Best History Movies
Historical films let you watch the past argue with itself - wars, trials, revolutions and the people caught inside them. Ranked here by audience rating: sweeping period epics, tense docudramas and intimate true stories. See where each streams and mark off the eras you've covered.
Piccolo mondo antico
1941
A Tale of Two Cities
1958
Mary, Queen of Scots
1971
Scipio the African
1971
Samurai Hustle
2014
Lilly
2025
Mother Teresa & Me
2022
George Wallace
1997
Eight Hundred Heroes
1975
Warsaw Uprising
2014
Das Zeugenhaus
2014
Pope John XXIII
2002
Samson and Delilah
1949
Bones of Crows
2023
Kill the Messenger
2014
Battle of Oslo
2025
The Finest Hours
2016
Kursk
2018
A Man in Our House
1961
We Believed
2010
Mother Night
1996
The Conspirator
2011
Reunion
1989
The Viking
1928
Red Joan
2018
No Man of God
2021
Blue Moon
2025
Un eroe borghese
1995
Basquiat
1996
Mary of Nazareth
2012
Sky Force
2025
Expedition Amelia
2019
La casta divina
1977
Outside the Law
2010
The Grey Zone
2001
Where Is Anne Frank
2021
The One I Loved
2025
Topsy-Turvy
1999
Afronauts
2014
The Movie Orgy
1968
The Sleeping Voice
2011
