Greatest 28 History Movies Picks from 2002

In 1862, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points area of New York City seeking revenge against Bill the Butcher; his father's killer. Learn about Gangs of New York / IMDB / YouTube

The story of 160 elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed Somalis. Explore Black Hawk Down / IMDB / YouTube

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War, and the soldiers on both sides that fought it, while their wives wait nervously and anxiously at home for the good news or the bad news. Learn about We Were Soldiers / IMDB / YouTube

A young man, falsely imprisoned by his jealous friend, escapes and uses a hidden treasure to exact his revenge. Learn about The Count of Monte Cristo / IMDB / YouTube

Two U.S. Marines in World War II are assigned to protect the Navajo Marines who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cipher. Details on Windtalkers / IMDB / YouTube

In 18th-century France, the Chevalier de Fronsac and his Native American friend Mani are sent to the Gevaudan province at the king's behest to investigate the killings of hundreds by a mysterious beast. Details on Brotherhood of the Wolf / IMDB / YouTube

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save the ship and prevent a nuclear disaster. Details on K-19: The Widowmaker / IMDB / YouTube

A dramatization of the Irish civil rights protest march and subsequent massacre by British troops on January 30, 1972. See more about Bloody Sunday / IMDB / YouTube

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym (Ernest) for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues. Get info on The Importance of Being Earnest / IMDB / YouTube

The story of a young revolutionary who raised an armed resistance against the British rule in India. Find out about The Legend of Bhagat Singh / IMDB / YouTube

Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide. Info on Ararat / IMDB / YouTube

During WWII SS officer Kurt Gerstein tries to inform Pope Pius XII about Jews being sent to extermination camps. Young Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana helps him in the difficult mission to inform the world. Get info on Amen. / IMDB / YouTube

A young Scottish woman joins the French Resistance during World War II to rescue her Royal Air Force boyfriend who is lost in France. Details on Charlotte Gray / IMDB / YouTube

Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924. Look into The Cat's Meow / IMDB / YouTube

In World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm. Check out The Cuckoo / IMDB / YouTube

Romance blooms between two soldiers (Knoller, Levi) stationed in an Israeli outpost on the Lebanese border. Learn about Yossi & Jagger / IMDB / YouTube

Winston Churchill's wilderness years prior to World War II, when only he could see the threat that Adolf Hitler and a rearmed Germany posed to Europe. Check out The Gathering Storm / IMDB / YouTube

Twin sisters Lotte and Anne grow up very differently after their parents death. Now adults, they want to reunite but World War II and their growing socioeconomic differences complicate things. Get info on Twin Sisters / IMDB / YouTube

The true story of an American town in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard. Info on The Laramie Project / IMDB / YouTube

In the mid 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson (Sir Michael Gambon) and his foreign-policy team debate the decision to withdraw from or escalate the war in Vietnam. More about Path to War / IMDB / YouTube

A family must come to grips with its culture, its faith, and the brutal political changes entering its small-town world. Read about The Clay Bird / IMDB / YouTube

The love story that transformed Juana, Queen of Spain, into Juana the Mad. A story of passions, lies and jealousy with a political motive behind. Learn about Mad Love / IMDB / YouTube

Fanatic is a government trooper who is heading an expedition to find an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. Others in the expedition are the Follower, a greenhorn trooper, the Veteran, and the Tracker. See more about The Tracker / IMDB / YouTube

Loose portrait of João Francisco dos Santos, also known as Madame Satã, a sometime chef, transvestite, lover, father, hero and convict from Rio de Janeiro. See more about Madame Satã / IMDB / YouTube

In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him. Find out about Painted Fire / IMDB / YouTube

During World War II the Red Army sends a special unit named Zvezda (The Star) on a mission to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Germans in the Soviet Union. See more about The Star / IMDB / YouTube

This movie is about the Estonian War of Independence (1918-1920), specifically the students fighting on the nationalist side, but also shown the conflict between two ideologies (Estonian nationalism and communism). Find out about Names Engraved in Marble / IMDB / YouTube

Historian Klaus Müller interviews survivors of the Nazi persecution of homosexuals because of the German Penal Code of 1871, Paragraph 175. More about Paragraph 175 / IMDB / YouTube