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.
Matewan (1987)
You Don't Know Jack (2010)
Victoria & Abdul (2017)
Girl You Know It's True (2023)
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai (2011)
Lincoln (2012)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
Another Day of Life (2018)
Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (1993)
Antwone Fisher (2002)
Everest (2015)
The Vikings (1958)
Julius Caesar (1953)
The Outpost (2020)
Shakespeare in Love (1998)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
The Admiral: Roaring Currents (2014)
We Are Marshall (2006)
Love, Lies (2016)
Colette (2018)
Outlaw King (2018)
The Challenger Disaster (2013)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Medieval (2022)
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Palestine 36 (2025)
Steve Jobs (2015)
Chang'an (2023)
Savior (1998)
The Apprentice (2024)
Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)
Michael Collins (1996)
All the Mornings of the World (1991)
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (2010)
Best of Enemies (2015)
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Christy (2025)
The Conspirators (1969)
The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017)
True Spirit (2023)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
The Princess and the Matchmaker (2018)
Home from Home – Chronicle of a Vision (2013)
Denial (2016)
Free State of Jones (2016)
The Railway Man (2013)
Mexico 86 (2026)
The Celluloid Closet (1996)
Buddha: The Great Departure (2011)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
The Martyr of Calvary (1952)
Taxi for Tobruk (1961)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
El Cantante (2006)
The Red Sea Diving Resort (2019)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Padmaavat (2018)
Ragtime (1981)
Young Washington (2026)
Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)