Best History Films by Director
2762
288
1975
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2787
295
2022
Amy Poehler
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, Norman Lear, Charo
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2657
252
2019
Roman Polanski
Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2813
309
2020
Sam Pollard
Martin Luther King, James Comey, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones
Documentary / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2535
227
2014
Gabe Polsky
Scotty Bowman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis
Documentary / Biography / History / Sports
USA / Russia
English
2175
160
1950
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Arlette Marchal
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure
UK
English
1712
109
1960
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
2689
263
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2570
234
2022
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega
Action / Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2519
222
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2612
245
1997
Dana Ranga
Margarita Andrushkovich, Chris Doerk, Erich Gusko, Helmut Hanke, Barbara Harnisch
Documentary / Musical / History
France / Germany
English
2696
265
1963
Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland
Drama / History / War / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
2640
249
2004
Peter Raymont
Roméo Dallaire
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Canada
English
2401
196
1965
Carol Reed
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
USA
English
1654
100
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
2846
322
1989
Al Reinert
Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad
Documentary / History
USA
English
671
41
1984
Edgar Reitz
Marita Breuer, Edgar Reitz, Gudrun Landgrebe
Drama / History / Epic
West Germany
German
1788
118
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
836
51
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
2323
181
1968
Tony Richardson
Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett
Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
UK
English
490
26
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
543
30
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
NR
-
1970
Martin Ritt
Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe
Drama / History / Detective
USA
English
2830
316
1994
Jacques Rivette
Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2830
316
1994
Jacques Rivette
Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2679
259
2009
Edmon Roch
Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith, Juan Kreisler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Spain
Spanish
2838
318
1980
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga, Tarcísio Meira
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / War / Religion / Epic / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese
2696
265
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2321
180
2012
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
UK / Norway / Denmark
English
2532
226
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
1609
97
2024
RaMell Ross
Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jase Stidwell
Drama / History
USA
English
2659
253
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2803
304
1956
Robert Rossen
Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
USA / Spain
English
2822
312
2018
Josie Rourke
Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant, Jack Lowden, Guy Pearce
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
UK / USA
English
2177
161
1988
Alan Rudolph
Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn
Drama / History / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2800
302
2023
Matt Ruskin
Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2795
300
2015
David O. Russell
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
1578
95
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
1387
83
2024
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2420
203
1992
Stuart Samuels, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew Glassman
Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel
Documentary / History
USA / Japan
English
1685
106
1987
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn
Drama / History
USA
English
2429
207
1971
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2762
288
1984
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg
Rita Mae Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bruce Nugent, Harry Otis, Donna Smith
Documentary / History
USA
English
2612
245
1984
Heinz Schirk
Robert Atzorn, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Gerd Böckmann, Jochen Busse
Drama / War / History
Austria / West Germany
German
2794
299
1996
Volker Schlöndorff
John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht
Drama / History / War
France / Germany / UK
English
2612
245
1967
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Stuart Whitman
Documentary / War / History / Biography
France
French
2787
295
2022
Maria Schrader
Lola Petticrew, Katherine Laheen, Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Emma O'Connor
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1945
133
1982
Ettore Scola
Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Drama / History / Period Film
France / Italy
French
552
31
2002
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
866
55
2023
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
2409
201
2016
Martin Scorsese
Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano
Drama / History / Thriller / Religion
USA / Taiwan / Mexico
English
2787
295
2019
Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Martin von Haselberg, Scarlet Rivera
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
USA
English
2584
239
2005
Ridley Scott
Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic / Religion
Spain / Germany
English
2593
242
2024
Ridley Scott
Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn
Action / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Fantasy / History
USA / UK / Morocco / Canada
English
2597
243
2021
Ridley Scott
Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Ben Affleck, Alex Lawther
Action / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA / UK
English
1326
79
1985
Susan Seidelman
Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure / History
USA
English
2698
266
1936
George B. Seitz
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
Adventure / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2746
283
1933
Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky
Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Paul Westermeier,
War / History
Germany
German
2822
312
2023
Thea Sharrock
Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Jason Watkins, Alisha Weir
Comedy / Crime / Drama / History / Mystery
UK / France
English
2822
312
2021
Michael Showalter
Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Wystrach
Biography / Drama / History / Religion
Canada / USA
English
2803
304
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2769
292
1997
John Singleton
Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2138
152
2007
David Sington
Buzz Aldrin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins
Documentary / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2696
265
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2539
230
2006
Zack Snyder
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Comic
USA
English
2794
299
2019
Steven Soderbergh
Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / History
USA
English
2300
177
1969
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2716
274
2002
Ben Sombogaart
Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Netherlands / Luxembourg
Dutch
1511
90
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
2689
263
2021
Aaron Sorkin
Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
859
54
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
1017
64
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1517
91
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1681
105
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
1852
122
1997
Steven Spielberg
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
1120
70
1959
George Stevens
Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters
Drama / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2762
288
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2746
283
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2813
309
2014
Alex Steyermark
Louis Michot, John Doe, John C. Reilly, Jaron Lanier, The Bo-Keys
Documentary / History | Music
USA
English
2695
264
2008
Philipp Stölzl
Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Lukas, Georg Friedrich
Adventure / Drama / History / Sports / Period Film
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2365
189
2006
Oliver Stone
Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff
Drama / History
USA
English
2612
245
1962
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
2746
283
1964
Mel Stuart
Richard Basehart, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
594
37
1963
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2807
307
1967
John Sturges
James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman
Western / History
USA
English
2813
309
1944
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2367
190
1999
István Szabó
Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Drama / Epic / History / War
Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary
English
118
5
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2683
260
2010
Bertrand Tavernier
Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Action / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
France / Germany
French
2822
312
2020
Julie Taymor
Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Lulu Wilson, Gloria Steinem
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2813
309
2017
Jonathan Teplitzky
Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Ella Purnell, Julian Wadham
Biography / Drama / Thriller / History / War
UK
English
2798
301
1986
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson
Documentary / History / Experimental / War
USA
English
2667
255
2017
Warwick Thornton
Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller | Western
Australia
English
2813
309
2015
Pamela Tom
Tyrus Wong, Don Hahn, Sonia Mak, Kim Wong, John Canemaker, Andreas Deja
Documentary / Animation / Biography / History
USA
English
2497
217
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Adventure / History / Fantasy
USA
English
2813
309
1937
Jacques Tourneur
Carey Wilson, Ernie Adams, Erville Alderson, Virginia Brissac, Philo McCullough
Short / History / Mystery
USA
English
2508
220
2023
Anh Hung Tran
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger
Drama / History / Romance
France / Belgium
French
2777
294
1936
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
2794
299
2024
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Harry Melling, Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene
Drama / History
UK / Germany / USA / France / Greece
English
2862
327
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
1665
102
1991
Hark Tsui
Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Steve Tartalia, Kent Cheng
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Period Film
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2807
307
2010
John Turturro
John Turturro, Max Casella, Fiorello, Lina Sastri, Angela Luce, Massimo Ranieri
History / Music / Documentary
Italy / USA
Italian
2762
288
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2762
288
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2813
309
2005
unknown
Thomas A. Edison, Charles Musser
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2813
309
2009
unknown
Fanny Brice, The Boswell Sisters, Jimmy Durante, Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie
Documentary / History
USA
English
2813
309
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2815
310
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2813
309
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
1793
120
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
2746
283
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2746
283
2021
Paul Verhoeven
Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Religion / Period Film
France / Belgium / Netherlands
French
2696
265
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1066
67
1956
King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Drama / Romance / War / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
1391
85
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
2696
265
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2312
179
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
226
8
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
2865
330
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2813
309
2012
Stephen Vittoria
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
1671
104
1967
Frantisek Vlácil
Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Romance / Drama / Epic / History
Czechoslovakia
Czech
1934
131
2018
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci
Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
Germany / Italy
German
2205
165
2024
Magnus von Horn
Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup
Drama / History / Horror
Denmark / Poland / Sweden
Danish
814
48
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2364
188
1981
Margarethe von Trotta
Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Drama / History
West Germany
German
1156
73
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
2536
228
2007
Andrzej Wajda
Joachim Paul Assböck, Waldemar Barwinski, Stanislawa Celinska, Andrzej Chyra
Drama / History / War / Biography
Poland
Polish
2625
248
2002
Randall Wallace
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell
Action / Drama / History / War
USA / Germany
English
2657
252
2010
Randall Wallace
Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale
Drama / History / Sports
USA
English
2696
265
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2428
206
2014
Matthew Warchus
Ben Schnetzer, Abram Rooney, Jim McManus, George MacKay, Monica Dolan
Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2845
321
2000
Peter Watkins
Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue
Drama / History / War
France
French
1870
124
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
1898
126
1960
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2794
299
2011
Te-Sheng Wei
Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Landy Wen, Lo Mei-ling, Masanobu Ando, Irene Luo
Drama / War / History / Epic / Action
Taiwan
Japanese
2813
309
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2800
302
2018
Wash Westmoreland
Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2491
214
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2205
165
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
2813
309
2022
Stephen Williams
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo, Marton Csokas
Biography / Drama / History / Music / Epic
USA
English
2525
224
2007
Michael Winterbottom
Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Edwin Reck, Scott A. Stevens, Irfan Khan
Drama / History / Thriller
USA / UK
English
2830
316
1976
Herbert Wise
Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
1666
103
1966
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
2696
265
1975
Robert Wise
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2822
312
2023
George C. Wolfe
Colman Domingo, Aml Ameen, Glynn Turman, Chris Rock, Gus Halper
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2703
269
2008
John Woo
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
China
Mandarin
1046
66
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
1912
128
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
234
11
1959
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
2762
288
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2762
288
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2795
300
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2554
232
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2554
232
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2823
313
2001
Chatrichalerm Yukol
M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Chatchai Plengpanich
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
Thailand
Thai
2232
168
2015
Martin Zandvliet
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Drama / History / War
Denmark / Germany
Danish
2743
282
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
1004
63
2002
Yimou Zhang
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / History / Epic
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2795
300
2011
Yimou Zhang
Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe
Drama / History / War
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2813
309
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
374
17
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
890
57
1989
Edward Zwick
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
