Top Historical Movies


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

141. The Man in the Iron Mask

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Whale
Actors: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut, Alan Hale, Walter Kingsford
Plot: Twin brothers are born to the royal family. One becomes king, the other a peasant.

142. Purple Butterfly ( Zi hudie )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura, Bingbing Li, Kin Ei

143. War and Peace ( Voyna i mir )

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Bondarchuk
Actors: Sergei Bondarchuk, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Boris Zakhava, Anatoli Ktorov, Anastasiya Vertinskaya

144. Anna and the King

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andy Tennant
Actors: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Randall Duk Kim, Syed Alwi

145. The Long Walk Home

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Richard Pearce
Actors: Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker, Erika Alexander

146. Tunnel, The ( Tunnel, Der )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Roland Suso Richter
Actors: Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Sebastian Koch, Alexandra Maria Lara, Claudia Michelsen, Mehmet Kurtulus

147. Quo Vadis?

Year of Release: 1951
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov, Leo Genn, Patricia Laffan, Finlay Currie

148. American Hot Wax

Year of Release: 1978
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Floyd Mutrux
Actors: Tim McIntire, Fran Drescher, Jay Leno, Laraine Newman, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jeff Altman

149. Anthropoid

Year of Release: 2016
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Biography/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sean Ellis
Actors: Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Harry Lloyd, Toby Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Bill Milner
Plot: Based on the true story behind Operation Anthropoid during WWII. The third in line to lead the Third Reich behind Hitelr and Himmer was SS General Reinhard Heydrich. The architect behind the Final Solution was also the commander of the brutal occupying force in Czechoslovakia. Allied soldiers, witnessing his work first hand, come up with a plot to assassinate Heydrich.

150. Tangerines ( Mandariinid )

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.3 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Zaza Urushadze
Actors: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen, Giorgi Nakashidze, Misha Meskhi, Raivo Trass

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