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.
Anna Karenina
1935
Wilde
1997
Magellan
2025
Beau Brummell
1954
Parzania
2005
The Great Houdinis
1976
The Opium War
1997
White Courage
2024
The Orphan Brother
1961
The Crusades
1935
Pétain
1993
The Last Valley
1971
Magnificat
1993
Captain Lightfoot
1955
The Buccaneer
1958
Dr. Akagi
1998
K-19: The Widowmaker
2002
Prisoner of Honor
1991
The Crossing
2000
Soldiers of Salamina
2003
Oslo
2021
Fresh Dressed
2015
The Avenger
1962
Winchell
1998
Odette
1950
The Pupil
1996
The Dancer
2016
Charlotte
2022
My Nephew Emmett
2018
Black Magic
1949
Tobruk
1967
The Vagabond King
1956
7 Women
1965
A Scandal in Paris
1946