Best History Films by Title
2781
287
2019
Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Martin von Haselberg, Scarlet Rivera
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
USA
English
2689
258
1924
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2763
284
1997
John Singleton
Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
1963
132
2012
Nikolaj Arcel
Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Drama / History / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / Czech Republic
Danish
2840
314
2014
Chad Gracia
Documentary / History / War
USA / UK / Ukraine
Russian
2816
304
2023
George C. Wolfe
Colman Domingo, Aml Ameen, Glynn Turman, Chris Rock, Gus Halper
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2801
299
1971
Giuliano Montaldo
Gian Maria Volontè, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack, Rosanna Fratello
Drama / History / Biography
Italy / France
Italian
2801
299
2010
Kaige Chen
You Ge, Xueqi Wang, Xiaoming Huang, Bingbing Fan, Qing Hai, Fengyi Zhang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2788
291
2011
Te-Sheng Wei
Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Landy Wen, Lo Mei-ling, Masanobu Ando, Irene Luo
Drama / War / History / Epic / Action
Taiwan
Japanese
2792
293
1972
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Donyale Luna, Alfiero Vincenti
Drama / History / Religion / Experimental
Italy
Italian
1961
131
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2353
182
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2353
182
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2605
238
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2756
280
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
1662
98
1966
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
2689
258
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2788
291
2019
Ye Lou
Li Gong, Tom Wlaschiha, Mark Chao, Pascal Greggory, Xiangli Huang
Drama / History / Period Film
China
Mandarin
2152
152
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
2783
288
1989
Michael Caton-Jones
John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / USA
English
813
48
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2444
203
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2788
291
1948
Charles Frend
John Mills, Derek Bond, Diana Churchill, Harold Warrender
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
UK
English
2650
245
2010
Randall Wallace
Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale
Drama / History / Sports
USA
English
1917
124
2014
Ava DuVernay
David Oyelowo, Tim Roth, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr., Martin Sheen
Drama / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2816
304
2020
Greg Barker
Wagner Moura, Ana de Armas, Brían F. O'Byrne, Bradley Whitford, Garret Dillahunt
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2842
315
1965
John Ford
Anne Bancroft, Sue Lyon, Margaret Leighton, Flora Robson, Mildred Dunnock
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2689
258
1956
Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson
Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz
Documentary / History
USA
English
2792
293
1968
Joris Ivens, Marceline Loridan Ivens
Documentary / War / History
France / Vietnam
French
2807
301
2014
Alex Steyermark
Louis Michot, John Doe, John C. Reilly, Jaron Lanier, The Bo-Keys
Documentary / History | Music
USA
English
2695
261
2014
Yann Demange
Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Period Film / History
UK
English
2633
242
2004
Peter Raymont
Roméo Dallaire
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Canada
English
2781
287
2022
Maria Schrader
Lola Petticrew, Katherine Laheen, Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Emma O'Connor
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2792
293
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Raizô Ichikawa, Michiyo Kogure, Mitsusaburô Ramon
Drama / History / Epic
Japan
Japanese
136
6
1985
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary / War / History
France
English
1731
108
1932
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2401
195
2016
Martin Scorsese
Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano
Drama / History / Thriller / Religion
USA / Taiwan / Mexico
English
2807
301
1930
H.P. Carver
Chief Yellow Robe, Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance, Chief Akawanush, Spotted Elk
Drama / Action / History / Biography / Documentary
USA
English
2290
171
1965
Luis Buñuel
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña
Short / Drama / History / Comedy / Religion
Mexico
Spanish
2852
317
2022
Jalmari Helander
Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Mimosa Willamo, Onni Tommila
Action / War / Adventure / History / Drama
Finland / UK
English
2787
290
2020
Steve McQueen
Letitia Wright, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, John Boyega, Sheyi Cole, Kenyah Sandy
Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2691
259
2001
Claude Lanzmann
Yehuda Lerner
Documentary / History / War / Biography
France
French
413
21
2010
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1978
134
2023
J.A. Bayona
Enzo Vogrincic, Simon Hempe, Rafael Federman, Matías Recalt, Andy Pruss
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller
Spain / USA / Uruguay / Chile
Spanish
2807
301
1937
George Nichols Jr.
Anton Walbrook, Elizabeth Allan, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame, Fay Bainter
Adventure / History / Romance / War / Action / Drama
USA
English
2807
301
1984
Gordon Parks
Avery Brooks, Rhetta Greene, Mason Adams, Lee Bryant, Art Evans
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2788
291
1957
Richard Brooks
Rock Hudson, Dana Wynter, Sidney Poitier, Wendy Hiller
Drama / History
USA
English
531
29
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
2816
304
2013
David Grohl
Dave Grohl, Joe Barresi, Butch Vig, Kevin Cronin, Joshua Homme, Lee Ving
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2807
301
2014
N.C. Heikin
Grace Kelly, Garrett Marchbank, Cathy Diane Tomlin
Documentary / Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
2799
297
2024
Johan Grimonprez
Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, Miles Davis, Malcolm X, Fidel Castro, Duke Ellington
Documentary / Music / History
Belgium / France / Netherlands
English
2807
301
1923
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
247
13
1960
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
2198
160
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
699
42
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2807
301
2019
Aviva Kempner
Moe Berg, Bruce Adams, Elden Auker, Brad Ausmus, Irwin Berg, Sam Berg
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
301
2013
Jehane Noujaim
Khalid Abdalla, Ahmed Hassan, Magdy Ashour, Ragia Omran, Ramy Essam, Aida El Kashef
Documentary / Comedy / Drama / History
Egypt / USA
Arabic
2494
211
2008
Errol Morris
Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom
Documentary / War / History / Crime
USA
English
1839
116
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2689
258
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
NR
-
1957
Irwin Allen
Ronald Colman, Hedy Lamarr, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Virginia Mayo
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / Family
USA
English
401
20
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2689
258
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
2359
185
1999
István Szabó
Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Drama / Epic / History / War
Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary
English
2660
248
2017
Warwick Thornton
Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller | Western
Australia
English
2605
238
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
2359
185
1999
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2652
246
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1112
67
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
2818
306
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
2500
213
2023
Anh Hung Tran
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger
Drama / History / Romance
France / Belgium
French
2807
301
2014
James Kent
Alicia Vikander, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson
Biography / Drama / History / War / Romance / Period Film
UK
English
2363
186
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2689
258
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2781
287
2018
Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / War
UK / New Zealand
English
2799
297
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
2816
304
2000
Roger Donaldson
Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood, Steven Culp, Dylan Baker, Michael Fairman
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2531
223
2006
Zack Snyder
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Comic
USA
English
2689
258
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2250
165
2022
Chinonye Chukwu
Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2696
262
2010
Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2591
237
1984
Rob Epstein
Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
Documentary / Biography / History / Crime
USA
English
2797
296
1953
Jean Negulesco
Clifton Webb, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner, Audrey Dalton, Thelma Ritter
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2801
299
1995
Stephen Low
Leonard Nimoy, Frank Goldsmith, Eva Hart
Documentary / Short / History
Canada / USA
English
1694
103
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
2807
301
2006
Kristi Jacobson
Toots Shor, Walter Cronkite, Frank Gifford, Nicholas Pileggi, Gianni Russo
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2135
149
1970
Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / History / Epic
USA / Japan
English
2693
260
2016
Keith Maitland
Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek
Documentary / Animation / Crime / History
USA
English
2154
153
2021
Joel Coen
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2807
301
2002
Kevin Brownlow, Michael Kloft
Kenneth Branagh, Sydney Chaplin, Charles Chaplin, Adolph Hitler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
UK
English
2800
298
1962
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
1508
86
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
2431
201
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
2708
266
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
619
39
2013
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
2669
250
2018
Paul Greengrass
Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Oslash;igarden, Maria Bock
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
Norway / Iceland / USA
English
2761
283
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2709
267
2002
Ben Sombogaart
Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Netherlands / Luxembourg
Dutch
2807
301
1945
Frank Capra
George C. Marshall, Anthony Veiller
Documentary / War / History / Short
USA
English
2807
301
2015
Pamela Tom
Tyrus Wong, Don Hahn, Sonia Mak, Kim Wong, John Canemaker, Andreas Deja
Documentary / Animation / Biography / History
USA
English
2689
258
1955
Mario Camerini, Mario Bava
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2756
280
1914
William Robert Daly
Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, Hattie Delaro, Master Abernathy, Teresa Michelena
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2689
258
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2816
304
2012
Joe Berlinger
Paul Simon, Hugh Masekela, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Ray Phiri, Miriam Makeba
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA / South Africa
English
2756
280
1976
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert
Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods
Documentary / History / Music
USA
English
1134
70
2006
Paul Greengrass
Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin
Drama / History
France / UK / USA
English
2792
293
1986
Peter Thompson
Peter Thompson
Documentary / History / Experimental / War
USA
English
2788
291
2013
Errol Morris
Donald Rumsfeld, Errol Morris, Kenn Medeiros
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2605
238
2006
Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan
Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn, Andrew Egendorf, Robert Fellmeth
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
1619
93
1983
Geoff Murphy
Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa
Drama / Adventure / History
New Zealand
English
1660
96
2018
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2693
260
2017
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
Biography | Drama | History / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2483
207
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2496
212
1958
Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald
Action / Adventure / History
USA
English
2807
301
2016
Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards
Vince Giordano, Garrison Keillor, David Johansen, Terry Gross, George Wein
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
2801
299
2009
Marco Bellocchio
Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Corrado Invernizzi, Fausto Russo Alesi
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
Italy / France
Italian
2411
196
1992
Stuart Samuels, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew Glassman
Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel
Documentary / History
USA / Japan
English
2801
299
1997
William Gazecki
Dan Gifford, Clive Doyle, Jack Harwell, Dick J. Reavis, James D. Tabor
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
446
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
2605
238
1984
Heinz Schirk
Robert Atzorn, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Gerd Böckmann, Jochen Busse
Drama / War / History
Austria / West Germany
German
571
33
1966
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
1063
65
1956
King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Drama / Romance / War / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
2756
280
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2801
299
1993
Chris Hegedus, Christopher Hughes, D.A. Pennebaker
James Carville, George Stephanopoulos, Heather Beckel, Paul Begala, Bob Boorstin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2807
301
2004
Yaron Zilberman
Judith Haspel, Trude Hirschler, Anni Lampl, Hanni Lux, Ann Marie Pisker
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
France / Israel / USA
English
2740
275
1936
Efim Dzigan
Grigori Bushuyev, Raisa Yesipova, Vasili Zajchikov, E. Gunn
War / History / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2618
241
2002
Randall Wallace
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell
Action / Drama / History / War
USA / Germany
English
2801
299
2002
Sam Green, Bill Siegel
Bernardine Dohrn, Mark Rudd, Brian Flanagan, David Gilbert, Bill Ayers
Documentary / History
USA
English
2413
197
2012
Amy Berg
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / Crime
New Zealand / USA
English
2513
216
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2546
225
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2305
174
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
1848
118
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
2806
300
2021
Emily Kunstler, Sarah Kunstler
Josephine Bolling McCall, Gwen Carr, Tiffany Crutcher, Carolyn Payne
Documentary / History
USA
English
2586
235
2005
Eugene Jarecki
Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle
Documentary / History / War
USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark
English
2816
304
2023
Thea Sharrock
Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall, Jason Watkins, Alisha Weir
Comedy / Crime / Drama / History / Mystery
UK / France
English
2788
291
2020
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Yû Aoi, Masahiro Higashide, Hyunri, Issey Takahashi, Ryôta Bandô
Drama / War / History / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2689
258
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2196
159
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
1650
95
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
2809
302
1930
unknown
Richard E. Byrd, Clair D. Alexander, Bernt Balchen, George H. Black
Documentary / Adventure / Biography / History
USA
English
2756
280
1979
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
Roger Baldwin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2563
227
2022
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega
Action / Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2801
299
1993
Ray Müller
Leni Riefenstahl, Marlene Dietrich, Walter Frentz, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess
Documentary / Biography / History / War
France / UK / Germany / Belgium
German
2807
301
2011
Robert B. Weide
Woody Allen, Louise Lasser, Diane Keaton, Letty Aronson, Scarlett Johansson
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
USA
English
2756
280
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2357
184
2006
Oliver Stone
Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff
Drama / History
USA
English
2797
296
1953
George Sidney
Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Deborah Kerr, Charles Laughton, Kay Walsh
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
568
32
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2807
301
2009
Jean-Marc Vallée
Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Jim Broadbent
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK / USA
English
2737
274
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
644
40
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
702
43
2023
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
1725
106
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
2689
258
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
