Best History Films by Director
2699
270
2024
Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally
Biography / Drama / History
Canada / Denmark / Ireland
English
2211
167
2003
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Smedley Darlington Butler
Documentary / History
Canada
English
2758
289
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2809
310
1930
John G. Adolfi
Otis Skinner, Beryl Mercer, Betty Jane Graham, Loretta Young, Walter Pidgeon
Short / History / Music
USA
English
2790
300
2014
Fatih Akin
Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan
Drama / History
Germany / France / Poland / Turkey / Canada / Russia / Italy
English
2773
295
1939
Goffredo Alessandrini
Camillo Pilotto, Mario Ferrari, Enrico Glori, Amedeo Trilli
History / War / Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
2758
289
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2758
289
1971
Howard Alk
Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan, Deborah Johnson
Documentary / Biography / Crime / History
USA
English
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
2790
300
2024
Gianni Amelio
Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giuseppe Amelio
Drama / History / War
Italy
Italian
2700
271
1970
Madeline Anderson
Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Coretta Scott King
Documentary / History / Short
USA
English
2608
246
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
2758
289
1995
Kary Antholis
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein, Peter Thomas
Documentary / Short / Biography / History / War
USA
English
1966
137
2012
Nikolaj Arcel
Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Drama / History / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / Czech Republic
Danish
2663
256
2023
Nikolaj Arcel
Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Amanda Collin, Jacob Lohmann, Kristine Kujath Thorp
Drama / War / Biography / History / Epic
Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Germany
Danish
2803
308
2009
Stephanie Argy, Alec Boehm
Lee Perkins, Donal Thoms-Cappello, Meg Brogan, Mo Byrnes, Eddie Lee, Madoka
Adventure / Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / War
USA
English
2617
248
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
1566
93
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
392
20
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
2398
197
1977
Richard Attenborough
Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic
USA / UK
English
2553
233
1967
Gabriel Axel
Gitte Hænning, Oleg Vidov, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
Danish
2402
199
1994
Jean Bach
Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2691
265
1998
Aleksey Balabanov
Sergei Makovetsky, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Drama / History / Period Film
Russia
Russian
2655
254
2019
Kantemir Balagov
Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Drama / War / Period Film / History
Russia
Russian
2699
270
2010
Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2818
313
2020
Greg Barker
Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O'Byrne, Bradley Whitford, Garret Dillahunt
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2692
266
1911
William G.B. Barker
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2416
203
2002
Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain
Hugo Chavez, Pedro Carmona, Jesse Helms, Colin Powell, George Tenet
Documentary / History / War
Ireland / Netherlands / USA / Germany / Finland / UK
English
2692
266
2001
Michael Bay
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight
Action / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2742
284
1964
Peter Baylis
Orson Welles, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
Documentary / War / History / Biography
UK
English
1981
139
2023
J.A. Bayona
Enzo Vogrincic, Simon Hempe, Rafael Federman, Matías Recalt, Andy Pruss
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller
Spain / USA / Uruguay / Chile
Spanish
254
14
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
2809
310
2016
Timur Bekmambetov
Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer
Adventure / Drama / Action / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2787
298
2019
Avi Belkin
Mike Wallace, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Larry King, Johnny Carson
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2636
250
2024
Marco Bellocchio
Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese
Drama / History
Italy / France / Germany
Italian
2790
300
2015
Marco Bellocchio
Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lydiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi
Drama / History
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
2803
308
2009
Marco Bellocchio
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
Italy / France
Italian
2790
300
1968
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini
Experimental / History / Drama / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2794
302
1972
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Donyale Luna, Alfiero Vincenti
Drama / History / Religion / Experimental
Italy
Italian
1495
88
1991
Bruce Beresford
Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Adventure / Drama / History / Religion
Canada / Australia
English
2418
204
2012
Amy Berg
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / Crime
New Zealand / USA
English
2404
200
2016
Peter Berg
Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Benoist, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2818
313
2012
Joe Berlinger
Paul Simon, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Phiri, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA / South Africa
English
2692
266
1985
Chris Bernard
Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Tracy Marshak-Nash, Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke
Comedy / Drama / Romance / History
UK
English
376
18
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
France / Italy / UK
English
644
40
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2708
273
2017
Kathryn Bigelow
John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2758
289
1979
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
Roger Baldwin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2547
231
1995
Jon Blair
Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Ashley Johnson
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
2692
266
1934
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2756
288
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2006
141
2007
Sergei Bodrov
Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia
Mongolian
2758
289
1979
Concepcion Bohulano, Delfin Bohulano
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Documentary / History
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2534
229
1932
Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
570
33
1966
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
1693
106
2006
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Drama / History / War
France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium
French
2712
275
2010
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan
Crime / Drama / History / War
France / Algeria / Belgium
French
2818
313
2017
Laurent Bouzereau
Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2692
266
1929
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
929
59
1989
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Action / Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2818
313
2018
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Hadley Fraser, Jack Colgrave Hirst
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
2809
310
1923
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2802
307
1962
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2692
266
1953
Peter Brook
Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway
Crime / History / Musical / Drama
UK
English
2790
300
1957
Richard Brooks
Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller
Drama / History
USA
English
2809
310
1989
Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Harold Lloyd, Lindsay Anderson, Hal Roach, Harvey Parry, Jack Lemmon
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
UK
English
2809
310
2002
Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft
Kenneth Branagh, Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Adolph Hitler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
UK
English
2608
246
1983
Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills
Ruth Davidow, Studs Terkel, Bill McCarthy, Ed Balchowsky, Steve Nelson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2803
308
1944
Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2294
176
1965
Luis Buñuel
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña
Short / Drama / History / Comedy / Religion
Mexico
Spanish
2581
241
1985
Ken Burns
Huey Long, David McCullough, Russell Long
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2679
261
2012
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III, Natalie Byfield, David Dinkins, Jim Dwyer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2798
304
2009
Ken Burns
Peter Coyote, Philip Bosco, Murphy Guyer, Kevin Conway, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2809
310
2012
Ken Burns
Peter Coyote, Patricia Clarkson, Carolyn McCormick, Kevin Conway, Amy Madigan
Documentary / History
USA
English
2819
314
2010
Ken Burns
Keith David, Keith Olbermann, Mike Barnicle, John Thorn Burns, Marcos Breton
Documentary / History / Sports
USA
English
2765
293
2000
George Butler
Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale, John Henry Cox
Documentary / History / Adventure
Sweden / UK / Germany / USA
English
2692
266
1955
Mario Camerini, Mario Bava
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2705
272
2003
James Cameron
Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino
Documentary / Family / History
USA
English
2758
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2758
289
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2809
310
1945
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2809
310
1930
H.P. Carver
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk
Drama / Action / History / Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2785
297
1989
Michael Caton-Jones
John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2809
310
2008
Justin Chadwick
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2794
302
1997
Youssef Chahine
Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hémeida, Magdi Idris
Drama / History / Biography / Musical / Romance / Period Film
France / Egypt
French
2809
310
2011
Judy Chaikin
Melba Liston, Roz Cron, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Clora Bryant
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
1868
124
2018
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
Biography / Drama / History / Adventure
USA / Japan
English
2674
259
2022
Damien Chazelle
Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
2400
198
1999
Kaige Chen
Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lu, Zhiwen Wang
Drama / Epic / History
France / Japan / China
Mandarin
2803
308
2010
Kaige Chen
You Ge, Xueqi Wang, Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Qing Hai, Fengyi Zhang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
1693
106
1994
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Biography
France / Italy / Germany
French
2692
266
1950
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2645
251
1937
Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2255
170
2022
Chinonye Chukwu
Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2585
242
1977
Larry Clark
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones
Drama / Crime / Music / History
USA
English
2608
246
2002
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Ian Holm, Kurt Gerron, Robby Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA / Canada / Germany / UK
English
2692
266
1966
René Clément
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / War / Epic
France / USA
French
590
36
2005
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2158
158
2021
Joel Coen
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2803
308
2010
Nigel Cole
Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2787
298
2016
Kasper Collin
Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Larry Reni Thomas, Judith Johnson
Documentary / Drama / History / Music
Sweden / USA
English
1113
68
1935
Jack Conway, Robert Z. Leonard
Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Adventure / War
USA
English
2425
207
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2185
162
2006
Sofia Coppola
Kirsten Dunst, Jason Schwartzman, Judy Davis, Rip Torn, Rose Byrne, Asia Argento
Biography / Drama / History / Epic / Period Film
Japan / France / USA
English
1152
72
2024
Brady Corbet
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
Drama / History / Epic
USA / UK / Hungary
English
2790
300
2023
Saverio Costanzo
Lily James, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Sennott, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy
Italian
2394
195
2006
Allen Coulter
Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney
Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
2763
292
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2679
261
1987
Bill Couturié
Robert De Niro, Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Sheen
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2355
186
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2288
175
2011
David Cronenberg
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Drama / Thriller / Biography / History
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland
English
2608
246
1927
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
266
1928
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2809
310
1953
Owen Crump
Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott, Albert Bernard Cook
Documentary / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2515
222
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
2692
266
1939
Irving Cummings, Malcolm St. Clair, Buster Keaton
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Jed Prouty
Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2809
310
1940
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
2809
310
2017
John Curran
Kate Mara, Clancy Brown, Olivia Thirlby, Jason Clarke, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern
Drama / History / Thriller
Sweden / USA
English
2809
310
2017
Simon Curtis
Vicki Pepperdine, Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Tilston, Alex Lawther
Biography | Family | History / Drama
UK
English
2146
155
1936
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2608
246
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2692
266
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2692
266
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2742
284
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2790
300
1998
Alessandro D'Alatri
Kim Rossi Stuart, Saïd Taghmaoui, Boris Terral
Adventure / Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Biography
Italy
Italian
1273
77
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2758
289
1914
William Robert Daly
Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, Hattie Delaro, Master Abernathy, Teresa Michelena
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2809
310
2013
Lee Daniels
Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2692
266
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2809
310
2016
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards
Vince Giordano, Garrison Keillor, David Johansen, Terry Gross, George Wein
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
1633
98
1974
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2713
276
1999
Zeinabu irene Davis
John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis, Christopher Smith
Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2790
300
2023
Edoardo De Angelis
Pierfrancesco Favino, Johannes Wirix, Giuseppe Brunetti
Biography / Drama / History / War
Italy / Belgium
Italian
2303
178
1968
Emile de Antonio
Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2397
196
1964
Emile de Antonio
Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
Documentary / History
USA
English
2809
310
2012
Raymond De Felitta
Hodding Carter III, Frank De Felitta, Yvette Johnson, Leroy Jones
Documentary / History / Mystery / Biography
USA
English
2809
310
1929
Marco de Gastyne
Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Drama / History
France / Germany
German (Silent)
2790
300
2000
Manoel de Oliveira
Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trepa
Biography / Drama / History / Religion / Period Film
Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
2794
302
1990
Manoel de Oliveira
Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria, Miguel Guilherme, Luis Lucas
Drama / History
Portugal / Spain / France
Portuguese
2787
298
2017
Alexandra Dean
Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2692
266
1966
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
2698
269
2014
Yann Demange
Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Period Film / History
UK
English
1478
87
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1733
112
1932
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2528
226
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2692
266
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2692
266
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2809
310
1935
Cecil B. DeMille
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Action / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2728
279
2011
Danfung Dennis
Documentary / Action / History / War
USA / UK / Afghanistan
English
2842
323
2013
Talal Derki
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Syria / Germany
Arabic
2692
266
1912
Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton
Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Jean Angelo, Georges Charmeroy
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
France
French (Silent)
2694
267
1984
Carlos Diegues
Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Arduíno Colassanti
Drama / History / Epic
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2522
225
1939
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2785
297
1984
Roger Donaldson
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis
Adventure / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2818
313
2000
Roger Donaldson
Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2794
302
1971
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Arduíno Colessanti, Manfredo Colassanti
Drama / Comedy / History / Adventure
Brazil
Portuguese
1953
135
1987
Bill Douglas
Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2809
310
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
2758
289
1963
Robert Drew
John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
69
4
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
1920
129
2014
Ava DuVernay
David Oyelowo, Tim Roth, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr., Martin Sheen
Drama / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2363
190
2023
Ava DuVernay
Victoria Pedretti, Vera Farmiga, Connie Nielsen, Jon Bernthal, Finn Wittrock
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2692
266
1929
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
266
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
2742
284
1936
Efim Dzigan
Grigori Bushuyev, Raisa Yesipova, Vasili Zajchikov, E. Gunn
War / History / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
1104
67
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
1781
116
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery
Action / Drama / History / War
Iceland / USA
English
2203
166
2008
Uli Edel
Martina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu, Johanna Wokalek, Nadja Uhl, Jan Josef Liefers
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / War
Germany / France / Czech Republic
German
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2568
236
2022
Robert Eggers
Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / History / Thriller / Epic / War
USA
English
60
3
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
378
19
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
401
21
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
477
24
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
964
61
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1019
64
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1726
110
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2809
310
1983
Harrison Engle
Theodore Roosevelt, George C. Scott, Bob Boyd, John Gable
Documentary / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2594
245
1984
Rob Epstein
Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
Documentary / Biography / History / Crime
USA
English
2758
289
1989
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2761
291
1995
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents
Documentary / History
France / UK / Germany / USA
English
2820
315
2000
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel, Heinz F.
Documentary / History / War
UK / Germany / USA
English
2744
286
1989
Harun Farocki
Documentary / War / History
West Germany
German
2794
302
1990
Harun Farocki
Documentary / History
West Germany
German
830
49
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal
Drama / Epic / Period Film / History
Italy / West Germany
German
2410
202
2024
Tim Fehlbaum
Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem
History / Thriller / Drama
Germany
English
731
44
1969
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
2663
256
2010
René Féret
Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau
Drama / History / Biography
France
French
2692
266
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
2694
267
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2758
289
1980
Connie Field
Wanita Allen, Gladys Belcher, Lyn Childs, Lola Weixel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2842
323
1994
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Ronnie Washington
Documentary / History
USA
English
372
16
2010
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2758
289
1974
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2139
154
1970
Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / History / Epic
USA / Japan
English
2320
181
1968
Richard Fleischer
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Biography / Detective
USA
English
2500
219
1958
Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald
Action / Adventure / History
USA
English
2397
196
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
445
22
2008
Ari Folman
Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Yehezkel Lazarov, Mickey Leon
Animation / Biography / Drama / War / History
Israel / Germany / France
Hebrew
2803
308
2008
Stefan Forbes
Lee Atwater, George Bush, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Karl Rove
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
567
32
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2136
153
1964
John Ford
Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Dolores del Rio
History / Western / Epic
USA
English
2608
246
1936
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2692
266
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2809
310
1942
John Ford
Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel, James Roosevelt
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2809
310
1943
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2844
324
1965
John Ford
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2680
262
2012
David France
Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2569
237
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2847
325
1929
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Documentary / Short / Experimental / History
Netherlands
Dutch (Silent)
501
27
2006
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
2696
268
2017
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
Biography | Drama | History / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2809
310
2022
Stephen Frears
Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod, Jenny Douglas
Comedy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2790
300
1948
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2809
310
2022
Antoine Fuqua
Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor, Ronnie Gene Blevins
Action / Thriller / History
USA
English
2854
327
1995
Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg
Irene Bedard, Judy Kuhn, Mel Gibson, David Ogden Stiers, John Kassir
Animation / Drama / Family / History / Musical / Romance / Adventure
USA
English
2449
210
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
232
10
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
2758
289
1970
David Garcia
Norman Pittluck, Raul Ruiz
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2692
266
1956
Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson
Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz
Documentary / History
USA
English
1850
122
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2256
171
1987
Nils Gaup
Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo
Adventure / Action / Drama / History
Norway
Saami
2803
308
2006
Julie Gavras
Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Drama / History
Italy / France
French
2803
308
1997
William Gazecki
Dan Gifford, Clive Doyle, Jack Harwell, Dick J. Reavis, James D. Tabor
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2608
246
2005
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2809
310
2013
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Cate Blanchett, Sebastian Koch, Thomas Kretschmann, Diane Kruger, Connie Nielsen
Documentary / Biography / Crime / History / Mystery
USA / Ecuador / Germany / Norway
English
1168
74
2004
Terry George
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte
Drama / History / War
UK / Italy / South Africa
English
2790
300
2021
Xavier Giannoli
Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan
Drama / History
France / Belgium
French
586
35
1995
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
1751
114
2016
Mel Gibson
Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson, Darcy Bryce
Drama / History / War / Period Film / Religion / Biography
Australia / USA
English
2809
310
2016
Craig Gillespie
Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
2790
300
2015
Amos Gitai
Ischac Hiskiya, Pini Mitelman, Michael Warshaviak, Einat Weizman, Rotem Keinan
Drama / History / Thriller
Israel / France
Hebrew
703
43
2023
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
762
46
1964
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
2803
308
2011
Arnon Goldfinger
Arnon Goldfinger, Hannah Goldfinger, Gertrude Kino, Harald Milz, Tamar Tuchler
Documentary / History
Israel / Germany
Hebrew
2818
313
2019
Rupert Goold
Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Music
UK
English
2808
309
2015
Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal, Dick Cavett, Kelsey Grammer, John Lithgow
Documentary / History
USA
English
2842
323
2014
Chad Gracia
Documentary / History / War
USA / UK / Ukraine
Russian
2666
257
2016
James Gray
Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2803
308
2002
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers
Documentary / History
USA
English
2790
300
2007
Peter Greenaway
Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Michael Teigen, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May
Biography / Drama / History / Mystery / Period Film
Canada / France / Germany / Poland / Netherlands / UK
English
1134
71
2006
Paul Greengrass
Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin
Drama / History
France / UK / USA
English
2672
258
2018
Paul Greengrass
Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Oslash;igarden, Maria Bock
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
Norway / Iceland / USA
English
195
7
1916
D.W. Griffith
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis
Drama / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
231
9
1915
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
2488
215
1930
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2692
266
1914
D.W. Griffith
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2823
316
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2801
306
2024
Johan Grimonprez
Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Duke Ellington
Documentary / Music / History
Belgium / France / Netherlands
English
2818
313
2013
David Grohl
Dave Grohl, Joe Barresi, Butch Vig, Kevin Cronin, Joshua Homme, Lee Ving
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2382
192
2024
Luca Guadagnino
Lesley Manville, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, David Lowery
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2692
266
1913
Enrico Guazzoni
Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, Amelia Cattaneo, Carlo Cattaneo, Lea Giunchi
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2729
280
2010
Patricio Guzmán
Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez
Documentary / Drama / History
Chile / Spain / France / Germany / USA
Spanish
2827
318
1975
Patricio Guzmán
Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Documentary / History
Chile / Cuba
Spanish
2156
157
2013
John Lee Hancock
Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Annie Rose Buckley, Colin Farrell, Ruth Wilson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Family / History / Music
USA / UK / Australia
English
2803
308
2004
John Lee Hancock
Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson
Drama / History / War / Western / Epic
USA
English
2608
246
1978
John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, Martin Lavut
Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Marianna Åström-De Fina
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2826
317
1987
Kazuo Hara
Kenzo Okuzaki, Emperor Hirohito
Documentary / War / History
Japan
Japanese
2773
295
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2791
301
2015
Klaus Härö
Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Märt Avandi, Maria Avdjushko, Liisa Koppel
Drama / History / Sports
Finland / Estonia / Germany
Estonian
2151
156
2000
Mark Jonathan Harris
Judi Dench, Lorraine Allard, Lory Chan, Mariam Cohen, Hedy Epstein, Kurt Fuchel
Documentary / History / War
UK / USA
English
2608
246
1997
Mark Jonathan Harris
Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
768
47
1968
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2694
267
1950
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie
Adventure / History / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2809
310
1939
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford
Action / History / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2794
302
1955
Howard Hawks
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2796
303
2019
Todd Haynes
Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, William Jackson Harper, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2803
308
1993
Chris Hegedus, Christopher Hughes, D.A. Pennebaker
James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2809
310
2014
N.C. Heikin
Grace Kelly, Garrett Marchbank, Cathy Diane Tomlin
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
2758
289
1944
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
2854
327
2022
Jalmari Helander
Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila
Action / War / Adventure / History / Drama
Finland / UK
English
2608
246
2002
André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Traudl Junge
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Austria
German
2742
284
1966
Bruce Herschensohn
Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Earl Warren
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2812
312
2010
Yael Hersonski
Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron, Shula Zeder
Documentary / Drama / History
Germany / Israel
English
48
1
1972
Werner Herzog
Klaus Kinski, Helena Rojo, Del Negro, Ruy Guerra, Peter Berling, Cecilia Rivera
Adventure / Drama / History / Epic / Cult
West Germany / Peru / Mexico
German
2484
213
2010
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz
Documentary / History
Canada / USA / France / Germany / UK
English
2803
308
1997
Werner Herzog
Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick, Werner Herzog
Documentary / Biography / Drama / War / History
France / UK / Germany
English
2860
330
1992
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary / Sci-Fi / History
France / UK / Germany
German
2692
266
1979
Douglas Hickox
Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, John Mills, Bob Hoskins, Simon Ward, Denholm Elliott
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War
USA / South Africa / Netherlands
English
2742
284
1957
Jerome Hill
Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Burgess Meredith, Phillip Eckert
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2803
308
1993
Walter Hill
Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant
Drama / History / Western / Epic / Biography
USA
English
447
23
2004
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Drama / History / War / Biography
Germany / Italy / Austria
German
2820
315
2009
Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, Cristian Mungiu, Constantin Popescu, Ioana Uricaru
Diana Cavallioti, Radu Iacoban, Vlad Ivanov, Tania Popa, Liliana Mocanu
Comedy / History / Drama
Romania / France
Romanian
2712
275
1974
Jerzy Hoffman
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adventure / War / History / Epic / Romance
Poland / Soviet Union
Polish
503
28
2010
Tom Hooper
Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / Australia
English
2809
310
2016
Stephen Hopkins
Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Carice van Houten
Biography / Drama / Sports / History
France / Germany / Canada
English
2794
302
1995
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao
Drama / History / Romance
Japan / Taiwan
Mandarin
610
38
1995
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
928
58
2008
Ron Howard
Toby Jones, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK / France
English
2785
297
2002
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2015
144
1937
William K. Howard
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
2809
310
2017
Reginald Hudlin
Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, Dan Stevens
Biography | Drama / History / Crime
USA
English
2837
320
1968
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Bob van Asperen, Bernd Weikl
Biography / History / Music / Drama
West Germany / Italy
German
2608
246
1972
Waris Hussein
Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka
Drama / History / Biography / Romance
UK
English
1130
70
1951
John Huston
Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick
War / History / Epic
USA
English
2042
146
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1255
76
1994
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2391
194
1996
Nicholas Hytner
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2267
172
2017
Armando Iannucci
Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards, Adrian McLoughlin
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History / Period Film
UK / Canada / France / Belgium
English
1695
107
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1899
127
1962
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
1964
136
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2357
187
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2357
187
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2794
302
1968
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Documentary / War / History
France / Vietnam
French
2809
310
2010
Vera Iwerebor
Baby Peggy, Paul Petersen
Documentary / Biography / History
Netherlands / UK / USA / Italy
English
2783
296
2018
Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / War
UK / New Zealand
English
2809
310
2006
Kristi Jacobson
Toots Shor, Walter Cronkite, Frank Gifford, Nicholas Pileggi, Gianni Russo
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2803
308
2012
Benoît Jacquot
Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois
History / Drama / Epic
France / Spain
French
2847
325
2016
Arthur Jafa
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cassi Namoda, Bayard Rustin, Walter Scott
Short / History / Documentary
USA
English
2589
243
2005
Eugene Jarecki
Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle
Documentary / History / War
USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark
English
2818
313
2017
Eugene Jarecki
Alec Baldwin, Tony Brown, James Carville, Chuck D, Maggie Clifford
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
Germany / USA
English
2483
212
1991
Derek Jarman
Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Drama / History
UK
English
1788
118
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2791
301
1971
Charles Jarrott
Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Drama / History / Epic / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1944
134
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2010
142
2000
Zhang Ke Jia
Hong Wei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang, Tian Yi Yang
Drama / History / Comedy
Hong Kong / China / Japan / France
Mandarin
1717
109
1986
Roland Joffé
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
2648
252
2023
Matt Johnson
Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
Canada
English
2384
193
2017
Angelina Jolie
Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara
Biography / Drama / History
Cambodia / USA
Khmer
2726
278
1996
Neil Jordan
Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Ian Hart, Richard Ingram, Aidan Quinn
Drama / History / Biography
UK / Ireland / USA
English
1935
132
2020
Thomas Kail
Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
1376
81
1964
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
2711
274
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2255
170
1965
Richard Kaplan
Frances Cole, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
915
57
1998
Shekhar Kapur
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2820
315
2007
Shekhar Kapur
Jordi Mollà, Aimee King, Cate Blanchett, John Shrapnel, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK / France
English
2712
275
1966
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Drama / History / Epic / War
Poland
Polish
2839
321
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2790
300
2010
Abdellatif Kechiche
Elina Löwensohn, Olivier Gourmet, Jonathan Pienaar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Drama / Biography / History
France / Italy / Belgium
French
2809
310
2019
Aviva Kempner
Moe Berg, Bruce Adams, Elden Auker, Brad Ausmus, Irwin Berg, Sam Berg
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2809
310
2014
James Kent
Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson
Biography / Drama / History / War / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2794
302
1973
Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi, Aqa Seyyed, Ali Mirza, Edris Chamani, Darvish Abbas
Adventure / History
Iran
Persian
1841
120
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2231
169
1936
Henry King
Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power
Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2324
182
1947
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Jean Peters, Cesar Romero, Lee J. Cobb, John Sutton, Antonio Moreno
Adventure / Drama / Family / Romance / History / Action / Epic
USA
English
2500
219
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2692
266
1924
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2694
267
1949
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
1728
111
2021
Shaka King
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2758
289
1976
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert
Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods
Documentary / History / Music
USA
English
2608
246
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2692
266
1961
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Drama / History / War
Japan
Japanese
2076
148
2020
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova, Sergei Erlish
Drama / History
Russia
Russian
736
45
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2367
191
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2694
267
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2799
305
1957
Stanley Kramer
Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2571
238
2022
Marie Kreutzer
Colin Morgan, Vicky Krieps, Finnegan Oldfield, Ivana Urban, Alma Hasun
Biography / Drama / History
Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France
German
2758
289
1972
Duane Kubo
Peter Hata, David Iwataki, June Karamoto, Dan Kuramoto, Johnny Mori
Documentary / Music / History / Short
USA
English
247
13
1960
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
2808
309
2021
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher, Carolyn Payne
Documentary / History
USA
English
50
2
1985
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
480
25
1980
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
2790
300
2020
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Hyunri, Issey Takahashi, Ryôta Bandô
Drama / War / History / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2790
300
2024
Justin Kurzel
Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Marc Maron
Crime / Drama / Thriller / History
USA / UK / Canada
English
2760
290
1975
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Henry Czarniak, Hassan El Amir, Brahim Hadjadj, Hassan Hassani
Drama / History / Epic
Algeria
Arabic
2663
256
2013
Peter Landesman
James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour
Drama / History
USA
English
2517
223
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
1385
82
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
136
6
1985
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary / War / History
France
English
2694
267
2001
Claude Lanzmann
Yehuda Lerner
Documentary / History / War / Biography
France
French
2121
150
2016
Pablo Larraín
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup
Biography / Drama / History
USA / Chile / France
English
2672
258
2023
Pablo Larraín
Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger
Drama / Horror / Comedy / Fantasy / History
Chile
Spanish
235
12
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
1990
140
1997
Spike Lee
Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr.
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2785
297
1996
Spike Lee
Richard Belzer, De'aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Drama / History
USA
English
2082
149
2014
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
2663
256
2018
Mike Leigh
Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
2818
313
2019
Kasi Lemmons
Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Action / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2608
246
1981
Murray Lerner
David Golub, Isaac Stern, Tan Shuzhen
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
1578
95
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2809
310
2017
Doug Liman
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
USA
English
2794
302
1998
Richard Linklater
Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer
Action / Crime / Drama / History / Western
USA
English
1517
91
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2692
266
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2818
313
2011
Phyllida Lloyd
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Drama / Biography / History
UK / France
English
2423
205
1982
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2758
289
1936
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2692
266
1972
Joseph Losey
Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese
Drama / History / Thriller / Biography
Italy / France / UK
English
2790
300
2019
Ye Lou
Li Gong, Tom Wlaschiha, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, Xiangli Huang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2608
246
1997
Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
C.R. 'Tiny' Boland, Charley Bull, Rene Champion, Peggy De Hart, John Fawcett
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2803
308
1995
Stephen Low
Leonard Nimoy, Frank Goldsmith, Eva Hart
Documentary / Short / History
Canada / USA
English
2281
174
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2491
216
2009
Chuan Lu
Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi, Wei Fan, Yiyan Jiang, Ryu Kohata
Drama / History / War / Epic / Period Film
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2511
221
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2515
222
1922
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova
History / Drama / Epic / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
266
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2692
266
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2334
184
1970
Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2682
263
2020
Rod Lurie
Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson, Bobby Lockwood
Drama / History / War / Action
Bulgaria / USA
English
2197
163
2006
Kevin Macdonald
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2448
209
2012
Kevin Macdonald
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley
Documentary / Biography / Music / History
USA / UK
English
1781
116
1997
John Madden
Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2696
268
2016
Keith Maitland
Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek
Documentary / Animation / Crime / History
USA
English
2719
277
2011
Lech Majewski
Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Oskar Huliczka, Joanna Litwin
Drama / History
Sweden / Poland
English
1928
130
2005
Terrence Malick
Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
580
34
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1440
84
2024
James Mangold
Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Edward Norton
Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
872
55
1953
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
1738
113
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
2013
143
1961
Anthony Mann
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Romance / War / Adventure / Drama / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
2231
169
1964
Anthony Mann
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2131
151
2023
Michael Mann
Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Patrick Dempsey, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Biography / Sports / History
USA / UK / Italy / China
English
2608
246
2006
Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan
Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn, Andrew Egendorf, Robert Fellmeth
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2801
306
2023
Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba
Jeff Goldblum, Tony Ramos, Abel Ayala, Roberta Wallach, Ângela Rabello
Animation / Drama / History
Spain / France / Netherlands / Portugal / Peru / UK / USA / Brazil
English
2771
294
1992
Chris Marker
Alexander Medvedkin, Léonor Graser, Rhona Campbell
Documentary / Biography / History
France
French
2859
329
1977
Chris Marker
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Regis Debray, Yves Montand
Documentary / History
France
French
2405
201
2005
Rob Marshall
Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2790
300
2018
Mario Martone
Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2790
300
2014
Mario Martone
Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis, Valerio Binasco
Drama / Romance / Biography / History
Italy
Italian
2790
300
2010
Mario Martone
Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco, Toni Servillo, Francesca Inaudi, Luca Barbareschi
Drama / Biography / History
Italy / France
Italian
2758
289
1984
Victor Masayesva Jr.
Ross Macaya
Documentary / History / Experimental
USA
Hopi
2576
239
1993
Ronald F. Maxwell
Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang
Drama / History / War / Epic
USA
English
700
42
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
1661
100
2018
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
619
39
2013
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
2398
197
2008
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Liam Cunningham
Drama / History
UK / Ireland
English
2699
270
2024
Steve McQueen
Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke
Action / Drama / History / War / Adventure
UK / USA
English
2789
299
2020
Steve McQueen
Letitia Wright, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, John Boyega, Sheyi Cole, Kenyah Sandy
Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2803
308
1991
Peter Medak
Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston
Crime / Drama / History
France / UK / Netherlands
English
2743
285
2006
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / Musical
India
Hindi
1772
115
2016
Theodore Melfi
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2692
266
1902
Georges Méliès
Short / History
France
French (Silent)
2679
261
2012
Roger Michell
Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2672
258
2019
Todd Douglas Miller
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Walter Cronkite
Documentary / History
USA
English
2200
164
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
1564
92
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
2402
199
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2794
302
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
2712
275
1973
Moshé Mizrahi
Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloah, Michael Bat-Adam, Shai Ophir
Drama / History
Israel
Hebrew
2758
289
1994
Freida Lee Mock
Maya Lin
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2742
284
1996
Edouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain
Adventure / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2346
185
1998
James Moll
Bill Basch, Alice Lok Cahana, Renee Firestone, Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2809
310
2016
Gregory Monro
Jerry Lewis, Martin Scorsese, Sean Hayes, Pierre Étaix, Jean-Luc Godard
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / History
France / USA
English
2803
308
1971
Giuliano Montaldo
Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Drama / History / Biography
Italy / France
Italian
2758
289
1979
Sylvia Morales
Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
NR
-
2007
Brett Morgen
Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber
Documentary / Animation / History / Crime
USA
English
2498
218
2008
Errol Morris
Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom
Documentary / War / History / Crime
USA
English
2746
287
1999
Errol Morris
Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA
English
2790
300
2013
Errol Morris
Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, Kenn Medeiros
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2734
282
2016
Bill Morrison
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O'Farrell, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Documentary / History
USA
English
2803
308
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
1620
97
1983
Geoff Murphy
Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa
Drama / Adventure / History
New Zealand
English
2809
310
2023
Guy Nattiv
Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams, Henry Goodman, Olivia Brody
Biography / Drama / History / War / Action / Adventure / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2799
305
1953
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2758
289
2010
Stanley Nelson
Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam, John Lewis
Documentary / History
USA
English
2161
159
2001
Tim Blake Nelson
David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg, George Zlatarev
Drama / History / War
USA
English
1331
79
1925
Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram
Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson, Claire McDowell
Drama / Adventure / Romance / Epic / Religion / Action / History
USA
English (Silent)
2790
300
2022
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani
Drama / Religion / Biography / History / Musical
Italy / Belgium
Italian
2758
289
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2809
310
1937
George Nichols Jr.
Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter
Adventure / History / Romance / War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2532
228
2016
Jeff Nichols
Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2692
266
1918
William Nigh
Halbert Brown, Willard Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenck, George Ridell
War / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
850
52
2023
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
1113
68
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
2809
310
2013
Jehane Noujaim
Khalid Abdalla, Ahmed Hassan, Magdy Ashour, Ragia Omran, Ramy Essam, Aida El Kashef
Documentary / Comedy / Drama / History
Egypt / USA
Arabic
2271
173
1978
Phillip Noyce
Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Don Crosby
Drama / History
Australia
English
2809
310
2006
Phillip Noyce
Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha
Drama / History / Thriller / Biography
France / UK / South Africa / USA
English
2732
281
1993
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary / War / History
Canada
English
2692
266
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2329
183
1992
Pedro Olea
Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida
History / Thriller / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
291
15
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
844
51
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
530
29
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
1460
86
1988
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary / History / Biography / War
France / USA
French
2062
147
1976
Marcel Ophüls
Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA / France / West Germany
French
1971
138
2012
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Documentary / Crime / History
Denmark / Norway / UK
Indonesian
2039
145
2014
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
2363
190
1999
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2854
327
2006
Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Donald Crowhurst, Francoise Moitessier de Cazalet, Simon Crowhurst
Documentary / History / Sports
UK
English
2809
310
1984
Gordon Parks
Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Mason Adams, Lee Bryant, Art Evans
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
954
60
2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
2787
298
2005
Bill Paxton
James Paxton, Tom Rack, Armand Laroche, Peter Hurley, Gregory Terlecki
Drama / History / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2803
308
1990
Richard Pearce
Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Drama / History
USA
English
2613
247
2016
Raoul Peck
Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett
Documentary / History
France / USA
English
1192
75
1973
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2809
310
2015
Marc J. Perez
Matt Zoller Seitz, Richard Koszarski, Tom Meyers, Nancy O'Mallon, Armand Pohan
Documentary / History
USA
English
2692
266
1925
Léonce Perret
Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Comedy / History
USA
English (Silent)
2809
310
2005
Ellen Perry
Alberto Fujimori
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2436
208
2004
Wolfgang Petersen
Brad Pitt, Eric Bana, Orlando Bloom, Diane Kruger, Brian Cox, Sean Bean
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA / Malta / UK
English
2397
196
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2692
266
1938
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2742
284
1953
Irving Pichel
Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA / West Germany
English
