
12 Years a Slave
Rank#44712 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup....

Glory
Rank#1,020Glory is a 1989 American historical war drama film depicting the struggles and heroism of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the...

Amistad
Rank#1,167Amistad is a 1997 American historical drama film that depicts the events of 1839 aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad and the subsequent legal...

The Conspirator
Rank#5,052The Conspirator is a 2010 American historical drama film directed by Robert Redford, based on the story of Mary Surratt, the sole female charged in...

The Last Emperor
Rank#329The Last Emperor is a 1987 epic biographical drama film that chronicles the life of Puyi, the final Emperor of China, from his royal upbringing to...

The Butler
Rank#682The Butler (full title Lee Daniels' The Butler) is a 2013 American historical drama film directed and co-produced by Lee Daniels, inspired by the...

Cold Mountain
Rank#1,076Cold Mountain is a 2003 epic period war drama based on the bestselling 1997 novel. It follows the story of a wounded Confederate soldier, W.P. Inman,...

The King's Speech
Rank#1,283The King's Speech is a 2010 historical drama film directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. It follows the story of King George VI, who...

Gandhi
Rank#1,489Gandhi is a 1982 epic biographical film portraying the life of Mahatma Gandhi, a prominent figure in India's independence movement against British...

The Post
Rank#1,524The Post is an American historical political thriller film centered around The Washington Post and the publication of the Pentagon Papers. Directed...

All the President's Men
Rank#1,869All the President's Men is a 1976 American biographical political drama thriller film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting of...

Saving Mr. Banks
Rank#1,993Saving Mr. Banks is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by John Lee Hancock, depicting the meetings between author P.L. Travers and Walt Disney...

Gettysburg
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Selma
Rank#3,086Selma is a 2014 historical drama film depicting the 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches led by Martin Luther King Jr. and others.

Nixon
Rank#3,317Nixon is a 1995 American epic historical drama film that delves into the political and personal life of former U.S. President Richard Nixon.

The Iron Lady
Rank#3,405The Iron Lady is a 2011 biographical drama film depicting the life and career of Margaret Thatcher, the first female Prime Minister of the United...

Thirteen Days
Rank#3,873Thirteen Days is a 2000 American historical political thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson, which dramatizes the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962...

Hyde Park on Hudson
Rank#6,023Hyde Park on Hudson is a 2012 historical comedy-drama film directed by Roger Michell. It stars Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Olivia Colman as...
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