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.
Wells Fargo (1937)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
An Enemy to Die For (2012)
Rangoon (2017)
Soul of the Game (1996)
The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
The Molly Maguires (1970)
The Iron Mistress (1952)
Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
The Return (2024)
Soldato Semplice (2015)
Panipat (2019)
Experimenter (2015)
Forever Amber (1947)
Clive of India (1935)
Goltzius & the Pelican Company (2012)
Go for Broke! (1951)
The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
Dangerous Men (2023)
The Cup (2011)
Black Mass (2015)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
The Reconciliation (2017)
Les Miserables (1952)
Buffalo Soldiers (1997)
Pathonpatham Noottandu (2022)
Field of Lost Shoes (2015)
Chevalier (2023)
7 Assassins (2013)
Custer of the West (1967)
Our Time Will Come (2017)
MacArthur (1977)
The 300 Spartans (1962)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2017)
Angelique and the Sultan (1968)
Ponniyin Selvan: Part II (2023)
Operation Mincemeat (2022)
The Lover in the Attic: A True Story (2018)
Luther (2003)
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)
Desert Warrior (2026)
The Great Darkened Days (2019)
The Whale (2013)
December 7th (1943)
Tower of London (1939)
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
Into the Darkness (2020)
Il delitto Mattarella (2020)
The Royal Siren (2010)
My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
Lover of the Last Empress (1995)
The Partisan (2025)
Reagan (2024)
The War Lord (1965)
Mad to Be Normal (2017)
Shootout at Lokhandwala (2007)
Operation Dunaj (2009)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
Emma Hamilton (1968)
Assassin of the Tsar (1991)