Top Historical Movies


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211. Unconquered

Year of Release: 1947
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff

212. Last Days in Vietnam

Year of Release: 2014
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rory Kennedy

213. The Hiding Place

Year of Release: 1975
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: James F. Collier
Actors: Julie Harris, Jeannette Clift, Arthur O'Connell, Robert Rietty
Plot: A Dutch family risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during WWII.

214. Is Paris Burning? ( Paris brûle-t-il? )

Year of Release: 1966
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: René Clément
Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, George Chakiris

215. The Virgin Queen

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Koster
Actors: Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Jay Robinson

216. Caravaggio

Year of Release: 1986
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Noam Almaz, Sean Bean, Robbie Coltrane, Dexter Fletcher

217. The Far Horizons

Year of Release: 1955
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rudolph Maté
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Charlton Heston, Donna Reed, Barbara Hale

218. In Fabric

Year of Release: 2018
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Peter Strickland
Actors: Gwendoline Christie, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Caroline Catz

219. Peterloo

Year of Release: 2019
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mike Leigh
Actors: Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst
Plot: The true story of a peaceful pro-democracy protest held in Manchester, England in 1819, where British forces attacked the gathered crowd in an incident soon to be known as the Peterloo Massacre.

220. See How They Run

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Mystery
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tom George
Actors: Sam Rockwell, Saoirse Ronan, Adrien Brody, Harris Dickinson
Plot: A Hollywood producer, desperate for a hit, sets about turning a popular stage play into a film only to run into trouble when members of the production start turning up dead. The world-weary Inspector Stoppard is joined by rookie Constable Stalker into to unravel this mystery.

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