historical fiction movies

Indexed titles: 28

Hamnet

2025

Rating: 7.8

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet....

Bāhubali: The Epic

2025

Rating: 6.0

When a mysterious child is found by a tribal couple near a roaring waterfall, they raise him as their own. As he grows, Sivudu is drawn to t...

Titanic

1997

Rating: 7.9

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mothe...

Schindler's List

1993

Rating: 8.6

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his facto...

Dunkirk

2017

Rating: 7.4

The story of the miraculous evacuation of Allied soldiers from Belgium, Britain, Canada and France, who were cut off and surrounded by the G...

The Social Network

2010

Rating: 7.4

In 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg begins work on a new concept that eventually turns into the global social...

Gladiator

2000

Rating: 8.2

After the death of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his devious son takes power and demotes Maximus, one of Rome's most capable generals who Marcus ...

Troy

2004

Rating: 7.2

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Spart...

Hidden Figures

2016

Rating: 8.0

The untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-American women working at NASA and serving as...

RRR

2022

Rating: 7.7

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s....

Lincoln

2012

Rating: 6.9

The revealing story of the 16th US President's tumultuous final months in office. In a nation divided by war and the strong winds of change,...

Princess Mononoke

1997

Rating: 8.3

Ashitaka, a prince of the disappearing Emishi people, is cursed by a demonized boar god and must journey to the west to find a cure. Along t...

The Great Wall

2016

Rating: 6.0

European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous crea...

War Machine

2017

Rating: 5.6

A rock star general bent on winning the “impossible” war in Afghanistan takes us inside the complex machinery of modern war. Inspired by the...

The King's Speech

2010

Rating: 7.7

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, Georg...

Spotlight

2015

Rating: 7.8

The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese...

Robin Hood

2010

Rating: 6.4

When soldier Robin happens upon the dying Robert of Loxley, he promises to return the man's sword to his family in Nottingham. There, he ass...

The Danish Girl

2015

Rating: 7.6

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her...

The Impossible

2012

Rating: 7.4

In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, ...

The Duchess

2008

Rating: 7.0

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled for her extravagant political and perso...

Lawrence of Arabia

1962

Rating: 8.0

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to figh...

The Patriot

2000

Rating: 7.2

After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wants nothing more to do with such things, prefer...

Spartacus

1960

Rating: 7.5

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for ...

The Musketeer

2001

Rating: 5.2

Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been di...