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Discover popular and highly rated history movies. This page focuses on useful, popular choices for viewers in the United States.
Updated 2026-08-04 · Ratings from TMDB
Eligible titles are ranked using TMDB popularity, audience rating, and vote count. Streaming availability and ratings can change over time.
2018 · TMDB 6.5/10 · 244 votes
In the year of 754 AD, during a time of epic battles and bloodshed, the legend of the pagan warrior king, Rebad, is born, but so is a new weapon against his people: Christianity. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2018 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 1,278 votes
On 22 July 2011, neo-Nazi terrorist Anders Behring Breivik murdered 77 young people attending a Labour Party Youth Camp on Utøya Island outside of Oslo. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2008 · TMDB 6.0/10 · 129 votes
After the death of her father, a woman is forced to take over as empress and fight to save her kingdom. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2017 · TMDB 8.0/10 · 181 votes
In 1987 Korea under an oppressive military regime, the unlawful interrogation and death of a college student ignite ordinary citizens to fight for the truth and bring about justice. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2008 · TMDB 6.8/10 · 159 votes
Brilliant physicist Albert Einstein, and English scientist Arthur Eddington form an unlikely friendship during World War I, which leads to the creation of the relativity theory. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2001 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 508 votes
Two soldiers from opposite sides get stuck between the front lines in the same trench. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1963 · TMDB 5.9/10 · 243 votes
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2003 · TMDB 6.4/10 · 203 votes
Follows the personal and professional life of Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, a brilliant if eccentric Confederate general, from the outbreak of the American Civil War until its halfway point. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2021 · TMDB 6.4/10 · 693 votes
From the 1960s to the 1980s, evangelist Jim Baker and his ambitious wife, Tammy Faye, rose from humble beginnings to build an empire based on big-time evangelical Christianity--only for the couple to fall from grace because of some all-too-human sins. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2000 · TMDB 6.8/10 · 234 votes
A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtaining the epic images of man's first steps on the moon. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2019 · TMDB 5.5/10 · 101 votes
A young woman named Savannah Knoop spends six years pretending to be a transgender writer named JT Leroy, the made-up literary persona of her sister-in-law. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2017 · TMDB 5.7/10 · 199 votes
Spanish soldiers battle indigenous tribes and their own brutal natures as they search for a legendary city built of gold. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1999 · TMDB 6.6/10 · 166 votes
For nearly a decade, Gilbert and Sullivan’s collaborations have delighted the English people. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1999 · TMDB 6.7/10 · 410 votes
In 1944 Poland, a Jewish shop keeper named Jakob is summoned to ghetto headquarters after being caught out after curfew. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2023 · TMDB 7.0/10 · 103 votes
Set in 1900, Lili d’Alengy, a Parisian cocotte at the height of her fame, flees Paris to hide her “idiot” daughter. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1954 · TMDB 6.5/10 · 107 votes
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2013 · TMDB 7.5/10 · 286 votes
The true story of the "Flying Sikh" world champion runner and Olympian Milkha Singh who overcame the massacre of his family, civil war during the India-Pakistan partition, and homelessness to become one of India's most iconic athletes. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2006 · TMDB 7.1/10 · 515 votes
After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University, they listlessly haunt their old campus, until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
1915 · TMDB 5.9/10 · 601 votes
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.
2017 · TMDB 6.5/10 · 180 votes
In a remote South American colony in the late 18th century, officer Zama of the Spanish crown waits in vain for a transfer to a more prestigious location. This title fits the list's theme and selection thresholds.