Top Historical Movies


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

181. Monterey Pop

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: D.A. Pennebaker
Actors: Paul Simon, Art Garfunkel, Grace Slick, Janis Joplin

182. Richard III

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Laurence Olivier
Actors: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Plot: Shakespeare's epic comes to life - while Richard III has helped his brother Edward ascend to the throne of England, his resentment leads him to seek the throne for himself. His plan is a twisted, lengthy plot of deception, manipulation and murder - but his prowess on the battlefield, and the fairer sex, could lead to success but at what cost to England?

183. Warlords, The ( Tau ming chong )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Chan, Wai Man Yip
Actors: Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Jinglei Xu

184. Farewell, My Queen ( adieux à la reine, Les )

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Actors: Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois
Plot: In the waning days of the reign of Louis XVI and his queen, Marie Antoinette revolution is in the air. At the palace the queen and one of her readers, a lower class woman of the court who entertains the queen, begin a relationship and we get a glimpse of the darker side of palace life.

185. The Special Relationship

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Loncraine
Actors: Michael Sheen, Dennis Quaid, Hope Davis, Helen McCrory
Plot: HBO Films presents a dramatization of UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair and his relationship with President Bill Clinton during the national and world events of the late 90s.

186. The Charge of the Light Brigade

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews

187. 55 Days at Peking

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Nicholas Ray
Actors: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson

188. Sauna

Year of Release: 2008
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Finnish
Genre: Historical/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Antti-Jussi Annila
Actors: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimenko, Rain Tolk

189. One Cut of the Dead ( Kamera o tomeru na! )

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Comedy/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Shin'ichirô Ueda
Actors: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya

190. Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

Year of Release: 1988
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Bill Couturié
Actors: Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Robert De Niro, Michael J. Fox

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