Top Rated History Movies

Oscar Schindler is a German manufacturer who lives in Krakow and keeps a factory which produces metal goods. The workers at his factory are Jews from the ghetto. Later on the industrialist learns his employees closer, feels compassion to them and starts helping. He saves the Jews from unavoidable death risking not only his reputation but his own life, too. Sometimes he has to behave dishonestly: he bribes, lies, hides the truth but, in the result, saves more than 1 100 doomed Jews. His life is a triumph of one person who is unlike others and the drama of those who with his help have survived in this terrible period of the humankind’s history.

This story is about the rebel and the national hero of Scotland William Wallace. His father was killed trying to bring freedom to Scotland. England has also killed William’s brother and many other people he loved, when the boy was very young. Later William Wallace lived with his uncle, who was a noble man and who educated him in Europe. William returns to Scotland as a young and ambitious man. He finds a beautiful bride for himself, but before they marry British men are killing her. Since now William has nothing to lose, but Scotland. This amazing country of his birth must get the independence from British crown. William gathers his army and starts fighting against the army of Edward the Longshanks, who is sure that the crown of Scotland must belong to him only.

The historical film reveals the thorny life path of an outstanding Roman general, Maximus. He is highly respected by the people of Rome. Marcus Aurelius, an acting Emperor is getting old and has to find a worthy change for him before he dies. Believing that Maximus is a right leader able to take proper care of the state, he chooses him to be an Emperor, thereby leaving his sun, Commodus “outboard”. Led by hatred and envy, Commodus makes everything to seize the power. In this struggle for power, Maximus’s family is killed. Grieving and depressed, Maximus is captured and becomes a Gladiator. He now has the only goal – to revenge.

Can you imagine the desperation of a single mother who loses her only child? One day she comes home from work and can't find her little son. He is only 9 years old and who knows what can happen to her boy in a large city of contrasts - Los Angeles of 1928th… The search is useless and it seems like he has dissolved in a big city. But the hope appears in five months when police department of Illinois finds a boy who fits the descriptions and who is ready to return to his mother, as he says. When the mother gets her kid back she tells that he looks alike her son but that isn't him. Instead of support and help, the mother gets… a pass to a mental institution… As they say, the trouble doesn't come alone…

This movie is about one of the most exciting and tragic periods of the United States history. During the Civil War the President Lincoln frees slaves, making all black people equal in rights with white men. Shaw is a slightly wounded officer who wants to get back to the front as soon as it is possible. Suddenly he gets a proposal to head the first all-black army. Prejudices and discrimination are normal at those days besides Shaw knows that the enemies are targeting the officers of the blacks. But despite of that he agrees and becomes a real hero of the Civil War…

During the Revolution in Cambodia, a journalist of New York Times, Sydney Schanberg, is in the focus of events. He writes numerous brilliant articles about the Revolution with the help of his local friend Dith Pran. Dith is a very intelligent and clever man and Sydney can hardly imagine a guide and a translator better than him. When Khmer Rouge overthrows the Government of Cambodia, American Army takes decision to live the country. Dith sends his family to the USA but stays in Cambodia to help his American friend. As a foreign resident Sydney will have no troubles leaving this country, but Dith, as a local, will be disallowed to emigrate. Dith will have to figure out how to avoid persecution of Khmer Rouge regime and to see his family again.

The events of the movie take place in the United States in the 1920s and early 1930s – the times of the Dry Law. Numerous bootleggers distribute prohibited alcohol in the vast territories of the country. This illegal business is especially flourishing in Chicago, where gang leader Al Capone has kept almost the whole city down. The agent of the Treasury Department Eliot Ness decides to oppose corrupted officials and police and declared war on Al Capone, fully determined to put an end to the gang rule.

Frost/Nixon is a historical drama film based on the play of the same name by Peter Morgan. The resignation of the US President Richard Nixon due to the Watergate scandal was not a pleasant one. In order to enliven the TV and improve the personal situation the talk show host David Frost is going to arrange a series of interviews with him. However, it not as easy as it may seem because Nixon has never admitted any guilt nor offered any apology for the Watergate scandal. Nevertheless he agrees for the interview, pursuing his own ends: he wants to show the world that he is still presidential so that he can revive his political career. Moreover, Nixon is guaranteed $600,000 appearance fee. For this money David Frost wants to arrange really hot show.

He was the sovereign of a milliard people. He was predetermined "ten thousand of happiness". But the world of old traditions crashed down under the pressure of changing times... In 1908 three-year-old Pu Yi, the last from the dynasty which was ruling China for thousand years, was raised to the Dragon Throne. The emperor-child is treated like a divinity. He can do everything he wants but one thing – to leave the palace. The forbidden town does not get the winds of change which are shaking the world out of the palace walls. But in spite of that the life of the last Chinese emperor happens to be a part of the whole great history of the 20th century.

The film revolves around the events that took place in 1879 at the Battle of Isandlwana: the crushing defeat of the British forces at the hands of the Zulus. The stumbling block of this conflict was the missionary station of Rorke's Drift, situated across the border in Zululand, which the company of the British Army's 24th Regiment of Foot started to use as a supply depot and hospital for their invasion.