IMDB - Top 50 - History Movies

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The Top 50 "History" Movies as voted by the users of the Internet Movie Database.

Updated: January 1, 2010

  1. 1.
    Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
    by Steven Spielberg

  2. 2.
    Das Boot - The Director's Cut
    by Wolfgang Petersen

  3. 3.
    Downfall [DVD]
    by Oliver Hirschbiegel

  4. 4.
    The Elephant Man

  5. 5.
    Mihai Viteazul (1970)
    by Sergiu Nicolaescu

  6. 6.
    The Great Escape
    by John Sturges

  7. 7.
    Braveheart
    by Mel Gibson

  8. 8.
    Judgment at Nuremberg
    by Stanley Kramer

  9. 9.
    Hotel Rwanda
    by Terry George

  10. 10.
    Ben-Hur
    by William Wyler

  11. 11.
    The Battle of Algiers (The Criterion Collection)
    by Gillo Pontecorvo

  12. 12.
    Ivan Vasilievich - Back to the Future
    by Leonid Gaidai

  13. 13.
    Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
    by Richard Attenborough

  14. 14.
    Inherit the Wind
    by Stanley Kramer

  15. 15.
    Ip Man (First Print Edition) DVD
    by Wilson Yip

  16. 16.
    The Passion of Joan of Arc (The Criterion Collection)
    by Carl Theodor Dreyer

  17. 17.
    Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection)
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  18. 18.
    Z
    by Costa-Gavras

  19. 19.
    Intolerance
    by D.W. Griffith

  20. 20.
    In Cold Blood
    by Richard Brooks

  21. 21.
    Breaker Morant

  22. 22.
    The Lion in Winter
    by Anthony Harvey

  23. 23.
    Becket
    by Peter Glenville

  24. 24.
    Letters from Iwo Jima (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Clint Eastwood

  25. 25.
    Aguirre, the Wrath of God
    by Werner Herzog

  26. 26.
    Battleship Potemkin
    by Sergei M. Eisenstein

  27. 27.
    The Winter War
    by Pekka Parikka

  28. 28.
    Spartacus (The Criterion Collection)
    by Anthony Mann

  29. 29.
    A Night to Remember (The Criterion Collection)
    by Roy Ward Baker

  30. 30.
    All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Alan J. Pakula

  31. 31.
    The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser

  32. 32.
    Black Friday
    by Anurag Kashyap

  33. 33.
    Changeling

  34. 34.
    Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
    by Sergei Parajanov

  35. 35.
    Glory
    by Edward Zwick

  36. 36.
    JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Barbara Kopple

  37. 37.
    The Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
    by Moustapha Akkad

  38. 38.

  39. 39.
    The Killing Fields

  40. 40.
    The Untouchables
    by Brian De Palma

  41. 41.
    Sergeant York (Two-Disc Special Edition)
    by Howard Hawks

  42. 42.
    The Tree of Wooden Clogs
    by Ermanno Olmi

  43. 43.
    The Tunnel
    by Roland Suso Richter

  44. 44.
    Mutiny on the Bounty
    by Frank Lloyd

  45. 45.
    The Mirror
    by Andrey Tarkovskiy

  46. 46.
    Frost/Nixon

  47. 47.
    Zulu

  48. 48.
    The Ten Commandments (Three-Disc 50th Anniversary Collection)
    by Cecil B. DeMille

  49. 49.

  50. 50.
    Queen Christina
    by Rouben Mamoulian

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Created by Melissa B. on Aug 23, 2007.
 

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