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.
Stockholm Bloodbath
2024
Madame
1961
Isadora
1968
The Situation
2007
To Kill a Priest
1988
Call Jane
2022
Into the Storm
2009
Aunt Isabel's Garden
1972
Wittgenstein
1993
Meek's Cutoff
2011
Caravaggio's Shadow
2022
The Slave
1962
Outsider
2018
The Last Four Days
1974
Fire Over England
1937
Sharpe's Challenge
2006
The Better Angels
2014
Victor Young Perez
2013
Judith of Bethulia
1914
Tiger Nageswara Rao
2023
The Good Earth
1937
The Bushido Blade
1981
Walkout
2006
Plymouth Adventure
1952
Savannah
2013
Blaze
2018
Jericho
1991
Saving General Yang
2013
Union of Salvation
2019
O Jerusalem
2006
The Great Raid
2005
Little Girl Blue
2023
The Hour of the Pig
1993
Doomsday Gun
1994
Fanny Lye Deliver'd
2019
Young Bess
1953
Land of the Pharaohs
1955
The Abduction Club
2002
The Forger
2022
The Gorgeous Hussy
1936
My Friend Dahmer
2017
Habermann
2010
Bengal Brigade
1954
The Strange Woman
1946