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Best History Movies

of the 2020s

The 20 highest-rated history movies released between 2020 and 2029, ranked by IMDb score.

1

Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)(2021)

8.8 IMDb

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 th

2

Oppenheimer(2023)

8.2 IMDb93% RT90 Meta

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

3

Ennio(2022)

8.2 IMDb91% RT75 Meta

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hund

4

Hamnet(2025)

8.1 IMDb87% RT84 Meta

The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

5

Quo Vadis, Aida?(2021)

8 IMDb100% RT97 Meta

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

6

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.

7

There's Still Tomorrow(2023)

7.7 IMDb89% RT59 Meta

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discover

8

The Promised Land(2023)

7.7 IMDb97% RT77 Meta

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal titl

9

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

Argentina 1985(2022)

7.6 IMDb96% RT78 Meta

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.

11

Young Woman and the Sea(2024)

7.5 IMDb88% RT62 Meta

This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the English Channel. Through the steadfast support of her older sister and supportive trainers, she overcame

12

One Life(2023)

7.5 IMDb91% RT69 Meta

British stockbroker Nicholas Winton visits Czechoslovakia in the 1930s and forms plans to assist in the rescue of Jewish children before the onset of World War II, in an operation that came to be know

13

To End All War: Oppenheimer & the Atomic Bomb(2023)

7.4 IMDb

Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war forever, led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people and unleashed mass hysteria.

14

A Million Miles Away(2023)

7.3 IMDb89% RT62 Meta

The life of engineer and former NASA astronaut José M. Hernández, the first migrant farmworker to go to space.

15

The Woman King(2022)

6.9 IMDb94% RT76 Meta

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 Nan

16

Simone: Woman of the Century(2022)

6.8 IMDb

Simone Veil's life story through the pivotal events of Twentieth Century. Her childhood, her political battles, her tragedies. An intimate and epic portrait of an extraordinary woman who eminently cha

17

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.

18

The Hill(2023)

6.7 IMDb44% RT48 Meta

The story of Rickey Hill, who overcomes his physical disability and repairs his relationship with his father in a quest to become a major league baseball (MLB) player.

19

The Champion(2021)

6.7 IMDb

It is 1940. The first transport of prisoners arrives at the newly created concentration camp Auschwitz. One of them is Tadeusz “Teddy” Pietrzykowski, pre-war boxing champion of Warsaw. The camp office

20

Emancipation(2022)

6.3 IMDb45% RT53 Meta

Inspired by the gripping true story of a man who would do anything for his family—and for freedom. When Peter, an enslaved man, risks his life to escape and return to his family, he embarks on a peril

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