true story about Turkish soldier's last 32 hours in Seddülbahir in Çanakkale during the First World War.

Stars: Ibrahim Celikkol, Dolunay Soysert, Murat Ünalmis, Okan Yalabik

Votes: 793

29. George Reddy (2019)

Not Rated | 153 min | Action, Biography

George Reddy is a biopic based on the life of a student leader, boxer and Gold medalist, who influenced the politics of Andhra Pradesh state in Osmania University between 1967 and 1972. He ... See full summary »

Directors: B. Jeevan Reddy, Rajrajan | Stars: Sandeep Madhav, Satyadev Kancharana, Pawon Ramesh, Manoj Nandam

Votes: 1,516

30. Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)

Passed | 79 min | Western

Wyatt Earp cleans up Tombstone and faces the Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Kent Taylor, Edgar Buchanan, Frances Gifford

Votes: 239

31. Arletty A Guilty Passion (2015 TV Movie)

93 min | Biography, Drama, History

During the filming of Children of Paradise (1945) in German-occupied France, the film's emblematic protagonist, Arletty, finds herself falling for a young German soldier. Can the dazzling allure of a guilty passion blind a woman in love?

Director: Arnaud Sélignac | Stars: Laetitia Casta, Marie-Josée Croze, Ken Duken, Joséphine Draï

Votes: 253

32. The Tichborne Claimant (1998)

Not Rated | 98 min | Drama

Lord Tichborne, the ninth richest nobleman in England, disappears after a South American shipwreck. Some years later, his erudite Afro-English valet, Bogle, is sent to investigate rumors ... See full summary »

Director: David Yates | Stars: John Kani, Robert Pugh, Rachael Dowling, Paola Dionisotti

Votes: 226

33. Canon City (1948)

Approved | 82 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Twelve inmates plan a prison break from the Colorado State Penitentiary but one of them reluctantly joins the group.

Director: Crane Wilbur | Stars: Scott Brady, Jeff Corey, Whit Bissell, Stanley Clements

Votes: 443

34. City of Ruins (2010)

5 min | Short, Drama, History

The animation presents the view of demolished Warsaw in spring 1945.

Director: Damian Nenow

Votes: 132

35. Joséphine ou la comédie des ambitions (1979–1980)

90 min | Biography, Drama, History

The main events of the French Revolution and First Empire serve as a background canvas to a detailed biography of Empress Josephine, Napoleon I's first wife. Her initial tribulations, ... See full summary »

Stars: Danièle Lebrun, Daniel Mesguich, Claire Vernet, Jean-Luc Moreau

Votes: 33

36. Malazgirt 1071 Anadolu'nun Anahtari (2018)

History

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Directors: Iskender Bingol, Ebubekir Güller | Stars: Gokberk Demirci, Vefa Taylan, Ali Sürmeli, Iskender Bingol

Votes: 79

37. Namibia: The Struggle for Liberation (2007)

161 min | Drama

The fight for Namibias liberation after the colonialisation and the genocide commited by Germany and Britain.

Director: Charles Burnett | Stars: Danny Glover, Chrisjan Appolus, Obed Emvula, Joel Haikali

Votes: 106

38. The Mink Slide

Drama | Announced

On February 25th, 1946 in Columbia, Tennessee, Black WWII Veterans avert the lynching of James 'June Bug' Stephenson, a Navy Vet, and his mother, Gladys. A gunfight and court battle would ... See full summary »

39. Nacht fiel über Gotenhafen (1960)

99 min | Drama, War

In 1945 with the advance of the red army millions of refugees fled from the east of Germany. The "Wilhelm Gustloff" loaded with 10,000 civilians and wounded soldiers was sank by a Soviet submarine in less than 55 minutes.

Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: Sonja Ziemann, Gunnar Möller, Erik Schumann, Brigitte Horney

Votes: 207

40. Fadhma N'Soumer (2014)

110 min | Drama, History, War

This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur''as mountain in Algeria, fighting for her ancestor land during the earlier years of french occupation.

Director: Belkacem Hadjadj | Stars: Laëtitia Eïdo, Assaad Bouab, Melha Mammeri, Dahmane Aidrous

Votes: 21

41. Zwinglis Erbe (2018)

57 min | Biography, Drama, History

When Huldrych Zwingli starts out as a priest in Zurich in 1519, the Plague affects him. As he looks death in the face, God's Word carries him through and he survives. Encouraged, he turns Zurich upside-down with the Bible in his hand.

Director: Alex Fröhlich | Stars: Reinhard Fust, Richard Rabelbauer, Tom Pukhely, Patrik Simeon

Votes: 44

42. Nusrat Iron and Blood

Drama, History | Pre-production

A Black Swan Story That Changed History

Director: Can Ulkay

43. Velikij turan (1995)

90 min | Drama

The film is based on historical events that took place in the 6th century at the junction of three great powers: The Turkish Khagan, The Byzantine Empire and The Sasanian Empire.

Director: Giyas Shermukhamedov | Stars: Bekzod Mukhammadkarimov, Fatima Redzhametova, Karima Yakhyavi, Ali Mukhammad

Votes: 8

44. The Most Haunted House in Venice Beach (2021)

Short, Drama

A "memory piece" of a time and place long past, remembered by the spirits who lived in Venice Beach once upon a time.

Director: Ansel Faraj | Stars: Christopher Pennock, Kelly Erin Decker, Douglas M. Eames, Ansel Faraj

45. Videt Salisbury (2022)

117 min | Comedy

The film was filmed based on the play of the same name by Viktor Shenderovich. A black comedy about a striking journey of two agents Tchepigin and Mishkin to the Mother Russia. Former ... See full summary »

Director: Michal Lang | Stars: Jakub Albrecht, Tomás Bukovský, Tomás Dianiska, Vendula Fialová

46. Liven (1929)

75 min | Drama, History

About the peasant uprising at the end of the 18th century under the leadership of Maxim Zheleznyak and Ivan Gonta.

Director: Ivan Kavaleridze | Stars: Ivan Maryanenko, M. Petlyashenko, Severin Pankivskiy, Stepan Shkurat

47. Os Lusíadas (1936)

7 min | Short, History

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Director: Humberto Mauro | Star: Judith de Andrade Correa

48. La Peste Dansante (2022)

21 min | Short

1518 - A strange epidemy runs into the city of Strasbourg. People began to dance uncontrollably, without being able to stop, some of them died. Today - Breaking news : the Dancing Plague is... See full summary »

Director: Clara Benoit Casanova | Stars: Clara Benoit Casanova, Léa Doussaint, Madeline Fortumeau, Juan Manuel Gautier

49. Thoughty2 (2012– )
Episode: Why Did All the Children in This Village Suddenly Disappear? (2022)

16 min | Documentary

Historians are convinced that in the year 1284, 130 children in the town of Hamelin disappeared. How this happened is still a mystery but there are some better theories than a disgruntled flutist.

Star: Arran Lomas

50. Lego Masters (2017–2019)
Episode: Episode #2.2 (2018)

47 min | Documentary, Game-Show

The 7 teams do battle in a drop test to see which model gets smashed up the best. They also build a memorable scene from history. Joining the judges is comedian Paddy McGuinness.

Directors: Paul Golding, Paul Shenkin, Ed St. Giles | Stars: Melvin Odoom, Matthew Ashton, Fran Scott, Paddy McGuinness

Votes: 14