History Movies

Colette

Based on the life of French novelist Colette, this compelling film follows her fight for creative ownership of the novels she wrote under her husband's name while overcoming gender roles and societal constraints of 19th century France. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Denise Gough, and Fiona Shaw.

R • Drama, Biography • Movie (2018)

The Post

Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks star in this drama that details how Washington Post staffers risked everything to publish the Pentagon Papers.

PG-13 • Drama, History • Movie (2017)

The Aviator

Martin Scorsese's brilliant, Oscar®-winning drama about the life of legendary tycoon and recluse Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio stars.

PG-13 • Drama, Biography • Movie (2004)

The Hoax

Richard Gere stars as author Clifford Irving, who hatched an elaborate scheme to write an “authorized” autobiography of Howard Hughes.

R • Drama, History • Movie (2006)

The English Patient

The Best Picture Oscar(R)-winning WWII epic about a dying Hungarian mapmaker whose story is revealed to a compassionate Italian nurse.

R • Drama, Romance • Movie (1996)

Restoration

A physician's fortunes rise and fall during the reign of King Charles II.

R • Drama, History • Movie (1995)

Chappaquiddick

On July 18, 1969, Sen. Ted Kennedy drives his car off of a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island. The accident results in the death of passenger Mary Jo Kopechne, a 28-year-old campaign strategist who worked for Kennedy. The ongoing investigation into the mysterious events forever alters his political legacy and changes the course of presidential history.

PG-13 • Drama, Thriller • Movie (2017)

The Lost Legion

After the fall of the Roman Empire, a woman plots to make her son the new emperor, and nothing will stand in her way.

Action, Drama • Movie (2014)

The Quiet American

A British journalist's Vietnamese mistress becomes involved with a mysterious young American in 1950s Vietnam.

R • Drama, Romance • Movie (2002)

Titanic

A society girl abandons her haughty fiance for a penniless artist on the ill-fated ship's maiden voyage.

TV14 • Drama, History • Movie (1997)

The Testament of Ann Lee

This powerful film tells the incredible story of the true legend, Ann Lee.

R • Drama, Biography • Movie (2025)

Assassination in the Valley of the Kings

For the first time in over 100 years, archaeologists have exclusive access inside the Valley of the Kings to excavate Pharaoh Ramses III's 3,000-year-old burial chamber, hoping to shed light on his brutal assassination as they search for burial treasures.

TV14 • History, Documentaries • Movie (2025)

Rebel in the Rye

A young J.D. Salinger struggles to find his voice in his life.

PG-13 • Drama, Biography • Movie (2017)

Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare

In March 2011, Japan's strongest ever earthquake unleashed a tsunami that devastated the country's northeast coast, claiming 20,000 lives and threatening the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant – where the giant wave disabled the cooling systems of three reactors. Directed by James Jones (HBO's Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes), and co-directed by Megumi Inman, Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare reconstructs the nine harrowing days following the disaster in forensic, real-time detail, from the control-room engineers fighting to prevent a total meltdown, to the political leaders confronting the unthinkable, to ordinary citizens caught in the fallout. At the heart of the story are the power plant workers who were tasked with the potentially suicidal mission of averting a major catastrophe – with some recounting their experiences publicly for the first time.

TV14 • Documentaries, History • Movie (2026)

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