Top rated like a history lesson movies on Amazon Prime Video
Check out today’s highest ranked like a history lesson movies on Amazon Prime Video! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best like a history lesson movies on Amazon Prime Video, 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
- 7.691
2 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for over 50 years, keeping this incredible event in America's history lost — until now.
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- 2021-07-02 | Music / Documentary
Cast
- Stevie Wonder, Lin-Manuel Miranda
Rating
- 7.624
3 Judas and the Black Messiah (2021)
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers on the orders of FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends—falling for a fellow revolutionary en route—a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
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- 2021-02-12 | Drama / History
Cast
- Lakeith Stanfield, Daniel Kaluuya
Rating
- 7.346
4 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
- 7.331
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5 Apollo 11 (2019)
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
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- 2019-03-01 | Documentary / History
Cast
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Rating
- 7.847
6 Quo Vadis, Aida? (2021)
Bosnia, July 1995. Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp. As an insider to the negotiations Aida has access to crucial information that she needs to interpret. What is at the horizon for her family and people – rescue or death? Which move should she take?
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- 2021-02-26 | War / Drama
Cast
- Jasna Đuričić, Izudin Bajrović
Rating
- 7.639
7 The Eight Hundred (2020)
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
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- 2020-08-14 | War / History
Cast
- Wang Qian-Yuan, Zhang Yi
Rating
- 6.951
8 Marighella (2021)
Afro-Brazilian poet and politician, the legendary Carlos Marighella. Driven to fight against the erosion of civil and human rights following the CIA-backed military coup of 1964 and the brutal, racist right-wing dictatorship that followed, the revolutionary leaves behind his wife and son to take up arms, becoming a notorious enemy to the power structure.
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- 2021-01-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Seu Jorge, Bruno Gagliasso
Rating
- 7.701
9 Corsage (2022)
A fictional account of one year in the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. On Christmas Eve 1877, Elisabeth, once idolized for her beauty, turns 40 and is officially deemed an old woman; she starts trying to maintain her public image.
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- 2022-07-07 | Drama / History
Cast
- Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister
Rating
- 6.322
10 Argentina, 1985 (2022)
In the 1980s, a team of lawyers takes on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship in a battle against odds and a race against time.
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- 2022-09-29 | Drama / History
Cast
- Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani
Rating
- 7.923