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Best History on Netflix, ranked by IMDb rating

133 history titles on Netflix rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.

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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
★ 8.3 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 100   PG · 3h 47m · Adventure · History · War
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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I Swear (2025)
★ 8.3 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 73   R · 2h · Drama · History
Diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at 15, John Davidson navigates his way against the odds through troubled teenage years and into adulthood, finding inspiration in the kindness of others to discover his true purpose in li
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1917 (2019)
★ 8.2 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 78   R · 1h 59m · War · Drama · History
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 IMDb   🍅 77%   MC 69   PG-13 · 2h 10m · Drama · Comedy · History
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 segregation laws below t
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I'm Still Here (2024)
★ 8.1 IMDb   MC 85   PG-13 · 2h 17m · Drama · History
A woman married to a former politician during the 1971 military dictatorship in Brazil is forced to reinvent herself and chart a new course for her family after a violent and arbitrary act.
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Major (2022)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 75%   Not Rated · 2h 30m · Action · History · Drama
This biopic follows the life of Indian Army officer Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan, from his childhood to his heroic actions during the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
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Apollo 11 (2019)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 99%   MC 88   G · 1h 33m · Documentary · History · Drama
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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Dallas Buyers Club (2013)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 77   R · 1h 57m · Drama · History
Loosely based on the true-life tale of Ron Woodroof, a drug-taking, women-loving, homophobic man who in 1986 was diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and given thirty days to live.
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The Last Days (1998)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 96%   MC 85   PG-13 · 1h 27m · Documentary · History
This Oscar-winning documentary recounts the harrowing stories of five Hungarian Jews who endured the horrors of the Holocaust and Hitler's reign.
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Miracle: The Boys of '80 (2026)
★ 7.9 IMDb   TV-14 · 1h 48m · Documentary · History
This is the story of the “Miracle on Ice,” when the 1980 US Hockey Team beat the USSR in the Olympic semi-finals at the height of the Cold War to bring home a gold medal. Their iconic underdog story is told with never-be
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The Irishman (2019)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 94   R · 3h 29m · Crime · Drama · History
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 Chicago with the task o
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Straight Outta Compton (2015)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 72   R · 2h 27m · Drama · Music · History
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us
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RRR (2022)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 96%   MC 83   TV-MA · 3h 7m · Action · History · Drama
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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Society of the Snow (2023)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 72   R · 2h 24m · Drama · History
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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Loving Vincent (2017)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 84%   MC 62   PG-13 · 1h 34m · Animation · Drama · History
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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Latin Blood – The Ballad of Ney Matogrosso (2025)
★ 7.8 IMDb   TV-MA · 2h 9m · Drama · Music · History
From a repressive childhood to artistic revolution, Ney Matogrosso transforms Brazil's stages — and himself — through music, creativity and inner fire.
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 76   R · 2h 9m · Drama · History
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.
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Raazi (2018)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 100%   Not Rated · 2h 18m · Thriller · Drama · History
An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Marco Polo: One Hundred Eyes (2015)
★ 7.7 IMDb   TV-MA · 28m · Action · History · Drama
A defiant warrior-monk arrives at Kublai Khan's court in chains and soon earns his tragic nickname in this 30-minute origin story.
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The Two Popes (2019)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 75   PG-13 · 2h 5m · Drama · History
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 summons his harshest criti
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 86%   MC 68   TV-PG · 1h 53m · Drama · History
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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Best of Enemies (2015)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 77   R · 1h 27m · Documentary · History
A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the i
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Good Night, and Good Luck (2025)
★ 7.6 IMDb   1h 34m · Drama · History
Livestreamed from the penultimate show at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City, this stage adaptation of George Clooney's 2005 film follows the story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph Mc
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The Impossible (2012)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 81%   MC 73   PG-13 · 1h 54m · Drama · Thriller · History
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying r
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Selma (2014)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 99%   MC 79   PG-13 · 2h 8m · History · Drama
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing o
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83 (2021)
★ 7.5 IMDb   TV-14 · 2h 42m · Drama · History
On the 25th of June 1983, the Lord’s Cricket Ground witnessed one of the biggest underdog stories in the history of sports. Fourteen inspired players - led by a man's self-belief and conviction - fought against all odds
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Number 24 (2024)
★ 7.5 IMDb   1h 51m · War · History · Drama
On the brink of the Second World War, a young Norwegian man's drive to resist the Nazis sets a new course for his future – and the future of his country.
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The Ghazi Attack (2017)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 67%   Not Rated · 1h 56m · Action · War · Thriller · History
India’s first underwater war film tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi during the India-Pakistan war of 1971.
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Hitler: A Career (1977)
★ 7.5 IMDb   Not Rated · 2h 30m · Documentary · History
A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the Third Reich (1933-1945), but also an analysis of mass psychology and how the desperate crowd can be deceived and shepherd
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Downton Abbey (2019)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 64   PG · 2h 2m · Drama · Romance · History
The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future o
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The Swimmers (2022)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 82%   MC 62   PG-13 · 2h 14m · Drama · History
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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Kesari (2019)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 38%   Not Rated · 2h 30m · Action · Drama · History · War
In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down.
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Even the Rain (2011)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 87%   MC 69   Not Rated · 1h 43m · Drama · History
As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.
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Cover-Up (2025)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 98%   MC 85   R · 1h 57m · Documentary · History
He's devoted his career to uncovering stories the powerful want buried. From My Lai to Abu Ghraib, dig into the life's work of journalist Seymour Hersh.
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Apollo 13: Survival (2024)
★ 7.4 IMDb   🍅 100%   1h 38m · Documentary · History
Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and the struggle to bring its astronauts safely home.
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The King (2019)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 71%   MC 62   R · 2h 20m · Drama · History · War
England, 15th century. Hal, a capricious prince who lives among the populace far from court, is forced by circumstances to reluctantly accept the throne and become Henry V.
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Snowden (2016)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 61%   MC 58   R · 2h 14m · Drama · History · Crime · Thriller
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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Nuremberg (2025)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 72%   MC 61   PG-13 · 2h 28m · History · Drama
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 Göring, Hitler's right-
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BlackBerry (2023)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 78   R · 2h · Comedy · Drama · History
Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the m
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The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 82%   MC 65   TV-14 · 2h 4m · Romance · Drama · History
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 during the occupati
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She Said (2022)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 74   R · 2h 9m · Drama · History
New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo movement and shattered decades of silence around the subject of sexual
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Chhaava (2025)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 29%   TV-MA · 2h 41m · History · Action · Drama
Shivaji's death sparks the Maratha-Mughal conflict. His son Sambhaji leads resistance against Aurangzeb's forces. Amid battles and intrigue, both sides face challenges in a struggle for power.
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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins (2012)
★ 7.3 IMDb   TV-MA · 2h 14m · Action · Adventure · Fantasy · War · History
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 Shadow in My Eye (2021)
★ 7.3 IMDb   TV-MA · 1h 47m · War · Drama · History
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 school and more than 120
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Gold (2018)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 50%   Not Rated · 2h 31m · Drama · History
Set in 1948, the historic story of India's first Olympic medal post their independence.
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Nouvelle Vague (2025)
★ 7.3 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 76   R · 1h 46m · Drama · History
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, young Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He gets Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature, creating a treatment with Truffaut about a gangster couple.
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Untold UK: Liverpool's Miracle of Istanbul (2026)
★ 7.3 IMDb   TV-14 · 1h 18m · Documentary · History
At half-time in the 2005 champion league final Liverpool were 3-0 down. What happened next made football history -​ as players recall in this documentary.
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The Founder (2016)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 80%   MC 66   PG-13 · 1h 55m · Drama · History
The true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food
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Dolemite Is My Name (2019)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 76   R · 1h 58m · Drama · Comedy · History
The story of Rudy Ray Moore, who created the iconic big screen pimp character Dolemite in the 1970s.
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Anthropoid (2016)
★ 7.2 IMDb   🍅 67%   MC 59   R · 2h · History · Thriller · War
In December 1941, Czech soldiers Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich.

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