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.
Colette
2013
Untamable Angelique
1967
Saipan
2025
Annamayya
1997
Magnificent Doll
1946
The Frenchman
2019
Hudson's Bay
1940
Beyond Rangoon
1995
Bau, Artist at War
2024
Ronin-gai
1990
Stealing Heaven
1988
Napoleon
1955
Uprising
2001
Diane
1956
Winning Your Wings
1942
Minha Fama de Mau
2019
Enid
2009
Defiant Souls
2019
Shadow Magic
2000
The Hunley
1999
Citizen Cohn
1992
Mlle. Desiree
1942
Love Your Enemies
2022
Churchill's Secret
2016
House of Gucci
2021
Gates to Paradise
1968
The Egyptian
1954
La princesa Paca
2017
The Lennon Report
2016
The Far Horizons
1955
The Dark House
2009
Nina's House
2005
Journey to Mecca
2009
Heaven and Earth
1990
Kamouraska
1973
To Keep the Light
2016
The Lost King
2022
Onmyoji
2001
Black Robe
1991
Rosewood
1997
Vanina Vanini
1961
Eureka Stockade
1949
Battle of the Brave
2004
Vendetta
1999
Galileo
1968
Galileo
1975
