Top Historical Movies


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

121. Kings of the Sun

Year of Release: 1963
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Actors: Yul Brynner, George Chakiris, Shirley Anne Field, Richard Basehart, Brad Dexter, Barry Morse

122. September 5

Year of Release: 2025
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Thriller
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Actors: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem, Georgina Rich
Plot: An American sports broadcasting crew suddenly finds itself covering the 1972 hostage crisis involving Israeli athletes.

123. A Dry White Season

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Euzhan Palcy
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Jürgen Prochnow, Susan Sarandon, Marlon Brando, Janet Suzman, Zakes Mokae

124. The Song of Bernadette

Year of Release: 1943
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry King
Actors: William Eythe, Charles Bickford, Vincent Price, Lee J. Cobb, Gladys Cooper, Anne Revere
Plot: A young peasant girl in 1858 France begins to see visions of a "beautiful lady" in the city dump. Although both church and government want nothing to do with her - the common people rally around her - thinking her vision is of the Virgin Mary herself. As she gains wider acclaim, she will transform lives.

125. Travelling Players, The ( O thiasos )

Year of Release: 1976
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Greek
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos
Actors: Eva Kotamanidou, Aliki Georgouli, Vangelis Kazan, Stratos Pahis, Maria Vassiliou, Petros Zarkadis

126. King's Choice, The ( Kongens nei )

Year of Release: 2017
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: Norwegian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erik Poppe
Actors: Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Juliane Köhler, Rolf Kristian Larsen, Andreas Lust, Arthur Hakalahti

127. Witchfinder General ( Conqueror Worm, The )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Reeves
Actors: Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell, Nicky Henson
Plot: Vincent Price plays Matthew Hopkins, a 17th century witch-hunter who abused his limitless power to convict and burn hundreds of innocent victims for money and power. When he uses his position to gain sexual favors from a young woman, he doesn't count on her husband, a career soldier, to cut of swathe of bloody retribution across the English countryside in search of vengeance.

128. Ivan the Terrible, Part II ( Ivan Groznyy II: Boyarsky zagovor )

Year of Release: 1959
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Actors: Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Mikhail Nazvanov

129. Masada

Year of Release: 1981
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Boris Sagal
Actors: Peter O'Toole, Peter Strauss, Barbara Carrera, Anthony Quayle, David Warner, Giulia Pagano

130. Anastasia

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anatole Litvak
Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamiroff, Martita Hunt, Sacha Pitoëff

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