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, Henry Wilcoxon, Ward Bond

212. The Egyptian

Year of Release: 1954
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Peter Ustinov, Edmund Purdom

213. The Charge of the Light Brigade

Year of Release: 1968
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Tony Richardson
Actors: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett, David Hemmings

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, Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford

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, Herbert Marshall, Dan O'Herlihy

216. 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, Herbert Heyes, William Demarest

217. 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, Julian Barratt, Hayley Squires

218. See How They Run

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.5 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, Ruth Wilson, David Oyelowo
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.

219. 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, Nigel Terry, Tilda Swinton

220. 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, Rachel Finnegan, Tom Meredith
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.

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