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1. The Stand (1994)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 38,475
2. Agora (2009)
R | 127 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning a slave who turns to the rising tide of Christianity in the hope of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his mistress, the philosophy and mathematics professor Hypatia of Alexandria.
Director: Alejandro Amenábar | Stars: Rachel Weisz, Max Minghella, Oscar Isaac, Ashraf Barhom
Votes: 73,112 | Gross: $0.62M
3. Cunk on Earth (2022)
TV-MA | 29 min | Comedy
Follows Philomena Cunk as she comically tells the story of our greatest inventions and asks experts hard-hitting questions about humanity's progress.
Stars: Diane Morgan, Jim Al-Khalili, Shirley J. Thompson, Douglas Hedley
Votes: 24,089
4. The Girl King (2015)
Not Rated | 106 min | Biography, Drama, History
THE GIRL KING paints a portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
Director: Mika Kaurismäki | Stars: Malin Buska, Sarah Gadon, Michael Nyqvist, Lucas Bryant
Votes: 4,477
5. The Last Valley (1971)
PG | 128 min | Adventure, Drama, War
During the Thirty Years' War of 1600s, a band of Protestant mercenaries peacefully coexist with German Catholic villagers in a hidden idyllic mountain valley untouched by war.
Director: James Clavell | Stars: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport
Votes: 3,588 | Gross: $0.25M
6. Midnight's Children (2012)
Not Rated | 146 min | Drama
A pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from Britain grow up in the country that is nothing like their parents' generation.
Director: Deepa Mehta | Stars: Rajat Kapoor, Vansh Bhardwaj, Anupam Kher, Neha Mahajan
Votes: 3,397 | Gross: $0.14M
7. The Princess of Montpensier (2010)
Not Rated | 139 min | Action, Drama, History
Based on the classic didactic novel, the action centers on the noble lady who soon becomes exposed to the sexual and political intrigues of the French court of the religious wars era.
Director: Bertrand Tavernier | Stars: Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Gaspard Ulliel, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Votes: 4,292 | Gross: $0.34M
8. THE ARRIVAL OF DAJJAL
120 min | Action, History, Mystery | Pre-production
The Dajjal performs miracles, deceiving followers. Imam Mahdi prays as Jesus returns, killing Dajjal. Jesus rules until Gog and Magog attack. Allah destroys evil, bringing judgment hour preceded by tall buildings and moral decline.
Director: Omer Sarikaya
9. Toledo (2012)
Adventure, Drama, History
The story is settled in the Middle Ages when three monotheistic religions coexisted and fought for power in the Spanish Peninsula: Christians, Muslims and Jews. The series mixes action, ... See full summary »
Stars: Juan Diego, Eduard Farelo, Patricia Vico, Fernando Cayo
Votes: 225
10. Louis: The Child King (1993)
160 min | Biography, Drama, History
The title of this major French costume drama means "Louis, child-king", and indeed it's a fascinating fresco about the formative years of the young king Louis XIV, before he became the ... See full summary »
Director: Roger Planchon | Stars: Carmen Maura, Maxime Mansion, Paolo Graziosi, Jocelyn Quivrin
Votes: 302
11. La dame de Monsoreau (1971– )
Drama, History, Romance
Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
Stars: Karin Petersen, Nicolas Silberg, Denis Manuel, Michel Creton
Votes: 205
12. Doomsday and the Arrival of Dajjal
Action, Drama, Horror | Announced
Doomsday and The Arrival of Dajjal There will be three hard years before the Dajjal (appears). During them, people will be stricken by a great famine. In the first year, . People will stop offering the prayers .
Director: Omer Sarikaya
13. Royal History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley (2020– )
59 min | Documentary, History
Historian Lucy Worsley debunks popular myths and royal as well as anti-royal propaganda about key events from British royal history including the English Reformation, the attack of the Spanish Armada and Queen Anne's forgotten legacy.
Stars: Lucy Worsley, Mathieu Da Vinha, Michael Rapport, Munro Price
Votes: 165
14. Aylan Baby (2022)
Action, Crime, Drama
Alan Kurdi (Kurdish: Alan Kurdî ), initially reported as Aylan Kurdi, was a three-year-old Syrian - The bodies of Kurdi and another child were discovered by two locals at around 6:30 am. The two men moved the bodies from the water,
Director: Omer Sarikaya | Stars: Wilma Elles, Preity Üpala, Ali Sabri Belaid, Mike Mitchell
Votes: 8
15. John Hus (1977)
Not Rated | 55 min | Biography, Drama, History
A faithful recounting of the ministry, trial and martyrdom of the fifteenth century Bohemian priest John Hus, who built on the reforms of John Wycliffe, taught the Bible in the vernacular and who influenced Martin Luther a century later.
Director: Michael Economou | Stars: Rod Colbin, Regis Cordic, Marvin Miller, Sándor Naszódy
Votes: 92
16. Saint-Germain ou La négociation (2003 TV Movie)
95 min | Drama, History
During the French wars of religion, baron Malassise is dispatched by King Charles IX and his mother Catherine de Médicis to negotiate a peace treaty with representatives of Protestant cities.
Director: Gérard Corbiau | Stars: Jean Rochefort, Marie-Christine Barrault, Rufus, Jean-Paul Farré
Votes: 121
17. Les camisards (1972)
100 min | Drama, History, War
King Louis XIV orders all Protestants to convert to Catholicism.
Director: René Allio | Stars: Rufus, Jacques Debary, Gérard Desarthe, Philippe Clévenot
Votes: 244
18. Broadside (2009 TV Movie)
111 min | History
The newly restored English monarch, Charles II, leads his country into the fiercest trade war in the age of sail as well as concentrating on the inner workings of the king's court including... See full summary »
Directors: David Hickman, Bruce Twickler | Stars: Milan Alexander, Thomas Arnold, Martin Bishop, Robert Cambrinus
Votes: 35
19. Crusader: A Conspiracy in the Kingdom of Jerusalim (1997 Video Game)
Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Educational FMV adventure set in 1180s Jerusalem. A disgraced French lord and his wise servant are tasked to stop a powerful cabal from taking the three holy relics of the city's three major religions and becoming unstoppable.
Stars: Paul Bandey, Nicholas Calderbank, Leslie Clack, Lisa Ray-Jacobs
20. Ashes of Vengeance (1923)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
When Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Wallace Beery, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 67
21. The Suspended Vocation (1978)
90 min | Drama
Divergent factions within the Catholic Church are plagued by internal ideological quarrels.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Didier Flamand, Pascal Bonitzer, Gabriel Gascon, Maurice Bénichou
Votes: 170
22. Spiritual Warfare (2010)
90 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The true life story of Joshua Sheese and his spiritual warfares. The warfares he went thru in his past, that now haunts him as an adult. He finds his faith and is able to conquer the demons... See full summary »
Director: Joshua Sheese | Stars: Joshua Sheese, Devin Kerr, Cheryl Sheese, Anakin Leigh Sheese
23. De todos modos Juan te llamas (1976)
97 min | Drama, Romance, War
El movimiento cristero, durante la Guerra Cristera en 1926 en Mexico.
Director: Marcela Fernández Violante | Stars: Patricia Aspíllaga, Jorge Russek, Juan Ferrara, Rocío Brambila
Votes: 39
24. Sneaky Snake: Lost in the Holy Land (2007)
6 min | Short, Comedy
While searching for a bacon-cheeseburger in the Holy Land, sock-puppet Sneaky Snake encounters genital prejudice.
Directors: Shawn Curran, George Sanders | Star: Shawn Curran
Votes: 10
25. Karbala Memoirs (2020)
40 min | Documentary, Short, History
Millions join a peaceful march to Karbala paying tribute to Hussain, killed in a war that took place a millennium back. From a different perspective, a filmmaker from India traces the journey in the desert carrying a childhood memory.
Director: Sourav Sarangi
27. The Madness of Roland (1992 Video Game)
Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Interactive novel and audiobook with FMV cutscenes that adapts the epic poem Orlando Furioso about medieval French king Charlemagne's heroic paladin Roland who falls tragically in love with sorceress Angelica and loses his mind.
Director: Greg Roach
28.
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Episode:
Chosen Realm
(2004)
TV-PG | 43 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Enterprise is taken over by religious zealots who want to use the ship in a war against heretics.
Director: Roxann Dawson | Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock, Dominic Keating
Votes: 1,646
29.
Whatifalthist (2014– )
Episode:
Twelve Insane Wars You've Never Heard Of
(2022)
26 min | Documentary
So many wars. So little room in the history books. Here are a dozen wars of geopolitical significance with levels of carnage comparable or exceeding the modern word wars giving you the ... See full summary »
Star: Rudyard Lynch
30.
Matzav Ha'Uma (2010–2015)
Episode:
Episode #8.1
(2014)
Comedy, Talk-Show
Director: Sivan Magazanik | Stars: Lior Schleien, Guri Alfi, Orna Banai, Einav Galili
31.
Vice News (2013– )
Episode:
Diamonds and Division
(2015)
10 min | Documentary
The Central African Republic is one of the poorest countries in the world, but it is also rich in natural resources. One of the official mining sectors has collapsed amid the country's ... See full summary »
Director: Benedict Moran | Stars: Kasper Agger, Serge Benisounga, Benedict Moran, Youssuf Moussa
32.
Africa's Great Civilizations (2017)
Episode:
Origins
(2017)
TV-PG | 52 min | Documentary, History
The host Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores what is considered to be the cradle of civilization where first modern humans emerged some 200,000 years ago, and covers African history from Mitochondrial Eve to the ancient Kingdom of Kush.
Director: Virginia Quinn | Stars: Henry Louis Gates Jr., George Lamptey, Richard Leakey
Votes: 32