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- StarsDaan SchuurmansGeert JanssenFemke DeenThe history of the Netherlands from the bronze age to the 20th century told through ten re-enacted documentaries.bronze age to the 20th century
- DirectorRoel ReinéStarsGijs NaberLisa SmitHuub StapelThe power struggles and wars between the Frisian Redbad and his sworn enemy Pepin of Herstal, Lord of the Franks.754
- StarsGijs NaberJonathan BanksSøren MallingIn the year of 754 AD, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Redbad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. Redbad must ultimately unite a Viking army powerful enough to defeat the seemingly invincible Franks.754
- DirectorSteven de JongStarsMilan van WeeldenElske DeWallSyb van der PloegThe magical epos of Friesland's biggest hero.1515
- DirectorEric TillStarsJoseph FiennesBruno GanzPeter UstinovDuring the early sixteenth century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the Catholic Church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.1520
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsMonic HendrickxLisa SmitSallie HarmsenWhile she fights a heroic battle against the Spanish besieger with her female army, Kenau, driven by hate and sorrow of the execution of her youngest daughter, is threatened to also lose her eldest daughter.1570
- DirectorReinout OerlemansStarsRobert de HoogVictor ReinierJan DecleirA Dutch exploration team sets sail to find the North East passage to the Indies. The weather had other ideas for them.1596
- DirectorJustin ChadwickStarsAlicia VikanderDane DeHaanJack O'ConnellAn artist falls for a young married woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of seventeenth century Amsterdam.1634
- DirectorRoel ReinéStarsFrank LammersSanne LangelaarBarry AtsmaWhen the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France, and Germany, and the country is on the brink of civil war, only one man can lead the country's strongest weapon, the Dutch fleet: Michiel de Ruyter.1637
- DirectorPeter GreenawayStarsMartin FreemanEmily HolmesEva BirthistleAn extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the controversy he created by the identification of a murderer in the painting 'The Night Watch'.1640
- DirectorPaul HaansJeroen WielheesenStarsTygo GernandtJoes BrauersPeter Faber1743, poor people are suppressed by the ruling power, they unit in groups and call themselves Buckriders. When captain of the Buckriders Matthijs is being arrested, his son Thias is forced to make decisions which will determine his future.1743
- DirectorJean van de VeldeStarsGaite JansenNeil SandilandsDaniel JanksThe Price Of Sugar tells the alternately gripping, romantic and heart-wrenching story of Sarith and Mini-Mini as they grow up on the sugar plantations of Suriname in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Where Sarith is the most beautiful woman in the colony, the mulatto Mini-Mini is forever in her shadow, slave to her own half-sister.1770
- DirectorJoram LürsenStarsGijs Scholten van AschatJacob DerwigRifka LodeizenIn 1888 Amsterdam, a stubborn violin maker and his pharmacist cousin face hardship and tragedy as they oppose the powerful businessmen who plan to force him from his house and erect a luxurious new hotel in its place.1888
- DirectorAndré van DurenStarsMatthias SchoenaertsSylvia HoeksFrank LammersNetherlands, 1938. In a small town in the province of North Brabant called Oss, Johanna wants to change her life and quit the criminal gangs of the town. The harder she tries, the more she is involved.1938
- DirectorRudolf van den BergStarsJeroen SpitzenbergerKarl MarkovicsNyncke BeekhuyzenDuring WWII, a member of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam finds a way to spare children from deportation to the death camps.1942
- DirectorDennis BotsStarsMaas BronkhuyzenJoes BrauersMichael NierseDuring WWII, the friendship of two boys is at risk when a girl tells a very personal secret to only one of them.1943
- DirectorPaul VerhoevenStarsCarice van HoutenSebastian KochThom HoffmanIn the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II, a Jewish singer infiltrates the regional Gestapo headquarters for the Dutch resistance.1944
- DirectorPieter KuijpersStarsSteef de BotHuub SmitSigrid ten NapelThe story about Riphagen, a cunning Dutch traitor during WW2 who helped Nazi round up Jews, stealing their treasures for himself. He destroyed Resistance groups, making many who pursued justice after the war look like fools.1944
- DirectorMatthijs van Heijningen Jr.StarsGijs BlomJamie FlattersSusan Radder1944, the Second World War. A British glider pilot, a Dutch boy fighting on the German side and a Dutch female resistance member all end up involved in the Battle of the Schelde. Their choices differ, but their goal is the same: freedom.1944
- DirectorMartin KoolhovenStarsMartijn LakemeierJamie Campbell BowerYorick van WageningenIn German-occupied Netherlands, a teenage boy gets involved in the Dutch resistance after coming to the aid of a wounded RAF pilot.1945
- DirectorJim TaihuttuStarsMartijn LakemeierMarwan KenzariJonas SmuldersA young Dutch soldier deployed to suppress post-WWII independence efforts in the Netherlands' colony of Indonesia finds himself torn between duty and conscience when he joins an increasingly ruthless commander's elite squad.1946
- DirectorBen SombogaartStarsSylvia HoeksBarry AtsmaDirk RoofthooftDuring the devastating North Sea flood of 1953, a young woman and a naval officer search for her lost infant son.1953
- DirectorSteven de JongStarsWilleke van AmmelrooyChris ZegersPierre BokmaWhen conditions are right, an infamous ice-skating race is held in the north of the Netherlands. The 200-km race must be completed by midnight and everyone who finishes receives a medal. This film is based on the facts of the fateful day in 1963 when thousands of skaters suffered frostbite and shocking injuries because of plunging temperatures and rough terrain. Only a small number would cross the finish line, but it would be a life-changing event for those who did.1963
- DirectorMaarten TreurnietStarsRutger HauerReinout Scholten van AschatGijs NaberA bold, amateur kidnapping goes wildly awry in this fictionalized account of beer magnate Alfred Heineken's 1983 abduction, which would go on to become one of The Netherlands' most infamous crimes.1983
- DirectorDaniel AlfredsonStarsJim SturgessSam WorthingtonRyan KwantenThe inside story of the planning, execution, rousing aftermath, and ultimate downfall of the kidnappers of beer tycoon Alfred "Freddy" Heineken in 1983, which resulted in the largest ransom ever paid for an individual.1983
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsAlek SkarlatosAnthony SadlerSpencer StoneThree courageous young Americans prevent a terrorist attack on a train bound for Paris.2015
- DirectorPeter WebberStarsScarlett JohanssonColin FirthTom WilkinsonA young peasant maid working in the house of painter Johannes Vermeer becomes his talented assistant and the model for one of his most famous works.