Ranking: Best history movies
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Come and See (1985)
(213 votes)
dir: Elem Klimov
Average rating: 7.94 (213)
8 stars -
The Mirror (1975)
(142 votes)
dir: Andrei Tarkovsky
Average rating: 7.90 (142)
8 stars -
The Lives of Others (2006)
(643 votes)
- actress
- art
- communism
- drama
- gdr
- history
- interrogation
- party
- peeping
- security forces
- socialism
- theatre
- wire-tapping
- writer
dir: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Average rating: 7.89 (643)
8 stars -
Promised Land (1975)
(270 votes)
- 19th century
- characters
- city
- drama
- germany
- history
- industry
- jew
- łódź
- money
- poland
- pole
- poles
- screen version
- slice of life
dir: Andrzej Wajda
Average rating: 7.87 (270)
8 stars -
The Elephant Man (1980)
(517 votes)
dir: David Lynch
Average rating: 7.86 (517)
8 stars -
The Mission (1986)
(413 votes)
- costume
- drama
- history
- human trafficking
- latin america
- mission
- missionary
- native americans
- romance
- south america
- tropics
dir: Roland Joffé
Average rating: 7.85 (413)
8 stars -
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
(203 votes)
- adventure
- biography
- drama
- expedition
- forest
- history
- isolation
- jungle
- latin america
- seclusion
- tropics
- wandering
dir: Werner Herzog
Average rating: 7.85 (203)
8 stars -
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
(274 votes)
- adventure
- army
- biography
- costume
- desert
- drama
- guerilla warfare
- guerrilla
- history
- middle eath
- nation
- nation consolidation
- nomads
- sheik
- the army
- tropical country
- tropics
- war
- world war i
dir: David Lean
Average rating: 7.81 (274)
8 stars -
Barry Lyndon (1975)
(286 votes)
- 18th century
- adventure
- aristocracy
- community
- costume
- drama
- england
- history
- irland
- journey
- romance
- social status rise
- war
dir: Stanley Kubrick
Average rating: 7.81 (286)
8 stars -
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
(304 votes)
- action
- arthouse
- bank
- bank robbery
- based on actual events
- biography
- crime
- crime story
- drama
- gangster
- history
- thriller
dir: Sidney Lumet
Average rating: 7.78 (304)
8 stars