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The Physician (2013 film)
The Physician (German: Der Medicus) is a 2013 German historical adventure film directed by Philipp Stölzl, based on Noah Gordon's novel, about an 11th-century English apprentice who travels to Persia to study medicine under Ibn Sina.
The President's Last Bang (그때 그사람들)
The President's Last Bang (그때 그사람들) is Im Sang-soo's 2005 South Korean black comedy on the October 26, 1979 assassination of Park Chung-hee, starring Han Suk-kyu and Baek Yoon-sik, famous for its defamation injunction and 2008 disclaimer settlement.
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) is a Warner Bros. Technicolor historical romance directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Bette Davis as Elizabeth I and Errol Flynn as Essex, based on Maxwell Anderson's play, with five Oscar nominations.
The Promise (2016 film)
The Promise (2016 film), directed by Terry George, is a US-Spanish historical drama starring Oscar Isaac, Charlotte Le Bon, and Christian Bale in a love triangle during the 1915 Armenian genocide; Metascore 49, released April 2017.
The Promised Land (1975 film)
The Promised Land (Ziemia obiecana) is Andrzej Wajda's 1974 Polish epic drama adapted from Reymont's novel about three friends building a textile factory in Łódź; premiered 21 February 1975, it won Golden Lions, a Golden Hugo, and a 1976 Oscar nomination.
The Promised Land (2023 film)
The Promised Land (Bastarden) is a 2023 Danish historical drama by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen as captain Ludvig Kahlen, who colonizes the 1755 Jutland heath; Venice premiere, Denmark's Oscar entry, 9 Robert Awards.
The Right Stuff (film)
The Right Stuff (1983) is Philip Kaufman's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's book about Chuck Yeager and the Mercury Seven astronauts; a box-office flop that won four Oscars, earned a 96% Tomatometer, and became a classic.
The Samurai Trilogy
The Samurai Trilogy (宮本武蔵三部作) is Hiroshi Inagaki's three-part 1954-1956 Toho color series starring Toshiro Mifune as Musashi Miyamoto, adapted from Eiji Yoshikawa's novel; the first film won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
The Secret Path
The Secret Path (also Chasing Secrets) is a 1999 CBS TV drama directed by Bruce Pittman, based on Rose Mary Evans' memoir Childhood's Thief, starring Della Reese and Ossie Davis as a couple sheltering an abused white girl.
The Sign of the Cross
The Sign of the Cross (1932) is Cecil B. DeMille's pre-Code Paramount epic from Wilson Barrett's 1895 play, starring Fredric March, Claudette Colbert, and Charles Laughton as Nero; notorious for its milk-bath and arena scenes, cut in 1935, restored in 1993.
The Sleeping Voice
The Sleeping Voice (La voz dormida) is Benito Zambrano's 2011 Spanish drama adapted from Dulce Chacón's novel, about sisters in Francoist Madrid in 1940; it won three Goyas and the San Sebastián Silver Shell for María León.
The Story of Dr. Wassell
The Story of Dr. Wassell is Cecil B. DeMille's 1944 Paramount Technicolor WWII film starring Gary Cooper as Navy doctor Corydon Wassell, who evacuated twelve wounded sailors from Java; based on James Hilton's commissioned 1943 book, inspired by Roosevelt's radio broadcast.
The Swedish Connection
The Swedish Connection (Den svenska länken) is a 2026 Swedish WWII drama directed by Thérèse Ahlbeck and Marcus Olsson, starring Henrik Dorsin as bureaucrat Gösta Engzell, who saved Jews via legal loopholes; Netflix release February 19, 2026.
The Tasters
The Tasters (Le assaggiatrici) is Silvio Soldini's 2025 German-language Italian-Belgian-Swiss historical drama adapting Rosella Postorino's novel At the Wolf's Table about women forced to taste Hitler's food at the Wolf's Lair, inspired by Margot Wölk's disputed testimony.
The Throne (사도) (film)
The Throne (사도, Sado) is Lee Joon-ik's 2015 South Korean historical drama starring Song Kang-ho and Yoo Ah-in as King Yeongjo and Crown Prince Sado, depicting Sado's 1762 death in a rice chest; it drew 6.25 million admissions and was Korea's 2016 Oscar entry.
The Time That Remains (الزمن الباقي)
The Time That Remains (الزمن الباقي) is Elia Suleiman's 2009 semi-autobiographical Palestinian drama in four episodes, 1948 to the present, based on his father's diaries and mother's letters; a Cannes Palme d'Or nominee and third in his Nazareth trilogy.
The Travelling Players
The Travelling Players (Ο Θίασος, O Thiasos) is Theo Angelopoulos's 1975 Greek epic, 230 minutes long, following a troupe performing Golfo the Shepherdess from 1939 to 1952 while enacting the Oresteia; it won the FIPRESCI Grand Prix at Cannes 1975.
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛)
The Twilight Samurai (たそがれ清兵衛, Tasogare Seibei) is Yoji Yamada's 2002 Shochiku period drama based on Shuhei Fujisawa, starring Hiroyuki Sanada and Rie Miyazawa; it won 12 Japan Academy Awards and was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
The Uprising (1999 film)
The Uprising (이재수의 난) is a 1999 South Korean historical action film directed by Park Kwang-su, starring Lee Jung-jae and set during the 1901 Jeju rebellion.
The Valley of the Bees
The Valley of the Bees (Údolí včel) is František Vláčil's 1967 Czechoslovak black-and-white medieval drama about Ondřej, a Teutonic Knight who escapes and is hunted by Armin; a reappraised Czech classic.
The Vikings
The Vikings (1958) is a Richard Fleischer adventure film produced by and starring Kirk Douglas, with Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Ernest Borgnine, adapted from Edison Marshall's novel The Viking, shot in Norway and Brittany, and ranked by Variety as 1958's fifth top-grossing film.
The Water Diviner
The Water Diviner (2014) is Russell Crowe's directorial debut, a Gallipoli drama starring Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, and Yilmaz Erdogan; released by Warner Bros. in April 2015, it grossed $34.6M in the US and won three AACTA Awards.
The Weight (2026 film)
The Weight is a 2026 action-adventure crime film directed by Padraic McKinley in his feature debut, starring Ethan Hawke as a 1930s convict who smuggles stolen gold through the Oregon wilderness for his freedom.
The World Will Tremble
The World Will Tremble is a 2025 Lior Geller war drama, also called Świat będzie drżał, dramatizing the 1942 Chełmno camp escape of Szlama Ber Winer and Michał Podchlebnik, who delivered the first Holocaust eyewitness account.
The Yellow Birds (film)
The Yellow Birds is a 2018 Iraq War drama directed by Alexandre Moors, adapted from Kevin Powers' 2012 novel, starring Alden Ehrenreich, Tye Sheridan, Jennifer Aniston, and Toni Collette; premiered at Sundance 2017, released by Saban Films.
The Zone of Interest (film)
The Zone of Interest (2023), Jonathan Glazer's Holocaust drama starring Sandra Hüller and Christian Friedel as the Höss family beside Auschwitz, loosely based on Martin Amis's 2014 novel; Cannes Grand Prix winner and Oscar winner for Best International Feature and Best Sound.
Threads (1984 film)
Threads (1984) is a BBC docudrama directed by Mick Jackson and written by Barry Hines, depicting a nuclear attack on Sheffield and 13 years of aftermath; first broadcast 23 September 1984, about seven million viewers, four BAFTAs, distinct from The Day After.
Tigerland
Tigerland (2000) is a Joel Schumacher war drama starring Colin Farrell as rebellious recruit Roland Bozz at Fort Polk's Vietnam-era infantry training camp; shot in 28 days on 16mm, it flopped at the box office but launched Farrell's career.
Tjoet Nja' Dhien
Tjoet Nja' Dhien (Cut Nyak Dhien) is a 1988 Indonesian epic war drama by Eros Djarot starring Christine Hakim, about the Acehnese guerrilla leader who fought Dutch colonial rule after Teuku Umar's 1899 death; it won nine Citra Awards and was the first Indonesian film at Cannes.
Triumph of the Heart
Triumph of the Heart is a 2025 historical drama film, also released in France as Maximilien Kolbe, about St. Maximilian Kolbe's 1941 Auschwitz starvation-bunker sacrifice. Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Anthony D'Ambrosio, it opened September 12, 2025 and scored 96% on Rotten Tomatoes.