Top Historical Movies


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

241. The Birth of a Nation

Year of Release: 1915
Overall Rating: 2.3 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Lillian Gish, Henry B. Walthall, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Mae Marsh
Plot: During the civil war, a tale is told of the anarchy that ruled the south after the war. One of the first major motion pictures and the one that started "it" all. Silent.

242. Old Glory

Year of Release: 1939
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Animation/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Chuck Jones
Actors: Mel Blanc, John Deering, John Litel

243. Siberiade ( Sibiriada )

Year of Release: 1982
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Actors: Natalya Andrejchenko, Sergei Shakurov, Vitali Solomin, Vladimir Samojlov, Pavel Kadochnikov, Vladimir Simonov

244. Incident at Oglala - The Leonard Peltier Story

Year of Release: 1992
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Michael Apted
Actors: Norman Zigrossi, Robert Sikma, Darelle 'Dino' Butler, Bob Robideau, Leonard Peltier, William Muldrow

245. The Revisionaries

Year of Release: 2012
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Scott Thurman
Actors: Don McLeroy, Scott Thurman, Cynthia Dunbar
Plot: Don McLeroy is head of the Texas Board of Education - one of the most influential groups deciding the curriculum of our nation's schools. He is also an outspoken creationist and in 2009, his views on evolution and history became a polarizing subject.

246. October - Ten Days That Shook the World ( Oktyabr )

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tisse, Mikholyev

247. Virginia City

Year of Release: 1940
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Michael Curtiz
Actors: Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Frank McHugh, Alan Hale
Plot: Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy.

248. Emperor & the Assassin, The ( Jing ke ci qin wang )

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Kaige Chen
Actors: Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lu, Zhiwen Wang, Kaige Chen

249. The Scarlet Empress

Year of Release: 1934
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Josef von Sternberg
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith, Gavin Gordon

250. Inside Deep Throat

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NC-17
Director: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Gerard Damiano, John Waters, Larry Flynt, Erica Jong, Ruth Westheimer
Plot: Examines the goings on behind the porn film that grew to become an icon.

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