Best History on Prime Video, ranked by IMDb rating
281 history titles on Prime Video rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.
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Jai Bhim (2021)
★ 8.6 IMDb 🍅 100%
A pregnant woman from a primitive tribal community, searches desperately for her husband, who is missing from police custody. So as to find her husband and seek justice for them, as their voice, a High Court advocate ris
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Rocketry: The Nambi Effect (2022)
★ 8.6 IMDb 🍅 64%
The story of the great Indian rocket scientist, Shri Nambi Narayanan's life, a true patriot, who was turned into a villain in the blink of an eye after being falsely accused of treason.
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Sita Ramam (2022)
★ 8.5 IMDb 🍅 86%
Afreen, a rebellious Pakistani student sets ablaze the car of an Indian in London. Angered Afreen returns to Pakistan to ask for money from her grandfather that she has to pay in a month's time as damages. However, she g
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Sarpatta Parambarai (2021)
★ 8.4 IMDb
When Sarpatta Parambarai is challenged to a do-or-die match, Kabilan, a young labourer, must choose whether to put on the gloves himself and lead his clan to victory, or be dissuaded by his disapproving mother and danger
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Mahanati (2018)
★ 8.4 IMDb 🍅 100%
Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, the first Indian female super star, Savitri.
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Sardar Udham (2021)
★ 8.3 IMDb 🍅 95%
A young Sardar Udham Singh left deeply scarred by the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, escaped into the mountains of Afghanistan, reaching London in 1933-34. Carrying an unhealed wound for 21 years, the revolutionary assassina
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Downfall (2004)
★ 8.2 IMDb 🍅 90% MC 82
In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the east and the Allied Expeditionary Force attacking from the west. In Berlin, capital of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler procl
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Ennio (2022)
★ 8.2 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 75
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 hundred unforgettable sc
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Raging Bull (1980)
★ 8.1 IMDb 🍅 92% MC 90
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
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Prayers for Bobby (2009)
★ 8.0 IMDb 🍅 73%
Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply religious influences in Walnut Creek, California. Bobby was also gay. Struggling with a conflict no one knew of, much les
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Apocalypto (2006)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 65% MC 68
Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent invading force, he is taken on a perilous journey to a world ruled by fear and oppression where a harrowing end awaits him.
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A Taxi Driver (2017)
★ 7.9 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 69
May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a foreigner who will pay big money for a drive down to Gwangju city. Not knowi
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Birdman of Alcatraz (1962)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 88% MC 76
After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stroud's life gains new meaning when he happens upon a helpless baby sparr
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Breaker Morant (1980)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 73
During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they are being used as scapegoats by the General Staff, who hopes to distance themselves from th
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In This Corner of the World (2016)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 73
Japan, 1943, during World War II. Young Suzu leaves her village near Hiroshima to marry and live with her in-laws in Kure, a military harbor. Her creativity to overcome deprivation quickly makes her indispensable at home
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Muscle Shoals (2013)
★ 7.8 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 75
In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the
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The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 74% MC 61
Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
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The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 83% MC 68
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.
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Zulu (1964)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 97% MC 77
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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Raazi (2018)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 100%
An Indian spy is married to a Pakistani military officer during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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Becket (1964)
★ 7.7 IMDb 🍅 75% MC 68
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
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Housewife, 49 (2006)
★ 7.7 IMDb
Downtrodden wife and mother Nella's life takes an unexpected turn for the better after she joins the Women's Voluntary Service office in Barrow-in-Furness during the Second World War. However, her new-found happiness is
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Frost/Nixon (2008)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 80
For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to sit for one all-inclusive interview to confront the questions of his time
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Only the Brave (2017)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 87% MC 72
Members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots battle deadly wildfires to save an Arizona town.
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Argentina 1985 (2022)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 96% MC 78
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.
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 98% MC 99
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
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My Way (2011)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 19% MC 30
During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier in the Japanese, Russian and German armies. His incredible story inspire
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The French Revolution (1989)
★ 7.6 IMDb
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King
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Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 80
An exploration of the cinematic history of the folk horror, from its beginnings in the UK in the late sixties; through its proliferation on British television in the seventies and its many manifestations, culturally spec
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Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession (2004)
★ 7.6 IMDb 🍅 100% MC 85
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the unta
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Munich (2005)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 79% MC 74
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad
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The Flowers of War (2011)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 41% MC 46
A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 57% MC 46
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to
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Ponniyin Selvan: Part I (2022)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 87%
The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aaditha Karikalan, his younger brother Arunmozhi Varman and the emperor, Sundara Cholar separated by situations, it is up to
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Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 58% MC 52
A thousand years ago, one boy with a dream of becoming a great warrior is abducted with his sister and taken to a land far away from home. Thrown into a world where greed and injustice rule all, Bilal finds the courage t
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Frantz (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 91% MC 73
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiance’s grave to lay flowers.
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The Ghazi Attack (2017)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 67%
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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Hatred (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Summer of 1939. Zosia is a young Polish girl who is deeply in love with Ukrainian Petro. Their great love will be put to the test when her father decides to marry her to a wealthy widower Skiba. Right after wedding she i
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Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 67%
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructo
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12.12: The Day (2023)
★ 7.5 IMDb
After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d'état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee
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The Scarlet and the Black (1983)
★ 7.5 IMDb
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him t
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Hitler: A Career (1977)
★ 7.5 IMDb
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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Cold Case Hammarskjöld (2019)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 83% MC 76
Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (currently Zambia), September 18, 1961. Swedish economist and diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary General of the UN, dies mysteriously in a plane crash. Decades later, Danish journalist and film
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Spitfire (2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb 🍅 94%
A feature documentary about the people and the planes that helped win World War War II. Through people personally connected to the events, the film investigates the story of how the Spitfire, its stable-mate, the Hawker
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Air (2023)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 93% MC 73
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of sports and culture with the Air Jordan brand.
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Love & Mercy (2015)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 90% MC 80
In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to lose his grip on reality. By the 1980s, under the sway of a controlling therapist, he finds a savior in Melinda Ledbetter
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Henry V (1989)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 98% MC 83
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
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Cross of Iron (1977)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 71% MC 64
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness, conflict brews between the aristocratic yet ultimately pusillanimous Captain Stransky and
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Kesari (2019)
★ 7.4 IMDb 🍅 38%
In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down.
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Fortress of War (2010)
★ 7.4 IMDb
The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the thre