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, Eric Burdon, Roger Daltrey

182. 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, Bo Zhou, Xiaodong Guo

183. 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, Noémie Lvovsky, Michel Robin
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.

184. Sorrow and the Pity, The ( chagrin et la pitié, Le )

Year of Release: 1972
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: French
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Marcel Ophüls
Actors: Marcel Ophüls, Edward Spears, Henri Rochat, Pierre Mendès-France, Claude Levy, Georges Bidault

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, Adam Godley, Mark Bazeley
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. 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, Kari Ketonen, Sonja Petäjäjärvi

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, John Ireland, Harry Andrews

188. 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, Willem Dafoe, Robert Downey Jr.

189. Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen ( Jing mo fung wan: Chen Zhen )

Year of Release: 2011
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Cantonese
Genre: Action/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Wai-keung Lau
Actors: Donnie Yen, Qi Shu, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Yasuaki Kurata, Karl Dominik, Ryu Kohata
Plot: Seven years ago Chen Zhen was shot after discovering who was behind his teacher's murder in Shanghai. Yet he did not die and returns to infiltrate the local mob while fighting crime by night as a caped fighter. He will not stop until everyone responsible has been dealt with.

190. Sometimes in April

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Peck
Actors: Idris Elba, Debra Winger, Oris Erhuero, Carole Karemera, Tony Curtis, Cleophas Kabasita

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