Top rated historical movies on Netflix
Check out today’s highest ranked historical movies on Netflix! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best historical movies on Netflix, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 The Woman King (2022)
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything the world has ever seen, and General Nanisca as she trains the next generation of recruits and readies them for battle against an enemy determined to destroy their way of life.
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- 2022-09-16 | Action / Drama
Cast
- Viola Davis, Thuso Mbedu
Rating
7.694
2 The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
What was supposed to be a peaceful protest turned into a violent clash with the police. What followed was one of the most notorious trials in history.
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- 2020-09-25 | Drama / History
Cast
- Eddie Redmayne, Sacha Baron Cohen
Rating
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7.711
3 Harriet (2019)
The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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- 2019-11-01 | Drama / History
Cast
- Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr.
Rating
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7.332
4 The Harder They Fall (2021)
Gunning for revenge, outlaw Nat Love saddles up with his gang to take down enemy Rufus Buck, a ruthless crime boss who just got sprung from prison.
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- 2021-10-22 | Western
Cast
- Jonathan Majors, Idris Elba
Rating
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6.646
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5 Da 5 Bloods (2020)
Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.
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- 2020-06-12 | War / Drama
Cast
- Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors
Rating
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6.513
6 The Endless Trench (2019)
A small village in Huelva, Andalusia, Spain, 1936. Higinio and Rosa have been married only for a few months when the Civil War breaks out. Higinio, being afraid of possible reprisals from the rebel faction, decides to use a hole dug in his own house as a temporary hideout.
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- 2019-10-31 | Drama / History
Cast
- Antonio de la Torre, Belén Cuesta
Rating
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6.908
7 The Two Popes (2019)
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.
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- 2019-11-27 | Drama / Comedy
Cast
- Jonathan Pryce, Anthony Hopkins
Rating
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7.499
8 All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)
Paul Baumer and his friends Albert and Muller, egged on by romantic dreams of heroism, voluntarily enlist in the German army. Full of excitement and patriotic fervour, the boys enthusiastically march into a war they believe in. But once on the Western Front, they discover the soul-destroying horror of World War I.
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- 2022-10-07 | Drama / War
Cast
- Felix Kammerer, Albrecht Schuch
Rating
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7.733
9 Mank (2020)
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
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- 2020-11-13 | Drama / History
Cast
- Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried
Rating
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6.71
10 The Irishman (2019)
Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
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- 2019-11-01 | Crime / Drama
Cast
- Robert De Niro, Al Pacino
Rating
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7.608
