| 8.5 |  | Inherit the Wind | 1960 | Biography Drama History | Stanley Kramer | Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly | * 4.5/5 |
| 8.4 | | The Winter War | 1989 | Drama History War Finland | Pekka Parikka | Taneli Makela, Vesa Vierikko, Timo Torikka | |
| 8.4 | | The Twilight Samurai | 2002 | Drama History Japan | Yôji Yamada | Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.4 | | The Look of Silence | 2014 | Documentary Biography History | Joshua Oppenheimer | Adi Rukun, M.Y. Basrun, Amir Hasan | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.4 | | Rembetiko | 1983 | Biography Drama History Music Romance War Greece | Costas Ferris | Sotiria Leonardou, Nikos Kalogeropoulos, Michalis Maniatis | * 2.9/5 |
| 8.3 | | The Road Home | 1999 | Drama History Romance China | Yimou Zhang | Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun, Hao Zheng | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.2 | | Portrait of the Fighter as a Young Man | 2010 | Action Drama History Romania | Constantin Popescu | Constantin Dita, Bogdan Dumitrache, Ionut Caras | |
| 8.2 | | Exit Through the Gift Shop | 2010 | Documentary Comedy Crime History UK | Banksy | Banksy, Mr. Brainwash, Space Invader | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.1 | | Trilogy the Weeping Meadow | 2004 | Drama History Romance Greece | Theodoros Angelopoulos | Alexandra Aidini, Nikos Poursanidis, Giorgos Armenis | |
| 8.1 | | The Flowers of War | 2011 | Drama History Romance War China | Yimou Zhang | Christian Bale, Ni Ni, Xinyi Zhang | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.1 | | Sometimes in April | 2005 | Drama History War | Raoul Peck | Idris Elba, Carole Karemera, Pamela Nomvete | * 3.8/5 |
| 8.1 | | Malcolm X | 1992 | Biography Drama History Romance | Spike Lee | Denzel Washington, Angela Bassett, Delroy Lindo | * 3.7/5 |
| 8.1 | | Le Bal | 1983 | History Musical France | Ettore Scola | Etienne Guichard, Regis Bouquet, Francesco De Rosa | |
| 8.0 | | Sophie Scholl the Final Days | 2005 | Biography Crime Drama History Thriller War Germany | Marc Rothemund | Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held | * 3.8/5 |
| 8.0 | | Shatranj Ke Khilari | 1977 | Comedy Drama History India | Satyajit Ray | Sanjeev Kumar, Saeed Jaffrey, Shabana Azmi | * 2.9/5 |
| 8.0 | | Mississippi Burning | 1988 | Crime Drama History Mystery Thriller | Alan Parker | Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand | * 3.9/5 |
| 8.0 | | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | Drama History War UK | Paul Greengrass | James Nesbitt, Tim Pigott-Smith, Nicholas Farrell | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.9 | | The Nasty Girl | 1990 | Comedy Drama History War West Germany | Michael Verhoeven | Lena Stolze, Hans-Reinhard Muller, Monika Baumgartner | |
| 7.9 | | The Hidden Blade | 2004 | Action Drama History Romance Japan | Yôji Yamada | Masatoshi Nagase, Takako Matsu, Hidetaka Yoshioka | * * |
| 7.9 | | Red Sorghum | 1988 | Drama History Romance War China | Yimou Zhang | Li Gong, Wen Jiang, Rujun Ten | |
| 7.9 | | Rebellion in Patagonia | 1974 | Drama History Argentina | Héctor Olivera | Pedro Aleandro, Hector Alterio, Luis Brandoni | |
| 7.9 | | Il Marchese del Grillo | 1981 | Comedy History Italy | Mario Monicelli | Alberto Sordi, Caroline Berg, Andrea Bevilacqua | |
| 7.9 | | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Drama History War | Jean-Jacques Annaud | Jude Law, Ed Harris, Joseph Fiennes | * 3.9/5 |
| 7.9 | | Aferim! | 2015 | Adventure Comedy Drama History Western Romania | Radu Jude | Teodor Corban, Mihai Comanoiu, Toma Cuzin | * * |
| 7.9 | | A Royal Affair | 2012 | Biography Drama History Romance Denmark | Nikolaj Arcel | Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, Mikkel Boe Flsgaard | * 3.9/5 |
| 7.8 | | Woman in Gold | 2015 | Biography Drama History UK | Simon Curtis | Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Bruhl | * 4.2/5 |
| 7.8 | | Wild River | 1960 | Drama History Romance | Elia Kazan | Montgomery Clift, Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet | |
| 7.8 | | Selma | 2014 | Biography Drama History | Ava DuVernay | David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth | * 3.8/5 |
| 7.8 | | Sandakan No. 8 | 1974 | Drama History War Japan | Kei Kumai | Komaki Kurihara, Yoko Takahashi, Kinuyo Tanaka | |
| 7.8 | | Even the Rain | 2010 | Drama History Spain | Icíar Bollaín | Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde | * 3.9/5 |
| 7.7 | | The Sun | 2005 | Drama History Russia | Aleksandr Sokurov | Issei Ogata, Robert Dawson, Kaori Momoi | |
| 7.7 | | The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach | 1968 | Biography Drama History Music West Germany | Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub | Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini | |
| 7.7 | | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Crime Drama History Mystery Italy | Francesco Rosi | Frank Wolff, Salvo Randone, Frederico Zardi | * 3.1/5 |
| 7.7 | | Richard III | 1955 | Biography Drama History War UK | Laurence Olivier | Laurence Olivier, Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen | * 3.4/5 |
| 7.7 | | Four Days in September | 1997 | Action Drama History Thriller | Bruno Barreto | Alan Arkin, Pedro Cardoso, Fernanda Torres | * * |
| 7.6 | | The Garden of the Finzi-Continis | 1970 | Drama History War Italy | Vittorio De Sica | Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger | * * |
| 7.6 | | Shakespeare in Love | 1998 | Comedy Drama History Romance | John Madden | Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush | * 3.6/5 |
| 7.6 | | Rosewood | 1997 | Action Drama History | John Singleton | Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle | * 3.3/5 |
| 7.5 | | The Decameron | 1971 | Comedy Drama History Romance Italy | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli, Jovan Jovanovic | |
| 7.5 | | Overlord | 1975 | Drama History War UK | Stuart Cooper | Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball | * 2.9/5 |
| 7.5 | | Comrades | 1986 | Drama History UK | Bill Douglas | Keith Allen, Dave Atkins, Stephen Bateman | |
| 7.4 | | The Young Karl Marx | 2017 | Biography Drama History Germany | Raoul Peck | August Diehl, Stefan Konarske, Vicky Krieps | |
| 7.4 | | The Mountain | 1990 | Adventure Drama History Mystery | Bob Rafelson | Patrick Bergin, Iain Glen, Richard E. Grant | |
| 7.4 | | The Kings Choice | 2016 | Biography Drama History War Norway | Erik Poppe | Jesper Christensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Karl Markovics | |
| 7.4 | | Safe Conduct | 2002 | Biography Drama History War France | Bertrand Tavernier | Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Charlotte Kady | * * |
| 7.4 | | Goodbye Bafana | 2007 | Biography Drama History Germany | Bille August | Joseph Fiennes, Dennis Haysbert, Diane Kruger | * * |
| 7.4 | | Effi Briest | 1974 | Drama History West Germany | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel | |
| 7.2 | | Viceroys House | 2017 | Biography Drama History News Romance UK | Gurinder Chadha | Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal | |
| 7.2 | | The Mother of Kings | 1987 | Drama History War Poland | Janusz Zaorski | Magda Teresa Wojcik, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, Franciszek Pieczka | |
| 7.2 | | The Moro Affair | 1986 | Crime Drama History Italy | Giuseppe Ferrara | Gian Maria Volonte, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin | |
| 7.2 | | The Good Shepherd | 2006 | Drama History Thriller | Robert De Niro | Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Robert De Niro | * 3.3/5 |
| 7.2 | | The Crucible | 1996 | Drama History | Nicholas Hytner | Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield | * 3.5/5 |
| 7.2 | | Caravaggio | 1986 | Biography Drama History Romance UK | Derek Jarman | Noam Almaz, Dexter Fletcher, Nigel Terry | * 3.1/5 |
| 7.2 | | A Prominent Patient | 2016 | Biography Drama History Czech Republic | Julius Sevcík | Karel Roden, Hanns Zischler, Oldrich Kaiser | |
| 7.1 | | Cabeza de Vaca | 1991 | Adventure Drama History | Nicolás Echevarría | Juan Diego, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Roberto Sosa | |
| 7.0 | | In Cold Blood | 2015 | Documentary History | Matthew Thomason | Tony Robinson | * 3.6/5 |
| 7.0 | | Forever Enthralled | 2008 | Biography Drama History China | Kaige Chen | Leon Lai, Ziyi Zhang, Honglei Sun | |
| 6.9 | | The Canterbury Tales | 1972 | Comedy Drama History Italy | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Hugh Griffith, Laura Betti, Ninetto Davoli | |
| 6.9 | | Restoration | 1995 | Biography Drama History Romance | Michael Hoffman | Robert Downey Jr., Sam Neill, David Thewlis | * * |
| 6.9 | | Get on the Bus | 1996 | Drama History | Spike Lee | Ossie Davis, Charles S. Dutton, Andre Braugher | * 3.4/5 |
| 6.8 | | Walker | 1987 | Biography Drama History Western | Alex Cox | Ed Harris, Richard Masur, Rene Auberjonois | * 2.9/5 |
| 6.8 | | The Lost City of Z | 2016 | Adventure Biography Drama History | James Gray | Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller | * 3.1/5 |
| 6.7 | | Shadow Makers | 1989 | Biography Drama History War | Roland Joffé | Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia | |
| 6.6 | | Paradise in Service | 2014 | Drama History Romance Taiwan | Doze Niu | Ethan Juan, Jianbin Chen, Regina Wan | |
| 6.6 | | Long Vacations of 36 | 1976 | Drama History Spain | Jaime Camino | Analia Gade, Ismael Merlo, ngela Molina | |
| 6.4 | | White Deer Plain | 2011 | Drama History China | Quanan Wang | Fengyi Zhang, Yuqi Zhang, Hailu Qin | |
| 6.4 | | One Hundred and One Nights | 1995 | Comedy History Romance UK | Agnès Varda | Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin | |
| 6.4 | | Buffalo Bill and the Indians or Sitting Bulls History Lesson | 1976 | Comedy Western | Robert Altman | Paul Newman, Joel Grey, Kevin McCarthy | |
| 6.0 | | The Woman and the Stranger | 1985 | Drama History East Germany | Rainer Simon | Joachim Latsch, Peter Zimmermann, Kathrin Waligura | |
| 6.0 | | Question 7 | 1961 | Biography Drama History | Stuart Rosenberg | Michael Gwynn, Christian De Bresson, Almut Eggert | |
| 6.0 | | In the Intense Now | 2017 | Documentary History Brazil | João Moreira Salles | | |
| 6.0 | | Flowers of Reverie | 1984 | Drama History Hungary | László Lugossy | Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Grazyna Szapolowska, Jiri Adamira | |
| 6.0 | | Dont Blink Robert Frank | 2015 | Documentary Biography History | Laura Israel | Robert Frank, June Leaf, Yichi Hibi | |
| 6.0 | | A Glass of Water | 1960 | Comedy History Musical West Germany | Helmut Käutner | Gustaf Grundgens, Liselotte Pulver, Sabine Sinjen | |
| 5.9 | | Queen of the Desert | 2015 | Biography Drama History Romance | Werner Herzog | Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis | * * |
| 5.7 | | Bel Ami | 2012 | Drama History Romance UK | Declan Donnellan, Nick Ormerod | Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas | * 3.0/5 |
| 5.0 | | Weeping for a Bandit | 1964 | Drama History Spain | Carlos Saura | Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy | |
| 5.0 | | The Long Winter | 1992 | Drama History War Spain | Jaime Camino | Vittorio Gassman, Jacques Penot, Elizabeth Hurley | |
| 5.0 | | My Wonderful West Berlin | 2017 | Documentary Biography History Germany | Jochen Hick | Mabel Aschenneller, Wolfgang Cihlarz, Rolf Eden | |
| 5.0 | | Love Comes Quietly | 1973 | Drama History Belgium | Nikolai van der Heyde | Sandy van der Linden, Barbara Hershey, Ralph Meeker | |
| 5.0 | | Little Presents | 1961 | Comedy Drama Family History Finland | Jack Witikka | Leif Aaltonen, Aapeli, Kaarlo Halttunen | |
| 5.0 | | Late Autumn | 1986 | Drama History Romance War | | | |
| 5.0 | | For Love Alone | 1986 | History Romance Australia | Stephen Wallace | Helen Buday, Sam Neill, Hugo Weaving | |
| 5.0 | | Elelwani | 2012 | Drama Family History Romance South Africa | Ntshaveni Wa Luruli | Florence Masebe, Vusi Kunene, Mutodi Neshehe | |
| 4.0 | | Jorg Ratgeb Painter | 1978 | History East Germany | Bernhard Stephan | Alois Svehlik, Margrit Tenner, Olgierd Lukaszewicz | |
| * | | Duel in the Sun | 1987 | History | | | |
| * | | Before Stonewall | 2016 | Documentary History | Orlando Bedolla | | * 3.6/5 |
| * | | 1919 | 1985 | History | Carol Wilks | Peter Howitt, Kathy Jamieson, Sue Jenkins | |
