Top Historical Movies


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

91. The Corporation

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Actors: Michael Moore, Mikela J. Mikael, Ray Anderson, Noam Chomsky, Samuel Epstein, Milton Friedman
Plot: A documentary that mentions big name corporations that hamper the environment and human conditions. It informs the viewers of the corporate responsibilities aside from the income generating business side. Various instances from polluting rivers, a certain company threatening factual journalism and the like.

92. Les misérables

Year of Release: 1935
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Actors: Fredric March, Charles Laughton, Cedric Hardwicke, Rochelle Hudson, Florence Eldridge, John Beal

93. Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Year of Release: 1973
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Historical/Western
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Sam Peckinpah
Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Jason Robards, Jack Elam
Plot: Lawman Pat Garrett pursues his friend, Billy the Kid, whose life has diverged from the former's after years of camaraderie.

94. The Greatest Game Ever Played

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Bill Paxton
Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Michael Sinelnikoff, Justin Ashforth, Len Cariou, Nicolas Wright, Peyton List
Plot: The true story of a 20-year old golfer in the 1913 U.S. Open.

95. Gettysburg

Year of Release: 1993
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Ronald F. Maxwell
Actors: Tom Berenger, Martin Sheen, Stephen Lang, Jeff Daniels, Andrew Prine, Richard Jordan
Plot: A made for TV movie based on Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels; a balanced approach to the Civil War's most critical battle.

96. Beyond the Gates ( Shooting Dogs )

Year of Release: 2005
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
Actors: John Hurt, Hugh Dancy, Dominique Horwitz, Louis Mahoney, Nicola Walker, Steve Toussaint

97. For All Mankind

Year of Release: 1989
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Al Reinert
Actors: Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon
Plot: A nice documentary about the U.S. Apollo program told by the astronauts themselves. Only video footage from the era is used, and the astronauts do voice-over work detailing what happened and how they felt during the missions.

98. Jezebel

Year of Release: 1938
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: William Wyler
Actors: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Crisp, Fay Bainter
Plot: Prior to the Civil War a high-spirited Southern belle flouts convention
and behaves in an unlady-like manner. As a result she drives away the man
she loves. However, the war comes along, the young man gets yellow fever
and she redeems herself by risking her life to nurse him.

99. Best of Enemies

Year of Release: 2015
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
Actors: John Lithgow, Kelsey Grammer, Gore Vidal, Dick Cavett, Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens

100. Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ( Tini zabutykh predkiv )

Year of Release: 1967
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei Parajanov
Actors: Ivan Mikolajchuk, Larisa Kadochnikova, Tatyana Bestayeva, Spartak Bagashvili, Nikolai Grinko, Leonid Yengibarov
Plot: Taking place in a Carpathian village, the film follows Ivan as he finds love and tragedy - while the lively village changes with the seasons, holidays and events around them.

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