Highest Rated History
Weighted toward critics
- 1
Lawrence of Arabia
1962 · David Lean
92.28/8 sources
- 2
Schindler's List
1993 · Steven Spielberg
92.18/8 sources
- 3
Ran
1985 · Akira Kurosawa
91.48/8 sources
- 4
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
91.28/8 sources
- 5
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Gillo Pontecorvo
90.98/8 sources
- 6
Pather Panchali
1955 · Satyajit Ray
90.46/8 sources
- 7
Army of Shadows
1969 · Jean-Pierre Melville
90.08/8 sources
- 8
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 · Questlove
89.46/8 sources
- 9
Napoleon
1927 · Abel Gance
89.26/8 sources
- 10
Andrei Rublev
1966 · Andrei Tarkovsky
88.96/8 sources
- 10
Grand Illusion
1937 · Jean Renoir
88.97/8 sources
- 12
Harakiri
1962 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.78/8 sources
- 13
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein
88.67/8 sources
- 14
Day of Wrath
1943 · Carl Theodor Dreyer
88.36/8 sources
- 15
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Steve McQueen
88.27/8 sources
- 16
Throne of Blood
1957 · Akira Kurosawa
88.16/8 sources
- 17
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
1959 · Masaki Kobayashi
88.06/8 sources
- 18
Woodstock
1970 · Michael Wadleigh
87.97/8 sources
- 19
A City of Sadness
1989 · Hou Hsiao-hsien
87.86/8 sources
- 19
Amadeus
1984 · Miloš Forman
87.88/8 sources
- 21
Raging Bull
1980 · Martin Scorsese
87.78/8 sources
- 22
Saving Private Ryan
1998 · Steven Spielberg
87.68/8 sources
- 23
Quo Vadis, Aida?
2021 · Jasmila Žbanić
87.58/8 sources
- 23
The Best of Youth
2003 · Marco Tullio Giordana
87.58/8 sources
- 25
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
1916 · D.W. Griffith
87.36/8 sources
- 26
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938 · William Keighley
87.17/8 sources
- 27
Barry Lyndon
1975 · Stanley Kubrick
86.98/8 sources
- 28
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 · David Lean
86.78/8 sources
- 28
The Heiress
1949 · William Wyler
86.76/8 sources
- 28
The Ascent
1977 · Larisa Shepitko
86.76/8 sources
- 31
Das Boot
1981 · Wolfgang Petersen
86.68/8 sources
- 32
Spotlight
2015 · Tom McCarthy
86.58/8 sources
- 33
Mirror
1975 · Andrei Tarkovsky
86.27/8 sources
- 34
Oppenheimer
2023 · Christopher Nolan
86.08/8 sources
- 35
Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1972 · Werner Herzog
85.97/8 sources
- 35
Chimes at Midnight
1965 · Orson Welles
85.97/8 sources
- 37
The King's Speech
2010 · Tom Hooper
85.87/8 sources
- 38
The Irishman
2019 · Martin Scorsese
85.58/8 sources
- 39
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007 · Julian Schnabel
85.48/8 sources
- 40
Edvard Munch
1974 · Peter Watkins
85.37/8 sources
- 41
The Right Stuff
1983 · Philip Kaufman
84.98/8 sources
- 42
The Voice of Hind Rajab
2025 · Kaouther Ben Hania
84.78/8 sources
- 43
I'm Still Here
2024 · Walter Salles
84.67/8 sources
- 44
Samurai Rebellion
1967 · Masaki Kobayashi
84.57/8 sources
- 45
The Straight Story
1999 · David Lynch
84.48/8 sources
- 45
A Trip to the Moon
1902 · Georges Méliès
84.47/8 sources
- 47
Ben-Hur
1959 · William Wyler
84.38/8 sources
- 48
Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959 · Alain Resnais
84.27/8 sources
- 49
When We Were Kings
1996 · Leon Gast
83.97/8 sources
- 50
Killers of the Flower Moon
2023 · Martin Scorsese
83.88/8 sources
- 51
The Elephant Man
1980 · David Lynch
83.68/8 sources
- 52
Young Mr. Lincoln
1939 · John Ford
83.57/8 sources
- 53
A Night to Remember
1958 · Roy Ward Baker
83.46/8 sources
- 54
Hamnet
2025 · Chloé Zhao
83.38/8 sources
- 55
Lola Montès
1955 · Max Ophüls
83.16/8 sources
- 56
Quiz Show
1994 · Robert Redford
83.07/8 sources
- 57
Kagemusha
1980 · Akira Kurosawa
82.98/8 sources
- 57
The Zone of Interest
2023 · Jonathan Glazer
82.98/8 sources
- 59
The Virgin Spring
1960 · Ingmar Bergman
82.86/8 sources
- 60
Babette's Feast
1987 · Gabriel Axel
82.66/8 sources
- 61
The Favourite
2018 · Yorgos Lanthimos
82.58/8 sources
- 61
The Wild Child
1970 · François Truffaut
82.57/8 sources
- 61
1917
2019 · Sam Mendes
82.58/8 sources
- 61
Alexander Nevsky
1938 · Sergei Eisenstein
82.56/8 sources
- 61
Carlos
2010 · Olivier Assayas
82.57/8 sources
- 66
Patton
1970 · Franklin J. Schaffner
82.48/8 sources
- 66
No Man's Land
2001 · Danis Tanović
82.47/8 sources
- 66
The Lion in Winter
1968 · Anthony Harvey
82.46/8 sources
- 69
Downfall
2004 · Oliver Hirschbiegel
82.28/8 sources
- 70
Bloody Sunday
2002 · Paul Greengrass
82.18/8 sources
- 71
Love and Death
1975 · Woody Allen
82.07/8 sources
- 71
United 93
2006 · Paul Greengrass
82.08/8 sources
- 73
City of Life and Death
2009 · Lu Chuan
81.98/8 sources
- 74
The Wind Rises
2013 · Hayao Miyazaki
81.88/8 sources
- 75
The Trial of Joan of Arc
1963 · Robert Bresson
81.76/8 sources
- 76
Captain Blood
1935 · Michael Curtiz
81.67/8 sources
- 76
Hero
2002 · Zhang Yimou
81.68/8 sources
- 78
Ford v Ferrari
2019 · James Mangold
81.48/8 sources
- 78
The Flowers of St. Francis
1950 · Roberto Rossellini
81.47/8 sources
- 80
The Miracle Worker
1962 · Arthur Penn
81.37/8 sources
- 80
Spartacus
1960 · Stanley Kubrick
81.38/8 sources
- 80
Serpico
1973 · Sidney Lumet
81.37/8 sources
- 83
Judas and the Black Messiah
2021 · Shaka King
81.28/8 sources
- 84
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2001 · Ashutosh Gowariker
81.18/8 sources
- 84
Nickel Boys
2024 · RaMell Ross
81.18/8 sources
- 86
Brooklyn
2015 · John Crowley
80.98/8 sources
- 86
The Killing Fields
1984 · Roland Joffé
80.97/8 sources
- 88
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · Frank Lloyd
80.88/8 sources
- 89
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Stanley Kramer
80.77/8 sources
- 89
Topsy-Turvy
1999 · Mike Leigh
80.78/8 sources
- 91
Hunger
2008 · Steve McQueen
80.68/8 sources
- 91
Malcolm X
1992 · Spike Lee
80.67/8 sources
- 91
Coal Miner's Daughter
1980 · Michael Apted
80.66/8 sources
- 94
Henry V
1989 · Kenneth Branagh
80.57/8 sources
- 95
Hotel Rwanda
2004 · Terry George
80.48/8 sources
- 96
Matewan
1987 · John Sayles
80.37/8 sources
- 97
BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Spike Lee
80.28/8 sources
- 98
The Draughtsman's Contract
1982 · Peter Greenaway
80.16/8 sources
- 99
Ennio
2022 · Giuseppe Tornatore
79.98/8 sources
- 99
Milk
2008 · Gus Van Sant
79.96/8 sources