Top rated like a history lesson movies on Showtime
Check out today’s highest ranked like a history lesson movies on Showtime! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best like a history lesson movies on Showtime, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.
1 Emily (2022)
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
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- 2022-10-14 | History / Drama
Cast
- Emma Mackey, Fionn Whitehead
Rating
6.981
2 Gangs of New York (2002)
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
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- 2002-12-14 | Drama / History
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- Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis
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7.32
3 Schindler's List (1993)
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis while they worked as slaves in his factory during World War II.
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- 1993-12-15 | Drama / History
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- Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley
Rating
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8.6
4 Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new life (and title). As their relationship progresses, Shakespeare's comedy soon transforms into tragedy.
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- 1998-12-11 | Romance / History
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- Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow
Rating
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6.868
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5 Reds (1981)
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.
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- 1981-12-25 | Drama / History
Cast
- Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton
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6.9
6 Silence (2016)
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
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- 2016-12-22 | Drama / History
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- Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver
Rating
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7.123
7 The Queen (2006)
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Tony Blair during their struggle, following the death of Diana, to reach a compromise between what was a private tragedy for the Royal family and the public's demand for an overt display of mourning.
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- 2006-09-15 | Drama / History
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- Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen
Rating
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6.957
8 Amistad (1997)
In 1839, the slave ship Amistad set sail from Cuba to America. During the long trip, Cinque leads the slaves in an unprecedented uprising. They are then held prisoner in Connecticut, and their release becomes the subject of heated debate. Freed slave Theodore Joadson wants Cinque and the others exonerated and recruits property lawyer Roger Baldwin to help his case. Eventually, John Quincy Adams also becomes an ally.
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- 1997-12-10 | Drama / History
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- Morgan Freeman, Nigel Hawthorne
Rating
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7.012
9 Seabiscuit (2003)
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation.
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- 2003-07-22 | Drama / History
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- Tobey Maguire, David McCullough
Rating
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7.031
10 Cold Mountain (2003)
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.
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- 2003-12-24 | Drama / War
Cast
- Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
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6.91
