History Movies
The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers

The Four Feathers
IMDb: 7.4
129

A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk

Drums Along the Mohawk
IMDb: 7
100

Albany, New York, 1776. After marrying, Gil and Lana travel north to settle on a small farm in the Mohawk River Valley, but soon their growing prosperity and happiness are…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Allegheny Uprising

Allegheny Uprising

Allegheny Uprising
IMDb: 6.3
81

South western Pennsylvania area of colonial America, 1760s. Colonial distaste and disapproval of the British government is starting to surface. Many local colonists have been killed by American Indians who…

Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack

Yellow Jack
IMDb: 6.3
83

A fairly accurate historical account of Walter Reed’s search for the cause of “Yellow Jack” or Yellow Fever and those who risked their lives in the pursuit.

We’re Going to Be Rich

We’re Going to Be Rich

We’re Going to Be Rich
IMDb: 6.3
78

A perpetual dreamer talks his wife into moving with him from their home in Australia to South Africa, where he hopes to discover gold and finally become wealthy.

Genre: Comedy, History
Forty Years

Forty Years

Forty Years
IMDb: N/A
85

This government commissioned film — made on the occasion of the forty year anniversary of queen Wilhelmina’s reign — chronicles the lives of two Dutch families from 1898 to 1938…

Genre: Drama, History
Suez

Suez

Suez
IMDb: 6.6
104

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it’s just the place for a canal.

La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise

La Marseillaise
IMDb: 7
131

The early days of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens in Marseille and the royal court, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

Genre: Drama, History
Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette
IMDb: 7.3
149

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in…

Genre: Drama, History
If I Were King

If I Were King

If I Were King
IMDb: 7.1
101

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François…

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer
IMDb: 6.6
126

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky

Alexander Nevsky
IMDb: 7.5
109

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formidable force. After the Teutonic soldiers take over an eastern Russian city, Alexander stages his…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood

The Adventures of Robin Hood
IMDb: 7.9
102

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife

Whom the Gods Love: The Original Story of Mozart and His Wife
IMDb: 5.9
83

The story of Mozart and his wife Constance, set against a background of court intrigue and professional jealousy, with music conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Genre: Drama, History
Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great
IMDb: 6.2
112

The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert’s death in 1861.

Genre: Drama, History
The Vicar of Bray

The Vicar of Bray

The Vicar of Bray
IMDb: 5.6
68

The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in…

Genre: Drama, History
The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York

The Toast of New York
IMDb: 6.3
109

After the American Civil War, Jim Fisk, a former peddler and cotton smuggler, arrives in New York, along with his partners Nick and Luke, where he struggles to make his…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
The Pearls of the Crown

The Pearls of the Crown

The Pearls of the Crown
IMDb: 6.9
100

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Genre: Comedy, History
Parnell

Parnell

Parnell
IMDb: 5.3
118

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O’Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons

Humanity and Paper Balloons
IMDb: 7.6
86

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father’s former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his pride by kidnapping the…

Genre: Drama, History
The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola

The Life of Emile Zola
IMDb: 7.1
116

A fictionalized account of famous French writer Emile Zola and his involvement in the Dreyfus Affair. After struggling to establish himself, Zola wins success writing about the unsavory side of…

Genre: Drama, History
Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour

Knight Without Armour
IMDb: 6.8
100

British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because…

In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago

In Old Chicago
IMDb: 6.7
111

The O’Leary brothers — honest Jack and roguish Dion — become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.

Genre: Drama, History
Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion

Grand Illusion
IMDb: 8
114

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Good Earth

The Good Earth

The Good Earth
IMDb: 7.5
139

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer, and O-Lan, a domestic slave, will endure the many hardships of life over…

The Firefly

The Firefly

The Firefly
IMDb: 6.8
131

Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order for them to reveal Napoleon’s…

Genre: Drama, History, Music
Fire Over England

Fire Over England

Fire Over England
IMDb: 6.5
92

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations…

The Emperor’s Candlesticks

The Emperor’s Candlesticks

The Emperor’s Candlesticks
IMDb: 6.5
89

Spies on opposite sides fall in love in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Conquest

Conquest

Conquest
IMDb: 6.5
113

A Polish countess is dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte’s mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to support Polish independence.

Camille

Camille

Camille
IMDb: 7.3
109

Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert their wills and…

Life Is Ours

Life Is Ours

Life Is Ours
IMDb: 5.9
66

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.

Genre: Drama, History
The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur
IMDb: 7.2
86

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be…

Genre: Drama, History
Rembrandt

Rembrandt

Rembrandt
IMDb: 7
85

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt’s work takes…

Genre: Drama, History
The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island

The Prisoner of Shark Island
IMDb: 7.2
93

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth, responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, perpetrated on April 14, 1865, during a performance at Ford’s Theatre in…

Genre: Drama, History
Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose

Tudor Rose
IMDb: 6.5
80

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Genre: Drama, History
Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland

Mary of Scotland
IMDb: 6.3
123

The recently widowed Mary Stuart returns to Scotland to reclaim her throne but is opposed by her half-brother and her own Scottish lords.

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans

The Last of the Mohicans
IMDb: 6.6
91

The story is set in the British province of New York during the French and Indian War, and concerns—in part—a Huron massacre (with passive French acquiescence) of between 500 to…

The Gorgeous Hussy

The Gorgeous Hussy

The Gorgeous Hussy
IMDb: 5.6
103

It’s the early nineteenth century Washington. Young adult Margaret O’Neal, Peggy to most that know her, is the daughter of Major William O’Neal, who is the innkeeper of the establishment…

Genre: Drama, History
The Cardinal

The Cardinal

The Cardinal
IMDb: 5.3
71

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of…

Genre: Drama, History
Westward Ho

Westward Ho

Westward Ho
IMDb: 5.7
61

Ballard’s trail jumpers attack the Wyatt Company wagon train, killing young John’s parents and kidnaping his brother, Jim. In post-Civil War California, John Wyatt, now a man, pulls together a…

Genre: History, Western