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History Movie Summaries & Endings Explained
1,452 history movies, each with a full plot summary, timeline, character guide and the ending explained. Combine filters to narrow it down.
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The Reluctant Saint
1962 · Drama
Tempest
1958 · History
Conquest
1937 · History
Love Under the Crucifix
1962 · Drama
Born Free
1966 · History
Vendetta of a Samurai
1952 · Action
Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
1964 · History
Odette
1950 · Drama
Hollywood Cavalcade
1939 · Comedy
Operation Amsterdam
1959 · War
The Buccaneer
1938 · Adventure
Time, Forward!
1965 · History
Veerapandiya Kattabomman
1959 · Drama
Westward Ho
1935 · History
The Stone Cross
1968 · Drama
A Southern Yankee
1948 · History
The Last Days of Pompeii
1959 · Adventure
Mary of Scotland
1936 · Drama
Mutiny
1952 · War
Day of Wrath
1943 · Drama
A Royal Scandal
1945 · Drama
The Brigand of Kandahar
1965 · Adventure
The Devil Is a Woman
1935 · Comedy
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936 · History
The Great Sioux Massacre
1965 · Western
The Silent Village
1943 · War
The War Lord
1965 · War
Martin Luther
1953 · Drama
Anthony Adverse
1936 · Drama
Admiral Nakhimov
1947 · Drama
The Sea Hawk
1940 · Romance
Judas’ Kiss
1954 · Drama
The Round-Up
1966 · War
The Far Horizons
1955 · Western
The Girl in White
1952 · History
The King’s Thief
1955 · History
I Am Semiramis
1963 · Drama
The Wicked Lady
1945 · Adventure
All My Good Countrymen
1969 · History
Minin and Pozharsky
1939 · Drama
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