Best History Films by Title
2351
181
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2566
229
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2484
208
1930
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2771
286
1939
Goffredo Alessandrini
Camillo Pilotto, Mario Ferrari, Enrico Glori, Amedeo Trilli
History / War / Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
1968
133
2012
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Documentary / Crime / History
Denmark / Norway / UK
Indonesian
2832
310
1980
Glauber Rocha
Maurício do Valle, Jece Valadão, Antonio Pitanga, Tarcísio Meira
Drama / Fantasy / History / Sci-Fi / War / Religion / Epic / Experimental
Brazil
Portuguese
2393
190
1965
Carol Reed
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
USA
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
1891
121
1960
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2801
299
2004
John Lee Hancock
Dennis Quaid, Billy Bob Thornton, Jason Patric, Patrick Wilson
Drama / History / War / Western / Epic
USA
English
2740
275
1957
Jerome Hill
Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Burgess Meredith, Phillip Eckert
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
478
24
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2797
296
1956
Robert Rossen
Richard Burton, Fredric March, Claire Bloom, Danielle Darrieux, Barry Jones
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
USA / Spain
English
2816
304
2018
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Hadley Fraser, Jack Colgrave Hirst
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
2821
307
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2807
301
2017
Doug Liman
Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, Jesse Plemons, Caleb Landry Jones
Action | Biography | Comedy | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller
USA
English
1846
117
1997
Steven Spielberg
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2605
238
1967
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Stuart Whitman
Documentary / War / History / Biography
France
French
118
5
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
258
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2543
224
1995
Jon Blair
Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Ashley Johnson
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
1786
114
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2669
250
2019
Todd Douglas Miller
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Walter Cronkite
Documentary / History
USA
English
610
38
1995
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2783
288
2002
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2696
262
2024
Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally
Biography / Drama / History
Canada / Denmark / Ireland
English
2689
258
1972
Joseph Losey
Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese
Drama / History / Thriller / Biography
Italy / France / UK
English
2418
198
1982
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2756
280
1974
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2199
161
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
2807
301
2010
Vera Iwerebor
Baby Peggy, Paul Petersen
Documentary / Biography / History
Netherlands / UK / USA / Italy
English
2671
251
2022
Damien Chazelle
Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
2605
238
2005
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2817
305
2010
Ken Burns
Keith David, Keith Olbermann, Mike Barnicle, John Thorn Burns, Marcos Breton
Documentary / History / Sports
USA
English
2756
280
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2825
309
1975
Patricio Guzmán
Abilio Fernández, Salvador Allende
Documentary / History
Chile / Cuba
Spanish
2756
280
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2807
301
1942
John Ford
Donald Crisp, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Irving Pichel, James Roosevelt
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2756
280
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2039
141
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2788
291
2024
Gianni Amelio
Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giuseppe Amelio
Drama / History / War
Italy
Italian
60
3
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2652
246
2019
Kantemir Balagov
Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Drama / War / Period Film / History
Russia
Russian
2740
275
1996
Edouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain
Adventure / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
762
46
1964
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
2756
280
1984
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg
Rita Mae Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bruce Nugent, Harry Otis, Donna Smith
Documentary / History
USA
English
2689
258
1953
Peter Brook
Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway
Crime / History / Musical / Drama
UK
English
2682
256
2021
Aaron Sorkin
Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2605
238
1927
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
234
11
1959
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
1331
77
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)
2689
258
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2807
301
2016
Timur Bekmambetov
Jack Huston, Toby Kebbell, Rodrigo Santoro, Nazanin Boniadi, Ayelet Zurer
Adventure / Drama / Action / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2740
275
2021
Paul Verhoeven
Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Religion / Period Film
France / Belgium / Netherlands
French
831
49
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal
Drama / Epic / Period Film / History
Italy / West Germany
German
2806
300
2015
Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville
William F. Buckley, Gore Vidal, Dick Cavett, Kelsey Grammer, John Lithgow
Documentary / History
USA
English
2689
258
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
231
9
1915
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
2807
301
1948
Gordon Douglas
Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan, Rhys Williams
Action / Adventure / History / Romance / Crime / Period Film
USA
English
1494
85
1991
Bruce Beresford
Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Adventure / Drama / History / Religion
Canada / Australia
English
2691
259
1950
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie
Adventure / History / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2788
291
2010
Abdellatif Kechiche
Elina Löwensohn, Olivier Gourmet, Jonathan Pienaar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Drama / Biography / History
France / Italy / Belgium
French
2645
244
2023
Matt Johnson
Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
Canada
English
2801
299
2006
Julie Gavras
Nina Kervel-Bey, Julie Depardieu, Stefano Accorsi, Benjamin Feuillet
Drama / History
Italy / France
French
2605
238
2002
André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Traudl Junge
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Austria
German
2788
291
2015
Marco Bellocchio
Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lydiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi
Drama / History
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
2756
280
1979
Concepcion Bohulano, Delfin Bohulano
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Documentary / History
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2785
289
2017
Alexandra Dean
Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2801
299
2008
Stefan Forbes
Lee Atwater, George Bush, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Karl Rove
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
301
2012
Raymond De Felitta
Hodding Carter III, Frank De Felitta, Yvette Johnson, Leroy Jones
Documentary / History / Mystery / Biography
USA
English
2316
176
1968
Richard Fleischer
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Biography / Detective
USA
English
2794
294
2023
Matt Ruskin
Keira Knightley, Carrie Coon, Chris Cooper, Alessandro Nivola, Rory Cochrane
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2783
288
1984
Roger Donaldson
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis
Adventure / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
587
35
1995
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
2689
258
1929
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1676
100
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
2394
191
1977
Richard Attenborough
Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic
USA / UK
English
2788
291
2024
Brady Corbet
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
Drama / History / Epic
USA / UK / Hungary
English
2756
280
1975
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2788
291
2018
Mario Martone
Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2320
177
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
1565
90
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
2807
301
2006
Phillip Noyce
Tim Robbins, Derek Luke, Bonnie Mbuli, Mncedisi Shabangu, Tumisho Masha
Drama / History / Thriller / Biography
France / UK / South Africa / USA
English
2740
275
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2480
206
2010
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz
Documentary / History
Canada / USA / France / Germany / UK
English
2807
301
1953
Owen Crump
Roy Thompson Jr., Henry Goszkowski, Richard Karl Elliott, Albert Bernard Cook
Documentary / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2759
282
1995
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents
Documentary / History
France / UK / Germany / USA
English
2676
253
2012
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III, Natalie Byfield, David Dinkins, Jim Dwyer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2807
301
2015
Marc J. Perez
Matt Zoller Seitz, Richard Koszarski, Tom Meyers, Nancy O'Mallon, Armand Pohan
Documentary / History
USA
English
2420
200
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2807
301
2017
John Curran
Kate Mara, Clancy Brown, Olivia Thirlby, Jason Clarke, Ed Helms, Bruce Dern
Drama / History / Thriller
Sweden / USA
English
2142
150
1936
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2316
176
1968
Tony Richardson
Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett
Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2807
301
2022
Stephen Williams
Kelvin Harrison Jr., Samara Weaving, Lucy Boynton, Ronke Adekoluejo, Marton Csokas
Biography / Drama / History / Music / Epic
USA
English
2132
148
1964
John Ford
Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Dolores del Rio
History / Western / Epic
USA
English
2788
291
2022
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani
Drama / Religion / Biography / History / Musical
Italy / Belgium
Italian
NR
-
2007
Brett Morgen
Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber
Documentary / Animation / History / Crime
USA
English
2756
280
1979
Sylvia Morales
Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2835
311
1968
Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Bob van Asperen, Bernd Weikl
Biography / History / Music / Drama
West Germany / Italy
German
2758
281
1975
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Henry Czarniak, Hassan El Amir, Brahim Hadjadj, Hassan Hassani
Drama / History / Epic
Algeria
Arabic
2807
301
2017
Jonathan Teplitzky
Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, Ella Purnell, Julian Wadham
Biography / Drama / Thriller / History / War
UK
English
1896
122
1962
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
2487
209
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
1478
84
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1736
109
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
NR
-
1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
955
60
2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
2794
294
2018
Wash Westmoreland
Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West, Robert Pugh, Sloan Thompson
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2788
291
2023
Edoardo De Angelis
Pierfrancesco Favino, Johannes Wirix, Giuseppe Brunetti
Biography / Drama / History / War
Italy / Belgium
Italian
1950
130
1987
Bill Douglas
Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2277
169
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2207
162
2003
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Smedley Darlington Butler
Documentary / History
Canada
English
2568
230
2022
Marie Kreutzer
Colin Morgan, Vicky Krieps, Finnegan Oldfield, Ivana Urban, Alma Hasun
Biography / Drama / History
Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France
German
2756
280
1963
Robert Drew
John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2387
188
1996
Nicholas Hytner
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2756
280
1972
Duane Kubo
Peter Hata, David Iwataki, June Karamoto, Dan Kuramoto, Johnny Mori
Documentary / Music / History / Short
USA
English
2807
301
1935
Cecil B. DeMille
Loretta Young, Henry Wilcoxon, Ian Keith, C. Aubrey Smith, Katherine DeMille
Adventure / Drama / History / War / Action / Epic / Religion
USA
English
2788
291
2014
Fatih Akin
Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan
Drama / History
Germany / France / Poland / Turkey / Canada / Russia / Italy
English
2284
170
2011
David Cronenberg
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Drama / Thriller / Biography / History
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland
English
1155
71
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
2794
294
2019
Todd Haynes
Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, William Jackson Harper, Tim Robbins, Bill Pullman
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
1905
123
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2511
215
1922
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova
History / Drama / Epic / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2496
212
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2732
273
2016
Bill Morrison
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O'Farrell, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Documentary / History
USA
English
1692
102
2006
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Drama / History / War
France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium
French
2676
253
1987
Bill Couturié
Robert De Niro, Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Sheen
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2073
143
2020
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova, Sergei Erlish
Drama / History
Russia
Russian
2262
167
2017
Armando Iannucci
Olga Kurylenko, Tom Brooke, Paddy Considine, Justin Edwards, Adrian McLoughlin
Biography | Comedy | Drama | History / Period Film
UK / Canada / France / Belgium
English
2807
301
1943
John Ford, Gregg Toland
Walter Huston, Harry Davenport, Dana Andrews, Paul Hurst, George O'Brien
Short / Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2852
317
2006
Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell
Donald Crowhurst, Francoise Moitessier de Cazalet, Simon Crowhurst
Documentary / History / Sports
UK
English
2709
267
1974
Jerzy Hoffman
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adventure / War / History / Epic / Romance
Poland / Soviet Union
Polish
2771
286
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2771
286
1936
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
1323
76
1985
Susan Seidelman
Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure / History
USA
English
2689
258
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2792
293
1997
Youssef Chahine
Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hémeida, Magdi Idris
Drama / History / Biography / Musical / Romance / Period Film
France / Egypt
French
2705
265
2017
Kathryn Bigelow
John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1575
91
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
1118
68
1959
George Stevens
Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters
Drama / War / History / Biography
USA
English
2756
280
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2689
258
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
235
12
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
448
23
2004
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Drama / History / War / Biography
Germany / Italy / Austria
German
2801
299
1944
Harold S. Bucquet, Jack Conway
Katharine Hepburn, Walter Huston, Aline MacMahon, Akim Tamiroff, Turhan Bey
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2524
219
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2691
259
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1112
67
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
2807
301
2012
Ken Burns
Peter Coyote, Patricia Clarkson, Carolyn McCormick, Kevin Conway, Amy Madigan
Documentary / History
USA
English
2605
238
1997
Dana Ranga
Margarita Andrushkovich, Chris Doerk, Erich Gusko, Helmut Hanke, Barbara Harnisch
Documentary / Musical / History
France / Germany
English
2807
301
2005
unknown
Thomas A. Edison, Charles Musser
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2479
205
1991
Derek Jarman
Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Drama / History
UK
English
2689
258
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2689
258
1934
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2010
138
1961
Anthony Mann
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Romance / War / Adventure / Drama / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
2669
250
2023
Pablo Larraín
Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger
Drama / Horror / Comedy / Fantasy / History
Chile
Spanish
2250
165
1965
Richard Kaplan
Frances Cole, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
916
57
1998
Shekhar Kapur
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2818
306
2007
Shekhar Kapur
Jordi Mollà, Aimee King, Cate Blanchett, John Shrapnel, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK / France
English
2168
155
1950
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Arlette Marchal
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure
UK
English
2807
301
2022
Antoine Fuqua
Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor, Ronnie Gene Blevins
Action / Thriller / History
USA
English
2396
192
1999
Kaige Chen
Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lu, Zhiwen Wang
Drama / Epic / History
France / Japan / China
Mandarin
2824
308
1987
Kazuo Hara
Kenzo Okuzaki, Emperor Hirohito
Documentary / War / History
Japan
Japanese
2511
215
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2763
284
2000
George Butler
Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale, John Henry Cox
Documentary / History / Adventure
Sweden / UK / Germany / USA
English
1707
104
1960
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
2816
304
2021
Michael Showalter
Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield, Cherry Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Mark Wystrach
Biography / Drama / History / Religion
Canada / USA
English
2807
301
2005
Ellen Perry
Alberto Fujimori
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2226
164
1964
Anthony Mann
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2801
299
2012
Benoît Jacquot
Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen, Xavier Beauvois
History / Drama / Epic
France / Spain
French
1385
80
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
730
44
1969
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
2789
292
2015
Klaus Härö
Lembit Ulfsak, Kirill Käro, Märt Avandi, Maria Avdjushko, Liisa Koppel
Drama / History / Sports
Finland / Estonia / Germany
Estonian
2325
178
1992
Pedro Olea
Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida
History / Thriller / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
2127
146
2023
Michael Mann
Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Patrick Dempsey, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Biography / Sports / History
USA / UK / Italy / China
English
2689
258
1963
Nicholas Ray, Guy Green, Andrew Marton
Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven, Flora Robson, John Ireland
Drama / History / War / Action / Adventure / Epic
USA
English
2810
303
2010
Yael Hersonski
Hanna Avrutzki, Luba Gewisser, Jurek Plonski, Aliza Vitis-Shomron, Shula Zeder
Documentary / Drama / History
Germany / Israel
English
2788
291
2023
Saverio Costanzo
Lily James, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Sennott, Joe Keery, Alba Rohrwacher
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy
Italian
2740
275
1964
Peter Baylis
Orson Welles, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
Documentary / War / History / Biography
UK
English
2807
301
2016
Craig Gillespie
Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana, Holliday Grainger, John Ortiz
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
USA
English
2012
139
1937
William K. Howard
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
1941
129
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1865
120
2018
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
Biography / Drama / History / Adventure
USA / Japan
English
2380
187
2017
Angelina Jolie
Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara
Biography / Drama / History
Cambodia / USA
Khmer
2816
304
2017
Laurent Bouzereau
Francis Ford Coppola, Guillermo del Toro, Paul Greengrass, Lawrence Kasdan
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
1779
112
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery
Action / Drama / History / War
Iceland / USA
English
2489
210
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Adventure / History / Fantasy
USA
English
2801
299
2011
Arnon Goldfinger
Arnon Goldfinger, Hannah Goldfinger, Gertrude Kino, Harald Milz, Tamar Tuchler
Documentary / History
Israel / Germany
Hebrew
2789
292
2011
Yimou Zhang
Christian Bale, Paul Schneider, Shigeo Kobayashi, Atsurô Watabe
Drama / History / War
China / Hong Kong
Mandarin
2840
314
1989
Al Reinert
Jim Lovell, Russell Schweickart, Eugene Cernan, Michael Collins, Charles Conrad
Documentary / History
USA
English
2682
256
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2398
193
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2740
275
1964
Mel Stuart
Richard Basehart, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
1987
135
1997
Spike Lee
Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr.
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2840
314
1994
Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford
Ronnie Washington
Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
280
2010
Stanley Nelson
Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam, John Lewis
Documentary / History
USA
English
2605
238
1981
Murray Lerner
David Golub, Isaac Stern, Tan Shuzhen
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
929
58
2008
Ron Howard
Toby Jones, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK / France
English
2807
301
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
392
19
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
553
31
2002
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
2672
252
2009
Edmon Roch
Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith, Juan Kreisler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Spain
Spanish
2756
280
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2756
280
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2801
299
1993
Walter Hill
Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall, Wes Studi, Matt Damon, Rodney A. Grant
Drama / History / Western / Epic / Biography
USA
English
2783
288
1996
Spike Lee
Richard Belzer, De'aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Drama / History
USA
English
2573
231
1993
Ronald F. Maxwell
Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang
Drama / History / War / Epic
USA
English
2702
264
2003
James Cameron
Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino
Documentary / Family / History
USA
English
2807
301
2011
Judy Chaikin
Melba Liston, Roz Cron, International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Clora Bryant
Documentary / Biography / History / Music
USA
English
2816
304
2020
Julie Taymor
Julianne Moore, Alicia Vikander, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Lulu Wilson, Gloria Steinem
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2689
258
1928
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
890
56
1989
Edward Zwick
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
2807
301
2023
Guy Nattiv
Helen Mirren, Zed Josef, Claudette Williams, Henry Goodman, Olivia Brody
Biography / Drama / History / War / Action / Adventure / Thriller
UK / USA
English
2546
225
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2605
238
1983
Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills
Ruth Davidow, Studs Terkel, Bill McCarthy, Ed Balchowsky, Steve Nelson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2792
293
1995
Hsiao-hsien Hou
Annie Shizuka Inoh, Giong Lim, Jack Kao
Drama / History / Romance
Japan / Taiwan
Mandarin
591
36
2005
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
2807
301
2017
Simon Curtis
Vicki Pepperdine, Margot Robbie, Domhnall Gleeson, Will Tilston, Alex Lawther
Biography | Family | History / Drama
UK
English
2398
193
1994
Jean Bach
Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
595
37
1963
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2807
301
1944
Preston Sturges
Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest, Louis Jean Heydt
Comedy / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2785
289
2005
Bill Paxton
James Paxton, Tom Rack, Armand Laroche, Peter Hurley, Gregory Terlecki
Drama / History / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2157
154
2001
Tim Blake Nelson
David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg, George Zlatarev
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2857
319
1977
Chris Marker
Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Salvador Allende, Regis Debray, Yves Montand
Documentary / History
France
French
1749
110
2016
Mel Gibson
Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson, Darcy Bryce
Drama / History / War / Period Film / Religion / Biography
Australia / USA
English
2550
226
1967
Gabriel Axel
Gitte Hænning, Oleg Vidov, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
Danish
1932
127
2020
Thomas Kail
Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
2807
301
1989
Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Harold Lloyd, Lindsay Anderson, Hal Roach, Harvey Parry, Jack Lemmon
Documentary / Biography / History / Music / Romance
UK
English
2816
304
2019
Kasi Lemmons
Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn, Clarke Peters, Vanessa Bell Calloway
Action / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2788
291
2024
Athina Rachel Tsangari
Harry Melling, Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene
Drama / History
UK / Germany / USA / France / Greece
English
1632
94
1974
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
671
41
1984
Edgar Reitz
Marita Breuer, Edgar Reitz, Gudrun Landgrebe
Drama / History / Epic
West Germany
German
2726
270
2011
Danfung Dennis
Documentary / Action / History / War
USA / UK / Afghanistan
English
292
15
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
930
59
1989
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Action / Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2689
258
1911
William G.B. Barker
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2605
238
1972
Waris Hussein
Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka
Drama / History / Biography / Romance
UK
English
1002
62
2002
Yimou Zhang
Jet Li, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Maggie Cheung, Ziyi Zhang, Daoming Chen
Action / Drama / Adventure / Romance / History / Epic
Hong Kong / China
Mandarin
2756
280
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
1770
111
2016
Theodore Melfi
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2689
258
1975
Robert Wise
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2756
280
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2689
258
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
2390
189
2006
Allen Coulter
Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney
Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
1168
72
2004
Terry George
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte
Drama / History / War
UK / Italy / South Africa
English
1460
83
1988
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary / History / Biography / War
France / USA
French
2801
299
1967
John Sturges
James Garner, Jason Robards, Robert Ryan, Albert Salmi, Charles Aidman
Western / History
USA
English
2709
267
1973
Moshé Mizrahi
Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloah, Michael Bat-Adam, Shai Ophir
Drama / History
Israel
Hebrew
2792
293
1971
Nelson Pereira dos Santos
Arduíno Colessanti, Manfredo Colassanti
Drama / Comedy / History / Adventure
Brazil
Portuguese
2792
293
1990
Harun Farocki
Documentary / History
West Germany
German
2677
254
2012
David France
Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2578
233
1985
Ken Burns
Huey Long, David McCullough, Russell Long
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2689
258
1961
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Drama / History / War
Japan
Japanese
2394
191
2008
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Liam Cunningham
Drama / History
UK / Ireland
English
2676
253
2012
Roger Michell
Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
1376
79
1964
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
2610
239
2016
Raoul Peck
Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett
Documentary / History
France / USA
English
2697
263
1970
Madeline Anderson
Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Coretta Scott King
Documentary / History / Short
USA
English
2785
289
2016
Kasper Collin
Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Larry Reni Thomas, Judith Johnson
Documentary / Drama / History / Music
Sweden / USA
English
2824
308
1976
Herbert Wise
Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, George Baker, John Hurt
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
2788
291
1998
Alessandro D'Alatri
Kim Rossi Stuart, Saïd Taghmaoui, Boris Terral
Adventure / Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Biography
Italy
Italian
2788
291
2014
Mario Martone
Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio, Anna Mouglalis, Valerio Binasco
Drama / Romance / Biography / History
Italy
Italian
2788
291
2024
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2742
277
1989
Harun Farocki
Documentary / War / History
West Germany
German
2131
147
2007
David Sington
Buzz Aldrin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins
Documentary / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2299
173
1968
Emile de Antonio
Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2807
301
1983
Harrison Engle
Theodore Roosevelt, George C. Scott, Bob Boyd, John Gable
Documentary / Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
2807
301
1930
John G. Adolfi
Otis Skinner, Beryl Mercer, Betty Jane Graham, Loretta Young, Walter Pidgeon
Short / History / Music
USA
English
2147
151
2000
Mark Jonathan Harris
Judi Dench, Lorraine Allard, Lory Chan, Mariam Cohen, Hedy Epstein, Kurt Fuchel
Documentary / History / War
UK / 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)
2816
304
2011
Phyllida Lloyd
Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Susan Brown, Alice da Cunha, Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Drama / Biography / History
UK / France
English
2689
258
1929
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
258
1966
René Clément
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / War / Epic
France / USA
French
2756
280
1984
Victor Masayesva Jr.
Ross Macaya
Documentary / History / Experimental
USA
Hopi
378
18
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
965
61
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2118
145
2016
Pablo Larraín
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup
Biography / Drama / History
USA / Chile / France
English
2807
301
2016
Gregory Monro
Jerry Lewis, Martin Scorsese, Sean Hayes, Pierre Étaix, Jean-Luc Godard
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / History
France / USA
English
2393
190
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2824
308
1994
Jacques Rivette
Tatiana Moukhine, Sandrine Bonnaire, Jean-Marie Richier, Baptiste Roussillon
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2824
308
1994
Jacques Rivette
Sandrine Bonnaire, André Marcon, Jean-Louis Richard, Marcel Bozonnet
Biography / Drama / Epic / History
France
French
2689
258
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2740
275
1966
Bruce Herschensohn
Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Earl Warren
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2789
292
2015
David O. Russell
Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, Edgar Ramirez
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2518
218
1939
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
1727
107
2021
Shaka King
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2689
258
1914
D.W. Griffith
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2816
304
2019
Rupert Goold
Renée Zellweger, Jessie Buckley, Rufus Sewell, Finn Wittrock, Michael Gambon
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Music
UK
English
873
55
1953
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
481
25
1980
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
2730
272
1993
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary / War / History
Canada
English
2528
221
2007
Andrzej Wajda
Joachim Paul Assböck, Waldemar Barwinski, Stanislawa Celinska, Andrzej Chyra
Drama / History / War / Biography
Poland
Polish
2689
258
1966
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
2633
242
2024
Marco Bellocchio
Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese
Drama / History
Italy / France / Germany
Italian
866
54
2023
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
2816
304
2017
Eugene Jarecki
Alec Baldwin, Tony Brown, James Carville, Chuck D, Maggie Clifford
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
Germany / USA
English
2330
179
1970
Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2524
219
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2577
232
2005
Ridley Scott
Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic / Religion
Spain / Germany
English
504
28
2010
Tom Hooper
Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / Australia
English
2691
259
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2314
175
2012
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
UK / Norway / Denmark
English
2839
313
2000
Peter Watkins
Eliane Annie Adalto, Pierre Barbieux, Bernard Bombeau, Maylis Bouffartigue
Drama / History / War
France
French
2754
279
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2689
258
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
1782
113
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
1938
128
1982
Ettore Scola
Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Drama / History / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2689
258
1912
Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton
Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Jean Angelo, Georges Charmeroy
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
France
French (Silent)
2224
163
2015
Martin Zandvliet
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Drama / History / War
Denmark / Germany
Danish
2792
293
1955
Howard Hawks
Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2769
285
1992
Chris Marker
Alexander Medvedkin, Léonor Graser, Rhona Campbell
Documentary / Biography / History
France
French
2342
180
1998
James Moll
Bill Basch, Alice Lok Cahana, Renee Firestone, Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2590
236
2021
Ridley Scott
Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Ben Affleck, Alex Lawther
Action / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA / UK
English
376
17
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
France / Italy / UK
English
2193
158
2006
Kevin Macdonald
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2691
259
1936
George B. Seitz
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
Adventure / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2788
291
2019
Steven Soderbergh
Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep, Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer
Comedy / Crime / Drama / History
USA
English
2689
258
1902
Georges Méliès
Short / History
France
French (Silent)
2807
301
2013
Lee Daniels
Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Terrence Howard, Alan Rickman
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2817
305
2001
Chatrichalerm Yukol
M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi, Sarunyu Wongkrachang, Chatchai Plengpanich
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
Thailand
Thai
226
8
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
2858
320
1992
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog
Documentary / Sci-Fi / History
France / UK / Germany
German
2801
299
1991
Peter Medak
Christopher Eccleston, Tom Courtenay, Eileen Atkins, Rebecca Eccleston
Crime / Drama / History
France / UK / Netherlands
English
2689
258
1985
Chris Bernard
Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Tracy Marshak-Nash, Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke
Comedy / Drama / Romance / History
UK
English
1102
66
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
2756
280
1980
Connie Field
Wanita Allen, Gladys Belcher, Lyn Childs, Lola Weixel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2807
301
1940
Irving Cummings
Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold, Warren William
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
859
53
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
768
47
1968
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2801
299
1997
Werner Herzog
Dieter Dengler, Eugene Deatrick, Werner Herzog
Documentary / Biography / Drama / War / History
France / UK / Germany
English
2226
164
1936
Henry King
Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power
Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2801
299
1990
Richard Pearce
Sissy Spacek, Whoopi Goldberg, Dwight Schultz, Ving Rhames, Dylan Baker
Drama / History
USA
English
2605
238
1997
Mark Jonathan Harris
Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2036
140
2014
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
2663
249
2016
James Gray
Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2788
291
2021
Xavier Giannoli
Benjamin Voisin, Cécile de France, Vincent Lacoste, Xavier Dolan
Drama / History
France / Belgium
French
2807
301
2022
Stephen Frears
Sally Hawkins, Shonagh Price, Helen Katamba, Lewis Macleod, Jenny Douglas
Comedy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2845
316
2016
Arthur Jafa
Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Cassi Namoda, Bayard Rustin, Walter Scott
Short / History / Documentary
USA
English
2528
221
2016
Jeff Nichols
Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2293
172
1969
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2781
287
2022
Amy Poehler
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, Norman Lear, Charo
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2859
321
1972
Luchino Visconti
Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film / Epic
France / Italy / West Germany
Italian
2689
258
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
258
1925
Léonce Perret
Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Comedy / History
USA
English (Silent)
2801
299
2010
Nigel Cole
Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James, Rosamund Pike
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
1255
74
1994
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
374
16
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
2807
301
1937
Jacques Tourneur
Carey Wilson, Ernie Adams, Erville Alderson, Virginia Brissac, Philo McCullough
Short / History / Mystery
USA
English
2356
183
1981
Margarethe von Trotta
Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Drama / History
West Germany
German
1787
115
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
2181
157
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
1667
99
1967
Frantisek Vlácil
Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Romance / Drama / Epic / History
Czechoslovakia
Czech
2443
202
2012
Kevin Macdonald
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley
Documentary / Biography / Music / History
USA / UK
English
2807
301
2017
Reginald Hudlin
Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Kate Hudson, Sterling K. Brown, Dan Stevens
Biography | Drama / History / Crime
USA
English
2740
275
1953
Irving Pichel
Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA / West Germany
English
2807
301
1929
Marco de Gastyne
Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Drama / History
France / Germany
German (Silent)
2605
238
1936
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2789
292
1971
Charles Jarrott
Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton
Drama / History / Epic / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2816
304
2018
Josie Rourke
Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, David Tennant, Jack Lowden, Guy Pearce
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
UK / USA
English
1680
101
1987
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn
Drama / History
USA
English
2756
280
1994
Freida Lee Mock
Maya Lin
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
1516
88
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2789
292
1968
Terence Young
Omar Sharif, Catherine Deneuve, James Mason, Ava Gardner
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Biography / History
France / UK
English
2401
195
2005
Rob Marshall
Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2059
142
1976
Marcel Ophüls
Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA / France / West Germany
French
2756
280
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2724
269
1996
Neil Jordan
Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Ian Hart, Richard Ingram, Aidan Quinn
Drama / History / Biography
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2517
217
2007
Michael Winterbottom
Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Edwin Reck, Scott A. Stevens, Irfan Khan
Drama / History / Thriller
USA / UK
English
2785
289
2019
Avi Belkin
Mike Wallace, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Larry King, Johnny Carson
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2716
268
2011
Lech Majewski
Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Oskar Huliczka, Joanna Litwin
Drama / History
Sweden / Poland
English
2856
318
1972
Noriaki Tsuchimoto
Documentary / History / Biography
Japan
Japanese
1716
105
1986
Roland Joffé
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
2807
301
2020
Sam Pollard
Martin Luther King, James Comey, David Garrow, Clarence B. Jones
Documentary / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2170
156
1988
Alan Rudolph
Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn
Drama / History / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
NR
-
1970
Martin Ritt
Sean Connery, Richard Harris, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay, Anthony Zerbe
Drama / History / Detective
USA
English
2003
136
2007
Sergei Bodrov
Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia
Mongolian
2792
293
1973
Parviz Kimiavi
Parviz Kimiavi, Aqa Seyyed, Ali Mirza, Edris Chamani, Darvish Abbas
Adventure / History
Iran
Persian
2740
275
1933
Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky
Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Paul Westermeier,
War / History
Germany
German
2660
248
2010
René Féret
Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau
Drama / History / Biography
France
French
2744
278
1999
Errol Morris
Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA
English
2079
144
2014
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
1779
112
1997
John Madden
Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2614
240
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2807
301
2012
Stephen Vittoria
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Cornel West, Alice Walker, Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Amy Goodman
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
1015
63
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2756
280
1971
Howard Alk
Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan, Deborah Johnson
Documentary / Biography / Crime / History
USA
English
2689
258
1918
William Nigh
Halbert Brown, Willard Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenck, George Ridell
War / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
232
10
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
2796
295
2009
Ken Burns
Peter Coyote, Philip Bosco, Murphy Guyer, Kevin Conway, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2756
280
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2756
280
1944
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
1927
126
2018
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci
Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
Germany / Italy
German
1925
125
2005
Terrence Malick
Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
2266
168
1978
Phillip Noyce
Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Don Crosby
Drama / History
Australia
English
2792
293
1998
Richard Linklater
Matthew McConaughey, Skeet Ulrich, Ethan Hawke, Gail Cronauer
Action / Crime / Drama / History / Western
USA
English
2420
200
1971
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2756
280
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
836
50
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
2788
291
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
2740
275
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2792
293
1990
Manoel de Oliveira
Luis Miguel Cintra, Diogo Doria, Miguel Guilherme, Luis Lucas
Drama / History
Portugal / Spain / France
Portuguese
2788
291
2010
Mario Martone
Luigi Lo Cascio, Valerio Binasco, Toni Servillo, Francesca Inaudi, Luca Barbareschi
Drama / Biography / History
Italy / France
Italian
2688
257
2008
Philipp Stölzl
Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Lukas, Georg Friedrich
Adventure / Drama / History / Sports / Period Film
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2605
238
1978
John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, Martin Lavut
Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Marianna Åström-De Fina
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2565
228
2022
Robert Eggers
Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Claes Bang, Ethan Hawke, Anya Taylor-Joy
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / History / Thriller / Epic / War
USA
English
1388
81
1940
King Vidor, W.S. Van Dyke, Jack Conway
Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey, Nat Pendleton
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Western
USA
English
2727
271
2010
Patricio Guzmán
Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez
Documentary / Drama / History
Chile / Spain / France / Germany / USA
Spanish
2788
291
1968
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini
Experimental / History / Drama / Comedy
Italy
Italian
1018
64
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2688
257
1998
Aleksey Balabanov
Sergei Makovetsky, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Drama / History / Period Film
Russia
Russian
2650
245
2019
Roman Polanski
Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2788
291
1996
Volker Schlöndorff
John Malkovich, Gottfried John, Marianne Sägebrecht
Drama / History / War
France / Germany / UK
English
2511
215
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
491
26
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
544
30
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
1661
97
1991
Hark Tsui
Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Steve Tartalia, Kent Cheng
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Period Film
Hong Kong
Cantonese
2756
280
1995
Kary Antholis
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein, Peter Thomas
Documentary / Short / Biography / History / War
USA
English
851
52
2023
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
2788
291
2024
Justin Kurzel
Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Jurnee Smollett, Marc Maron
Crime / Drama / Thriller / History
USA / UK / Canada
English
2359
185
2023
Ava DuVernay
Victoria Pedretti, Vera Farmiga, Connie Nielsen, Jon Bernthal, Finn Wittrock
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2807
301
2008
Justin Chadwick
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johansson, Eric Bana, Jim Sturgess, Mark Rylance
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2679
255
2020
Rod Lurie
Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson, Bobby Lockwood
Drama / History / War / Action
Bulgaria / USA
English
2709
267
2010
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan
Crime / Drama / History / War
France / Algeria / Belgium
French
1863
119
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
2689
258
1950
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2788
291
2000
Manoel de Oliveira
Lima Duarte, Luís Miguel Cintra, Ricardo Trepa
Biography / Drama / History / Religion / Period Film
Spain / Italy / France / Brazil / Portugal
Portuguese
2807
301
2009
unknown
Fanny Brice, The Boswell Sisters, Jimmy Durante, Bessie Smith, Woody Guthrie
Documentary / History
USA
English
2818
306
2000
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Rupert Everett, Klaus Müller, Karl Gorath, Pierre Seel, Heinz F.
Documentary / History / War
UK / Germany / USA
English
2740
275
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2660
248
2013
Peter Landesman
James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour
Drama / History
USA
English
2582
234
1977
Larry Clark
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones
Drama / Crime / Music / History
USA
English
69
4
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
2801
299
2010
John Turturro
John Turturro, Max Casella, Fiorello, Lina Sastri, Angela Luce, Massimo Ranieri
History / Music / Documentary
Italy / USA
Italian
1192
73
1973
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
2251
166
1987
Nils Gaup
Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo
Adventure / Action / Drama / History
Norway
Saami
2507
214
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2400
194
2016
Peter Berg
Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Benoist, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2689
258
2001
Michael Bay
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight
Action / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2642
243
1937
Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2393
190
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2689
258
1938
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2660
248
2018
Mike Leigh
Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
2709
267
1966
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Drama / History / Epic / War
Poland
Polish
2007
137
2000
Zhang Ke Jia
Hong Wei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang, Tian Yi Yang
Drama / History / Comedy
Hong Kong / China / Japan / France
Mandarin
2689
258
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2756
280
1936
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2852
317
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
2393
190
1964
Emile de Antonio
Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
Documentary / History
USA
English
1514
87
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2756
280
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2807
301
1944
unknown
Leon Errol, Martha O'Driscoll, Lois Collier, Milburn Stone
Short / War / Documentary / History
USA
English
2419
199
2014
Matthew Warchus
Ben Schnetzer, Abram Rooney, Jim McManus, George MacKay, Monica Dolan
Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2797
296
1957
Stanley Kramer
Cary Grant, Frank Sinatra, Sophia Loren, Theodore Bikel, John Wengraf
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2691
259
1949
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
2676
253
2010
Bertrand Tavernier
Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Action / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
France / Germany
French
1563
89
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
2605
238
2002
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Ian Holm, Kurt Gerron, Robby Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA / Canada / Germany / UK
English
735
45
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2605
238
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2660
248
2023
Nikolaj Arcel
Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Amanda Collin, Jacob Lohmann, Kristine Kujath Thorp
Drama / War / Biography / History / Epic
Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Germany
Danish
502
27
2006
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
581
34
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
1692
102
1994
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Biography
France / Italy / Germany
French
2788
291
2024
Luca Guadagnino
Lesley Manville, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, David Lowery
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2691
259
1984
Carlos Diegues
Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Arduíno Colassanti
Drama / History / Epic
Brazil / France
Portuguese
1577
92
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
2689
258
1913
Enrico Guazzoni
Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, Amelia Cattaneo, Carlo Cattaneo, Lea Giunchi
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2788
291
2015
Amos Gitai
Ischac Hiskiya, Pini Mitelman, Michael Warshaviak, Einat Weizman, Rotem Keinan
Drama / History / Thriller
Israel / France
Hebrew
2807
301
2016
Stephen Hopkins
Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Carice van Houten
Biography / Drama / Sports / History
France / Germany / Canada
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
2741
276
2006
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / Musical
India
Hindi
2530
222
1932
Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
1273
75
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
2807
301
1939
Henry Hathaway
Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford
Action / History / War / Adventure / Drama
USA
English
2527
220
2014
Gabe Polsky
Scotty Bowman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis
Documentary / Biography / History / Sports
USA / Russia
English
1130
69
1951
John Huston
Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick
War / History / Epic
USA
English
2696
262
2008
John Woo
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
China
Mandarin
2801
299
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
254
14
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
2756
280
1970
David Garcia
Norman Pittluck, Raul Ruiz
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2840
314
2013
Talal Derki
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Syria / Germany
Arabic
2411
196
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
845
51
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
2837
312
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2605
238
1997
Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
C.R. 'Tiny' Boland, Charley Bull, Rene Champion, Peggy De Hart, John Fawcett
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2605
238
1962
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
