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Best History Movies on Netflix

Top 20 history movies available to stream on Netflix right now, ranked by ratings.

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Schindler's List(1993)

9 IMDb98% RT95 Meta

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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1917(2019)

8.2 IMDb88% RT78 Meta

At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on hundreds of soldiers.

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Green Book(2018)

8.2 IMDb77% RT69 Meta

Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segr

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Hacksaw Ridge(2016)

8.1 IMDb84% RT71 Meta

WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional

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12 Years a Slave(2013)

8.1 IMDb95% RT96 Meta

In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery. Facing cruelty as well as unexpected kindnesses Solomon struggles not on

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Apollo 11(2019)

8.1 IMDb99% RT88 Meta

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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Society of the Snow(2023)

7.8 IMDb90% RT72 Meta

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

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The Irishman(2019)

7.8 IMDb95% RT94 Meta

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 Chi

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The Trial of the Chicago 7(2020)

7.7 IMDb89% RT76 Meta

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.

10
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Hotel Mumbai(2019)

7.6 IMDb76% RT62 Meta

Mumbai, India, November 26, 2008. While several terrorists spread hatred and death through the city, others attack the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel. Both hotel staff and guests risk their lives, making unth

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The Iron Claw(2023)

7.6 IMDb89% RT73 Meta

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph, under the shadow of

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Nuremberg(2025)

7.4 IMDb71% RT61 Meta

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Gör

13
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins poster

Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins(2012)

7.4 IMDb

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing.

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The Swimmers(2022)

7.4 IMDb82% RT62 Meta

From war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics, two young sisters embark on a risky voyage, putting their hearts and their swimming skills to heroic use.

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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society(2018)

7.3 IMDb82% RT65 Meta

Free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton forms a life-changing bond with the delightful and eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, when she decides to write about the book club they formed

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The Shadow in My Eye(2021)

7.3 IMDb

On March 21st, 1945, the British Royal Air Force set out on a mission to bomb Gestapo's headquarters in Copenhagen. The raid had fatal consequences as some of the bombers accidentally targeted a schoo

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final poster

Rurouni Kenshin: The Final(2021)

7.2 IMDb100% RT

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge.

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Mixed by Erry(2023)

7.1 IMDb

The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.

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Dance of the Forty One(2020)

6.8 IMDb73% RT

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among those attending is the son-in-law of President Porfirio Díaz.

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The Six Triple Eight(2024)

6.7 IMDb56% RT51 Meta

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible mission: sorting through a three-year backlog of 17 million pieces of mail that hadn't been delivered to A

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