Top 100 History Movies List

#40 History Movie

Little Big Man (1970) PG-13

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

#39 History Movie

Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) G

A series of mistakes made by the US Navy in the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor prove disastrous when Japan strikes.

#38 History Movie

Out of Africa (1985) PG

In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.

#37 History Movie

The Right Stuff (1983) PG

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.

#36 History Movie

The Killing Fields (1984) R

A journalist is trapped in Cambodia during tyrant Pol Pot's bloody "Year Zero" cleansing campaign, which claimed the lives of two million "undesirable" civilians.

#35 History Movie

The Mission (1986) PG

18th century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American Indian tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

#34 History Movie

The Longest Day (1962) G

The events of D-Day, told on a grand scale from both the Allied and German points of view.

#33 History Movie

Hunger (2008)

Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.

#32 History Movie

Empire of the Sun (1987) PG

A young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.

#31 History Movie

Quiz Show (1994) PG-13

A young lawyer, Richard Goodwin, investigates a potentially fixed game show. Charles Van Doren, a big time show winner, is under Goodwin's investigation.

#30 History Movie

Pearl Harbor (2001) PG-13

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

#29 History Movie

The Way back (2010) PG-13

Siberian gulag escapees travel 4,000 miles by foot to freedom in India.

#28 History Movie

The Last Emperor (1987) PG-13

The story of the final Emperor of China.

#27 History Movie

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado.

#26 History Movie

Glory (1993) R

Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.

#25 History Movie

Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) R

The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese who fought it.

#24 History Movie

Invictus (2009) PG-13

Nelson Mandela, in his first term as the South African President, initiates a unique venture to unite the apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

#23 History Movie

The Last of the Mohicans (1992) R

Three trappers protect a British Colonel's daughters in the midst of the French and Indian War.

#22 History Movie

A real-time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on September 11th, 2001 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

Director:

Paul Greengrass

Writers:

Paul Greengrass

Stars:

David Alan Basche, Olivia Thirlby, Liza Colón-Zayas

#21 History Movie

Black Hawk Down (2001) R

160 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.