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.
David and Bathsheba (1951)
The Smashing Machine (2025)
Dalíland (2022)
Eichmann (2007)
The 33 (2015)
Il pataffio (2022)
Caligula: The Untold Story (1982)
Boudica (2003)
The Broken Tower (2012)
Kaamelott: The Second Chapter (Part I) (2025)
Molière's Last Stage (2024)
Scandal (1989)
Alexander the Great (1956)
Chiara e Francesco (2007)
The Guillotines (2012)
Mary, Queen of Scots (2013)
The Ancines Woods (1970)
Hannibal (1959)
Waltzes from Vienna (1934)
Miral (2010)
Mathilde (2017)
Caravaggio (1986)
Edwin Boyd: Citizen Gangster (2011)
Great Balls of Fire! (1989)
Vatel (2000)
Little Buddha (1993)
Backstabbing for Beginners (2018)
Hoffa (1992)
The Last Witness (2018)
All Is True (2018)
Ferrari (2023)
Charlotte Gray (2001)
David and Goliath (1960)
Robin Hood (2010)
The Lost City of Z (2017)
William Tell (2025)
The Last Days (1999)
Parkland (2013)
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Wondrous Boccaccio (2015)
Harem (1985)
Wałesa: Man of Hope (2013)
Return of the Hero (2018)
The Iron Lady (2011)
The Anarchists (2015)
Great (1975)
Marguerite & Julien (2015)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Sword of God (2020)
Miss Marx (2020)
Final Portrait (2017)
Gangster Land (2017)
The Alto Knights (2025)
The Canterbury Tales (1972)
Risen (2016)
Under Capricorn (1949)
The Founding of a Republic (2009)
The Edge of Love (2008)
American Traitor: The Trial of Axis Sally (2021)
The Final Inquiry (2007)