Top Historical Movies


The Top Historical Movies List is calculated by overall movie ratings and members' "Top Historical List". Lists are calculated daily.

111. Hatfields & McCoys

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kevin Reynolds
Actors: Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton, Matt Barr, Tom Berenger

112. Mary, Queen of Scots

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Charles Jarrott
Actors: Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton

113. Coriolanus

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ralph Fiennes
Actors: Gerard Butler, Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain, Brian Cox
Plot: A disgraced hero joins forces with his hated enemy in order to destroy the city that betrayed him: Rome.

114. Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: John Cromwell
Actors: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard

115. Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Werner Herzog
Actors: Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste
Plot: Werner Herzog captures the earliest known artistic creations of mankind in an unprecedented look into the Chauvet caves in Southern France.

116. Katyn ( Post mortem. Opowiesc katynska )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Polish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrzej Wajda
Actors: Andrzej Chyra, Maja Ostaszewska, Artur Zmijewski, Danuta Stenka

117. Patriots Day

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Berg
Actors: Melissa Benoist, Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, J.K. Simmons
Plot: Follows the events leading up to and the manhunt following the 2013 bombing at the Boston Marathon.

118. Les misérables

Year of Release: 1995
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Claude Lelouch
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Michel Boujenah, Alessandra Martines, Salomé Lelouch

119. Game Change

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jay Roach
Actors: Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Ed Harris, Peter MacNicol
Plot: Follows the 2008 presidential campaign of John McCain and his choice of Alaskan governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, her meteoric rise in the media spotlight and their eventual defeat in the general election.

120. Marie Antoinette

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Sofia Coppola
Actors: Kirsten Dunst, Rip Torn, Jason Schwartzman, Molly Shannon
Plot: The Biography of the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, from birth to death told in a new era way.

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