The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) His downward spiral makes him hit rock bottom as he checks himself into the Lahore Mental Hospital for his alcohol addiction. The film has two clear phases Manto’s life in Bombay as a thriving scriptwriter, surrounded by friends and well-wishers, and the second being in Lahore, where he finds himself getting isolated from everyone. A country torn into two, India and Pakistan, challenge his sanity and sense of self as he desires to belong somewhere. The film paints the life and works of the author and how it is affected by his life experiences. ‘Manto’ is a biographical film on the Urdu author Saadat Hasan Manto, featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui as Manto. The movie is a wonderful commentary on the brutal persecution of Jews and shows how the couple stays strong even in the face of death to stand for what’s right. Moreover, taking the help of local resistance, they begin smuggling jews out of the ghetto on trucks before giving them a safe haven. When Jan and his wife decide to turn the zoo into a rescue zone, they turn it into a pig farm to keep it hidden from persecution. Set during the invasion of Poland, ‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’ revolves around the true story of how Jan and Antonina Żabiński rescued and sheltered hundreds of Jews, saving them from German brutality. However, fate has much more in store for the three as their lives are interwoven, leaving their futures in the balance. Around this time, Glider Pilot Regiment Sergeant Will Sinclair crash into German-occupied Zeeland and begins engaging the German troops leading up to the Battle of Walcheren Causeway. A Nazi sympathizer, Marinus van Staveren, tries his best to save Teuntje’s brother, but after his request is turned down, Marinus gets increasingly disillusioned and begins questioning his alliances. The first of the three, Teuntje Visser, finds herself joining the Dutch resistance after the Nazis execute her brother in cold blood. Set during World War II’s Battle of the Scheldt, ‘The Forgotten Battle’ ties together the lives of three unrelated individuals in the days leading up to the fight. However, they are suddenly faced with hidden Nazi sympathizers planning another Reich, threatening their seemingly simple mission. Determined to bring the war criminal to justice, the group travels to the foreign country and meticulously plans a kidnapping. “Operation Finale’ deals with the aftermath when a group of Israeli agents suddenly get information that Eichmann is hiding in Argentina. Operation Finale (2018)Īdolf Eichmann, a mastermind behind the massacre of Jews during the second world war, disappeared strangely after Germany fell. The list also includes historical war movies, historical drama films, and historical fiction movies. If you want a history lesson, without the boredom of the classroom, the following is the list of really good Historical movies on Netflix. Historical movies, fact or fiction, aren’t untouched by it. With every passing year, Netflix has been broadening its horizon regarding the genre of stories it tells. There’s a reason they say “history repeats itself”. They are informative, they are entertaining, and most importantly, they are the warning signs, alerting us of what the world could be like if we, humans, make the same mistakes again. No matter which category you fall in, you can’t deny the importance of historical movies. For another section, these could very well be the films in the fantasy genre. For some people, who are more invested in the story than the hi-story(!) these are the fascinating tales of another time, of a society they don’t live in, and a world they’ll never get to see (unless the time machine is invented!).
For history nerds, they become a topic of profound discussions- pulling all the threads, pointing out mistakes, and debating the impact of the events. These films serve many purposes while being massively entertaining. History might not have been your favorite subject in school, but that doesn’t mean you can’t like historical movies.