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.
Belfast (2021)
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)
The Walk (2015)
Babette's Feast (1987)
Firebird (2021)
Bloody Sunday (2002)
Newsies (2017)
Amistad (1997)
The Way Back (2010)
Invincible (2006)
Love & Mercy (2015)
The Duchess (2008)
The Age of Shadows (2016)
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012)
Ophelia (2019)
Bajirao Mastani (2015)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019)
Jai Bhim (2021)
Esterno Notte (Parte II) (2022)
Hostiles (2017)
Shooting Dogs (2006)
Sita Ramam (2022)
Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
The Damned (1969)
Cold Mountain (2003)
Cadillac Records (2008)
Gallipoli (1981)
Notorious (2009)
Henry V (1989)
Thirteen Days (2000)
War of the Arrows (2011)
Rang De Basanti (2006)
Lion of the Desert (1981)
Billy Elliot: The Musical Live (2014)
De Gaulle: Résistance (2026)
The Alamo (1960)
Number 24 (2024)
Valley Uprising (2014)
Sergeant York (1941)
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
Mona Lisa Smile (2003)
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
September 5 (2024)
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
Inu-Oh (2022)
Lee (2024)
The Chinese Widow (2017)
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)
Resistance (2020)
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)
Borg vs McEnroe (2017)
Breaking the Limits (2017)
Max Manus: Man of War (2008)
Canoa: A Shameful Memory (1976)
The New Land (1972)