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.

Chappaquiddick (2018)

The Catholic School (2021)

The Affair of the Necklace (2001)

The Cat's Meow (2001)

Evilenko (2004)

1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time (2007)

Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)

The Silver Chalice (1954)

The Big Dream (2009)

Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017)

Lula, the Son of Brazil (2010)

Enfant Terrible (2020)

Finding Altamira (2016)

Nomad: The Warrior (2005)

Beginning of the Great Revival (2011)

Napoleon (2023)

The Rising Hawk (2019)

Factory Girl (2006)

True Story (2015)

Tom Jones (1963)

Iron & Blood: The Legend of Taras Bulba (2009)

The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

Phil Spector (2013)

Ned Kelly (2003)

W. (2008)

Ong Bak 3 (2010)

Wasp Network (2020)

Evita (1996)

The Trench (1999)

Robin Hood: The Rebellion (2018)

Burke & Hare (2010)

The Last Drop (2006)

Wild Bill (1995)

Farewell, My Queen (2012)

We (2018)

Original Sin (2001)

Dauntless: The Battle of Midway (2019)

Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love (1997)

The Convent (2018)

Revolution (1985)

Elvis & Nixon (2016)

The Front Runner (2018)

Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)

Lost Girls (2020)

Queen of the Desert (2015)

Pasolini (2014)

Black Death (2010)

The Last King (2016)

Sword of Vengeance (2015)

Amelia (2009)

Tesla (2020)

The Conqueror (1956)

Unstoppable (2024)

The Monuments Men (2014)

Legionnaire (1998)

Hyde Park on Hudson (2012)

Alexander (2004)

Unfrosted (2024)

Ben-Hur (2016)

Air Strike (2018)