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1. Gladiator (2000)
R | 155 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A former Roman General sets out to exact vengeance against the corrupt emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery.
Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed
Votes: 1,627,897 | Gross: $187.71M
2. Medicine Man (1992)
PG-13 | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the beautiful and dangerous Amazon rainforest, dissimilar people must make their choices between business, science, and love.
Director: John McTiernan | Stars: Sean Connery, Lorraine Bracco, José Wilker, Rodolfo De Alejandre
Votes: 24,845 | Gross: $45.50M
3. The Andromeda Strain (2008)
44 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.
Stars: Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Louis Ferreira, Ricky Schroder
Votes: 14,624
4. Stryker (1983)
R | 86 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The world's water supply has dried up due to some sort of apocalypse. A beautiful woman holds the secret to where one of the last springs being guarded by a group of Amazons. A "Road ... See full summary »
Director: Cirio H. Santiago | Stars: Steve Sandor, Andria Savio, William Ostrander, Mike Lane
Votes: 813 | Gross: $1.72M
5. The End of the World (1916)
77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.
Director: August Blom | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Carl Lauritzen, Ebba Thomsen, Johanne Fritz-Petersen
Votes: 422
6. Battle of Kursk (2009 Video)
57 min | Documentary, History, War
A documentary recounting the WW2 engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front in July 1943.
Director: Robert Garofalo | Stars: Roy Ward, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler, Ivan Konev
Votes: 10
7. Under en steinhimmel (1974)
85 min | Drama, War
Early summer 1944 during WW2 people fled into the mines in Bjorvatn. The Nazi had decided to obliterate all of Northern Norway, and the people should be sent south. That didn't happen, and a rumor said the Nazi would blow up the mountain.
Directors: Knut Andersen, Igor Maslennikov | Stars: Arne Lie, Veslemøy Haslund, Evgeniy Leonov, Nikolay Burlyaev
Votes: 71
8. Little Ships (2010 TV Movie)
Documentary, History, War
Dan Snow tells the story of the 'little ships' which took part in the Dunkirk evacuation.
Director: Linda Sands | Stars: Dan Snow, Ian Gilbert, John Tough, Simon Palmer
Votes: 12
9. Battle for Warsaw (1978)
Not Rated | 48 min | Documentary, History, War
Using rare newly found footage and eye-witness accounts from survivors, 'Battle for Warsaw' tells the tragic story of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising in which nearly a quarter of a million Poles lost their lives.
Director: Peter Batty | Stars: Bernard Archard, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Wladyslaw Sikorski
Votes: 16
10. Secret Missions of the Civil War (2005 TV Movie)
120 min | Documentary, History, War
Two hour special on "secret" missions during the Civil War including The Great Locomotive Chase, Mosby's Raid on Fairfax, and the Attempted Burning of New York City.
Director: Darryl Rehr | Stars: David Ackroyd, Ulf Bjorlin, Allen Brenner, Mike Brown
Votes: 14
11. Général Ishiwara - L'homme qui déclencha la guerre (2012 TV Movie)
52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
From 1889 to 1949, General Ishiwara's military, ideological and political career took in the key moments of Japanese History, in a most spectacular way: the forced opening to the West, Hiroshima, the China war and Pearl Harbour.
Director: Paul Jenkins | Stars: Luce Mouchel, Frédéric Pellegeay, Ikuhiko Hata, Yôichi Higuchi
Votes: 26
13.
Strange World (1999–2002)
Episode:
Spirit Falls
(1999)
TV-14 | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Turner investigates a mass suicide in a closed religious community of Spirit Falls. He suspects that the locals may have had the Methuselah gene that slows down the aging process and someone badly wanted their genome sequence.
Director: Peter Markle | Stars: Tim Guinee, Sandra Quarterman, Vivian Wu, Kristin Lehman
Votes: 5
14.
The Conquerors (2005)
Episode:
William the Conqueror
(2005)
Documentary, Biography, History
William De Normendie presses his claim on the Throne of Anglo-Saxon England and triumphs over and kills the Anglo-Saxon king,Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings.Thereby becoming ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Paddor | Stars: Dale Dye, Christopher Gravett, Richard Jones, Jean-Marie Levesque
Votes: 6
15.
Secrets of the Dead (2000– )
Episode:
Headless Romans
(2007)
TV-PG | Documentary, History, War
What happened to the 30 Romans whose decapitated bodies were found buried in York, the town from which in the 3rd century A.D. the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus and his sons Caracalla and Geta led a brutal campaign against the Scots.
Director: Ian Potts | Stars: Joey Ansah, Liev Schreiber
Votes: 19
16.
The World at War (1973–1974)
Episode:
Tough Old Gut: Italy - November 1942-June 1944
(1974)
TV-PG | 50 min | Documentary, History, War
After driving the Germans from North Africa the Allies turn their sites on Italy. But the Italian campaign turned out to be tougher the anyone expected. American reluctance to divert ... See full summary »
Stars: Laurence Olivier, Kenneth Strong, Drew Middleton, Mark W. Clark
Votes: 379
17.
Battlefield (1995–2004)
Episode:
Campaign in the Balkans
(2004)
105 min | Documentary, History, War
We examine the course of savage fighting in the Balkans in the latter half of the conflict in World War 2 where after the uprising by the Romanians, the Soviet Army moved swiftly to capture Bucharest.
Stars: Jonathan Booth, Ion Antonescu, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Ernst Busch
Votes: 12
18.
Apocalypse Hitler attaque à l'Est (2021)
Episode:
Conquérir l'Espace Vital
(2021)
Documentary, History, War
June 1941, Hitler invades the USSR: he wants to conquer this "Living space" of which he dreams for his Reich, and conquer the largest country in the world.
Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Nathan Rippy, Martin Bormann
Votes: 38
19.
Bern Grill: uomo contronatura (2011–2021)
Episode:
Sull'isola di Kalura
(2012)
5 min | Adventure, Comedy
Our eight adventure is in the Island of Kalura. Bern will have to fight his hottest adventure yet, survive with no water and find his way back home before the hot weather kills him.
Directors: Mario Palladino, Nicola Palmieri | Stars: Mario Palladino, Nicola Palmieri
20.
Sectaurs (1985– )
Episode:
Spidrax Attacks
(1985)
Animation, Action, Adventure
Spidrax's forces destroy Sectaurs' village and steal a map that could take them to the planet's power source.
Director: John Kimball | Stars: Arthur Burghardt, Peter Cullen, Laurie Faso, Dan Gilvezan
21.
Hitler's Bodyguard (2008– )
Episode:
Poison Gas Plot in the Bunker
(2010)
TV-14 | 47 min | Documentary, History
One member of Hitler's inner circle later claimed to have contemplated flooding the Fuhrer's Berlin bunker with nerve gas as the Allies closed in.
Directors: Jonathan Martin, Philip Nugus | Stars: Sepp Dietrich, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Adolf Hitler
Votes: 30
22.
The Conquerors (2005)
Episode:
Sherman's March to the Sea
(2005)
46 min | Documentary, Biography, History
How Union Army Major General William Tecumseh Sherman led a force of 60.000 infantry and 5500 Union Calvary on a punitive march, known as Sherman's March to the Sea, through the Confederacy in late 1964 to end the American Civil War.
Stars: Anne J. Bailey, Thomas Y. Cartwright, Matthew Davis, Dale Dye
23.
Real Time History (2021– )
Episode:
How Russian Partisans Waged Guerilla War Against Napoleon
(2022)
13 min | Documentary, Short, History
The face of war was changing in 1812. While the Russian Army retreated and left behind scorched earth, Russian partisans took up arms against Napoleon's troops. They harassed and attacked ... See full summary »
Star: Jesse Alexander
24.
Real Time History (2021– )
Episode:
Setting the Stage for Borodino - The Battle of Shevardino Redoubt
(2022)
11 min | Documentary, Short, History
Napoleon's advancing army had finally spotted the entire Russian Army before them, the stage was set for the deciding clash of the Russian campaign at the small village of Borodino. Before ... See full summary »
Star: Jesse Alexander
25.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
Scorched Earth
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
In Kursk, a battlefield the size of Wales, the tide turns and the Soviets push back, but as Germany retreats, they destroy all evidence of their genocidal activities.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Sergei Kudryashov, Alexander Vershinin, Ivan Patrylyak, Ihar Melnikau
26.
Adolf Hitler's War (2020)
Episode:
This Has Happened
(2020)
Documentary, History, War
Hitler's War moves to its endgame as the Soviets cross the German border - with a death toll of over 40 million, a new scarred, Europe will emerge.
Directors: Michael Cove, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Aliaksandr Kakhanouski, David Stahel, Sergei Kudryashov, Dzmitry Kryvashei
27.
Hitler: Uncovering His Fatal Obsession (2021)
Episode:
Time is Blood
(2021)
45 min | Documentary, History, War
After a terrible winter, 1942 starts badly for Stalin due to a ruthless Nazi campaign that leaves millions of Soviets captive and without food.
Directors: Lyndy Saville, Cal Seville | Stars: Max Hastings, Anthony Beevor, Klaus Schmider, Richard John Evans
Votes: 6
28.
Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode:
Le grand choc
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
In 1943, Hitler is desperately trying to change the course of the war, while the Allies prepare to rid the world of the lead Nazi once and for all.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ion Antonescu, Blondi
Votes: 10
29.
Apocalypse, le crépuscule d'Hitler (2023)
Episode:
Le dernier acte
(2023)
Documentary, History, War
Its 1944, and as the Allied forces take over the West and Nazis retreat in the East, Hitler orders his country to its ruin from his underground bunker.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Stephen Rashbrook, Ahmed Ben Bella, Blondi
Votes: 8
30.
Dark Docs (2020– )
Episode:
The Most Secret War Tactic You've Never Heard Of?
(2023)
12 min | Documentary, History
An account of the Soviet disastrous failed invasion of Finland in 1939.
31.
The 100 Days: That Defined Modern History (2022–2023)
Episode:
The Gulf War - 1990-91
(2023)
Documentary, History
In 1990, the UN passed Resolution 678, giving Iraq an ultimatum to leave Kuwait following their invasion.
Directors: Edmund Duff, Mike Kenneally | Stars: Lloyd Cox, Amin Saikal, Lawrence Freedman, Louise Kettle
32.
Hitler's Engineers: Building the Third Reich (2023–2024)
Episode:
Fritz Todt
(2024)
Documentary, History, War
Fritz Todt was the man tasked with engineering projects including the autobahn, the West Wall defences and more. But in 1942, he died under mysterious circumstances.
Director: Tom Williams | Stars: Jadwiga Korowaj, Nigel Jones, Guy Walters, Dieter Stockmann
33.
The Great War (2010–2012)
Episode:
Rzhev
(2011)
43 min | Documentary, Drama, History
The capture of Rzhev, the city that connects all railroads in Western Russia, is imperative. It will cost the lives of some 3 million Soviet soldiers and 500 000 German soldiers. It will ... See full summary »
Director: Anna Grazhdan | Stars: Anatoliy Bogush, Evgeniy Sinchukov
Votes: 10
34.
The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode:
The U.S. School That Trains Dictators and Death Squads
(2015)
Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Roy Bourgeois, Maria Luisa, Abby Martin, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 12
35.
The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode:
Native American Genocide & Survival
(2015)
Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Stars: Abby Martin, Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz
Votes: 17
36.
The Empire Files (2015– )
Episode:
Palestine's Rebellion, Israel's Fascism
(2015)
G | 8 min | Documentary, News, Talk-Show
Painful feet come for many reasons. One reason is the collapse of the anterior transverse arch in the foot. The collapse of this arch can compress a nerve in between the middle metatarsal ... See full summary »
Stars: Max Blumenthal, Abby Martin
Votes: 18
37.
Days of Revolt (2015–2016)
Episode:
The Militarism of U.S. Diplomacy
(2015)
News, Talk-Show
Stars: Chris Hedges, Vijay Prashad
38.
Apocalypse: Stalin (2015)
Episode:
Le Maître du Monde
(2015)
TV-14 | 53 min | Documentary, History, War
1944: the Soviets continue on the path to towards liberation. On the road to Berlin, they discover the horror of Hitler's extermination camps. Fifteen years earlier, Stalin transformed his country using every means at his disposal.
Directors: Isabelle Clarke, Daniel Costelle | Stars: Mathieu Kassovitz, Doug Rand, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Olga Balykina
Votes: 77
39.
Hitler's Circle of Evil (2018)
Episode:
Beginning of the End
(2018)
TV-14 | 52 min | Documentary, Biography, History
As the war fails, the inner circle responds with strategies to save itself, from plotting the Führer's assassination to negotiating with the Allies.
Director: Vicky Matthews | Stars: Emma Craigie, Thomas Weber, Guy Walters, Robert Gerwarth
Votes: 150
40.
100 Days to Victory (2018)
Episode:
The Fightback
(2018)
59 min | Documentary, History, War
After defeating the Germans at Amiens, the Allies need to find a way to smash through the Hindenburg Line, the last line of defense of the German Army.
Directors: Don Featherstone, Tim Wolochatiuk | Stars: Tim Cook, Elaine McFarland, Patrick Watt, Mat McLachlan
Votes: 15
41.
Machine Gun: History Down the Barrel of a Gun (1999)
Episode:
Age of Kalashnikov's AK 47
(1999)
60 min | Documentary
Stars: Lawrence Bayne, Jack Blum, John Bolton, George Bush