Top Historical Movies


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

131. The Celluloid Closet

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Actors: Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Armistead Maupin, Whoopi Goldberg, Harvey Fierstein, Gore Vidal

132. War and Peace

Year of Release: 1956
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: King Vidor
Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom, Oskar Homolka
Plot: In 1812, Napoleon has conquered much of Europe and sets his sites on Russia, one of the few countries not yet under his control. Against this invasion, we follow the lives of two intertwined aristocratic families.

133. Emperor

Year of Release: 2013
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Peter Webber
Actors: Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew Fox, Kaori Momoi, Aaron Jackson, Eriko Hatsune, Toshiyuki Nishida
Plot: As WWII draws to a close, General Bonner Fellers is charged with deciding whether Japanese Emperor Hirohito will be hanged for war crimes. Even as the decision weighs heavy in his mind, he searches for Aya, an exchange student from his past.

134. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Year of Release: 2003
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Kenneth Bowser
Actors: Peter Bogdanovich, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, William H. Macy, Cybill Shepherd

135. The Woman King

Year of Release: 2022
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Actors: Lashana Lynch, Viola Davis, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, John Boyega, Jordan Bolger, Jayme Lawson
Plot: Inspired by true events, the historical epic follows General Nanisca, leader of the Agojie, an all-female group of warriors for the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s whose fierce skills are put to the test by an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.

136. The Fall of the Roman Empire

Year of Release: 1964
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Anthony Mann
Actors: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer, Omar Sharif

137. Rosewood

Year of Release: 1997
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: John Singleton
Actors: Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Robert Patrick

138. Garden of the Finzi-Continis, The ( giardino dei Finzi Contini, Il )

Year of Release: 1996
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: Italian
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Barbara Pilavin, Helmut Berger

139. Purple Butterfly ( Zi hudie )

Year of Release: 2004
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Mandarin
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Ye Lou
Actors: Ziyi Zhang, Ye Liu, Yuanzheng Feng, Tôru Nakamura, Bingbing Li, Kin Ei

140. Anna and the King

Year of Release: 1999
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Historical
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Director: Andy Tennant
Actors: Jodie Foster, Yun-Fat Chow, Bai Ling, Tom Felton, Randall Duk Kim, Syed Alwi

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