Best History Films by Rank
43
1
1985
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Daisuke Ryu, Mieko Harada
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Japan / France
Japanese
47
2
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
62
3
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Drama / War / Experimental / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
67
4
1928
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
116
5
1966
Andrei Tarkovsky
Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev
Drama / War / History / Biography / Epic / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian
121
6
1985
Claude Lanzmann
Claude Lanzmann, Simon Srebnik, Michael Podchlebnik, Motke Zaidl
Documentary / War / History
France
English
201
7
1916
D.W. Griffith
Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner, Sam De Grasse, Vera Lewis
Drama / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
218
8
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
227
9
1963
Luchino Visconti
Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale
Drama / War / Epic / History / Period Film
Italy / France
English
234
10
1959
William Wyler
Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Epic / Religion / History
USA
English
242
11
1965
David Lean
Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Alec Guinness
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Period Film
USA
English
249
12
1981
Warren Beatty
Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Romance
USA
English
258
13
1915
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh
Drama / War / Western / Epic / History
USA
English (Silent)
265
14
1960
Stanley Kubrick
Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier
Romance / War / Action / Drama / Epic / History / Adventure
USA
English
297
15
2010
David Fincher
Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones, Rooney Mara
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
300
16
1944
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Olivier, Robert Newton
Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
360
17
1966
Fred Zinnemann
Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Leo McKern, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
373
18
1982
Richard Attenborough
Ben Kingsley, John Gielgud, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, Trevor Howard
Drama / Epic / History / Biography / Religion
UK / India
English
377
19
1987
Bernardo Bertolucci
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O'Toole, Ruocheng Ying, Victor Wong, Dennis Dun
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
France / Italy / UK
English
387
20
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
408
21
1925
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Ivan Klyukvin, Aleksandr Antonov, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
410
22
1945
Sergei M. Eisenstein
Nikolai Cherkasov, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Serafima Birman
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
444
23
2010
Tom Hooper
Helena Bonham Carter, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Rush
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / Australia
English
445
24
2004
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Bruno Ganz, Alexandra Maria Lara, Corinna Harfouch, Ulrich Matthes
Drama / History / War / Biography
Germany / Italy / Austria
German
462
25
2013
Steve McQueen
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
463
26
1980
Akira Kurosawa
Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Drama / War / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
475
27
2006
Stephen Frears
Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Sylvia Syms, Paul Barrett
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
483
28
2012
Kathryn Bigelow
Jason Clarke, Reda Kateb, Jessica Chastain, Kyle Chandler, Jennifer Ehle
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
501
29
2002
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Crime / Drama / Epic / Period Film / History / Gangster
USA / Germany / Italy / UK / Netherlands
English
508
30
1938
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Dmitri Vasilyev
Nikolai Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov
War / Action / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
526
31
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Jesse Owens, Adolf Hitler, Rudolf Hess, Leni Riefenstahl
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
530
32
2015
Tom McCarthy
Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
534
33
1966
Sergei Bondarchuk
Lyudmila Savelyeva, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Gennadi Ivanov, Irina Gubanova
Drama / War / Epic / History / Romance
Soviet Union
Russian
542
34
1969
Marcel Ophüls
Georges Bidault, Matthäus Bleibinger, Charles Braun
Documentary / War / History
France / Switzerland / West Germany
French
552
35
2005
George Clooney
David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey, Jr.
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
559
36
1995
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
567
37
1938
Leni Riefenstahl
Rolf Wernicke, Glenn Morris
Documentary / Sports / History
Germany
German
574
38
1939
John Ford
Henry Fonda, Alice Brady
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
595
39
1995
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson, Sophie Marceau
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
598
40
2023
Jonathan Glazer
Sandra Hüller, Christian Friedel, Ralph Herforth, Max Beck, Marie Rosa Tietjen
Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / UK / Poland
English
603
41
1963
John Sturges
Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn
Adventure / War / Action / Drama / History / Family
USA
English
607
42
1933
Rouben Mamoulian
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
USA
English
636
43
1984
Edgar Reitz
Marita Breuer, Edgar Reitz, Gudrun Landgrebe
Drama / History / Epic
West Germany
German
716
44
2024
Brady Corbet
Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy
Drama / History / Epic
USA / UK / Hungary
English
733
45
1969
Federico Fellini
Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born, Salvo Randone
Drama / Period Film / Fantasy / History
Italy / France
Italian
740
46
1933
Alexander Korda
Charles Laughton, Robert Donat
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
UK
English
752
47
2023
Christopher Nolan
Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, Scott Grimes
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK
English
759
48
1968
Anthony Harvey
Peter O'Toole, Katharine Hepburn, Anthony Hopkins, John Castle, Nigel Terry
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
765
49
2012
Steven Spielberg
Daniel Day-Lewis, Sally Field, David Strathairn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader
Biography / Drama / History / War / Period Film
USA / India
English
771
50
1964
Peter Glenville
Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK / USA
English
772
51
2023
Martin Scorsese
Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons, Tantoo Cardinal
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English
773
52
1955
Laurence Olivier
Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, John Gielgud
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
808
53
1955
Alain Resnais
Michel Bouquet, Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Julius Streicher
Documentary / Short / History / War
France
French
828
54
2008
Ron Howard
Toby Jones, Frank Langella, Michael Sheen, Sam Rockwell, Kevin Bacon
Biography / Drama / History
USA / UK / France
English
850
55
2018
Pawel Pawlikowski
Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc, Agata Kulesza, Cédric Kahn
Drama / Music / Romance / History / Period Film
Poland / UK / France
Polish
858
56
1934
Josef von Sternberg
Marlene Dietrich, John Lodge
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
USA
English
866
57
1980
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Günter Lamprecht, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Karin Baal
Drama / Epic / Period Film / History
Italy / West Germany
German
872
58
1998
Shekhar Kapur
Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Joseph Fiennes
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
880
59
1989
Edward Zwick
Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes
Drama / War / Action / History / Epic
USA
English
891
60
1953
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Marlon Brando, James Mason, John Gielgud
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
USA
English
928
61
2005
Steven Spielberg
Eric Bana, Daniel Craig, Ciarán Hinds, Mathieu Kassovitz, Hanns Zischler
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
951
62
1989
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Action / Drama / War / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
969
63
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
985
64
2017
Christopher Nolan
Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard
Action / Drama / History / Thriller / War
UK / Netherlands / France / USA
English
1023
65
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ken Watanabe, Kazunari Ninomiya, Shido Nakamura, Tsuyoshi Ihara, Ryo Kase
Drama / War / History
USA
Japanese
1029
66
1958
Sergei M. Eisenstein, M. Filimonova
Nikolai Cherkasov, Serafima Birman, Pavel Kadochnikov
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
1052
67
1956
King Vidor
Audrey Hepburn, Henry Fonda, Mel Ferrer, Vittorio Gassman, Herbert Lom
Drama / Romance / War / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
1056
68
1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1076
69
1942
Sam Wood
Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright
Drama / Family / Biography / Sports / History
USA
English
1097
70
2006
Paul Greengrass
Christian Clemenson, Trish Gates, Polly Adams, Cheyenne Jackson, Opal Alladin
Drama / History
France / UK / USA
English
1102
71
2024
James Mangold
Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Monica Barbaro, Edward Norton
Biography / Drama / Music / History
USA
English
1117
72
1959
George Stevens
Millie Perkins, Shelley Winters
Drama / War / History / Biography
USA
English
1137
73
2004
Terry George
Don Cheadle, Sophie Okonedo, Joaquin Phoenix, Nick Nolte
Drama / History / War
UK / Italy / South Africa
English
1142
74
1951
John Huston
Audie Murphy, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick
War / History / Epic
USA
English
1147
75
2008
Stephen Daldry
Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Habich, David Kross, Susanne Lothar
Drama / History / Romance / Thriller / War / Period Film
USA / Germany
English
1162
76
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
1176
77
1983
Andrzej Wajda
Gérard Depardieu, Wojciech Pszoniak, Anne Alvaro
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France / Poland / West Germany
French
1186
78
1994
Nicholas Hytner
Nigel Hawthorne, Helen Mirren, Ian Holm, Rupert Graves
Comedy / Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
1214
79
2024
Walter Salles
Fernanda Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Otavio Linhares, Selton Mello
Biography / Drama / History
Brazil / France
Portuguese
1233
80
2018
Yorgos Lanthimos
Olivia Colman, Rachel Weisz, Emma Delves, Faye Daveney, Emma Stone
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film
Ireland / UK / USA
English
1268
82
2025
Chloé Zhao
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Zac Wishart, James Lintern, Joe Alwyn
Biography / Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
1272
83
1973
Sam Peckinpah
James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan, Richard Jaeckel, Katy Jurado
History / Western / Biography / Cult
USA
English
1273
84
2010
Olivier Assayas
Édgar Ramírez, Alexander Scheer, Alejandro Arroyo, Ahmad Kaabour
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
France / Germany
French
1301
85
1985
Susan Seidelman
Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn, Mark Blum, Robert Joy
Comedy / Romance / Drama / Adventure / History
USA
English
1342
86
1986
Roland Joffé
Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
UK
English
1345
87
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)
1356
88
2020
Aaron Sorkin
Eddie Redmayne, Alex Sharp, Sacha Baron Cohen, Jeremy Strong, John Carroll Lynch
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA / UK / India
English
1363
89
2017
Steven Spielberg
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
1382
91
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
1420
92
1991
Bruce Beresford
Lothaire Bluteau, Aden Young, Sandrine Holt, August Schellenberg
Adventure / Drama / History / Religion
Canada / Australia
English
1447
93
1964
Mikhail Kalatozov
Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo, Raúl García
Drama / Experimental / History / Epic
Soviet Union / Cuba
Russian
1452
94
1936
Anatole Litvak
Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux,
Romance / Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
1457
95
2024
RaMell Ross
Ethan Cole Sharp, Sam Malone, Najah Bradley, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jase Stidwell
Drama / History
USA
English
1468
96
1951
Mervyn LeRoy
Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov, Patricia Laffan
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
USA
English
1478
97
1987
John Sayles
Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham, David Strathairn
Drama / History
USA
English
1479
98
1988
Marcel Ophüls
Marcel Ophüls, Klaus Barbie, Claude Lanzmann
Documentary / History / Biography / War
France / USA
French
1500
99
2018
Adam McKay
Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Alison Pill
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
1517
100
2015
Steven Spielberg
Tom Hanks, Mark Rylance, Amy Ryan, Alan Alda, Sebastian Koch
Biography / Drama / History / Thriller / War / Spy
USA
English
1523
101
1934
Cecil B. DeMille
Claudette Colbert, Warren William, Henry Wilcoxon, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith
Drama / Epic / History / Romance / Biography
USA
English
1568
102
1994
Patrice Chéreau
Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil
Drama / Romance / History / Epic / Biography
France / Italy / Germany
French
1572
103
2005
Terrence Malick
Colin Farrell, Q'Orianka Kilcher, Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
1575
104
2021
Shaka King
Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
1588
105
1971
Ken Russell
Vanessa Redgrave, Oliver Reed, Dudley Sutton, Max Adrian
Drama / Horror / History / Period Film / Religion / Cult
UK
English
1594
106
2016
Mel Gibson
Andrew Garfield, Richard Pyros, Jacob Warner, Milo Gibson, Darcy Bryce
Drama / History / War / Period Film / Religion / Biography
Australia / USA
English
1598
107
2012
Joshua Oppenheimer, Anonymous, Christine Cynn
Anwar Congo, Herman Koto, Syamsul Arifin, Ibrahim Sinik, Yapto Soerjosoemarno
Documentary / Crime / History
Denmark / Norway / UK
Indonesian
1598
107
1966
Robert Wise
Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Richard Crenna, Candice Bergen
Drama / Romance / War / Adventure / History / Epic
USA
English
1609
108
2006
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Bernard Blancan
Drama / History / War
France / Morocco / Algeria / Belgium
French
1613
109
1955
Kenji Mizoguchi
Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Sô Yamamura
Drama / History / Epic
Japan / Hong Kong
Japanese
1615
110
2016
Theodore Melfi
Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monáe, Kevin Costner
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English
1616
111
1983
Geoff Murphy
Anzac Wallace, Bruno Lawrence, Tim Elliott, Kelly Johnson, Wi Kuki Kaa
Drama / Adventure / History
New Zealand
English
1624
112
1968
Michael Reeves
Vincent Price, Ian Ogilvy, Rupert Davies, Hilary Heath, Robert Russell
History / Horror / Drama / Period Film / Adventure
UK
English
1627
113
1974
Peter Davis
Georges Bidault, Clark Clifford, George Coker, Kay Dvorshock, Daniel Ellsberg
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
1681
114
1967
Frantisek Vlácil
Josef Kemr, Magda Vásáryová, Nada Hejna
Romance / Drama / Epic / History
Czechoslovakia
Czech
1685
115
1997
John Madden
Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher, Gerard Butler
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
UK / Ireland / USA
English
1691
116
1963
Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Rouben Mamoulian, Darryl F. Zanuck
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
Drama / Romance / Epic / History / Biography
UK / USA / Switzerland
English
1695
117
1997
Steven Spielberg
Morgan Freeman, Anthony Hopkins, Matthew McConaughey
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
1697
118
1965
Kon Ichikawa
Abebe Bikila, Jack Douglas, Hirohito
Documentary / Sports / History
Japan
Japanese
1702
119
2006
Clint Eastwood
Ryan Phillippe, Jesse Bradford, Adam Beach, John Benjamin Hickey, John Slattery
Action / Drama / History / War
Iceland / USA
English
1716
120
2018
Damien Chazelle
Ryan Gosling, Claire Foy, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler, Corey Stoll
Biography / Drama / History / Adventure
USA / Japan
English
1721
121
1932
Cecil B. DeMille
Fredric March, Elissa Landi, Claudette Colbert, Charles Laughton, Ian Keith
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English
1729
122
1991
Hark Tsui
Jet Li, Biao Yuen, Rosamund Kwan, Jacky Cheung, Steve Tartalia, Kent Cheng
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / Period Film
Hong Kong
Cantonese
1735
123
1969
Charles Jarrott
Richard Burton, Geneviève Bujold, Irene Papas
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
1736
124
1938
W.S. Van Dyke
Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, John Barrymore, Robert Morley, Anita Louise
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Epic
USA
English
1738
125
1960
Otto Preminger
Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford, Lee J. Cobb
Action / Drama / History / War
USA
English
1764
126
2017
Joe Wright
Lily James, Gary Oldman, Ben Mendelsohn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Stephen Dillane
Biography / Drama / History / War
UK
English
1777
127
2014
Ava DuVernay
David Oyelowo, Tim Roth, Giovanni Ribisi, Cuba Gooding Jr., Martin Sheen
Drama / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
1787
128
2018
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Tom Schilling, Sebastian Koch, Paula Beer, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci
Drama / History / Thriller / Epic
Germany / Italy
German
1794
129
2020
Thomas Kail
Daveed Diggs, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Jonathan Groff, Chris Jackson
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA
English
1805
130
1960
John Wayne
John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey
Action / Adventure / Drama / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
1812
131
1939
Henry King, Otto Brower
Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Charles Coburn
Adventure / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
1821
132
2012
Nikolaj Arcel
Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Trine Dyrholm
Drama / History / Romance
Denmark / Sweden / Czech Republic
Danish
1826
133
1964
Cy Endfield
Stanley Baker, Michael Caine, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson
War / Drama / Action / Epic / History
UK
English
1834
134
1946
Harry Watt
Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell
Adventure / History / Drama
Australia / UK
English
1840
135
2023
J.A. Bayona
Enzo Vogrincic, Simon Hempe, Rafael Federman, Matías Recalt, Andy Pruss
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller
Spain / USA / Uruguay / Chile
Spanish
1849
136
1938
Jean Renoir
Pierre Renoir, Lise Delamare, Léon Larive, William Aguet, Elisa Ruis
History / Period Film / War
France
French
1869
137
1996
Leon Gast
Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Don King, James Brown, B.B. King, Mobutu Sese Seko
Documentary / History / Sports / Biography
USA
English
1870
138
2007
Sergei Bodrov
Tadanobu Asano, Channing Tatum, Honglei Sun, Khulan Chuluun, Odnyam Odsuren
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
Germany / Kazakhstan / Russia / Mongolia
Mongolian
1877
139
2014
Joshua Oppenheimer
Documentary / War / History / Biography
Denmark / Finland / Norway / Indonesia / UK
Indonesian
1892
140
1982
Ettore Scola
Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Drama / History / Period Film
France / Italy
French
1892
140
1954
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Mariko Okada, Rentaro Mikuni
Action / Adventure / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
1928
141
2020
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Yuliya Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrey Gusev, Yuliya Burova, Sergei Erlish
Drama / History
Russia
Russian
1953
142
2014
Mike Leigh
Timothy Spall, Paul Jesson, Dorothy Atkinson, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson
Biography / Drama / History
UK
English
1956
143
1962
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Tatsuya Mihashi, Akira Takarada, Yosuke Natsuki
Drama / Epic / History
Japan
Japanese
1956
143
1997
Spike Lee
Maxine McNair, Chris McNair, Helen Pegues, Queen Nunn, Arthur Hanes Jr.
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
1969
144
1987
Bill Douglas
Robin Soans, William Gaminara, Stephen Bateman, Philip Davis, Jeremy Flynn
Drama / History / Period Film
UK
English
1969
144
2016
Pablo Larraín
Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, John Hurt, Billy Crudup
Biography / Drama / History
USA / Chile / France
English
2003
145
2023
Michael Mann
Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Patrick Dempsey, Penélope Cruz
Drama / Biography / Sports / History
USA / UK / Italy / China
English
2004
146
1961
Anthony Mann
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page
Romance / War / Adventure / Drama / Epic / History
Italy / USA
English
2011
147
1943
Humphrey Jennings
Philip Dickson, George Gravett, Fred Griffiths, Johnny Houghton
Documentary / Drama / History / War
UK
English
2012
148
1937
William K. Howard
Flora Robson, Raymond Massey, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh
Adventure / History / Romance / War
UK
English
2024
149
2000
Zhang Ke Jia
Hong Wei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang, Tian Yi Yang
Drama / History / Comedy
Hong Kong / China / Japan / France
Mandarin
2027
150
1945
John Huston
Mark W. Clark, John Huston
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2036
151
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
2040
152
2021
Joel Coen
Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel, Brendan Gleeson
Drama / History / Thriller / War
USA
English
2056
153
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
2069
154
1970
Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, Toshio Masuda
Martin Balsam, Sô Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi
Action / War / Adventure / Drama / History / Epic
USA / Japan
English
2074
155
1976
Marcel Ophüls
Joan Baez, Karl Dönitz, Hermann Göring
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA / France / West Germany
French
2076
156
2006
Kevin Macdonald
Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Gillian Anderson, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2079
157
2013
Hayao Miyazaki
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, John Krasinski, Emily Blunt, Martin Short, Stanley Tucci
Animation / Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Fantasy
Japan
Japanese
2081
158
2024
Magnus von Horn
Vic Carmen Sonne, Trine Dyrholm, Besir Zeciri, Ava Knox Martin, Joachim Fjelstrup
Drama / History / Horror
Denmark / Poland / Sweden
Danish
2082
159
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
2093
160
1936
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson, Nigel Bruce
Action / Adventure / Romance / War / Epic / History
USA
English
2104
161
2001
Tim Blake Nelson
David Arquette, Velizar Binev, David Chandler, Michael Stuhlbarg, George Zlatarev
Drama / History / War
USA
English
2105
162
2015
Martin Zandvliet
Roland Møller, Louis Hofmann, Joel Basman, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard
Drama / History / War
Denmark / Germany
Danish
2115
163
2007
David Sington
Buzz Aldrin, Edgar D. Mitchell, Alan Bean, Jim Lovell, Michael Collins
Documentary / History / Biography
UK / USA
English
2122
164
2000
Mark Jonathan Harris
Judi Dench, Lorraine Allard, Lory Chan, Mariam Cohen, Hedy Epstein, Kurt Fuchel
Documentary / History / War
UK / USA
English
2131
165
1964
John Ford
Richard Widmark, Carroll Baker, Karl Malden, Sal Mineo, Dolores del Rio
History / Western / Epic
USA
English
2131
165
2022
Chinonye Chukwu
Danielle Deadwyler, Jalyn Hall, Jamie Renell, Whoopi Goldberg, Sean Patrick Thomas
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2141
166
1957
Billy Wilder
James Stewart, Murray Hamilton, Patricia Smith, Bartlett Robinson
Drama / Adventure / History / Biography
USA
English
2141
166
2008
Errol Morris
Christopher Bradley, Sarah Denning, Joshua Feinman, Jeff L. Green, Merry Grissom
Documentary / War / History / Crime
USA
English
2145
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
2161
168
2003
Jennifer Abbott, Mark Achbar
Jane Akre, Ray Anderson, Maude Barlow, Chris Barrett, Smedley Darlington Butler
Documentary / History
Canada
English
2166
169
2011
David Cronenberg
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel
Drama / Thriller / Biography / History
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland
English
2194
170
2012
Joachim Rønning, Espen Sandberg
Pål Sverre Valheim Hagen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gustaf Skarsgård
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
UK / Norway / Denmark
English
2198
171
1953
George Lowe
Meredith Edwards, John Hunt, Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay
Documentary / History / Sports / Adventure / Biography
UK
English
2216
172
1950
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Cyril Cusack, Jack Hawkins, Arlette Marchal
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure
UK
English
2225
173
1988
Alan Rudolph
Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, John Lone, Wallace Shawn
Drama / History / Comedy / Period Film
USA
English
2225
173
1978
Phillip Noyce
Bill Hunter, Wendy Hughes, Gerard Kennedy, Chris Haywood, John Ewart, Don Crosby
Drama / History
Australia
English
2232
174
1965
Richard Kaplan
Frances Cole, Archibald Macleish, Eric Sevareid
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2233
175
1987
Nils Gaup
Mikkel Gaup, Ingvald Guttorm, Nils Utsi, Henrik H. Buljo
Adventure / Action / Drama / History
Norway
Saami
2240
176
2023
Ava DuVernay
Victoria Pedretti, Vera Farmiga, Connie Nielsen, Jon Bernthal, Finn Wittrock
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2240
176
1999
István Szabó
Ralph Fiennes, Rosemary Harris, Rachel Weisz, Jennifer Ehle
Drama / Epic / History / War
Germany / Austria / Canada / Hungary
English
2249
177
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2253
178
2008
Steve McQueen
Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon, Liam Cunningham
Drama / History
UK / Ireland
English
2260
179
2024
Luca Guadagnino
Lesley Manville, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, David Lowery
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Comedy
Italy / USA
English
2263
180
2017
Angelina Jolie
Sareum Srey Moch, Phoeung Kompheak, Sveng Socheata, Mun Kimhak, Heng Dara
Biography / Drama / History
Cambodia / USA
Khmer
2264
181
1965
Luis Buñuel
Claudio Brook, Silvia Pinal, Hortensia Santoveña
Short / Drama / History / Comedy / Religion
Mexico
Spanish
2269
182
1964
Anthony Mann
Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2269
182
1936
Henry King
Freddie Bartholomew, Madeleine Carroll, Guy Standing, Tyrone Power
Drama / History / Romance
USA
English
2271
183
1996
Nicholas Hytner
Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce Davison
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English
2282
184
1992
Pedro Olea
Omero Antonutti, Assumpta Serna, Joaquim de Almeida
History / Thriller / Period Film
Spain
Spanish
2284
185
2016
Peter Berg
Mark Wahlberg, Melissa Benoist, Michelle Monaghan, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2285
186
2005
Rob Marshall
Suzuka Ohgo, Togo Igawa, Mako, Samantha Futerman, Elizabeth Sung, Thomas Ikeda
Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2285
186
2016
Martin Scorsese
Adam Driver, Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, Ciarán Hinds, Tadanobu Asano
Drama / History / Thriller / Religion
USA / Taiwan / Mexico
English
2290
187
2024
Tim Fehlbaum
Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Zinedine Soualem
History / Thriller / Drama
Germany
English
2298
188
2012
Amy Berg
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, Jessie Misskelley Jr., Lorri Davis, Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / Crime
New Zealand / USA
English
2304
189
2014
Matthew Warchus
Ben Schnetzer, Abram Rooney, Jim McManus, George MacKay, Monica Dolan
Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2306
190
1971
Franklin J. Schaffner
Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Roderic Noble
Drama / History / Epic / Biography
UK
English
2309
191
1969
Humberto Solás
Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá
Drama / History
Cuba
Spanish
2310
192
1955
Hiroshi Inagaki
Toshirô Mifune, Koji Tsuruta, Mariko Okada, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiyo Kogure
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2310
192
1956
Hiroshi Inagaki
Koji Tsuruta, Toshirô Mifune, Kaoru Yachigusa, Michiko Saga, Mariko Okada
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
Japan
Japanese
2312
193
1970
Sidney Lumet, Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ruby Dee, James Earl Jones
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2314
194
1968
Emile de Antonio
Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Joseph Buttinger, William R. Corson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2325
195
1998
James Moll
Bill Basch, Alice Lok Cahana, Renee Firestone, Tom Lantos, Irene Zisblatt
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2330
196
2012
Kevin Macdonald
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Cedella Marley, Rita Marley
Documentary / Biography / Music / History
USA / UK
English
2335
197
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
2340
198
1981
Margarethe von Trotta
Jutta Lampe, Barbara Sukowa, Rüdiger Vogler, Doris Schade
Drama / History
West Germany
German
2341
199
2006
Oliver Stone
Nicolas Cage, Michael Pena, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff
Drama / History
USA
English
2344
200
1965
Carol Reed
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
USA
English
2344
200
1948
Victor Fleming
Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert H. Barrat
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA
English
2344
200
1937
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Mikhail Zharov
War / Drama / History / Epic / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2345
201
1977
Richard Attenborough
Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic
USA / UK
English
2349
202
1940
John Cromwell
Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard, Minor Watson
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2351
203
1964
Emile de Antonio
Roy M. Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch
Documentary / History
USA
English
2352
204
1999
Kaige Chen
Li Gong, Fengyi Zhang, Zhou Sun, Xiaohe Lu, Zhiwen Wang
Drama / Epic / History
France / Japan / China
Mandarin
2352
204
2025
Richard Linklater
Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin, Adrien Rouyard, Antoine Besson
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
France / USA
French
2355
205
1941
Alexander Korda
Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper
Drama / History / Romance / War / Biography
UK
English
2363
206
1968
Richard Fleischer
Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, Mike Kellin, Hurd Hatfield
Crime / Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Biography / Detective
USA
English
2363
206
1968
Tony Richardson
Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett
Drama / History / War / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2367
207
1982
Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Rafferty
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2371
208
2010
Werner Herzog
Werner Herzog, Dominique Baffier, Jean Clottes, Jean-Michel Geneste, Carole Fritz
Documentary / History
Canada / USA / France / Germany / UK
English
2373
209
1999
Nagisa Oshima
Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano, Koji Matoba
Drama / History / Period Film
France / UK / Japan
Japanese
2378
210
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
2381
211
2006
Allen Coulter
Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck, Bob Hoskins, Robin Tunney
Drama / History / Mystery / Thriller / Detective / Period Film
USA
English
2388
212
2023
Anh Hung Tran
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger
Drama / History / Romance
France / Belgium
French
2395
213
1928
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2399
214
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
2399
214
1992
Stuart Samuels, Arnold Glassman, Todd McCarthy, Andrew Glassman
Ernest R. Dickerson, Michael Chapman, Allen Daviau, Caleb Deschanel
Documentary / History
USA / Japan
English
2404
215
2007
Michael Winterbottom
Angelina Jolie, Archie Panjabi, Edwin Reck, Scott A. Stevens, Irfan Khan
Drama / History / Thriller
USA / UK
English
2409
216
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2416
217
2014
Gabe Polsky
Scotty Bowman, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Anatoli Karpov, Alexei Kasatonov, Ken Kurtis
Documentary / Biography / History / Sports
USA / Russia
English
2417
218
2007
Andrzej Wajda
Joachim Paul Assböck, Waldemar Barwinski, Stanislawa Celinska, Andrzej Chyra
Drama / History / War / Biography
Poland
Polish
2417
218
2016
Jeff Nichols
Ruth Negga, Joel Edgerton, Will Dalton, Dean Mumford, Terri Abney
Biography / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2420
219
2006
Zack Snyder
Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, Dominic West, David Wenham, Vincent Regan
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic / Comic
USA
English
2420
219
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
2426
220
1937
Carmine Gallone
Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Francesca Braggi
Drama / Epic / History / Biography
Italy
Italian
2439
221
1930
D.W. Griffith
Walter Huston, Una Merkel, William L. Thorne, Lucille La Verne, Helen Freeman
Biography / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2443
222
1967
Gabriel Axel
Gitte Hænning, Oleg Vidov, Gunnar Björnstrand
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Denmark / Iceland / Sweden
Danish
2444
223
1937
Herbert Wilcox
Anna Neagle, Anton Walbrook, Walter Rilla, H.B. Warner, Mary Morris
Drama / History / Romance / Biography
UK
English
2449
224
1951
Henry King
Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, Kieron Moore
Drama / Romance / History / Religion / Epic
USA
English
2449
224
1958
Richard Fleischer
Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest Borgnine, Janet Leigh, James Donald
Action / Adventure / History
USA
English
2457
225
1941
Kenji Mizoguchi
Utaemon Ichikawa, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Chojuro Kawarazaki
Action / Drama / History / Period Film
Japan
Japanese
2457
225
1994
Jean Bach
Quincy Jones, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Sonny Rollins
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2459
226
1922
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Dagny Servaes, Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova
History / Drama / Epic / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2459
226
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2459
226
1926
James Cruze
George Bancroft, Wallace Beery, William Conklin, Nick De Ruiz, Effie Ellsler
Drama / History / Adventure / Action / War
USA
English (Silent)
2460
227
2022
Gina Prince-Bythewood
Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu, Lashana Lynch, Sheila Atim, John Boyega
Action / Drama / History / Epic / War
USA
English
2461
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
2462
229
1952
Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2463
230
1939
William Dieterle
Paul Muni, Bette Davis, Brian Aherne, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Donald Crisp
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2464
231
2022
Marie Kreutzer
Colin Morgan, Vicky Krieps, Finnegan Oldfield, Ivana Urban, Alma Hasun
Biography / Drama / History
Austria / Luxembourg / Germany / France
German
2464
231
1941
Fritz Lang
Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore, John Carradine
History / Western
USA
English
2466
232
1991
Derek Jarman
Steven Waddington, Kevin Collins, Andrew Tiernan, John Lynch
Drama / History
UK
English
2468
233
1924
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2468
233
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2475
234
2005
Ridley Scott
Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, David Thewlis, Brendan Gleeson
Action / Drama / History / War / Epic / Religion
Spain / Germany
English
2482
235
1932
Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin
John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan, Diana Wynyard
Drama / History / Epic
USA
English
2486
236
2024
Ridley Scott
Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn
Action / Adventure / Drama / Epic / Fantasy / History
USA / UK / Morocco / Canada
English
2486
236
2005
Eugene Jarecki
Wilton Sekzer, Chalmers Johnson, William Solomon, Charles Lewis, Richard Perle
Documentary / History / War
USA / France / UK / Canada / Denmark
English
2490
237
2021
Ridley Scott
Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Ben Affleck, Alex Lawther
Action / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA / UK
English
2491
238
1984
Rob Epstein
Harvey Milk, Harvey Fierstein, Anne Kronenberg, Tory Hartmann, Tom Ammiano
Documentary / Biography / History / Crime
USA
English
2498
239
2016
Raoul Peck
Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Dick Cavett
Documentary / History
France / USA
English
2501
240
1967
Masaki Kobayashi
Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa, Tatsuyoshi Ehara, Etsuko Ichihara
Drama / History / Period Film / War / Romance
Japan
Japanese
2504
241
1950
Jacques Tourneur
Burt Lancaster, Virginia Mayo, Robert Douglas, Aline MacMahon
Adventure / History / Fantasy
USA
English
2511
242
1985
Ken Burns
Huey Long, David McCullough, Russell Long
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2512
243
2002
Randall Wallace
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell
Action / Drama / History / War
USA / Germany
English
2516
244
2017
Warwick Thornton
Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Thomas M. Wright, Matt Day
Adventure | Crime | Drama | History | Thriller | Western
Australia
English
2518
245
2019
Roman Polanski
Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois
Drama / History / Thriller / Crime / Period Film
France / Italy
French
2525
246
1995
Jon Blair
Kenneth Branagh, Glenn Close, Anne Frank, Miep Gies, Edith Frank, Ashley Johnson
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA / Netherlands
English
2529
247
2024
Marco Bellocchio
Paolo Pierobon, Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese
Drama / History
Italy / France / Germany
Italian
2529
247
2004
Peter Raymont
Roméo Dallaire
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Canada
English
2541
248
2023
Matt Johnson
Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, Matt Johnson, Cary Elwes, Saul Rubinek
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
Canada
English
2542
249
1957
Robert Youngson
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Will Rogers, Carole Lombard, Jean Harlow, Ben Turpin
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2542
249
1977
Larry Clark
Nathaniel Taylor, Clarence Muse, Pamela Jones
Drama / Crime / Music / History
USA
English
2542
249
1960
Robert Youngson
Charles Chaplin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase
Comedy / Documentary / History / Family
USA
English
2547
250
2010
Randall Wallace
Diane Lane, John Malkovich, Dylan Walsh, Dylan Baker, Margo Martindale
Drama / History / Sports
USA
English
2550
251
2019
Kantemir Balagov
Viktoria Miroshnichenko, Vasilisa Perelygina, Andrey Bykov, Igor Shirokov
Drama / War / Period Film / History
Russia
Russian
2559
253
2010
René Féret
Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, David Moreau
Drama / History / Biography
France
French
2559
253
2013
Peter Landesman
James Badge Dale, Zac Efron, Jackie Earle Haley, Colin Hanks, David Harbour
Drama / History
USA
English
2559
253
2018
Mike Leigh
Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan
Drama / History / Epic
UK
English
2559
253
2023
Nikolaj Arcel
Mads Mikkelsen, Gustav Lindh, Amanda Collin, Jacob Lohmann, Kristine Kujath Thorp
Drama / War / Biography / History / Epic
Denmark / Sweden / Norway / Germany
Danish
2562
254
2016
James Gray
Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller, Tom Holland, Edward Ashley
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2569
255
2019
Todd Douglas Miller
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, Jim Lovell, Walter Cronkite
Documentary / History
USA
English
2569
255
2023
Pablo Larraín
Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger
Drama / Horror / Comedy / Fantasy / History
Chile
Spanish
2569
255
2018
Paul Greengrass
Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Oslash;igarden, Maria Bock
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
Norway / Iceland / USA
English
2571
256
2022
Damien Chazelle
Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Diego Calva, Jean Smart, Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li
Comedy / Drama / History / Period Film / Epic
USA
English
2571
256
2025
Richard Linklater
Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Giles Surridge
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History / Music / Romance
USA / Ireland
English
2572
257
2009
Edmon Roch
Rupert Allason, José Antonio Escoriza, Aline Griffith, Juan Kreisler
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Spain
Spanish
2577
258
2012
Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon
Angela Black, Calvin O. Butts III, Natalie Byfield, David Dinkins, Jim Dwyer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2577
258
1987
Bill Couturié
Robert De Niro, Tom Berenger, Ellen Burstyn, Martin Sheen
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2577
258
2012
Roger Michell
Bill Murray, Laura Linney, Olivia Williams, Olivia Colman, Elizabeth Marvel
Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
UK
English
2577
258
2010
Bertrand Tavernier
Mélanie Thierry, Lambert Wilson, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet
Action / Drama / History / Romance / Period Film
France / Germany
French
2578
259
2012
David France
Peter Staley, Garance Franke-Riuta, Mark Harrington, Spencer Cox, Larry Kramer
Documentary / History
USA
English
2581
260
2020
Rod Lurie
Orlando Bloom, Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Milo Gibson, Bobby Lockwood
Drama / History / War / Action
Bulgaria / USA
English
2583
261
2021
Aaron Sorkin
Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J.K. Simmons, Nina Arianda, Tony Hale
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2589
262
2008
Philipp Stölzl
Benno Fürmann, Johanna Wokalek, Ulrich Tukur, Florian Lukas, Georg Friedrich
Adventure / Drama / History / Sports / Period Film
Germany / Austria / Switzerland
German
2592
263
1970
Madeline Anderson
Ralph Abernathy, Leon Davis, Coretta Scott King
Documentary / History / Short
USA
English
2595
264
2016
Keith Maitland
Violett Beane, Louie Arnette, Blair Jackson, Monty Muir, Chris Doubek
Documentary / Animation / Crime / History
USA
English
2595
264
2017
Stephen Frears
Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Tim Pigott-Smith, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Michael Gambon
Biography | Drama | History / Comedy
UK / USA
English
2596
265
2014
Yann Demange
Jack O'Connell, Sam Reid, Paul Anderson, Richard Dormer, Sean Harris
Action / Drama / Thriller / War / Period Film / History
UK
English
2597
266
2024
Ali Abbasi
Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Martin Donovan, Catherine McNally
Biography / Drama / History
Canada / Denmark / Ireland
English
2597
266
2024
Steve McQueen
Saoirse Ronan, Harris Dickinson, Benjamin Clémentine, Kathy Burke
Action / Drama / History / War / Adventure
UK / USA
English
2597
266
2025
Gus Van Sant
Dacre Montgomery, Bill Skarsgård, Al Pacino, Cary Elwes, Myha'la, Kelly Lynch
Biography / Crime / Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2597
266
2008
John Woo
Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang, Chen Chang, Wei Zhao
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
China
Mandarin
2597
266
2010
Amir Bar-Lev
Pat Tillman
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2598
267
1967
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Stuart Whitman
Documentary / War / History / Biography
France
French
2598
267
2005
Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Irina Baronova, Yvonne Chouteau, Yvonne Craig, Frederic Franklin, Alan Howard
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2598
267
1927
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2598
267
2002
André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer
Traudl Junge
Documentary / Biography / History / War
Austria
German
2598
267
1997
Dana Ranga
Margarita Andrushkovich, Chris Doerk, Erich Gusko, Helmut Hanke, Barbara Harnisch
Documentary / Musical / History
France / Germany
English
2598
267
1981
Murray Lerner
David Golub, Isaac Stern, Tan Shuzhen
Documentary / Music / History
USA
English
2598
267
1983
Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills
Ruth Davidow, Studs Terkel, Bill McCarthy, Ed Balchowsky, Steve Nelson
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2598
267
1972
Waris Hussein
Keith Michell, Donald Pleasence, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Asher, Frances Cuka
Drama / History / Biography / Romance
UK
English
2598
267
1997
Mark Jonathan Harris
Morgan Freeman, Edward Asner, Sean Astin, Martin Landau, Miriam Margolyes
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2598
267
1936
John Ford, Leslie Goodwins
Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Douglas Walton
Biography / Drama / History
USA
English
2598
267
1978
John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, Martin Lavut
Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano, Marianna Åström-De Fina
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2598
267
2002
Malcolm Clarke, Stuart Sender
Ian Holm, Kurt Gerron, Robby Lantz, Eleonore Hertzberg, Lone Koppel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA / Canada / Germany / UK
English
2598
267
1939
Michael Curtiz
Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Crisp, Alan Hale
Biography / Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2598
267
1997
Lexy Lovell, Michael Uys
C.R. 'Tiny' Boland, Charley Bull, Rene Champion, Peggy De Hart, John Fawcett
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2598
267
1962
Louis Clyde Stoumen
Marlene Dietrich, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / Biography / War / History
USA
English
2598
267
1953
Ken Annakin
Richard Todd, Glynis Johns, James Robertson Justice, Michael Gough
Adventure / Drama / Family / History
USA
English
2598
267
2006
Henriette Mantel, Steve Skrovan
Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, Howard Zinn, Andrew Egendorf, Robert Fellmeth
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2598
267
1984
Heinz Schirk
Robert Atzorn, Friedrich G. Beckhaus, Gerd Böckmann, Jochen Busse
Drama / War / History
Austria / West Germany
German
2602
268
1960
K. Asif
Prithviraj Kapoor, Madhubala, Durga Khote, Nigar Sultana
Drama / War / Romance / History / Biography
India
Urdu
2604
269
2003
James Cameron
Bill Paxton, Dr. John Broadwater, Dr. Lori Johnston, Charles Pellegrino
Documentary / Family / History
USA
English
2607
270
2017
Kathryn Bigelow
John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jacob Latimore, Jason Mitchell
Crime / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film
USA
English
2608
271
1937
Christian-Jaque, Sacha Guitry
Jacqueline Delubac, Sacha Guitry, Lyn Harding
Comedy / History / Epic
France
French
2610
272
1999
Zeinabu irene Davis
John Earl Jelks, Michelle A. Banks, Nirvana Cobb, Kevin L. Davis, Christopher Smith
Drama / Romance / History
USA
English
2613
273
1945
Garson Kanin, Carol Reed
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Robert Harris, Peter Ustinov
Documentary / War / History
UK / USA
English
2614
274
1974
Jerzy Hoffman
Daniel Olbrychski, Malgorzata Braunek, Tadeusz Lomnicki
Adventure / War / History / Epic / Romance
Poland / Soviet Union
Polish
2614
274
1973
Moshé Mizrahi
Gila Almagor, Yosef Shiloah, Michael Bat-Adam, Shai Ophir
Drama / History
Israel
Hebrew
2614
274
2010
Rachid Bouchareb
Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila, Chafia Boudraa, Bernard Blancan
Crime / Drama / History / War
France / Algeria / Belgium
French
2614
274
1966
Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Jerzy Zelnik, Wieslawa Mazurkiewicz, Barbara Brylska
Drama / History / Epic / War
Poland
Polish
2614
274
2002
Ben Sombogaart
Thekla Reuten, Nadja Uhl, Ellen Vogel, Gudrun Okras
Drama / Romance / History / Epic
Netherlands / Luxembourg
Dutch
2620
275
1966
Roberto Rossellini
Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2623
276
2011
Lech Majewski
Rutger Hauer, Michael York, Charlotte Rampling, Oskar Huliczka, Joanna Litwin
Drama / History
Sweden / Poland
English
2623
276
2010
Patricio Guzmán
Gaspar Galaz, Lautaro Núñez, Luís Henríquez
Documentary / Drama / History
Chile / Spain / France / Germany / USA
Spanish
2632
277
1947
Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl
Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Drama / Romance / History / Period Film
USA
English
2632
277
1996
Neil Jordan
Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Ian Hart, Richard Ingram, Aidan Quinn
Drama / History / Biography
UK / Ireland / USA
English
2634
278
1993
Alanis Obomsawin
Alanis Obomsawin
Documentary / War / History
Canada
English
2635
279
2011
Danfung Dennis
Documentary / Action / History / War
USA / UK / Afghanistan
English
2636
280
2016
Bill Morrison
Kathy Jones-Gates, Michael Gates, Sam Kula, Bill O'Farrell, Chris 'Mad Dog' Russo
Documentary / History
USA
English
2637
281
1920
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2637
281
1972
Joseph Losey
Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese
Drama / History / Thriller / Biography
Italy / France / UK
English
2637
281
1953
Peter Brook
Laurence Olivier, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Dorothy Tutin, Stanley Holloway
Crime / History / Musical / Drama
UK
English
2637
281
1907
Sidney Olcott
Herman Rottger, William S. Hart
Short / History / Action / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1930
King Vidor
Johnny Mack Brown, Wallace Beery, Kay Johnson, Karl Dane, Wyndham Standing
History / Western / Biography
USA
English
2637
281
1929
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2637
281
1943
Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely, Dane Clark, Warner Anderson
Adventure / History / War / Drama
USA
English
2637
281
1929
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2637
281
1954
Michael Curtiz
Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Gene Tierney, Michael Wilding, Bella Darvi
Drama / History / Period Film / Religion
USA
English
2637
281
1934
Alessandro Blasetti
Giuseppe Gulino, Aida Bellia, Gianfranco Giachetti, Mario Ferrari
Drama / War / History / Epic
Italy
Italian
2637
281
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
2637
281
1993
Ronald F. Maxwell
Martin Sheen, Jeff Daniels, Tom Berenger, Stephen Lang
Drama / History / War / Epic
USA
English
2637
281
1928
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2637
281
1911
William G.B. Barker
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Arthur Bourchier, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2637
281
1975
Robert Wise
George C. Scott, Anne Bancroft, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Gig Young
Drama / History / Thriller
USA
English
2637
281
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
2637
281
1961
Masaki Kobayashi
Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yusuke Kawazu, Tamao Nakamura, Chishu Ryu
Drama / History / War
Japan
Japanese
2637
281
1929
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2637
281
1966
René Clément
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Boyer, Leslie Caron, George Chakiris, Gert Fröbe
Drama / History / War / Epic
France / USA
French
2637
281
1916
Cecil B. DeMille
Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts, Wallace Reid
Adventure / Drama / History / Mystery / War / Biography / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1914
D.W. Griffith
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish
Drama / History / Epic / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1966
Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Richard Johnson, Ralph Richardson
Action / Adventure / Drama / History / War / Epic
UK
English
2637
281
1942
Emilio Fernández
David Silva, Isabela Corona, Pituka de Foronda, Carlos López
Drama / War / History
Mexico / Argentina / Spain
Spanish
2637
281
1912
Henri Desfontaines, Louis Mercanton
Sarah Bernhardt, Lou Tellegen, Max Maxudian, Jean Angelo, Georges Charmeroy
Biography / Drama / Romance / History
France
French (Silent)
2637
281
1902
Georges Méliès
Short / History
France
French (Silent)
2637
281
1985
Chris Bernard
Alfred Molina, Peter Firth, Tracy Marshak-Nash, Alexandra Pigg, Margi Clarke
Comedy / Drama / Romance / History
UK
English
2637
281
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri,Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2637
281
1925
Léonce Perret
Gloria Swanson, Émile Drain, Charles de Rochefort, Madeleine Guitty
Comedy / History
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1918
William Nigh
Halbert Brown, Willard Dashiell, Louis Dean, Earl Schenck, George Ridell
War / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1950
Mikheil Chiaureli
Mikheil Gelovani, Boris Andreyev, Marina Kovalyova, V. Savelyev, G. Timoshenko
War / Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2637
281
2001
Michael Bay
Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding Jr., Jon Voight
Action / Drama / History / Romance / War / Epic
USA
English
2637
281
1938
Vladimir Petrov
Nikolai Simonov, Alla Tarasova, Nikolai Cherkasov, Irina Zarubina, Mikhail Zharov
Biography / Drama / History / War / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian
2637
281
1936
John Ford
Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Barry Fitzgerald, Denis O'Dea, Eileen Crowe
Drama / History / Adventure / Thriller / War
USA
English
2637
281
1913
Enrico Guazzoni
Amleto Novelli, Gustavo Serena, Amelia Cattaneo, Carlo Cattaneo, Lea Giunchi
Drama / Epic / History / Religion
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2637
281
1924
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
1940
Michael Curtiz
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Raymond Massey, Ronald Reagan, Alan Hale
Action / Adventure / Biography / Drama / Romance / Western / History
USA
English
2637
281
1956
Tay Garnett, Paul Mantz, Andrew Marton, Ted Tetzlaff, Walter Thompson
Lowell Thomas, Paul Mantz
Documentary / History
USA
English
2637
281
1908
Vladimir Romashkov
Yevgeni Petrov-Krayevsky
Short / History
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2637
281
1938
Allan Dwan
Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg, Joseph Schildkraut
Drama / History / Romance / Adventure / Biography
USA
English
2637
281
1941
Raoul Walsh
Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin, Gene Lockhart
Biography / Drama / Romance / War / Western / History / Epic
USA
English
2637
281
1934
Dziga Vertov
V.I. Lenin, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Joseph Stalin, Dolores Ibárruri
Documentary / History / Biography
Soviet Union
Russian
2637
281
1955
Mario Camerini, Mario Bava
Silvana Mangano, Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, Rossana Podestà
Adventure / History / Fantasy / Romance
Italy
Italian
2637
281
1947
Cecil B. DeMille
Gary Cooper, Paulette Goddard, Howard Da Silva, Boris Karloff, Cecil Kellaway
Adventure / History / Western / Epic / Romance / Period Film
USA
English
2637
281
1923
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2637
281
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
2644
282
1950
Henry Hathaway
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Cécile Aubry, Jack Hawkins, Michael Rennie
Adventure / History / Epic / Romance
UK
English
2644
282
1931
F.W. Kraemer, Milton Rosmer
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Carson, George Merritt, Sam Livesey, Beatrix Thompson
Drama / History / Period Film / Biography
UK
English
2644
282
1937
Jacques Feyder
Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat, Irene Vanbrugh, Herbert Lomas, Austin Trevor
Adventure / Drama / History / Thriller / Period Film / Romance
UK
English
2644
282
1936
George B. Seitz
Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes, Henry Wilcoxon, Bruce Cabot, Heather Angel
Adventure / Drama / War / History
USA
English
2644
282
1949
Henry King
Tyrone Power, Orson Welles, Wanda Hendrix, Marina Berti, Everett Sloane
Adventure / Drama / History
USA
English
2644
282
1984
Carlos Diegues
Jonas Bloch, Zózimo Bulbul, Emmanuel Cavalcanti, Arduíno Colassanti
Drama / History / Epic
Brazil / France
Portuguese
2644
282
2001
Claude Lanzmann
Yehuda Lerner
Documentary / History / War / Biography
France
French
2651
283
1963
Abraham Zapruder
John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, John Connally
Documentary / Short / History / Crime
USA
English
2654
284
1957
Jerome Hill
Fredric March, Albert Schweitzer, Burgess Meredith, Phillip Eckert
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2654
284
1996
Edouard Molinaro
Fabrice Luchini, Manuel Blanc, Sandrine Kiberlain
Adventure / Romance / History / Period Film / Biography
France
French
2654
284
2021
Paul Verhoeven
Virginie Efira, Charlotte Rampling, Daphne Patakia, Lambert Wilson
Biography / Drama / History / Romance / Religion / Period Film
France / Belgium / Netherlands
French
2654
284
1934
Paul Czinner
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson
Drama / History / Biography / Period Film
UK
English
2654
284
1964
Peter Baylis
Orson Welles, George Baker, Faith Brook, David Healy
Documentary / War / History / Biography
UK
English
2654
284
1964
Mel Stuart
Richard Basehart, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2654
284
1966
Bruce Herschensohn
Gregory Peck, John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, Earl Warren
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2654
284
1953
Irving Pichel
Niall MacGinnis, John Ruddock, Pierre Lefevre, Guy Verney
Drama / History / Religion / Biography
USA / West Germany
English
2654
284
1933
Vernon Sewell, Gustav Ucicky
Rudolf Forster, Fritz Genschow, Paul Westermeier,
War / History
Germany
German
2654
284
1936
Robert Stevenson
Cedric Hardwicke, Nova Pilbeam, John Mills, Felix Aylmer
Drama / History / Biography
UK
English
2654
284
1948
Nicole Védrès
Claude Dauphin, Monty Woolley
Documentary / History
France
French
2654
284
1936
Efim Dzigan
Grigori Bushuyev, Raisa Yesipova, Vasili Zajchikov, E. Gunn
War / History / Drama
Soviet Union
Russian
2655
285
2006
Rakesh Omprakash Mehra
Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Sharman Joshi, Kunal Kapoor, Atul Kulkarni, Alice Patten
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / Musical
India
Hindi
2657
286
1999
Errol Morris
Fred A. Leuchter Jr., Robert Jan Van Pelt, David Irving, Caroline Leuchter
Documentary / Biography / History
UK / USA
English
2661
287
1984
Eduardo Coutinho
Eduardo Coutinho, Elizabeth Teixeira, Ferreira Gullar, Tite de Lemos
Documentary / History
Brazil
Portuguese
2666
288
1998
Aleksey Balabanov
Sergei Makovetsky, Dinara Drukarova, Anzhelika Nevolina, Viktor Sukhorukov
Drama / History / Period Film
Russia
Russian
2670
289
1974
Cinda Firestone
John Andrini, Herman Badillo, L.D. Barkley, Roger Champen, Flip Crawley
Documentary / Crime / History
USA
English
2670
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anthony Veiller
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1944
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Douglas MacArthur
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Anthony Veiller, Walter Huston, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1984
Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg
Rita Mae Brown, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bruce Nugent, Harry Otis, Donna Smith
Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
289
1979
Concepcion Bohulano, Delfin Bohulano
Dawn Bohulano Mabalon
Documentary / History
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2670
289
1981
Ken Burns
Paul Roebling, Julie Harris, Arthur Miller, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Richard Pini
Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
289
1975
Mimi Pickering
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2670
289
1979
Sylvia Morales
Carmen Zapata, Alicia Escalante, Francisca Flores, Dolores Huerta
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2670
289
1989
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Dustin Hoffman, Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2670
289
1963
Robert Drew
John F. Kennedy, George Wallace, Robert F. Kennedy, Vivian Malone, James Hood
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2670
289
1972
Duane Kubo
Peter Hata, David Iwataki, June Karamoto, Dan Kuramoto, Johnny Mori
Documentary / Music / History / Short
USA
English
2670
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Charles de Gaulle
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
2010
Stanley Nelson
Raymond Arsenault, Genevieve Houghton, Gordon Carey, Derek Catsam, John Lewis
Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
289
1946
George Stevens
Documentary / History / War
USA
English
2670
289
1937
C. Allen Alexander
George Washington Carver
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2670
289
1931
Anthony Young
John J. Bradley, Emile Gauvreau
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1937
unknown
Herbert Morrison
Short / Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
289
1984
Victor Masayesva Jr.
Ross Macaya
Documentary / History / Experimental
USA
Hopi
2670
289
1980
Connie Field
Wanita Allen, Gladys Belcher, Lyn Childs, Lola Weixel
Documentary / History / Biography / War
USA
English
2670
289
2011
Nancy Buirski
Edward L. Ayers, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Hope Ryden, Earl Warren
Documentary / Romance / Drama / History
USA
English
2670
289
1994
Freida Lee Mock
Maya Lin
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2670
289
1944
William Wyler
Robert Morgan, Vince Evans, Captain James A. Verinis
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1971
Howard Alk
Fred Hampton, Rennie Davis, Skip Andrew, Edward Hanrahan, Deborah Johnson
Documentary / Biography / Crime / History
USA
English
2670
289
1943
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Anthony Veiller, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1944
Stuart Heisler
William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Norman Ford, Carlton Moss, Clyde Turner
Documentary / Short / War / Drama / History
USA
English
2670
289
1940
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Fayard Nicholas, Harold Nicholas
Documentary / History / Biography
USA
English
2670
289
1995
Kary Antholis
Gerda Weissmann Klein, Kurt Klein, Peter Thomas
Documentary / Short / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2670
289
1936
Pare Lorentz
Thomas Chalmers
Documentary / Short / Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2670
289
1943
Frank Capra
Walter Huston, Adolf Hitler, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1970
David Garcia
Norman Pittluck, Raul Ruiz
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English
2670
289
1906
unknown
Documentary / Short / History
USA
English (Silent)
2670
289
1914
William Robert Daly
Sam Lucas, Walter Hitchcock, Hattie Delaro, Master Abernathy, Teresa Michelena
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2670
289
1976
Jim Klein, Miles Mogulescu, Julia Reichert
Kate Hyndman, Stella Nowicki, Sylvia Woods
Documentary / History / Music
USA
English
2670
289
1945
Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Documentary / War / History
USA
English
2670
289
1979
Stewart Bird, Deborah Shaffer
Roger Baldwin
Documentary / History
USA
English
2670
289
1977
Nancy Adair, Andrew Brown, Rob Epstein
Pat Bond, John Burnside, Sally M. Gearhart, Elsa Gidlow, Donald Hackett
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2673
290
1975
Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina
Henry Czarniak, Hassan El Amir, Brahim Hadjadj, Hassan Hassani
Drama / History / Epic
Algeria
Arabic
2675
291
1995
Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman
Lily Tomlin, Tony Curtis, Susie Bright, Arthur Laurents
Documentary / History
France / UK / Germany / USA
English
2680
292
2000
George Butler
Liam Neeson, Julian Ayer, John Blackborow, David Cale, John Henry Cox
Documentary / History / Adventure
Sweden / UK / Germany / USA
English
2680
292
1997
John Singleton
Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill, Loren Dean, Esther Rolle
Action / Drama / History
USA
English
2690
293
1962
Robert Bresson
Florence Delay, Jean-Claude Fourneau, Roger Honorat
Drama / History / Biography / Religion / Period Film
France
French
2691
294
1939
Goffredo Alessandrini
Camillo Pilotto, Mario Ferrari, Enrico Glori, Amedeo Trilli
History / War / Drama / Religion
Italy
Italian
2695
295
1941
Alessandro Blasetti
Elisa Cegani, Luisa Ferida, Rina Morelli, Gino Cervi
Fantasy / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
Italy
Italian
2697
296
1968
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Bene, Lydia Mancinelli, Ornella Ferrari, Anita Masini
Experimental / History / Drama / Comedy
Italy
Italian
2698
297
1989
Harun Farocki
Documentary / War / History
West Germany
German
2699
298
1983
Edward Bennett
Julie Covington, Ian Charleson, John Phillips, Susan Engel, Philip Locke
Drama / History / War
UK
English
2699
298
1963
Tadashi Imai
Kinnosuke Nakamura, Eijirô Tôno, Kyôko Kishida, Masayuki Mori
Action / Drama / Adventure / History
Japan
Japanese
2699
298
1972
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli, Franco Citti, Josephine Chaplin
Comedy / Drama / History
Italy / France
English
2699
298
1986
Reinhard Hauff
Ulrich Pleitgen, Ulrich Tukur, Therese Affolter, Sabine Wegner, Hans Kremer
Crime / Drama / History / Action / Adventure
West Germany
German
2699
298
1985
Rainer Simon
Joachim Lätsch, Peter Zimmermann, Kathrin Waligura, Christine Schorn
Drama / History / War / Romance
East Germany
German
2702
299
2022
Amy Poehler
Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Bette Midler, Norman Lear, Charo
Documentary / Biography / Comedy / Drama / History
USA
English
2702
299
2019
Martin Scorsese
Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith, Martin von Haselberg, Scarlet Rivera
Documentary / Music / Biography / History
USA
English
2702
299
2022
Maria Schrader
Lola Petticrew, Katherine Laheen, Zoe Kazan, Carey Mulligan, Emma O'Connor
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English
2702
299
2018
Peter Jackson
Documentary / History / War
UK / New Zealand
English
2704
300
2002
Ron Howard
Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, Kevin Bacon, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris
Drama / History / Family
USA
English
2704
300
1984
Roger Donaldson
Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Edward Fox, Daniel Day-Lewis
Adventure / Drama / History
UK / USA
English
2704
300
1996
Spike Lee
Richard Belzer, De'aundre Bonds, Andre Braugher, Thomas Jefferson Byrd
Drama / History
USA
English
2704
300
1989
Michael Caton-Jones
John Hurt, Joanne Whalley, Bridget Fonda, Ian McKellen, Leslie Phillips
Drama / History / Period Film
UK / USA
English
2706
301
2017
Alexandra Dean
Hedy Lamarr, Mel Brooks, Diane Kruger, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Osborne
Documentary / Biography / History / War
USA
English
2706
301
1942
Veit Harlan
Paul Wegener, Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum
Drama / History / War / Biography / Epic
Germany
German
2706
301
1936
Luis Trenker
Luis Trenker, Viktoria Von Ballasko, Elise Aulinger
Western / History / Drama / Biography
Germany
German
2706
301
2005
Bill Paxton
James Paxton, Tom Rack, Armand Laroche, Peter Hurley, Gregory Terlecki
Drama / History / Sports / Period Film / Family
USA
English
2706
301
2016
Kasper Collin
Lee Morgan, Helen Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Larry Reni Thomas, Judith Johnson
Documentary / Drama / History / Music
Sweden / USA
English
2706
301
2019
Avi Belkin
Mike Wallace, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Larry King, Johnny Carson
Documentary / Biography / History
USA
English
2707
302
1976
Felipe Cazals
Enrique Lucero, Salvador Sánchez, Ernesto Gómez Cruz, Roberto Sosa
Adventure / Crime / Drama / Thriller / Action / History
Mexico
Spanish
2707
302
1971
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic, Vincenzo Amato, Angela Luce
Comedy / Drama / History / Romance / Epic
Italy / France / West Germany
Italian
2707
302
1985
László Lugossy
György Cserhalmi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jirí Adamíra, Boguslaw Li
Drama / History
Hungary
Hungarian
2707
302
1981
Wojciech Marczewski
Tomasz Hudziec, Teresa Marczewska, Marek Kondrat, Zdzislaw Wardejn
Drama / History
Poland
Polish
2707
302
2020
Steve McQueen
Letitia Wright, Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn, John Boyega, Sheyi Cole, Kenyah Sandy
Drama / History / Romance
UK
English
2709
303
2025
Mona Fastvold
Lewis Pullman, Amanda Seyfried, Tim Blake Nelson, Christopher Abbott
Biography / Drama / History / Musical
USA / UK
English
2709
303
2025
László Nemes
Grégory Gadebois, Marcin Czarnik, Bojtorján Barabas
Biography / Drama / History
Hungary / UK / USA / Cyprus / France / Germany
Hungarian
2709
303
2024
Gianni Amelio
Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giuseppe Amelio
Drama / History / War
Italy
Italian
2709
303
2010
Abdellatif Kechiche
Elina Löwensohn, Olivier Gourmet, Jonathan Pienaar, Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Drama / Biography / History
France / Italy / Belgium
French
2709
303
2015
Marco Bellocchio
Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lydiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi
Drama / History
Italy / France / Switzerland
Italian
2709
303
2018
Mario Martone
Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam
Drama / History / Period Film
Italy / France
Italian
2709
303
2022
Susanna Nicchiarelli
Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani
Drama / Religion / Biography / History / Musical
Italy / Belgium
Italian
2709
303
2023
Edoardo De Angelis
Pierfrancesco Favino, Johannes Wirix, Giuseppe Brunetti
Biography / Drama / History / War
Italy / Belgium
Italian
2709
303
2014
Fatih Akin
Tahar Rahim, Simon Abkarian, Makram Khoury, Hindi Zahra, Kevork Malikyan
Drama / History
Germany / France / Poland / Turkey / Canada / Russia / Italy
English