The best history films as defined by the IMDb.
| Rank | Title | Year | Director(s) | Overall Rank |
| 101 | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors | 1965 | Sergei Parajanov | 1551 |
| 102 | Russian Ark | 2002 | Aleksandr Sokurov | 1566 |
| 103 | Europa Europa | 1990 | Agnieszka Holland | 1572 |
| 104 | Tombstone | 1993 | George P. Cosmatos | 1573 |
| 105 | The Nasty Girl | 1990 | Michael Verhoeven | 1602 |
| 106 | Seabiscuit | 2003 | Gary Ross | 1610 |
| 107 | Fahrenheit 9/11 | 2004 | Michael Moore | 1673 |
| 108 | Missing | 1982 | Costa-Gavras | 1676 |
| 109 | The Rise of Louis XIV | 1970 | Roberto Rossellini | 1679 |
| 110 | A Bridge Too Far | 1977 | Richard Attenborough | 1709 |
| 111 | The Madness of King George | 1994 | Nicholas Hytner | 1721 |
| 112 | The Devils | 1971 | Ken Russell | 1729 |
| 113 | Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi | 1737 |
| 114 | Tora! Tora! Tora! | 1970 | Richard Fleischer, Kinji Fukasaku, and Toshio Masuda | 1760 |
| 115 | The Private Life of Henry VIII | 1933 | Alexander Korda | 1769 |
| 116 | One Day in September | 1999 | Kevin Macdonald | 1792 |
| 117 | The Times of Harvey Milk | 1984 | Rob Epstein | 1798 |
| 118 | Milk | 2008 | Gus Van Sant | 1856 |
| 119 | Quo Vadis | 1951 | Mervyn LeRoy | 1871 |
| 120 | The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | 2007 | Andrew Dominik | 1876 |
| 121 | A Night to Remember | 1958 | Roy Ward Baker | 1883 |
| 122 | Good Night, and Good Luck. | 2005 | George Clooney | 1901 |
| 123 | Battle of Britain | 1969 | Guy Hamilton | 1910 |
| 124 | Band of Brothers | 2001 | David Frankel, Mikael Salomon, Tom Hanks, David Leland, Richard Loncraine, David Nutter, Phil Alden Robinson, and Tony To | 1915 |
| 125 | Munich | 2005 | Steven Spielberg | 1923 |
| 126 | The Crucible | 1996 | Nicholas Hytner | 1932 |
| 127 | Flags of Our Fathers | 2006 | Clint Eastwood | 1944 |
| 128 | For Whom the Bell Tolls | 1943 | Sam Wood | 1946 |
| 129 | The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith | 1978 | Fred Schepisi | 1971 |
| 130 | Les Misérables | 1995 | Claude Lelouch | 1985 |
| 131 | Storm over Asia | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | 1992 |
| 132 | Bloody Sunday | 2002 | Paul Greengrass | 2022 |
| 133 | A Passage to India | 1984 | David Lean | 2023 |
| 134 | Platform | 2000 | Zhang Ke Jia | 2024 |
| 135 | Enemy at the Gates | 2001 | Jean-Jacques Annaud | 2077 |
| 136 | Once Upon a Time in China | 1991 | Hark Tsui | 2090 |
| 137 | Queen Margot | 1994 | Patrice Chéreau | 2095 |
| 138 | The Last Samurai | 2003 | Edward Zwick | 2101 |
| 139 | The Night of the Shooting Stars | 1982 | Paolo and Vittorio Taviani | 2190 |
| 140 | Samurai 1: Musashi Miyamoto | 1954 | Hiroshi Inagaki | 2212 |
| 141 | The Three Musketeers | 1973 | Richard Lester | 2216 |
| 142 | Becket | 1964 | Peter Glenville | 2224 |
| 143 | Samson and Delilah | 1949 | Cecil B. DeMille | 2255 |
| 144 | The Alamo | 1960 | John Wayne | 2258 |
| 145 | Newsfront | 1978 | Phillip Noyce | 2272 |
| 146 | Edward II | 1991 | Derek Jarman | 2283 |
| 147 | Thirty Seconds over Tokyo | 1944 | Mervyn LeRoy | 2284 |
| 148 | King of the Hill | 1993 | Steven Soderbergh | 2291 |
| 149 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | 1941 | William Dieterle | 2296 |
| 150 | Why We Fight 1: Prelude to War | 1943 | Frank Capra and Anatole Litvak | 2316 |
| 151 | Danton | 1983 | Andrzej Wajda | 2326 |
| 152 | Troy | 2004 | Wolfgang Petersen | 2333 |
| 153 | Jesus Christ Superstar | 1973 | Norman Jewison | 2353 |
| 154 | 61* | 2001 | Billy Crystal | 2359 |
| 155 | The Story of Adele H. | 1975 | François Truffaut | 2362 |
| 156 | The Last Command | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg | 2363 |
| 157 | The Hour of the Furnaces | 1970 | Octavio Getino, Fernando E. Solanas, and Santiago Álvarez | 2370 |
