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Best History Movies of All Time
Schindler's List (1993)
RBiography, Drama, History3h15In German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.
Oppenheimer (2023)
RBiography, Drama, History3h00The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Amadeus (1984)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h40The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was insanely jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Braveheart (1995)
RBiography, Drama, History2h58Scottish warrior William Wallace leads his countrymen in a rebellion to free his homeland from the tyranny of King Edward I of England.
Downfall (2004)
RBiography, Drama, History2h36Traudl Junge, the final secretary for Adolf Hitler, tells of the Nazi dictator's final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.
The Great Escape (1963)
ApprovedAdventure, Drama, History2h52Allied prisoners of war plan for several hundred of their number to escape from a German camp during World War II.
The Seventh Seal (1957)
Not RatedDrama, Fantasy, History1h36A man seeks answers about life, death, and the existence of God as he plays chess against the Grim Reaper during the Black Plague.
12 Years a Slave (2013)
RBiography, Drama, History2h14In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.
Barry Lyndon (1975)
PGAdventure, Drama, History3h05An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.
Ben-Hur (1959)
GAdventure, Drama, History3h32After a Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend, he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
Gone with the Wind (1939)
GDrama, History, Romance3h58A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
RBiography, Drama, History2h19World War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.
Hotel Rwanda (2004)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h01Paul Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, houses over a thousand Tutsi refugees during their struggle against the Hutu militia in Rwanda, Africa.
Cinderella Man (2005)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h24The story of James J. Braddock, a supposedly washed-up boxer who came back to challenge for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Gandhi (1982)
PGBiography, Drama, History3h11The life of the lawyer who became the famed leader of the Indian revolts against the British rule through his philosophy of nonviolent protest.
JFK (1991)
RDrama, History, Thriller3h09New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison discovers there's more to the Kennedy assassination than the official story.
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
PassedDrama, History2h09A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
The King's Speech (2010)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History1h58The story of King George VI, his impromptu ascension to the throne of the British Empire in 1936, and the speech therapist who helped the unsure monarch overcome his stammer.
All the President's Men (1976)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h18"The Washington Post" reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Richard Nixon's resignation.
Hero (2002)
PG-13Action, Adventure, History2h00A defense officer, Nameless, was summoned by the King of Qin regarding his success of terminating three warriors.
Dunkirk (2017)
PG-13Action, Drama, History1h46Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Commonwealth and Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.
Glory (1989)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h02Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Hidden Figures (2016)
PGBiography, Drama, History2h07The story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space program.
Mississippi Burning (1988)
RCrime, Drama, History2h08Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
RBiography, Drama, History2h27The rap group NWA emerges from the mean streets of Compton in Los Angeles, California, in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
PG-13Drama, History, War1h34Through the innocent eyes of Bruno, the eight-year-old son of the commandant at a German concentration camp, a forbidden friendship with a Jewish boy on the other side of the camp fence has startling and unexpected consequences.
The Killing Fields (1984)
RBiography, Drama, History2h21A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody 'Year Zero' cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million 'undesirable' civilians.
The Longest Day (1962)
GAction, Drama, History2h58The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
RDrama, History, Thriller2h09The story of 7 people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding the uprising at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
The White Ribbon (2009)
RDrama, History, Mystery2h24Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. Who is responsible?
Black Hawk Down (2001)
RDrama, History, War2h24160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
Empire of the Sun (1987)
PGAction, Drama, History2h33A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation of China during World War II.
Frost/Nixon (2008)
RBiography, Drama, History2h02A dramatic retelling of the post-Watergate television interviews between British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon.
Malcolm X (1992)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History3h22Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.
Sound of Freedom (2023)
PG-13Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller2h11The incredible true story of a former government agent turned vigilante who embarks on a dangerous mission to rescue hundreds of children from traffickers.
The Last Emperor (1987)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h43The story of the final Emperor of China.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
RBiography, Drama, History2h03Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.
Apollo 13 (1995)
PGAdventure, Drama, History2h20NASA must devise a strategy to return Apollo 13 to Earth safely after the spacecraft undergoes massive internal damage putting the lives of the three astronauts on board in jeopardy.
Bridge of Spies (2015)
PG-13Drama, History, Thriller2h22During the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.
Dark Waters (2019)
PG-13Biography, Drama, History2h06A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.