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.
The Soul Keeper
2003
My Boy Jack
2007
The Last Train
1973
Hamlet
1990
Calm at Sea
2012
The First Texan
1956
Francesco
1989
The Last Ronin
2010
Cefalonia
2005
The Heroic Ones
1970
The Moro Affair
1986
Trespassing Bergman
2013
Lilies Not for Me
2025
An Impossible Love
2018
Conquest
1937
Celluloid
2013
Hero
2022
The Brothers Warner
2008
The Scarlet Coat
1955
Moulin
2026
The Nightingale
2027
Women on Trial
2026
The Age of Stupid
2009
The Silk Road
1988
Samrat Prithviraj
2022
The Great War
2019
The Red Dance
1928
Swiped
2025
Marie Antoinette
1938
Houdini
1953
Earth
1998
Rasputin
1996
A Hill in Korea
1956
Saint Joan
1957
Scarborn
2024
Lenin: The Train
1988
The Dark Avenger
1955
Viva l'Italia!
1961
Old Man
1997
Rita Levi-Montalcini
2020
Madame DuBarry
1919
Emiliano Zapata
1970
Mogadischu
2008
Gideon's Trumpet
1980