Best Historical Movies
Compiled 2026-10-28. The reader vote's top 25, published 2025-01-15. Schindler's List is No. 1.
Compiled 2026-10-28. The main table copies the reader vote’s top 25, published on 2025-01-15. No. 1 is Steven Spielberg’s Schindler's List (1993). No. 2 is Ridley Scott’s Gladiator (2000). No. 25 is Mel Gibson’s Braveheart (1995). The publish date and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 are the first 10 rows of this table.
The 25 films
All 25 rows follow the vote. Years and directors are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Schindler's List | Steven Spielberg | 1993 |
| 2 | Gladiator | Ridley Scott | 2000 |
| 3 | Lawrence of Arabia | David Lean | 1962 |
| 4 | Zulu | Cy Endfield | 1964 |
| 5 | Saving Private Ryan | Steven Spielberg | 1998 |
| 6 | Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World | Peter Weir | 2003 |
| 7 | A Man for All Seasons | Fred Zinnemann | 1966 |
| 8 | The King's Speech | Tom Hooper | 2010 |
| 9 | Das Boot | Wolfgang Petersen | 1981 |
| 10 | The Lion in Winter | Anthony Harvey | 1968 |
| 11 | Apollo 13 | Ron Howard | 1995 |
| 12 | All the President's Men | Alan J Pakula | 1976 |
| 13 | Elizabeth | Shekhar Kapur | 1998 |
| 14 | Doctor Zhivago | David Lean | 1965 |
| 15 | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones | 1975 |
| 16 | The Last of the Mohicans | Michael Mann | 1992 |
| 17 | Dunkirk | Christopher Nolan | 2017 |
| 18 | Hidden Figures | Theodore Melfi | 2016 |
| 19 | Titanic | James Cameron | 1997 |
| 20 | A Knight's Tale | Brian Helgeland | 2001 |
| 21 | Amadeus | Miloš Forman | 1984 |
| 22 | The Imitation Game | Morten Tyldum | 2014 |
| 23 | A Bridge Too Far | Richard Attenborough | 1977 |
| 24 | Downfall | Oliver Hirschbiegel | 2004 |
| 25 | Braveheart | Mel Gibson | 1995 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-28. The article was published 2025-01-15. Kev Lochun wrote it. Each historian nominated up to five films with a cinema release. Readers then voted, and the page prints the top 25 from No. 25 down to No. 1. This table runs from No. 1 to No. 25. The top 10 are the first 10 rows.
This was read from the live page on 2026-10-28. Director names are the Directed by lines. No. 1 is Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List. No. 25 is Mel Gibson’s Braveheart.
Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels. Chinese labels are simplified.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| The best historical movies of all time (article) | Published 2025-01-15, read 2026-10-28 | Historian nominations, then a reader vote, top 25. No. 1 is Schindler's List, 1993, Steven Spielberg. No. 2 is Gladiator, 2000, Ridley Scott. No. 25 is Braveheart, 1995, Mel Gibson | Primary |
The picture
Rows S through D hold all 25 films, 5 a row. The drag-and-drop pool is the same 25 films.
Schindler’s List is also on the best war movies page.
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