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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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Lawrence of Arabia(1962)

8.3 IMDb93% RT100 Meta

During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.

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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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Cinderella Man(2005)

8 IMDb80% RT69 Meta

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise comeback in order to lift his family out of poverty.

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RRR(2022)

7.8 IMDb96% RT83 Meta

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

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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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Loving Vincent(2017)

7.8 IMDb84% RT62 Meta

A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

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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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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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The Two Popes(2019)

7.6 IMDb89% RT75 Meta

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 summon

14
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind(2019)

7.6 IMDb86% RT68 Meta

Against all the odds, a thirteen year old boy in Malawi invents an unconventional way to save his family and village from famine.

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Nuremberg(2025)

7.4 IMDb72% 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

16
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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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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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Silver Skates(2020)

7.1 IMDb40% RT

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come togeth

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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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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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