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IMDB - Top 50 - History Movies

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

Updated: October 27, 2009

(found at: http://www.imdb.com/chart/history)
1. Schindler's List (Widescreen Edition)
by Steven Spielberg
  
2. Das Boot - The Director's Cut
by Wolfgang Petersen
  
3.
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 Mihai Viteazul (1970)
by Sergiu Nicolaescu
  
4. Downfall
by Oliver Hirschbiegel
  
5. The Elephant Man  
6. The Great Escape
by John Sturges
  
7. Judgment at Nuremberg
by Stanley Kramer
  
8. Hotel Rwanda
by Terry George
  
9. Gladiator - Extended Cut (Three-Disc Special Edition)
by Ridley Scott
  
10. The Battle of Algiers - Criterion Collection
by Gillo Pontecorvo
  
11. Gandhi (Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Richard Attenborough
  
12. Intolerance (1916) (Silent) (B&W)
by D.W. Griffith
  
13. Ivan Vasilievich - Back to the Future
by Leonid Gaidai
  
14. THE WINTER WAR (Talvisota)
by Pekka Parikka
  
15. Inherit the Wind  
16. Becket
by Peter Glenville
  
17. In Cold Blood
by Richard Brooks
  
18. The Lion in Winter
by Anthony Harvey (II)
  
19.
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 Letters from Iwo Jima
by Clint Eastwood
  
20. Ip Man (First Print Edition) DVD
by Wilson Yip
  
21. The Passion of Joan of Arc - Criterion Collection
by Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
22. Z  
23. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
by Werner Herzog
  
24. Changeling
by Clint Eastwood
  
25. A Night to Remember - Criterion Collection
by Roy Ward Baker
  
26. Aguirre, the Wrath of God
by Werner Herzog
  
27. The Legend of Bhagat Singh
by Rajkumar Santoshi
  
28. Andrei Rublev - Criterion Collection
by Andrei Tarkovsky
  
29. Spartacus - Criterion Collection
by Stanley Kubrick
  
30. Battleship Potemkin
by Grigori Aleksandrov
  
31. Glory
by Edward Zwick
  
32.
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 The Man from Earth  
33. All the President's Men (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Alan J. Pakula
  
34. The Leopard - Criterion Collection  
35. JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Oliver Stone
  
36. The Tree of Wooden Clogs
by Ermanno Olmi
  
37.
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 Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
by Sergei Parajanov
  
38.
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 Sergeant York
by Howard Hawks
  
39. The Killing Fields
by Roland Joffé
  
40. The Tunnel
by Roland Suso Richter
  
41. Mutiny on the Bounty
by Frank Lloyd
  
42. The Untouchables
by Brian De Palma
  
43. Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
by Moustapha Akkad
  
44. The Gospel According to St. Matthew
by Pier Paolo Pasolini
  
45. Frost/Nixon  
46. The Scarlet Empress - Criterion Collection
by Josef von Sternberg
  
47.
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 The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - 1939 - William Dieterle  
48. Zulu
by Cy Endfield
  
49. Samurai III - Duel at Ganryu Island - Criterion Collection
by Hiroshi Inagaki
  
50. Queen Christina
by Rouben Mamoulian
  
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Created by Melissa B. on Aug 23, 2007.