Top Historical Movies


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161. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo

Year of Release: 1944
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
Actors: Van Johnson, Robert Mitchum, Spencer Tracy, Douglas Cowan, Robert Walker, Tim Murdock
Plot: The story of the Doolittle Raids seen through the eyes of a young pilot and the pregnant wife he leaves behind.

162. The Rape of Europa

Year of Release: 2006
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Berge, Bonni Cohen
Actors: Joan Allen
Plot: This feature documentary follows the systematic looting of Europe's greatest works of art by the Nazis during World War II, and the heroic efforts of Allied art historians to return the pillaged works to their rightful homes and nations after the fall of the Third Reich. (Narrated by Joan Allen.)

163. Start the Revolution Without Me

Year of Release: 1970
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bud Yorkin
Actors: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti

164. Our Music ( Notre musique )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Jean-Luc Godard
Actors: Sarah Adler, Nade Dieu, Rony Kramer, Simon Eine, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Christophe Bouvet

165. The World in His Arms

Year of Release: 1952
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Gregory Peck, Ann Blyth, Anthony Quinn, John McIntire, Andrea King, Rhys Williams

166. War of the Arrows ( Choi-jong-byeong-gi Hwal )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Korean
Genre: Action/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Han-min Kim
Actors: Hae-il Park, Seung-yong Ryoo, Moon Chae-Won, Mu-Yeol Kim, Han-wi Lee, Kyeong-yeong Lee
Plot: During the Second Manchu Invasion, a brother goes after the soldiers who kidnapped his sister on her wedding day despite the odds against him.

167. Samson and Delilah

Year of Release: 1949
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Henry Wilcoxon, Olive Deering

168. Senso

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Luchino Visconti
Actors: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Heinz Moog, Rina Morelli, Christian Marquand, Ernst Nadherny
Plot: An Italian Countess begins an affair with a young Austrian lieutenant even as her country is under Austrian occupation. The affair threatens her personal and political life, but she continues the relationship despite the risk.

169. Round Up, The ( rafle, La )

Year of Release: 2010
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rose Bosch
Actors: Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh, Raphaëlle Agogué, Hugo Leverdez, Sylvie Testud
Plot: In 1942 13,000 Jews were taken from Nazi-occupied Paris to wind up at the terrace at Berghof, La Rafle. The film explores the lives of men, women and children - all real people who lived through these events - on both sides - and how this event changed lives forever.

170. Winter War, The ( Talviota )

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 3.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Finnish
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Pekka Parikka
Actors: Taneli Mäkelä, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka, Heikki Paavilainen, Konsta Mäkelä, Samuli Edelmann

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