Top Historical Movies


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

261. The Black Rose

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Henry Hathaway
Actors: Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Herbert Lom, Robert Blake

262. Heaven's Gate

Year of Release: 1980
Overall Rating: 2.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Cimino
Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, John Hurt, Sam Waterston, Brad Dourif, Jeff Bridges
Plot: Sweeping western epic depicting life in 1890s Wyoming as a marshal deals with encroaching wealthy cattle interests intent on displacing, and murdering, local immigrant farmers, over use of the land. He also deals with a hired gun who is in love with the same woman as him. Ideals about the great American dream will be shattered as both stories come to a head.

263. Conquest

Year of Release: 1937
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Clarence Brown
Actors: Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Reginald Owen, Alan Marshal, Dame May Whitty, Leif Erickson

264. Come See the Paradise

Year of Release: 1990
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Alan Parker
Actors: Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Colm Meaney, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Stan Egi
Plot: An Irish-American man and a Japanese-American woman fall in love and marry during the 1930s. When World War Two breaks out, he is drafted into the Army, and she and their daughter are forced into an internment camp.

265. The Baron of Arizona

Year of Release: 1950
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi, Reed Hadley, Robert Barrat

266. Legend of Rita, The ( Stille nach dem Schuß, Die )

Year of Release: 2001
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Actors: Bibiana Beglau, Martin Wuttke, Nadja Uhl, Harald Schrott, Alexander Beyer, Jenny Schily

267. 47 Ronin, The aka Loyal 47 of the Genroku Era, The ( Genroku Chûshingura )

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: Japanese
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Actors: Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa, Daisuke Katô, Chojuro Kawarasaki, Kunitaro Kawarazaki, Mantoyo Mimasu

268. Western Union

Year of Release: 1941
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine, Slim Summerville

269. A Tale of Two Cities

Year of Release: 1958
Overall Rating: 2.4 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Ralph Thomas
Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Paul Guers, Marie Versini, Ian Bannen, Cecil Parker

270. Pope Joan ( Päpstin, Die )

Year of Release: 2009
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sönke Wortmann
Actors: Johanna Wokalek, David Wenham, John Goodman, Iain Glen, Anatole Taubman, Lotte Flack

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