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 House of Rothschild (1934)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
The Special Relationship (2010)
Villa-Lobos: A Life of Passion (2000)
The Colt (2005)
The Last Vermeer (2019)
Year One in the North (2005)
The Night Riders (1939)
Witchfinder General (1968)
A Tale of Two Cities (1980)
Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Castles in the Sky (2014)
The Last of the Mohicans (1936)
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2010)
The Horseman on the Roof (1995)
Gettysburg (2011)
A Fierce Green Fire (2013)
The Wicked Lady (1945)
Raintree County (1957)
Golden Door (2006)
Stalingrad: Film 1 (1990)
Barabbas (2012)
Son of the South (2021)
Julia (1977)
Kidnapped (1971)
Daddy (2017)
Housewife, 49 (2006)
The Volunteers: To the War (2023)
Religion (2007)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
Flyboys (2006)
The Battle of the River Plate (1956)
Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg (1990)
Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
Putin's Witnesses (2018)
In the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
Mapplethorpe (2019)
The Josephine Baker Story (1991)
Rustin (2023)
Mr. Turner (2014)
The Last Princess (2008)
Thunder in the Sun (1959)
The Coward (1915)
Christopher Columbus (1949)
Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda (2011)
The Spirit of '45 (2013)
Know Your Enemy: Japan (1945)
A Queen for Caesar (1962)
The Climbers (2019)
First Light (2010)
Panther (1995)
Band of Angels (1957)
The 24th (2020)
Limonov: The Ballad (2024)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
Knight Without Armour (1937)
Walker (1987)
An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)